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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1065 on Oct. 6, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INDIAN MINERAL RIGHTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1079, to permit the leasing of mineral rights in any case in which the Indian owner of an allotment of land that is located within the boundaries of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and held in trust by the United States have executed leases to more than 50 percent of the mineral estate of that allotment, after receiving testimony from Edward B. Cohen, Deputy Solicitor, Department of the Interior; Russell Mason, Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota; and Jim Powers, Powers Energy Corporation, Williston, North Dakota.
