Alaskan Tribe Urges FCC to Preserve Historic and Environmental Protections
The Organized Village of Kasaan, a tribe in Alaska, urged the FCC to preserve regulations in the National Environmental Policy Act and National Historic Preservation Act that are important to protecting tribal interests. The FCC is looking at changing how…
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it enforces both laws (see 2508180012). Kassan village is “home to the only remaining Haida longhouse in the United States, and our lands contain burial sites, carving sheds, and traditional food harvesting areas,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 25-217. Previous infrastructure projects “have disrupted salmon spawning grounds and crab habitats, which are central to our food security and cultural practices.”