[Senate Hearing 112-655]
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                                                        S. Hrg. 112-655
 
  UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND REFORM: ENSURING A SUSTAINABLE AND CONNECTED 
                     FUTURE FOR NATIVE COMMUNITIES 

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                                HEARING

                               before the

                      COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS
                          UNITED STATES SENATE

                      ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS

                             SECOND SESSION

                               __________

                              JUNE 7, 2012

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                      COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS

                   DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii, Chairman
                 JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming, Vice Chairman
DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii             JOHN McCAIN, Arizona
KENT CONRAD, North Dakota            LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska
TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota            JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota
MARIA CANTWELL, Washington           MIKE CRAPO, Idaho
JON TESTER, Montana                  MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska
TOM UDALL, New Mexico
AL FRANKEN, Minnesota
      Loretta A. Tuell, Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel
     David A. Mullon Jr., Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel



                            C O N T E N T S

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Hearing held on June 7, 2012.....................................     1
Statement of Senator Akaka.......................................     1
Statement of Senator Barrasso....................................     2
Statement of Senator Murkowski...................................     3
Statement of Senator Udall.......................................     2

                               Witnesses

Adelstein, Jonathan, Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, U.S. 
  Department of Agriculture......................................    15
    Prepared statement...........................................    18
Bloomfield, Shirley, CEO, National Telecommunications Cooeprative 
  Association (NTCA).............................................    76
    Prepared statement...........................................    79
Clyburn, Mignon L., Commissioner, Federal Communications 
  Commission.....................................................     5
    Prepared statement...........................................     7
Hee, Albert S.N., President, Sandwich Isles Communications, Inc..    57
    Prepared statement...........................................    59
LaPaz, Hon. Alfred, Secretary, Mescalero Apache Tribal Council...    36
    Prepared statement...........................................    38
Merriam, Stephen, CEO, Arctic Slope Telephone Association 
  Cooperative, Inc...............................................    41
    Prepared statement...........................................    44

                                Appendix

Angapak, Sr., Nelson N., Senior Vice President, Alaska Federation 
  of Natives (AFN), prepared statement...........................    93
Badal, John, CEO, Sacred Wind Communications, Inc., prepared 
  statement......................................................   102
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, 
  prepared statement.............................................   122
Haliniak-Loyd, Gayla, President, Kalamaula Homestead Association, 
  prepared statement.............................................   105
Kail, James J., Executive Committee Member, Small Company 
  Coalition (SCC); President/CEO, Laurel Highland Telephone 
  Company (LHTC) & Yukon-Waltz Telephone Company, prepared 
  statement......................................................   106
Kelling, Meahilahila, Executive Director, Kai Loa Inc., prepared 
  statement......................................................   110
Parker, Alvin, Principal, Ka Waihona o ka Na`auao PCS, prepared 
  statement......................................................   111
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), prepared statement.   113
Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), prepared statement.............   118
Rambler, Hon. Terry, Chairman, San Carlos Apache Tribe, prepared 
  statement......................................................   119
Watson, Kali, Chairman, Economic Development and Housing 
  Committee, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands 
  Assembly, prepared statement...................................   123


                    UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND REFORM: 
                      ENSURING A SUSTAINABLE AND 
                      CONNECTED FUTURE FOR NATIVE 
                              COMMUNITIES

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                         THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012


                                       U.S. Senate,
                               Committee on Indian Affairs,
                                                    Washington, DC.
    The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:15 p.m. in room 
628, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Akaka, 
Chairman of the Committee, presiding.

          OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. AKAKA, 
                    U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII
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