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ITEP Timeline
20 Year Anniversary1992-2012
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2012
August: Tribal Clean Energy Resource Center is up and running, first three staff members hired.
September: Third annual Tribal Lands Forum
October: ITEP celebrates our 20th anniversary.
ITEP begins recruiting members of the new ITEP Board of Directors.
More to come...
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2011
November: At the annual meeting of the National Congress of American Indians, a resolution is passed supporting TCERC, ITEP's developing tribal energy assistance program.
March: Ann Marie Chischilly, Dine enrolled with the Navajo Nation, becomes ITEP's Executive Director.
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2010
The first Tribal Lands Forum on solid waste is held in San Diego, CA, hosting 213 participants.
April: The TAMS Center adds the School Air Toxics program to its roster of services
October: The TAMS Center marks 10 years in operation.
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2009
February: ITEP's Climate Change website for tribes goes online. Sue Wotkyns hired as Climate Change Program Manager and planning begins for course development.
February: Christopher Lee hired as TAMS Co-Director.
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2008
The Tribal Waste Response and Assistance Program begins, headed by Todd Barnell.
January: ITEP receives a one-year grant for a new program, "Impacts, Outreach and Communication."
May: The TAMS Center launches a tribal mercury monitoring program.
Fall: ITEP's Waste Management program produces its first issue of its newsletter, "Full Circle."
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2007
November: ITEP presents its first online course. "Air Monitoring Data Management."
August: First release of Tribal Data Toolbox, a software to aid tribes in managing their air data
March: Cal Seciwa, a member of the Zuni Pueblo, joins ITEP as our second director.
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2006
March: The TAMS Learning Center is renamed Virgil Masayesva Environmental Learning Center.
ITEP and EPA creates a "Water QAPP" software tool.
A Sustainable and Energy Efficient Tribal Building effort is launched.
ITEP's Tribal Solid Waste Education and Assistance Ptrogrm is launched.
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2005
September: EEOP conducts its first "Short Internship" program acitivity.
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2004
March: Farshid Farsi hired as TAMS Co-Director.
ITEP's Professional Assitance Program launches a project to identify tribes with large NOx and SOx sources.
Turbo QAPP, a software program to assist tribes in preparing Quality Assurance Project Plans, is released.
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2003
January: The TAMS Learning Center becomes operational providing a classroom training space for students involved in technical training at the TAMS Center.
The first of numerous Environmental Compliances Inspector Training courses are presented.
Mehrdad Khatibi joins the ITEP staff as Associate Director. In 2011 Mehrdad was named Director.
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2002
ITEP partners with Fort Peck Tribes and EPA on a Water Quality Program.
The Tribal Wastewater Training Center begins training courses to Colorado Plateau tribes headed by John Mead
May: ITEP begins TEISS, an emissions inventory software package.
November: The TAMS Center begins offering gravimetric (filter-weighing) services.
Fall: ITEP partners with the Walker River and Lone Pine Paiute Tribes to launch TREX.
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2001
November: Air Quality Training Program presents its 100th course.
Lee Rose hired at the TAMS Center.
ITEP is presented with EPA's Clean Air Excellence Award for innovations in Education and Outreach.
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2000
Professional Assistance Coordinator Annabelle Allison wins EPA's Clean Air Excellence Award for service to tribes.
ITEP partners with NAU and EPA's Office of Water to launch a five-year Wastewater Training Program, utilizing a state of the art training facility on NAU campus.
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1999
October: The TAMS Center is launched on the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus.
November: AIAQTP holds first TAMS Center course, "PM Monitoring." Lydia Scheer is hired in 1999.
June: EEOP holds first "Summer Scholars" event at NAU in Flagstaff headed by Mansel Nelson.
March: ITEP's air training program conducts its first course in Alaska (IAQ).
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1998
1994-1999: ITEP develops and expands its air quality management classroom training.
February: The Tribal Authority Rule is promulgated. ITEP conducts 7 TAR courses during the year.
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1996
May: The air program presents its first Level III course, "Title V."
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1994
ITEP's Environmental Education and Outreach Program begins; the first ITEP interns serve at host sites nationwide.
March: First "Intro to Tribal Air Quality" course persented.
November: Carol Seumpetwa is hired as ITEP's fourth original staff member.
Winter: The first edition of ITEP's quarterly newsletter, Native Voices, is published.
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1993
May: A Memorandium of Understanding is signed between NAU and EPA, formalizing the ITEP-EPA partnership.
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1992
August: During a flight to Washington DC to meet with US EPA officials, Virgil Masayesva and Bill Auberle sketch the outlines of ITEP on an airline napkin. By the next day, an ITEP grant is in the pipeline and the American Indian Air Quality Training Program is launched. "Listening sessions" with tribes are planned for Chicago, Denver and San Francisco. Virgil takes the helm as ITEP's first director.
August: Christy Nations is hired as ITEP's second staff member.
November: Dr. Pat Ellsworth becomes ITEP's third staff, joining the institute to coordinate air training curriculum development.
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