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` I THE SECRETARY OF THE |NTgR|()R
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Mr. Aurelius H. Piper
1440 Whnlley Avenue, Suite 236
New Haven. Connecticut 06515 .
Dear Mr. Piper: I
1 aim writing in response to your Request for Reeonsideration that you tiled with the Interior
Board of Indian Appeals ("lBlA") on September 16, 2004. The IBIA referred your request to
me for consideration on October 18, 2004, under 25 C.F.R. § 83. 1 1(i)( 1).i After considering your
Request lor Reconsideration, tlre comments of the State of Connecticut and the Office of Federal
Acknowledgment, your comments on their submissions, as well as the adlvice of my sm FR T have
decided not to refer any of the grounds alleged in your Request for Reconsideration to the
Assistant Secretary for further review.
The Assistant Seeretary’s decision denying the Golden Hill Paugussctt Federal acloiowledgment
becomes final agency action as of the date of this letter. 25 C.F.R. § 83-11 (h)(2).
Sincerely ·
l le A. Norton I
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