2013 Tribal Air Quality Priorities
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2013 Tribal Air Quality PrioritiesNational Tribal Air Association Executive Committee
NTF 2013
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Introduction• NTAA founded in 2002• 75 Principal Member Tribes• Mission: ‘to advance air quality management,
policies and programs, consistent with the needs, interests and unique legal status of American Indian Tribes and Alaskan Natives’
www.ntaatribalair.org
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Principles
• Sovereignty/ Self-Determination
• Tribes have the right to know the quality of their air
• Tribes are leaders, strong partners, and co-regulators
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Principles
• Tribes have the legal authority to regulate under the Tribal Authority Rule(TAR)
• Tribal Population Exposure to Air Pollution• Transport from off Reservation sources
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NTAA Trials and Tribulations
• Transition period
• New Fiduciary to be identified soon
• New funding cycle October 2013• Weekly updates will resume• White papers, policy updates, draft comment
letters will resume• Monthly calls will continue
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Process Used to Determine Priorities
• Regional calls/emails by NTAA Executive Committee Regional Representatives
• Face-to-face discussions and/or meetings with Tribes and NTAA Executive Committee Regional Representatives
• Documents identifying regional Tribal priorities utilized • NTAA EC Representatives complied results
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2013 National Priorities
• Oil and Gas development issues on and around Tribal lands
• Tribal mNSR issues• Registration• Permits • Implementation• Delegation• Enforcement• Permit Review
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2013 National Priorities
• Indoor Air Quality and Asthma
• Consultation – Early and Often• Communication and coordination with Tribes early
in process and well before public comment periods
• Designation processes and the implementation of new and revised rules
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2013 National Priorities
• Climate Change Adaptation and Planning
• Mining Issues – hard rock, uranium, coal
• Increase and stabilize funding for new and existing Tribal Air Programs• Both Indoor and Ambient Air Quality Programs
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Alaska• Capacity building and funding• To conduct indoor/outdoor air quality
assessments vs. emission inventories• Needs support from EPA
• Fugitive dust from large scale mining
• Road dust (PM)• Rural road system is gravel• majority of vehicles are ATVs
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Alaska• Climate change impacts on Villages
• Open burning in rural Alaska• Outreach to Tribal leaders on effects
• Lead monitoring at Alaskan rural airports
• Funding language• Alaskan Villages vs. “Reservations”
• Japan radiation concerns
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Region 10• Ambient Air Quality – NAAQS & Toxics• Atmospheric Deposition• Coal Train Transport
• Regulatory• FARR Revision Process• Regional Haze Rule Implementation• Tribal NSR Implementation• Accelerate Operating Permit Reviews
• Smoke Management Coordination (Wildfires & Prescribed Burning)
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Region 10• Increase Overall Funding• Separate IAQ and Climate Change• Tribal Capability & Capacity Increasing,
Success Limited by Funding• Enforcement – No OECA Funds for
Inspectors• Radon Funding Cut
• Indoor Air Quality (Moisture, Woodstoves, Radon)
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Region 9• Funding
• Air programs for all Tribes who request them
• Streamline designation process
• Consistent relationships between Tribes, EPA R9 Air Division, and Headquarters
• Recognition of the Tribal Authority Rule
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Region 9• Realization that the majority of bad
air is from off-reservation sources
• Emphasis Tribal indoor air within a broader scope
• Training, tools, and resources for Tribes
• Advocate for Climate Change as its own media
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Region 8• QAPP concerns• Conditional approval for QAPPs?• EPA R8 clarification on Radon QAPPs
• Annual Project Officers visit each Tribe
• EPA post schedule Technical Systems Audit?
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Region 8• EPA post schedule Through-The-
Probe Audit?
• Grant flexibility to perform other environmental responsibilities
• Increased communication from Montana Office
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Region 7• Tribal NSR Implementation
• Mercury Deposition Monitoring Network
• Proposed Hyperion Energy Center and Keystone XL Pipeline
• Impacts of Coal Fired EGU’s
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Region 7• Impacts of Climate Change
• Tribal Concern of the Possibility of Shifting focus from Ambient Air Programs to IAQ Programs
• Trainings/Conferences – NETWORKING
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Region 6• Regional Haze
• Ozone
• Pesticides
• Technical support – rulings
• Rulings breakdown – Tribal Leaders
• Retro Fit Diesel Program
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Region 5• Unique Mining Impacts to R5• Iron Ore, Sulfides
• Tribal mNSR ~ 1,000 letters• Sequestration impacts to training
• Monitoring and Data Analysis• Air Toxics, PM, O3, Mercury
• Mercury• Production, Deposition, Impacts and
Regulation
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Region 5• Air Modeling and Risk Assessment
• Alternative Energy and Energy Efficiency – ties in to Air Programs
• Lack of resources for new Tribal Air Programs – growing Region
• Impacts of non-attainment in ceded territories
• IAQ – Funding and Support• Mold, Radon, Outreach
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Region 4• Air Program Development
• Indoor Air Quality
• Climate Change research/ adaptation planning incorporating Tribal Knowledge (TEK)
• Mercury
• Increase Tribal Participation with Region 4 EPA
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Region 2• Climate Change Adaptation and
Planning• Hydro-fracking of Marcellus Shale• Alcoa and other industries with
effects on Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe at Akwesasne
• Mobile Sources• Emissions from the international
shipping industry; on-road/non-road• IAQ
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Region 1 • Landfill gas/ energy production
• East-west highway to split Maine through Tribal lands
•Oil Sands
•Unmet need in program personnel