Notice of Hearing on the Nominations of Land
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The SD Department of Environment and Natural Resources has sent a Notice of Hearing on the Nominations of Lands to the Preliminary List of Special, Exceptional, Critical, or Unique Lands. The following is a summary of that information.
“Notice is hereby given that the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources has received three petitions to nominate land for inclusion on the preliminary list of special, exceptional, critical, or unique lands. These petitions were received from Charmaine White Face and the Defenders of the Black Hills,…Debra White Plume,… and the Oglala Sioux Tribe, through its attorney, Elizabeth Lorina…The nominated area includes land 12 to 17 miles northwest of Edgemont, South Dakota….â€
“In accordance with SDCL 45-6B and SDCL 1-26, a consolidated hearing on the petitions to nominate the land to be included in the preliminary list…will take place before the South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment on February 19, 2009, at 11:00 AM CST. The hearing will be held at the Matthew Environmental Education and Training Center, 523 East Capitol Avenue, Pierre, South Dakota.
“This hearing is an adversary proceeding. Those wishing to intervene may do so by filing a petition to intervene in accordance with ARSD Chapter 74:09:01. The final date for filing a petition to intervene and become a party to the contested case hearing is February 17, 2009. Any person that becomes party to the proceeding has the following rights at the hearing: to be present, to be represented by a lawyer. These and other due process rights will be forfeited if not exercised at the hearing. The decision of the Board may be appealed to the Circuit Court and State Supreme Court as provided by law.
[Please send in a statement supporting our nomination of the lands to protect the archaeological sites, the bald eagles, and the ground water. Thank you.]
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"Defenders of the Black Hills is a group of volunteers without racial or tribal boundaries whose mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the environment of the 1851 and 1868 Treaty Territories, Treaties made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation."
Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
