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<br />00511 <br /> <br />REVISED DRAFT (#IO)-August 11.2004 <br />Clean Version <br /> <br />PART 1. SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF THE TRIBAL CONSULTATION PLAN <br /> <br />There are multiple reasons for federal agencies to engage in consultation with <br />Indian tribes. This Tribal Consultation Plan (herein "Consultation Plan") seeks to <br />address many of these reasons, especially those based on the National Historic <br />Preservation Act and the Grand Canyon Protection Act. <br /> <br />The Grand Canyon Protection Act (GCP A) requires the Secretary to establish and <br />implement long-term research and monitoring programs and activities to ensure that Glen <br />Canyon Dam is operated "in such a manner as to protect, mitigate adverse impacts to, and <br />improve the values for which Grand Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon National <br />Recreation Area were established, including, but not limited to natural and cultural <br />resources and visitor use." Grand Canyon Protection Act (GCPA), Pub. L. No. 102-575, <br />title XVIII, 99 I 802, 1805. The GCP A also expressly requires that research and long-term <br />monitoring programs and activities be established and implemented "in consultation <br />with" Indian tribes, as well as in consultation with the Secretary of Energy; the Governors <br />of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming; and "the <br />general public, including representatives of academic and scientific communities, <br />environmental organizations, the recreation industry, and contractors for the purchase of <br />Federal power produced at Glen Canyon Dam." GCPA 91805(c). While the GCPA thus <br />expressly requires consultation with the Tribes, it does not provide any explicit direction <br />on how such consultation should be conducted, nor on how consultation with the Tribes <br />may need to be different from consultation with the other kinds of persons and entities <br />listed in GCPA section 1805(c). <br /> <br />The overall purpose of this Consultation Plan is to provide a framework in which <br />the representatives offederal agencies engaged in the Glen Canyon AMP and in the <br />management of cultural and natural resources within the Colorado River corridor and the <br />representatives of tribal governments can interact in respectful and constructive ways, so <br />that the rights and governmental status of the tribes are honored and so that the traditional <br />knowledge of the tribes can be brought to bear in the design and implementation of the <br />AMP. The tribes hope and expect that their traditional knowledge, when they choose to <br />offer it, will be treated with the same kind of respect as is the knowledge derived from the <br />efforts of western scientists engaged in the AMP. Although there are some fundamental <br />differences between indigenous and western scientific approaches to the acquisition of <br />knowledge, in light of common concerns for the Grand Canyon, the tribal representatives <br />hope that ways can be found to transcend such differences. <br /> <br />A. Types of Consultation <br /> <br />This Consultation Plan explains how consultation with Indian tribes may need to <br />be conducted differently from consultation with other stakeholders and provides direction <br />for federal agencies on how to conduct consultation with the specific Tribes that are <br />concerned about the impacts of the operation of Glen Canyon Dam on the natural and <br />cultural resources in Grand Canyon and the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area <br /> <br />2 <br />