Bureau of Indian Affairs

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE������ ����������������������� ����������������������� ��� CONTACT: Nedra Darling

February 8, 2002��������������� ����������������������� ����������������������� ����������������������� ����������� 202-219-4152

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

Eighth Consultation Meeting On

Improving Indian Trust Asset Management

Set For February 14 In Portland, Oregon

 

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) � Interior Assistant Secretary � Indian Affairs Neal A. McCaleb will meet with tribal leaders on Thursday, February 14, 2002 in Portland, Oregon, at the eighth in a series of consultation meetings on the Department�s plan to improve the management of Indian trust assets.� He will be joined by Ross O. Swimmer, Director, Office of Indian Trust Transition.� The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Hotel (8235 NE Airport Way) starting at 1:00 p.m. PST.

 

On November 15, 2001, the Department announced plans to transfer and consolidate Indian trust asset management functions currently administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other Interior agencies within a new Bureau of Indian Trust Assets Management.� The Department also announced the establishment of an Assistant Secretary for Indian Trust Assets Management to oversee BITAM and a new Office of Indian Trust Transition to implement the transfer and consolidation plans.�

 

Meetings also have been held in Albuquerque, N.M.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Rapid City, S.D.; San Diego, Calif.; Anchorage, Alaska; and Arlington, Va.

 

WHO:����������������� Neal A. McCaleb, Assistant Secretary � Indian Affairs, and Ross O. Swimmer,

Director, Office of Indian Trust Transition.

 

WHEN:����������������� 1:00 p.m. PST, Thursday, February 14, 2002.

 

WHAT:����������������� Interior Department tribal consultation meeting on improving the management of

Indian trust assets.

 

WHERE:� Sheraton Hotel, 8235 NE Airport Way, Portland, Oregon, 97220.

Phone: 503-281-2500.� Fax: 503-249-7602.

 

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