When any Federal executive agency or department including the Department of Defense proposes a project, it needs to engage in formal government-to-government consultation with any tribe that may be impacted by that project.
Kilmer stresses the necessity of consulting tribes on federal projects affecting them.
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I don't have any additional speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time.
Every tribe in the Pacific Northwest, when they sign treaties, they retain their right to fish in their traditional places of fishing.
Our role in this exercise is to ensure that the institution is capable of carrying out its constitutional obligations no matter the circumstances.
It impacts our country and it impacts your tribe, and, therefore, he signed onto it, and that is a testament to his leadership.
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