City of Klawock v. United States

OPINION

HARKINS, Judge.

Plaintiff, City of Klawoek (City), seeks $72,000 damages for breach of an alleged *582contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to settle plaintiff’s claims for water furnished to a fish cannery operated by the Klawock Cooperative Association (KCA), an Indian Association organized under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.1 After KCA’s default in the revolving loan fund program, BIA in 1979 assumed control over its assets and arranged for operation of the cannery in 1979 through a lease with an unrelated Washington corporation. The case is before the court on…