The Navajo Nation Council Naabik’iyati Committee is meeting Thursday, June 22, at the Department of Dine’ Education auditorium in Window Rock, Ariz.,, starting at 10 a.m.

One of the bills on the PROPOSED NAABIK’IYATI COMMITTEE AGENDA is Legislation 0293-16. It’s been on the Naabik’iyati agenda before and its sponsor, Resources and Development Committee Vice Chairperson and Council Delegate Ben Bennett asked to have it removed because Escalade developers, who include former Navajo Nation President and Arizona state legislator Albert Hale, were unavailable.

LEGISLATION 0293-16: An Action Relating to Law and Order, Resources and Development, Budget and Finance, and Naabik’íyáti’ Committees and Navajo Nation Council; Approving the Master Agreement for the Development of the Grand Canyon Escalade Project; Approving the Funding Application of Sixty Five Million Dollars ($65,000,000) for the Development of the Offsite Infrastructure to the Grand Canyon Escalade Project; Authorizing the Navajo Nation Hospitality Enterprise to Enter into a Development and Operating Agreement; Accepting the Approval of the Withdrawal of Land in the Bodaway/Gap Chapter; Approving a Covenant Not to Compete; Waiving Certain Provisions of 7 N.N.C. §§ 1101-1118

Another legislation on the proposed Naabi agenda is LEGISLATION 0025-17: An Action Relating to Resources and Development and Naabik’íyáti’ Committees; Respectfully Requesting the United Nations to Conduct a Field Hearing Regarding the Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing

The legislative sponsors of 0025-17 are Health, Education and Human Services Committee Chairperson and Council Delegate Jonathan L. Hale and Council Delegate Norman M. Begay.