HOEVEN SECURES $10 MILLION TO HELP COVER COSTS OF DAPL PROTEST

Finken, Alex (Hoeven) 11:00 AM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kami Capener or Alex Finken

August 15, 2017 Kami_Capener@hoeven.senate.gov

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HOEVEN SECURES $10 MILLION TO HELP COVER COSTS OF DAPL PROTEST

Senator Included Funding in DOJ Budget, Worked with Attorney General & DOJ to Ensure States
Application Was Successful

WASHINGTON Senator John Hoeven today announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has
awarded North Dakota $10 million to help reimburse the state for the costs of the Dakota Access Pipeline
protests. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Hoeven worked to secure the funding in the
Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget for the DOJs Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program earlier
this year.

The senator has consistently worked with the DOJ since May to ensure the states application was
successful. This includes speaking with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and DOJ officials on several occasions
and writing to Sessions on July 11 in support of the application. Hoeven continues his efforts to provide
additional funding in the FY2018 appropriations bills.

Ensuring the safety of everyone in the area during the protests was a tremendous undertaking for our
law enforcement, said Hoeven. Considering the protestor camp was allowed to remain on federal land and
the Obama administrations decision to prolong the situation and refusal to enforce the law, it only makes sense
that the federal government should shoulder a share of the cost. Thats why we worked so hard to bring this
funding to the state and relieve some of this burden.

Todays funding comes in addition to the support Hoeven secured for state and local law enforcement
during the protests, including resources from the Office of Justice Service at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the
National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This amounted to $1.3 million in additional
support for law enforcement, according to the Interior Department. Further, Hoeven worked to bring in more
than $1.1 million of Army Corps of Engineer resources to help clean up the protest site prior to the spring thaw.

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