United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1998-01-28 monographic deposited born digital 58 p. GA 1.13:RCED-98-39 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-39 P0b002ee1803a0872 f:rc98039 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-39 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-39 RCED-98-39 Native American claims Compensation Claims settlement Dams Evaluation methods Indian lands Consultants Economic analysis Cheyenne River Sioux Oahe Dam (SD) Letter Report RCED Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed a private consultant's economic analysis of compensation due to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe for the construction of the Oahe dam on tribal lands.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) the consultant's primary approach, which produced an estimate of $300.7 million in additional compensation, relies on questionable assumptions about the value of the tribe's losses in the 1950s; (2) the consultant's secondary approach, which produced an estimate of $279.1 million, was used to support the primary approach; (3) like the approach GAO proposed in 1991, it uses the tribe's 1954 request as a basis for calculating additional compensation; (4) however, it provides a single figure for additional compensation, rather than a range such as GAO proposed in 1991; (5) in addition, it includes an amount for rehabilitation as well as an amount for damages, while the primary approach provides only for damages; (6) neither of the consultant's approaches includes an amount for administrative expenses; (7) the extent to which the tribe should receive additional compensation for damages--and whether the tribe should receive additional payments for rehabilitation and administrative expenses--is a policy question for Congress to decide; (8) to provide Congress with information for such decision-making, GAO used its 1991 approach to calculate ranges for damages ($32.3 million to $120.1 million), rehabilitation ($45.8 million to $170.1 million), and administrative expenses ($0.1 million to $0.5 million); (9) specifically, for each of these factors, GAO subtracted the amounts that the tribe received from the amounts that it requested (or paid, in the case of administrative expenses) and multiplied the resulting differences by the inflation rate, thereby obtaining the lower value for each range; (10) similarly, GAO multiplied these differences by the corporate bond rate to obtain the upper value for each range; and (11) through this approach, GAO calculated separate ranges for Congress to consider in deciding on the type and amount of any additional payments. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-39/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-39.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-39/pdf/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-39.pdf GAO/RCED-98-39 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-39 Letter Report GAO/RCED-98-39; Indian Issues: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's Additional Compensation Claim for the Oahe Dam; Native American claims Compensation Claims settlement Dams Evaluation methods Indian lands Consultants Economic analysis Cheyenne River Sioux Oahe Dam (SD) Volume 61 Page 686 61 Stat. 686 Volume 63 Page 1026 63 Stat. 1026 Volume 64 Page 1093 64 Stat. 1093 Volume 68 Page 1191 68 Stat. 1191 Volume 71 Page 598-599 71 Stat. 598-599 Volume 72 Page 1762 Volume 72 Page 1766 Volume 72 Page 1773 72 Stat. 1762 72 Stat. 1766 72 Stat. 1773 Volume 76 Page 698 Volume 76 Page 704 76 Stat. 698 76 Stat. 704 Volume 106 Page 4731 106 Stat. 4731 Volume 110 Page 3026 110 Stat. 3026 Public Law 80-296 Public Law 81-437 Public Law 81-870 Public Law 83-776 Public Law 85-274 Public Law 85-915 Public Law 85-916 Public Law 85-923 Public Law 87-734 Public Law 87-735 Public Law 102-575 Public Law 104-223