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Federal government rejects tribal land transfer.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Federal government rejects tribal land transfer.(Environment)(The size of the proposal raises objections from the Agriculture Department)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Scott Maben The Register-Guard

The Bush administration said Tuesday that it cannot support a bill to transfer nearly 63,000 acres of national forest land to three tribes on the central Oregon Coast.

The proposal to restore a small portion of ancestral territory to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians involves too much land, said Mark Rey, the Agriculture Department's undersecretary for natural resources and environment.

"The department would not support a land transfer from the Siuslaw National Forest of the magnitude envisioned in this...

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