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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE BIA TO UPDATE THE NATION'S TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM TO INCLUDE THE ADDITION OF SEVENTEEN (17) PROJECTS TO THE LIST OF CONSTRUCTION PRIORITIES FOR INDIAN RESERVATION ROADS FUNDING
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WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation since time immemorial has exercised the sovereign rights of self-government on behalf of the Cherokee people;
WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation is a federally recognized Indian Nation with a historic and continual government to government relationship with the United States of America;
WHEREAS, Title 23 United States Code provides for tribal determination of its own needs and priorities for the allocation of Federal Highway Indian Reservation Road (IRR) funding to include roadway and transit projects;
WHEREAS, the implementing regulations promulgated in 25 CFR Part 170 requires a Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) of projects for the expenditure of IRR funding;
WHEREAS, the following IRR projects have been determined be of the highest priority according to the Nation's approved transportation planning procedures and project rating system:
1. CNI Industrial Access Road Adair County
2. Bell North Road Adair County
3. Oak Ridge Road Adair County
4. Bell School South Road Adair County
5. Sally Bull Hollow Road Adair County
6. Rocky Mountain School Loop Adair County
7. North Salem Road Adair County
8. Dahlonegah West & Extension Adair County
9. Bell Subdivision Road Adair County
10. Cedar Hollow I & II Roads Cherokee County
11. Lost City Road Cherokee County
12. Leach / Kenwood Road Delaware County
13. Kansas-Bull Hollow Road Delaware County
14. D0525 Road Delaware County
15. Ross Road Muskogee County
16. Moonshine Road Sequoyah County
17. IRR Transit Matching Fund 1% Set-Aside for FTA Projects.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION, that the aforementioned seventeen (17) projects are hereby approved as construction priorities and therefore the BIA authorized to update the Nation's IRR-TIP to include such projects for IRR funding.