August 1, 2010: WBHA letter to Congresswoman Bono-Mack
The determination included in the DOJ letter remains consistent with the position
asserted by the Department of the Interior since the infamous '69 Secretarial Order. However,
there are gross deceptions and distortion of facts that I would like to address here.
The single most offensive factual distortion in the letter is the contention that the '69 Secretarial
Order established a meander line western boundary for the full 25 miles of "west bank" from
Riverside Mountain to the La Paz Arroyo. The fact is that Secretary Udall only used the Benson
Survey for the northern 2/3 of the western boundary. The southern 1/3 (8 miles) is not the
meander line, not the Benson Survey, but riparian according to the Dept. of the Interior. The
reason for this deception is explained below.
August 1, 2010 WBHA to Congresswoman Bono Mack.pdf — PDF document, 1.81 MB (1894277 bytes)
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