Montana seeks $146K repayment from Chippewa Cree, claims tribe overbilled

BILLINGS -- The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is seeking repayment of $146,000 it says it was overbilled for transporting pipe for use in a regional water project whose funding has been a target of fraud and questionable spending.

The Rocky Boy’s Reservation’s Chippewa Cree Construction Corp. has been asked to refund the amount.

The project, the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water System, is to bring safe drinking water to the Rocky Boy’s Reservation and to 21 surrounding towns and rural water districts in seven north-central counties.

The DNRC provides state funding to the North Central Montana Regional Water Authority, which contracts with the CCCC for work on the project.

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