Documents that were used for archival research for the 2017 MITSC report on the drafting and enactment of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act (also known as "The Suffolk Report)".
U.S. Senate Hearings on the Proposed Settlement of Maine Indian Land Claims before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs.
Part 1 of the 1980 Report of Maine Legislature Joint Select Committee on Indian Land Claims. Titled "Report, Hearing Transcript and Related Memoranda of the Joint Select Committee on Indian Land Claims." This report includes the Committee's "findings and intentions in voting" for L.D. 2037, "AN ACT to Provide For Implementation of the Settlement of Claims by Indians in the State of Maine"
Part 2 of 1980 Report of Maine Legislature Joint Select Committee on Indian Land Claims. Titled "Report, Hearing Transcript and Related Memoranda of the Joint Select Committee on Indian Land Claims." This report includes the Committee's "findings and intentions in voting" for L.D. 2037, "AN ACT to Provide For Implementation of the Settlement of Claims by Indians in the State of Maine".
Maine Attorney General William Schneider's 8/8/12 response to Stephen Perkins, EPA, concerning the Federal Government's contention that Maine was in violation of its overall water quality standards due to the law passed in 1995 to block river herring passage on the St. Croix River. Schneider chose to assert that because the EPA failed to raise in its July 9 letter certain jurisdictional issues that have been in dispute concerning the St. Croix River “it will never suggest that Maine’s environmental regulatory jurisdiction is in question.”
The 5/31/12 letter from the Maine Office of the Attorney General to the US EPA and Attorney General, US Dept. of Justice, notifying the Federal Government of the State of Maine's intent to sue for the failure to perform a non-discretionary duty under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
A timeline to accompany the report, The Drafting and Enactment of the Main Indian Claims Settlement Act: Report on Research Findings and Initial Observations. The timeline covers different versions of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act spanning the period March 1977 to October 1980.
A history of legislative amendments to the Maine Implementing Act through 2022, and related documents.
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