Tribal Inventory Project

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Tribal Inventory Project

• Stationary Sources Joint Forum Meeting
• Salt Lake City, UT
• February 23-24, 2005

Sarah Kelly Institute for Tribal Environmental
Professionals (ITEP)
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Tribal Inventory Project

• Funded by Tribal Data Development Working Group
  (TDDWG) of WRAP
• Coordinated by ITEP
• Purpose - Tribal Land inventory of
• All sources emitting gt50 tpy of SOx or NOx
• Oil and Gas production, exploration and
  transmission related emission sources

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Tribal Inventory Project

• Inventory Indian Country sources of SOx and NOx
  gt50 tpy
• Obtained lists of Title 5, Part 71 sources from
  EPA regions
• Compare permit list against 2002 National
  Emission Inventory (NEI)
• Query tribes for other sources that may exceed 50
  tpy
• List tribes with oil and gas exploration and
  production (OG EP)

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Tribal Inventory Project

• Identified 21 tribes with sources of interest to
  this project
• Contacted each tribe by phone and letter
• Informed them about the project
• Requested their participation and release of data
• Identified 8 tribes whom would benefit from
  working with a contractor to inventory sources.

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Tribal Inventory Project

• Which tribes were selected for contractor work?
• If permit data represents all sources gt50 tpy on
  tribes reservation
• ITEP works to gain tribes approval to format
  data to NIF and submit to NEI and WRAPs EDMS.
• Tribe will receive a TEISS project with their
  data
• If data on gt50 tpy sources is incomplete, tribe
  invited to work with WRAP sponsored contractor to
  complete inventory.

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Tribal Point Source List

• Title V, Part 71

EPA Reg Title V Sources 2002 SOx emissions tpy 2002 NOx emissions tpy
6 (NM only) 5 0 926
8 50 1,952 9,880
9 21 37,182 (333) 80,457 (6626)
10 12 28 1062
Total 88 37,210 (361) 82,445 (8,614)
subtracts emissions from 2 Navajo land power
plants
Missing emissions from 4 facilities.
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Of 88 tribal sources identified for this project
Title V, Part 71 Tribal Point Sources, Facility
Types December 2004
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Tribal Inventory Project

• These Tribes have agreed to work with WRAP
  contractor
• Arapahoe and Shoshone Tribes of Wind River
  Reservation
• Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
• Jicarilla Apache Tribe
• Navajo Nation
• Tohono Oodham Tribe
• Colville Tribe
• Yakama Nation
• Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Res.
• Southern Ute Tribe elected to hire own
  contractor, work at own schedule.

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Map
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Tribal Inventory Project

• All 8 Tribes needed government approval before
  working with contractor
• Because data developed must be released to WRAP
• Have obtained signed release forms from 3 of the
  8 tribes as of 2/18/2005
• Expect to obtain remaining release forms within 2
  weeks.

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Tribal Inventory Project

• ITEP is formatting all other Title V Permitted
  Sources to NIF.
• Working with these tribes to obtain data release
  forms prior to March 31, 2005
• Tribes will have opportunity to review the data
  prior to submission.
• ITEP working to resolve issues where Title V,
  Part 71 sources appear in inventory, but not
  reported by the tribe.