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48 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (2023)

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  PHOTO CREDIT: UNITED TRIBES OF BRISTOL BAY

On January 31, 2023, the EnvironmentalProtection Agency UTBB is a consortium of Alaska Native tribes
(EPA) finali.Zed Clean Water Section 404(c) determination  that joined together to protect traditional Yup'ik,
that will stop the development of Pebble Mine, a proposed Dena'ina, and Alutiiq ways of life in southwest
open pit copper, gold, and molybdenum mine at the headwaters  Alaska. Today, the consortium  includes 15 tribes,
of the pristine Bristol Bay Watershed in Alaska. This action whose members account for more than 80 percent
was the culmination of decades of effort from Bristol Bay of the region's population. The consortium acts as
residents. Leading those efforts was NARF's client, the a unified tribal voice in efforts to protect the Bristol
United Tribes of Bristol Bay (UTBB).             Bay watershed and its wild salmon.


Pebble Mine Update..................................Page 1
Case Updates.........................................Page 5
Tribal Supreme Court Project ...............Page 7
National Indian Law        Library....................Page 9
Call to Action.........................................Page 10
NARF...................................................Page 11
NARF Board ..........................................Page 12


Bristol Bay tribes have worked for decades to protect
the region and its Indigenous ways of life. In recent
years, in the fight against the proposed Pebble Mine,
those efforts have received wide-ranging support
from  a broad coalition of Alaskans. Appreciation


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PEBBLE MINE IS STOPPED