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PR OPOSE D A G E ND A O F T H E

22ND N A V AJO N A T I O N C O UN C I L

APRI L 15 19, 2013

SPRIN G SESSI O N PRESIDING: H O N O R A B L E Speaker Johnny Naize 22nd Navajo Nation Council P L A C E: Navajo Nation Council Chambers Window Rock, Navajo Nation (Arizona) 1. Calling the Spring Session to Order; the Roll Call; the Invocation, the Announcements. 2. Recognizing Guests and Visiting Officials to the Navajo Nation. 3. Review and Adopt the Agenda for the Spring Session of the Navajo Nation Council. 4. Receive the State of the Nation Address from the President of the Navajo Nation. 5. Receive Report from the Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council. 6. O R A L R EPO R T(S): a. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) b. Indian Health Service (IHS) c. Financial Report by the Navajo Nation Controller d. Report from the Navajo Nation Attorney General e. Report from the Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation 7. W RI T T E N R EPO R T(S): a. Standing Committees b. Boards and Commissions c. Bureau of Indian Affairs Regional Director d. Indian Health Service Area Director 8. O L D BUSIN ESS: None 9. N E W BUSIN ESS:

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a. L egislation No. 0381-12: Relating to Law and Order Committee and SPO NSO R: Honorable Jonathan L . Hale (M) (S) VOTE:

b. L egislation No. 0001-13: Relating to Resources and Development, Law

The Plan of Operation for the Navajo Division of Public Safety, GSCAU-61-95, to Reassign and Transfer the Navajo Department of Highway Safety to the Navajo Division of Transportation

SPO NSO RS: Honorable K ather ine Benally, Honorable G eorge Apachito

(M) (S) VOTE: c. L egislation No. 0015-13: Relating to Resources and Development, Law

Operation for the Navajo Division of Transportation (NDOT), GSCAU-26-09, to Reassign and Transfer the Navajo Department of Highway Safety to NDOT, and Approving all NDOT Department Plans of Operation

SPO NSO RS: Honorable Jonathan Nez, Honorable Roscoe Smith d. L egislation No. 0077-13: Relating to Health, Education and Human

to Title 2 N.N.C. §401(C), Title 15 N.N.C. §§1201 and 1209, and Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation of the Navajo Technical College

SPO NSO R: Honorable Danny Simpson e. L egislation No. 0352-12: Relating to Resources and Development, Budget

Supplemental Funding from the Unreserved, Undesignated Fund Balance in the Amount of $5,217,000 to Business Unit #115009 for Professional Services for Sweetwater to Tsaile-Wheatfields Regional Water Plan, Many Farms to Nazlini Region Regional Water Plan, Shonto to Black Mesa Region Regional Water Plan, Tuba City Region Water Plan, Preliminary Engineering Reports, Kayenta Water Project and Rough Rock Water Well

SPO NSO RS: Honorable Duane Tsinigine, Honorable Jonathan L . Hale, Honorable K enneth Maryboy (M) (S) VOTE:

f. L egislation No. 0496-12: Relating to the Resources and Development

Directing the Attorney General of the Navajo Nation to Proceed with Litigation Representing Navajo Nation Claims on the Upper Colorado River

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SPO NSO RS: Honorable Dwight Witherspoon (M) (S) VOTE: g. L egislation No. 0009-13:

of a Wilderness Area in the Wupatki National Monument, and Supporting Congressional effort to assist the Peshlakai Family Retain a Right to Residence and Grazing within the Wupatki National Monument

SPO NSO R: Honorable Walter Phelps (M) (S) VOTE: h. L egislation No. 0042-13: Relating to Resources and Development and

; Recommending and Approving Amendment of the Indenture of Lease dated December 23, 1969 between the Navajo Nation and Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, Los Angeles Water and Power, Arizona Public Service, Nevada Power and Tucson Electric Power Company.

SPO NSO RS: Honorable Johnny Naize, Honorable G eorge Apachito, Honorable Roscoe Smith, Honorable Duane Tsinigine (M) (S) VOTE:

i. L egislation No. 0060-13: An Emergency Legislation; Approving the Declaration of a State of Emergency for the Navajo Nation Western Agency due to the Collapse of a Portion of U.S. Highway 89 serving major Arterial Traffic within and encouraging the Navajo Nation Departments to seek Federal and State Assistance in Addressing the Emergency

SPO NSO R: Honorable Duane S. Tsinigine (M) (S) VOTE:

10. Close of the Spring Session; Announcements; Adjournment. [NOTE: Agenda subject to change]