Thank you.

I have been asked to be the liaison to you to ask whether or not the Department would consider a more reasonable reporting time frame for tribes like we have done under the American Rescue Plan.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

If you have greater resources, it would seem to me reasonable that this would certainly free that up. Would you not agree?

If we can resolve some of these things quickly to allow for these applications to be submitted, and again, to take advantage of this, that is where we are going to make a difference.

Thank you for the time.

We should be working together to try to figure out how we can solve some of these problems...

There shouldn't be any ambiguity to it. To us, that is legislative intent, and it is specified, so it should be easy.

But we also have things like batteries out there, things that we really don't want to have sitting out there.

So when they hear me coming to them and saying, we have tribal energy programs, we have a way to help you, believe me, they are interested.

We are approaching April. This is the time of year we start hearing from our communities saying we have run out.

Fourteen percent, about 14 percent of households in Indian Country don't have electricity.

Know that again what we want to do is get to a long-term solution to that program.

Most Native communities in Alaska still are relying on diesel fuel and heating oil.

But when it is our own systems that effectively hold them back, that is not fair to anybody.

Let's visit on that because I'd also like to talk to you about the potential for the Ukrainian people that have come to Alaska, many of whom have had prior experience within the seafood industry and are looking for those opportunities, but…

So you don't consider that outreach, do you?

But many of them are starting to feel like, is this a false promise? Is this a false promise here?