The following is a brief summary of the action plans developed:

Create Implementation Plan for Compacting the BIA Realty Function

• Home Organization:  EBCI Commerce Department
• Goal: create an implementation plan for compacting the BIA Realty function.
• Activities:
  • Assess current Tribal Land Records documents management by BIA
  • Analyze Realty Services workflow and procedures
  • Recommend modifications to Land Records Management database
  • Estimate the initial startup implementation cost and long-term operating cost
• Resources Required:  $50,000.  Funding sources to be determined.
• Timeline for Implementation:  Spring 2015 – Fall 2016

Develop Draft Statutes for Individual Possessory Holding Legal Framework

• Home Organization:  EBCI Office of the Attorney General
• Goal:  Fund the legal work required to conduct research on how/whether other tribes have changed statutes regarding individual possessory interests, and to develop draft statutes and regulations that would simplifying the process for leases and sales of individual possessory interests
• Activities
  • Engage outside expert counsel
  • Survey relevant tribal experience and review existing EBCI statutes, regulations and case law
  • Develop initial draft of new proposed statutes and review with Executive and Tribal Council leadership
  • Conduct in-depth community engagement and public comment
  • Prepare final draft of new proposed statutes for submission to Council
• Resources Required:  approximately $40,000 for research, legal drafting and community engagement.
• Funding: sources to be determined.
• Timeline for Implementation:  Spring 2015 – Fall 2016