Accomplishments, Needs,

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Accomplishments, Needs, Transition
PlanningPresentation

• Made to Wayne Nastri
• By the R9 RTOC
• Spring 2008

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Overview

• As the budget within EPA is expected to be
  extremely tight, Tribal goals in this upcoming
  budget process are to maintain current funding
  levels for every program, and increase funding
  where possible.
• This presentation will highlight key Tribal
  accomplishments within each goal as a
  demonstration of how Tribes and EPA have
  partnered to improve the environmental quality of
  Indian Lands.

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Goal 1 Clean Air Overarching Tribal Goal

• Every Tribe will know whether their air is safe
  to breathe

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Monitoring the Tribal Environment
27 tribes are operating 54 air monitoring
stations
Gila River Indian Community
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Final Particulate Matter Standards
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Proposed Tribal New Source Review (NSR) Rules
Navajo Generating Station
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Navajo Nation
Four Corners Power Plant
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Yurok Tribe
Real-Time Environmental Monitoring Station
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Bishop Paiute Tribe
Air Quality Program Field Trip
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Build Tribal Capacity

• Tribes in non-attainment areas caused largely by
  off-reservation sources should have adequate
  training and capacity to interact with the
  regulating jurisdiction.

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Clean Air Tribal Needs Areas

• Air monitoring (funding and improved technical
  support)
• TAS for CAA programs
• Indoor air (mold and radon)

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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
Hoopa Valley microfiltration treatment plant
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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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1,249 more tribal homes have safe drinking water
Arsenic Treatment Plant Fallon Paiute-Shoshone
Tribe
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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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Water Monitoring in the Klamath Basin
Yurok Tribe - Water monitoring station
Karuk Tribe - Algae in Copco Reservoir
Hoopa Valley Tribe Monitoring Lab
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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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Wetlands
Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe Wetlands Project
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Watershed Restoration
Yavapai-Prescott Non-point Source Project
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Watershed Restoration
After
Before
Torres Martinez Wetlands Project
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Goal 3- Protect and Restore the land
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Improving Waste Management
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Pala Tribe Tire CleanupBefore After
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Pala Tribe Tire CleanupBefore After
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Pala Band of Mission Indians Lilac Road Cleanup
Before After
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Before
After
Pala Band of Mission Indians - Junk Car Removal
Project
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• EPA and tribes inspected 79 underground storage
  tanks and issued 17 field citations.
• 13 tank sites were cleaned up.

Tank inspection Navajo Nation
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Brownfields
Indian Island Table Bluff Reservation Wiyot Tribe
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BEFORE
AFTER
Leviathan Creek Washoe Tribal Land Downstream
from Leviathan Mine
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Oil Spill Prevention

• There is no funding for oil spill prevention
  control and countermeasures
• There is presently one person in the Region who
  performs inspections.
• Tribes request increased outreach and technical
  assistance in this area.

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Goal 4 Healthy Communities
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Pesticides

• Border Environmental health working group Paula
  S.
• Pesticide exposure notification coordination
  between jurisdictions need an implementation
  program.
• Paula S. and Eileen L.

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U.S./Mexico Border

• Since 1996, 7,762 tribal homes have received
  safer drinking water.
• 1,888 homes have better wastewater disposal
  facilities.
• New slide from Paula S.

Hand-dug well, San Jose De La Zorra, Baja
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Drinking Water System Rehabilitation Quitovac
Community Sonora, Mexico
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Tohono Oodham Nation Waste from Undocumented
Migrants -- Before
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Tohono Oodham Nation After
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Infrastructure and maintenance issues in Mexican
indigenous communities
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Cross-Border Capacity BuildingPala Band of
Mission Indians New Water Systems in Mexican
Indigenous Communities
Funding provided by Mexican government with
supplemental money from EPA through the Pala
Tribe.
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Border training

• Capacity building for water systems for Baja
  communities (Paula S.)
• Need continual funding for recurring border
  issues
• Need a long term plan for continually cleaning up
  solid waste in the border area.

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Environmental Health

• EPA has many small programs - lead screening,
  radon, asbestos, etc.
• There is a need for coordinated outreach on human
  health issues.
• Should be environmental health components in
  tribal environmental programs lead screening,
  indoor air, tools for schools, working with
  health clinics, pesticides assessments,
  integrated pest management.
• EPA needs to do more outreach on human health, in
  coordination with ATSDR, IHS.
• Paula S. will rewrite this.

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Environmental Health

• Pesticides
• Training for physicians and clinics to recognize
  exposure to pesticides and other chemicals
  poisonings
• Drinking water/Wastewater
• Source water protection for all drinking water
  sources
• Improved treatment/septic systems to prevent
  possible drinking water/groundwater contamination
• Air
• Studies of asthma triggers on tribal lands
• Conduct indoor and outdoor air monitoring
• Lead
• Testing of blood levels in children
• Inspections of tribal homes for lead
  contamination
• Solid Waste
• Reduction of illegal dumps
• Improved solid waste management plans
• Capacity building for ALL environmental health
  issues!

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Pesticide Regulation

• The Pala Band of Mission Indians Integrated Pest
  Management Plan protects children at the Pala
  Child Care Center.

Pala Band of Mission Indians Child Care Center
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Goal 5 Compliance and Stewardship
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Environmental Capacity Building
Tribes
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Quality Assurance

• Need additional training on Quality Assurance CD
  ROM.
• Training should be available to all tribes.

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Tribal Environmental Code Enforcement
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Tribal Environmental Enforcement Capacity

• Necessary to ensure other Tribal environmental
  protection efforts are meaningful
• Critical for Tribes to achieve and sustain
  environmental quality in all media
• Importance recognized by OECA Tribal Priority

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Tribal Environmental Enforcement Capacity Needs

• Tribes continue to struggle to develop
  enforcement capacity, primarily because of
  limitations of on use of EPA funding (e.g. under
  GAP) to support implementation
• Recognizing overall national budget limitations,
  request increased flexibility in the use of
  existing funds to support the development and
  maintenance of Tribal enforcement programs
  through
• regulatory / policy amendments
• DITCAs
• Public Law 93-638 type contracts

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GAP

• Restore GAP Funding to FY04 Level
• Continue to improve QAPP review times, continue
  to improve QAPP training availability