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2014 National Tribal Forum presentations

Monday, May 12, 2014: Pre-Conference Sessions
8:00am - 5:00am: Climate Change Adaptation Planning

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1:00pm - 4:30pm: Treatment as a State (TAS) Symposium

• CAA TAS Document May62014.docx
• LaRoche_TARoverview.ppt
• TASoverview.pptx

1:00pm - 5:00pm: Tribal Mercury Symposium

• Hg Workshop BBrunette.pptx
• Hg Workshop DGay.pptx
• Hg Workshop SWeir.pptx

1:00pm - 5:00pm: IAQ Technical Assistance Session (No presentations)

Tuesday, May 13, 2014
10:15am - 11:30am: National Regional Tribal Priorities

• NTAA EC Priorities for NTF 2014.pptx

2:00pm - 3:30pm: Breakout Sessions

• Air Quality Policy
  • Tribal Air Authority (TAR) and Treatment as a State (TAS) – David LaRoche, Retired US EPA
  • Overview of Oklahoma Ruling – Laura McKelvey, US EPA OAQPS
  • Wind River Reservation – Jason Walker, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
  
  
  
• Climate Change
  • National Tribal Climate Change Initiatives (Garrit Voggesser, National Wildlife Federation; Kathy Lynn, University of Oregon)
  • New EPA Rules Regulating Carbon Emissions: An Opportunity for Tribes to Influence Federal Policy to Confront Climate Change (Felice Stadler & Garrit Voggesser, National Wildlife Federation)
  
  
  
• Air Quality Technical & Outreach
  • Examples of Emission Inventory Data Uses on the Colville Reservation (Kris Ray, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation)0
  • New Air Monitoring Technologies (Kristen Benedict, US EPA OAQPS)
  • Ozone Data Corrections (Mangas Slinkey, Salt River Pima - Maricopa Indian Community)
  
  
  
• Indoor Air Quality
  • Tackling the Tribal Asthma Epidemic: Leveraging Your Air Quality Programs to Improve Health Outcomes

5:30pam - 8:00pm: Virgil Masayesva Award Ceremony & Buffet Dinner

• DelbertAcceptanceSpeech.docx
• DelbertAcceptancePresentation.pptx

Wednesday, May 14, 2014
8:00am - 8:30am: Plenary Session – Planning and Preparing for Climate Change

• Durglo_CSKT_CCStrategicPlan_LongVersion.pptx
• Durglo_CSKT_CCStrategicPlan_ShortVersion.pptx
• Andrews_SITC_climatechange.ppt
• Benedict_SRMT-CChg.pptx

1:30pm - 3:00pm Breakout Sessions

• Air Quality Policy
  • Overview of Tribal New Source Review (NSR) – Greg Green, US EPA OAQPS
  • Overview of Refineries Rule and Other Upcoming Rules – Laura McKelvey, US EPA OAQPS
  • Oil and Gas Emissions - Tom Moore, Western Regional Air Partnership
  • Overview of Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) – Rosalva Tapia, US EPA OTAQ
  
  
  
• Climate Change
  • Climate Change Town Hall Meeting (Chischilly)
  • Climate Change Town Hall Meeting (Jantarasami)
  • Climate Change Town Hall Meeting (Mahaffy)
  • Climate Change Town Hall Meeting (Mote)
  
  
  
• Air Quality Technical & Outreach
  • EPA's Tribal Greenhouse Gas Inventory Tool (Erica Bollerud, US EPA OAP)
  • Overview of Two Recent Interagency Air Quality Initiatives in the Pacific Northwest (Tonnie Cummings, National Park Service)
  • Quality Improvement Session for Tribal Air Programs: A Region 8 Perspective (Tom Brooks, US EPA Region 8)
  
  
  
• Indoor Air Quality
  • Building Capacity to Identify and Remediate Indoor Air Hazards (Jill Heins Nesvold, American Lung Association and Kendra Lone Elk, Oglala Sioux Tribe Health Administration)

3:30pm - 5:00pm: Breakout Sessions

• Air Quality Policy
  • Overview of Rules – Laura McKelvey, US EPA OAQPS
  • Carbon Rules (111(b) and 111(d))
  • Methane Strategy (Oil and Gas)
  • Breakout in Subgroups to Brainstorm (Comments and Input)
  
  
  
• Climate Change
  • Climate Change in Southeast Alaska (Linda Kruger, USFS)
  • Climate Change Health As sessments for Three Coastal, Riverine, and Lake System Communities in Southwest Alaska (Susan Flensburg, Bristol Bay Native Association)
  • Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change Protocols: Safeguards and Some Things to Consider when Using Traditional Knowledge (Joe Hostler, Yurok Tribe)
  
  
  
• Air Quality Technical & Outreach
  • Community Outreach on Indian Reservations (Kathy Moses, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation)
  • Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma Air Quality Program (Craig Kreman, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma)
  • Overview of the SRPMIC Air Quality Program (Corwin Smith, Salt River Pima - Maricopa Indian Community)
  
  
  
• Indoor Air Quality
  • Healthy Casinos: A Case Study (Jeff Mears, Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin)
  • Healthy Casinos: Conducting a Building Assessment (Tony Bassabe, Ph.D., Swinomish Indian Community and Rich Prill, Washington State University)

Thursday, May 15, 2014
8:30am - 10:00am: Plenary Session – Hot Topics in Air Quality, Indoor Air & Climate Change


Image: Anne Jess (The Doodle Biz) graphic recording of Hot Topics discussion

10:30am - 12:00pm: Breakout Sessions

• Air Quality Policy
  • Air Quality Program Education and Outreach (Ralph "Manny" Gomez, Ak-Chin Indian Community)
  • The Undertaker is Calling...a Surprising Potential Minor Source Story (Brandy Toft, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe)
  • Video - Moapa Band of Paiutes, Fight Coal Fired Power Plant While Leading the Way in Clean Energy (Vickie Simmons, Moapa Band of Southern Paiutes)
  • Article - Moapa Band of Paiutes, Fight Coal Fired Power Plant While Leading the Way in Clean Energy (Vickie Simmons, Moapa Band of Southern Paiutes)
  • Marine DERA at Swinomish (Tony Basabe, Ph.D, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community)
  
  
  
• Climate Change
  • Migration 2013: We are Still Moving About (Neil Patterson, Jr., Tuscarora Nation)
  • ITEP's Climate Change Program: Past, Present and Future (Sue Wotkyns and Cristina Gonzalez-Maddux, ITEP)
  • Developing Indigenous Community Health Indicators for Climate Change Assessment & Adaptation Planning (Jamie Donatuto and Larry Campbell, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community)
  
  
  
• Air Quality Technical & Outreach
  • ANTHC Air Quality Program, Alaska's Air – Inside and Out (Josh Liles, ANTHC)
  • Calibrating Concerns about PAHs in Urban Air Using Monitoring and Modeling: A Project Plan Summary (Charles J. Lippert, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe)
  
  
  
• Indoor Air Quality
  • Radon Testing and Mitigation – Radon Resistant Construction (Twa-le Abrahamson, Air Quality Coordinator)
  • Radon at Bad River (Daniel Wiggins, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)

1:30pm - 3:00pm: Plenary Session: Air Quality & Health Impacts


Image: Anne Jess (The Doodle Biz) graphic recording of Air Quality & Health Impacts presentations

• Particulate Air Pollution and Human Health (Dr. C. Arden Pope III, Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University)
• Fine Particle Air Pollution and the Health of Your Community: Who is at Risk, the Biological Mechanisms of Exposure, and What You Can Do to Minimize Harm (Gillian Mittelstaedt, Tribal Healthy Homes Network)

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