Byron Dorgan: “I believe 30-some drilling rigs now drilling active wells on the reservation. We've got a lot of stuff going on.”

Senator Dorgan once said it takes four agencies and 49 steps. I think with the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, we say it is seven agencies and 100 steps.

The question is not the endpoint. The question is what is the route to get to that endpoint.

A user fee structure...would provide a stable stream of funding.

We need and the people in the Great Plains need, concrete results.