On
December 1, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant
Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk announced a Tribal Consultation Policy
for the Department of the Interior. The new policy provides guidelines
for consulting with all tribes that might be affected by any change in
departmental matters such as regulations, rulemaking, policy, guidance,
legislative proposal, grant funding formula change, or operational activity
that will directly affect those tribes. See pictures of the signing
ceremony here. The policy is available here.
