In White Earth's contract with the BIA for the school construction, this is once you got funding, in the contract, the agency, the BIA, has 21 days to respond to each of the Tribe's submitted plans for construction of the school, yet there have been instances when the BIA has taken over two months to reply, and in other cases the Tribe received no comment or response at all.
Franken highlights delays in BIA responses to school construction plans.
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