Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville principal Paul Moorehead was quoted in the Indian Country Today Media Network story “”Commerce Law Could Be Key to Establishing Tribal Economic Development Council.” In the article he calls for the establishment of a Tribal Economic Development Council, stating, “A lot has happened in and out of Indian country in the last 30 years, and it’s probably time to review current challenges and inhibitors to growth and development in tribal communities…. This regulatory reform authority [called for by the 2000 law] could do just that. Of the 21 members of the regulatory reform authority, 21 would be tribal leaders or their designees and four would be private sector representatives.”
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