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TFPA empowers tribes to harness indigenous knowledge and western science when conducting forest management projects.

Well, what I did hear you say, Mr. Crockett, is that Forest Service does support removing the bordering or adjacency requirement for the TFPA projects on Federal lands.

So I too want to make sure that we are not setting something up here where we have divergent views or opinions as to how this is all going to work.

Obviously, fire doesn't follow borders drawn on a map or any other strictures of law.

Too often these fires ignite on remote Federal lands and spread to tribal lands, endangering Native people, property, infrastructure, and cultural resources.

I want to acknowledge my Committee intern, Nyche Andrew. She is Inupiaq, she is Yup'ik, she is from Anchorage.

I want to focus my comments this afternoon on S. 4370, this is the Tribal Forest Protection Act Amendments of 2024.

This is not acceptable. The forested lands owned by ANCs are in every aspect Indian forest land.

I believe this measure is timely, it is well warranted.

Everyone agrees that the land now held by the state ought to be free from this obligation to be made available for the economic and social well-being of Alaskans.

I greatly appreciate the support and advocacy of our witness, Ben Mallott from the Alaska Federation of Natives.

I am very happy to have reintroduced this legislation with my colleague Dusty Johnson.

This significant piece of legislation aims to prevent and control severe and life-threatening zoonotic diseases.

Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I am out of time.

But if in fact you have costs that could average, as I understand, around $20,000 per person plus lost wages plus travel costs if folks have to fly, then that is also a balancing factor if that individual is being treated through IHS…

Okay. So this bill will fix that legal authority, is that correct?

So that is why, this is the question. Is that why, then, IHS had previously denied the request by both, well, there were two tribal health organizations in Alaska, at YKHC and Maniilaq, when they sought to add veterinary spay and neuter…

This is a commonsense piece of legislation that ensures the Federal Government lives up to its trust obligations while providing a humane, non-lethal option for animal population control.