Identification and Location of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Records Relating to Indian Trust Reform and Related Litigation


Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 14:42:57 -0500
To: "USGS Employees"
From: Barbara Ryan 
Subject: Identification and Location of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  Records Relating to Indian Trust Reform and Related Litigation (Cobell
  vs Babbitt)


In Reply Refer To:

Mail Stop 102

#11840

									December 3, 1999


To:		All USGS Employees


From:		Barbara J. Ryan

		Associate Director for Operations


Subject:	Identification and Location of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
		Records Relating to Indian Trust Reform and Related Litigation
		(Cobell vs Babbitt)


The Department of the Interior is required to produce all documents,
records, and tangible things that refer to or relate to Individual Indian
Monies as part of the ongoing work to reform trust management practices. 
These efforts are the subject of litigation in the District Court for the
District of Columbia, Cobell vs Babbitt, Civ. No. 96-1285 (RCL).


The court-appointed Special Master who presides over the case requested
that the USGS provide any documentation on the 1986 change in Bureau of
Indian Affairs policy with respect to maintenance of tribal accounts; the
Pine Ridge Agency; and any document relating to individual Indian trust
beneficiaries.  At the present, the geographic areas of interest are the
Lac Du Flambeu, Winnebago, Anadarko, Sill Apache, Wind River, Papago,
Uintah and Ouray, Ft. Hall, and Blackfeet Reservations.  The time period
of interest is approximately 1820 until 1983 (when the Minerals
Management Service was created and the USGS files were appropriately
transferred to them).


If you have any documents or records that pertain to this case, please
notify your organizational contact as shown below by December 9, 1999.


Organizational Unit     Records Liaison Contact  Telephone     E-Mail Address
------------------      -----------------------  ---------     ---------------
Director's Office       Valerie Leonard	         703/648-4406  vleonard@usgs.gov
Ofc. of Program Support	Debra A. Bradford        703/648-7221  dbradfor@usgs.gov
Biology		     	Susan M. Fayad	         303/202-4224  susan_fayad@usgs.gov
Geology			Cheryl D. Smith	         703/648-6105  cherylsm@usgs.gov
Mapping			Arlene V. Ferguady	 703/648-5554  aferguad@usgs.gov
Water			Vicki Bass		 703/648-5036  vtbass@usgs.gov


Thank you for your assistance in this matter.  The Associate Directors
will be certifying that a complete search was accomplished for their
organizational units.