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Lummi Nation testifies on wastewater failures and calls for tribal set‑asides and streamlined funding
Summary
Lummi Nation Chairman Tony Hillaire told the House subcommittee his tribe faces aging systems, saltwater intrusion and multiagency funding hurdles, and asked Congress for direct tribal set‑asides and reduced bureaucratic barriers to access federal water dollars.
Tony Hillaire, chairman of the Lummi Nation, told the House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee that water is central to Lummi culture and economy and said tribe members and neighboring communities face an ongoing water infrastructure shortfall.
Hillaire described a Gooseberry Point wastewater treatment improvement that took more than six years to assemble funding and nearly three years to construct. He said the total cost was about $18,700,000, with roughly $12,900,000 provided as…
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