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Clallam County charter‑review subcommittee debates requiring responses to BIA trust‑land requests
Summary
Members of a Clallam County Charter Review Commission subcommittee met to discuss a proposed resolution that would require the Board of County Commissioners to respond to Bureau of Indian Affairs requests to place land into trust and to add standards in the county comprehensive plan for evaluating such requests.
Members of a Clallam County Charter Review Commission subcommittee met to discuss a proposed resolution that would require the Board of County Commissioners to respond to Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) requests to put land into trust and to create standards in the county comprehensive plan for handling such requests.
The topic matters to county residents because placing land into trust can remove it from county tax rolls and local land‑use jurisdiction, participants said; the subcommittee agreed to gather legal and fiscal research, invite tribal and law‑enforcement representatives, and reconvene with homework reports.
The item grew out of an earlier Charter Review Commission tie vote on a related resolution. Commissioner Ron Richards was nominated and elected chair of this subcommittee; the group also accepted a…
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