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Lab, pueblo governors meet in Santa Fe

San Ildefonso Pueblo Gov. Dale Martinez, left, Acting Deputy Laboratory Director Don Cobb, Elmer Torres of the Laboratory's Government Relations (GRO) Office, Jemez Pueblo Gov. Paul Chinana and Santa Clara Pueblo Lt. Gov. Joseph Tafoya, right, listen to presentations at the 17th annual cooperative agreement executive meeting last week in Santa Fe. Santa Fe Indian School hosted the meeting, the first time it has been held at a school. Cobb, representatives of the University of California and the Department of Energy's Los Alamos Site Office made opening statements; pueblo officials then introduced and discussed issues of mutual importance to the pueblos and the Laboratory.

Acting Deputy Laboratory Director Don Cobb represented Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos at the cooperative agreement meeting in Santa Fe. The Laboratory and DOE have accord agreements with the four pueblos covering a variety of issues. The Tribal Relations Team in GRO facilitated the meeting. Photos by LeRoy N. Sanchez, Public Affairs