I think that would be significant and I think an undercutting of sovereignty trust responsibility if we were to establish a precedent that essentially, whether you want to call it consultation, but would provide a state or another local entity, a municipality, a county, essentially veto power over a process that is devoid of those other interests.
Grijalva warns against giving states veto power over tribal land trust processes.
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