ITEP Conferences:
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2018 Tribal Lands & Environment Forum: United by Water
2018 Presentation downloads
Unless otherwise noted, all files are in pdf format.
Monday, Aug 13:
8:00am Sessions:
- EPA Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Regulations (SPCC) Inspector short course – Nick Nichols
- Establishing and Enhancing the Brownfields/128(a) Tribal Response Program (TRP) - Mickey Hartnett, KSU-TAB
1:00pm Sessions
- National Incident Management System (NIMS-ICS/Unified Command) short course – Nick Nichols
- Approaching Community Engagement and Brownfields Redevelopment through Indigenous Planning and Interdisciplinary Partnerships– KSU-TAB, ENIPC, UNM, UI
- Strengthening Tribal Self-Determination and Self-Governance through the Administration of Environmental Protection Programs - James Grijalva, University of North Dakota School of Law
- Addressing Meth Problems in Indian Country – Mickey Hartnett, KSU-TAB
- Digital Story-telling Strategies for Tribal Environmental Programs - Cynthia Naha, Santo Domingo Tribe
- UAS (Unmanned aircraft systems) Flight Training & Part 107 Prep course – Quinton Jacket, Ute Mountain Ute
Tuesday, August 14:
8:00am Sessions
- Updates from the ITF and Addressing Open Dumps in Partnership with Indian Health Service and EPA – Rob Roy, La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians; Kim Katonica and Charles Reddoor, EPA, Ben Shuman, IHS
- ATSDR Tools to Engage the Community and Evaluate Hazardous Sites – Gary Perlman, ATSDR *Slides for this presentation were not provided
- Conducting Effective Compliance Assistance Inspections for UST Owner/Operators – Ben Thomas, UST Training
- Emergency Response: FEMA and EPA Roles and Responsibilities – USEPA
- Lights...Camera... Success Stories! The GAP National Pilot and Tribal Exchange Network Innovations – Lisa Berrios and Felicia Wright, USEPA
10:00am Sessions
- Waste Needs Assessment and Technical Assistance Discussion with EPA Regions 8, 9, and 10
- Building a Tribal Mining Program through Collaborations – Laurie Suter, Tohono O’odham Nation
- EPA Office of Emergency Management Oil and Chemical Spills 101 – Nick Nichols, EPA and John Wheaton, Nez Perce Tribe presenters
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Available Tools For Calculating Hydrologic Budget Components On Tribal Lands – Stephen Hundt, US Geological Survey Idaho Water Science Center
3:00pm Sessions
- Self-evaluation Tools: Judging Your Own Waste Management Practices – Ted Jacobson, EPA/SEE
- Successful 104(k) Brownfield Competitive Assessment/Cleanup Grant Proposals – KSU-TAB
- E-Tools for Tribal Response Programs/ Brownfields and Other Environmental Programs – KSU-TAB. Slides and resources from this presentation can be found at: http://cynthiaannett.org/2018-tlef
- Tank Talk: US EPA and Navajo Nation Oil Storage Programs – Warren Roan and Tanya Yazzie, Navajo Nation; Nick Nichols and Mark Barolo, USEPA
- Update on Remedial Superfund Task Force Recommendations – Christine Poore and Amanda Van Epps, US EPA
- Total Community Engagement Through Conversation Mapping – Sarah Diefendorf, EFCWest *Slides for this presentation were not provided
- Designing an Integrated, Comprehensive Tribal Water Program – Verna Potts and Ma’Ko’Quah Jones, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Heather Duncan and Eliodora Chamberlain, USEPA Region 7
- Water Quality Standards, Fish Consumption Rates, and Tribal Seafood Risk Assessment - Lon Kissinger and Mary Lou Soscia, EPA Region 10
- Indigenous Resource Management the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Way - Megan Van Pelt, Jaytuk Steinruck, Rosa Laucci, Tolowa Dee-ni Nation
Wednesday, August 15:
8:30am Sessions
- SMM: Upstream Solutions for Impact! – Kristy Fry and Deirdre Nurre, US EPA
- Landfills/Transfer Stations 101 – Craig Dufficy, USEPA
- 2018 BUILD Act Changes to CERCLA and the Brownfields Program – Patricia Overmeyer, US EPA
- Financial Literacy and Reporting – Sean O’Brien, Penobscot Tribe and AmyJean McKeown, USEPA Region 1
- Getting Ready for the October 2018 UST Compliance Deadline – Ben Thomas, UST Training
- Integrating TEK In Cleanup And Response Programs: Successes, Cautions And Lessons Learned –Kent Benjamin, USEPA, Joanne Moore, USEPA R10, Rick Eichstaedt, R10 RTOC
- How Tribes Can Develop the Capacity to Implement and Enforce Environmental Programs to Protect Their Natural Resources Under Tribal Law and Federal Law – Richard Du Bey and Brian Epley, Ogden Murphy Wallace PLLC
- ATTAINS Tribal Water Quality Reporting Tool – Lydia Scheer, ITEP, Micah Isaacs, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and Micco Emarthla, Seneca-Cayuga Nation
- Identifying and Addressing PFAS in Your Community, Jennifer McLain , USEPA
- Radionuclides in Drinking Water - The Spokane Tribe's Approach – Brian Crossley, Spokane Tribe and Bailey Gamble, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
- Education and Outreach - Talking Trash – Mansel Nelson, ITEP
- Tribes And Nontribal Partnerships For Environmental Response And Brownfields – Ignacio Dayrit, Center for Creative Land Recycling and Partners
- Compliance and Enforcement of Regulatory Requirements – Susan O’Keefe and Tony Raia, and Mallory Miller, USEPA Region 4
- Cultural Perspectives and Resources in Superfund Work: An Open Discussion, Todd Barnell and Julie Jurkowski, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
- How Tribes Can Use Citizen Suits and Other Laws to Preserve and Protect the Health and Quality of the Reservation - Nick Thomas and Andrew Fuller, Ogden Murphy Wallace PLLC
- A National Tribal Water Council Listening Session – Members of the NTWC
- Tribal Listening Session: Proposal to Revise the Definition of Waters of the United States
- Major Industry Changes in Operator Certification: Is State Certification Suitable to Protecting your Tribe's Public Health and Sovereignty? – Brian Bennon, ITCA
- Building a Hazardous Waste Program – Page Hingst & Alisha Bartling, Santee Sioux; Liz Blackburn & Jane Kloeckner, EPA Region 7
- Our First Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event: Highlights and Lessons Learned – MaryRose Morigeau, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes and Adam Johnson, NewFields
- Coeur d'Alene Tribe's Brownfields Response Program – Tiffany Allgood, Coeur d’Alene Tribe
- Tribal Sustainable Environmental Planning - NEPA & HUD requirements – Eugene Goldfarb, KSU-TAB
- Do I Really Have to Test That? – John LeBlanc, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
- Secondary Containment for Underground Storage Tanks - Requirements & Selection – Victoria Flowers, Oneida Nation and Jeff Dzierzanowski, Source NA
- Remedial Investigation Feasibility Study 101 – Cindy Marchand, Confederated Tribes of Colville
- Assisting Community Sustainability in Small and Rural Populations through the DISC Tool – Kristi Swisher, EPA
- Tribal Capacity & Needs Assessment on Data Management – Tribal and ITEP presenters
- The Community Engagement Process for Responding to the Gold King Mine Spill - Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, University of Arizona, Gold King Mine Spill Diné Exposure Project
- Brainstorming Ways to Recycle Old Fishing Gear - Nicole Baker, Net Your Problem *Slides for this presentation were not provided
Thursday, August 16:
8:30am Sessions
- Trench Composting at Blue Lake Rancheria - Jacob Pounds and Suzanne Alvernaz, Blue Lake Rancheria
- Maximizing Energy From Waste while Minimizing Life Cycle Environmental Burdens and Cost – Carol Staniec, EPA Region 5
- Contracting for Environmental Services – Mickey Hartnett, KSU-TAB
- BioFuels and UST Equipment Compatibility – Victoria Flowers, Oneida Nation and Jeff Dzierzanowski, Source NA
- Preserving Resources While Protecting Tribal Use at Tar Creek Superfund Site – Tim Kent and Summer King, Quapaw Tribe
- Cultivating Capacity at Tribal Superfund Sites by Streamlining Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) and Natural Resource Damage Assessment & Restoration (NRDAR) - Kaylene Ritter, Jen Peers, and Brian Cleary, Abt Associates
- Health Issues and Exposure to Environmental Changes - Shanondora Billiot, United Houma Nation and University of Illinois
- Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy! – Dianne Barton, NTTC and Amanda Hauff, EPA *Slides for this presentation were not provided
- Oil transport Through the Puget Sound, Columbia River, and other Inland Waterways – Linda Pilkey Jarvis and presenters from the Yakama Nation, Makah Tribe, and Lummi Tribe *Slides for this presentation were not provided
- Stream Restoration Projects: Lessons Learned from Implementing Four Different Types of Stream Restoration Projects – Jim Snitgen, Oneida Nation
- Moving Past Planning: Permitting And Implementation Of River Restoration With Mixed Jurisdictions – Emily Luscombe, Coyote Valley Band
- Tire Recycling – Sean Cable and Michael Craig, Comanche Nation
- Choctaw Nation Recycling Facility Case Study – Jason Lilley, Choctaw Nation
- Brightfields on Tribal Lands – Ignacio Dayrit, Center for Creative Land Recycling and Douglas MacCourt, Rosette Law
- An Introduction to Cleaning up Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites – Janice Pearson, EPA Region 8 and Rob Rau, EPA Region 10
- Tribal Case Study of a UST Clean-Up – Troy Techlin, Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan
- Superfund Cleanup and Munitions at Federal Facilities - Emerald Laija, Mary T. Cooke, Doug Maddox, EPA
- Building Understanding: Developing Tribal Sovereignty Workshops for Internal and External Partners – Laura Laumatia, Caj Matheson, Shawna Daniels, Coeur d'Alene Tribe
- Tribal Water Quality and Cyanotoxins: Leading a Multi-Jurisdictional Monitoring Program - Sarah Ryan, Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians and Karola Kennedy, Elem Indian Community
- Managing and Financing Septic Systems - Gaida Mahgoub, EPA
- Water Harvesting at Pala – Heidi Brow, Pala Band of Mission Indians
- Building for the Environment -Sustainable Materials Management in Building and Deconstruction Projects - Julia Jacobs, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Kristina Torres, EPA
- Deconstruction & Green Building: Growing Tribal Communities Of Practice - Terri McCartney and Tyrone Mitchell, Hopland Band of Pomo Indians; Deirdre Nurre and Timonie Hood, EPA
- Planning for Natural Disaster Debris on Tribal Lands – Melissa Kaps and Becky Geyer, USEPA and Mark Junker, Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska
- UST Financial Responsibility Examples
- Lake Superior Barrels Project: Addressing Environmental Threats in Sacred Waters – Linda Nguyen, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Bruno Ridolfi, Ridolfi Environmental
- Jackpile Uranium Mine: Updates and Community Involvement – Erin "Nikki" Woodward, Pueblo of Laguna
- Addressing Risks To Tribal Resources From The Toxics That Are Released From Consumer Products – Members of the National Tribal Toxics Council
- Pesticides in Tribal Communities: Strategies for Assessing and Reducing Risks – Fred Corey, Aroostook Band of Micmacs; Holly Thompson Duffy, IHS; Cindy Wire, EPA
- Tribal Health Impact Assessment for Wild Rice Rule Revisions – Nancy Schuldt and Shannon Judd, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
- Incorporating Swinomish Cultural Values into Wetland Assessment & Management
- Swinomish Water Quality Standards Code Development & EPA Approval Process
- Swinomish Water Quality Data: Long Term Trends - Todd Mitchell, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
For more information please contact:
Todd Barnell
Project Director
928/523-3840
Todd.Barnell@nau.edu