Goal 2

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Goal 2 Clean and Safe Water
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Drinking Water and Sanitation

• Goal - Provide safe drinking water and adequate
  sanitation to every tribal home.
• This is a fundamental environmental and public
  health issue that requires ongoing attention.
• Tribal communities continue to lag behind the
  rest of the nation in this area, with 7 of
  tribal homes continuing to lack access to safe
  drinking water and basic sanitation, compared
  with non-tribal .5 national average.
• Achievement of this goal requires that both
  physical infrastructure and operation and
  maintenance needs be addressed.

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Tribal Water Infrastructure
4, 298 more Tribal homes have safe drinking
water

• Drinking Water Tribal Set-Aside Success Story
• Fort Independence Water System Improvement
  Project, serving 45 homes, includes chlorination
  equipment, pump controls, meters, and a new water
  storage tank for approximately 350,000 EPA and
  100,000 Tribal. The picture is of Norm Wilder,
  the water system operator, in front of the new
  tank.

Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute
Indians Water System Improvement Project
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La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians
Drinking Water Monitoring Equipment
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Navajo Nation
4,126 more Tribal Homes have better sanitation
New Lagoon
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Drinking Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

• much progress made with funding under SDWA and
  CWA state revolving fund tribal set asides to
  supplement I.H.S. funding

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Drinking Water and Sanitation Continuing Needs

• Continuing Needs
• providing funding for physical infrastructure
  where none exists (e.g. 30 homes on Navajo
  Nation that lack piped water and sanitation)
• providing funding for system upgrades
• for systems in disrepair and
• to address new regulations (e.g. arsenic rule)
• providing for community growth (anticipated by
  75 of tribes in Regional study)
• assisting the many small drinking water systems
  and individual wells (non-public water systems)
  that serve tribal communities

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Drinking Water and Sanitation Continuing Needs,
continued

• I.H.S. estimates national tribal physical
  infrastructure need at 1.86 billion
• Recognizing overall national budget limitations,
  and that all needs cant be addressed at once,
  request that EPA continue to fund SDWA and CWA
  state revolving fund TSAs at least at current
  levels, and provide flexibility in use of
  spending (e.g. to address small system needs) to
  ensure greatest needs are met.

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Drinking Water Sanitation Operation
Maintenance

• essential to meet international (Johannesburg),
  national (EPA strategic plan) and tribal goals to
  provide safe drinking water and basic sanitation
  to tribal homes (e.g., Regional study found
  direct correlation between OM capacity and
  delivery of safe drinking water) and to maintain
  federal investment in tribal physical
  infrastructure
• Regional study found many tribal systems (over
  half the participating tribes) are not
  self-sustaining and require assistance to cover
  operation maintenance costs

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Drinking Water Sanitation Operation
Maintenance Needs

• NO FEDERAL FUNDING IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO
  SUPPORT ONGOING TRIBAL OPERATION MAINTENANCE
  NEEDS - additional funding to address this need
  would be extremely helpful
• Recognizing overall national budget limitations,
  at a minimum request flexibility in the use of
  existing funds (e.g., PWSS grants) to cover basic
  operation and maintenance costs associated with
  both public water systems and small (non-public)
  systems.

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Trinidad Rancheria
Kelp Beds at Trinidad Bay
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Dry Creek Rancheria
Before
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La Jolla Reservation
Tributary Stream Clean-Up
Invasive species removal project
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TAS Process

• Currently, seven Tribes in the Region have Tribal
  Water Quality Standards
• Tribes request that the TAS process for water
  quality standards be improved. The current
  process is too slow.
• Tribes also request continuous funding for Tribes
  with TAS

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Bishop Paiute Tribe
Treatment as a State Approval
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Pond at Gila River Indian Community