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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 86991" data-attributes="member: 605">You got that right Eye,$50 thousand bucks. Eide Bailly LLP was hired to do the analysis for HB 1338. Can't find anything on the web about that analysis. Did find this story:<a href="http://www.agweek.com/crops/3793699-farmers-fight-control-lake-oahe-lands" target="_blank">http://www.agweek.com/crops/3793699-farmers-fight-control-lake-oahe-lands</a>What Eide Bailly found at the public forums or listening sessions:After Eide Bailly concluded its work, listening sessions were held in  the region in September and October 2014. The seven options included:Status quo (doing nothing).Return land to original owners.Return the land to the state of North Dakota, with the state managing it.Return the land to the state of North Dakota and to Native American tribes, so each would manage their own land.Return the land to the state of North Dakota, tribes and local governments, with the state managing all of it.Continue with the Corps owning the land but turning over management to the tribes, state and local governments.Transferring land to North Dakota and then the state transferring land to "preferential lease holders."However, the Tribes are opposed to any parts of the analysis because it would interfere with their plans to reclaim lands taken by the Corps in violation of an 1878 Fort Laramie Treaty.</blockquote>