The Farm has not disputed the facts on which the citations were based.
He issued citations for 21 alleged violations and proposed a $185 fine. In October, 1978, a compliance officer from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) conducted a consensual inspection of two grain elevators on the Farm. Apart from its tribal ownership, the Farm is similar in its operation and activities to other farms in the area. The Farm manager is himself a non-Indian.
It employs approximately twenty workers, some of whom are non-Indians. The Farm produces grain and lentils exclusively for sale on the open market both within and outside Idaho. The Coeur d'Alene Tribal Farm ( the Farm) is a commercial enterprise wholly owned and operated by the Tribe. Although the Tribe is organized under federal law, it has no formal treaty with the United States government. The Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe (the Tribe) occupies a 350,000 acre reservation in northern Idaho.
