Draft Agenda for the 2016 Tribal Lands and Environment Forum (TLEF)
TRAININGS
Day / Oneida/ Penobscot / Passamaquoddy/Brothertown / Schaghticoke / Narragansett / Shinnecock/ Nipmuk / Abenaki / Nehantic/
Pequot
Monday
8:00 – 12:00 pm / 10-5: Greening Tribal Facilities and Mohegan Sun Tour –Jean McInnis, Mohegan Tribe; Shannon Judd, Fond du LacBand of Lake Superior Chippewa; Tracy Horst, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Nitin Natarajan, Deputy Assistant Administrator, USEPA; and Julie Jurkowski, ITEP / 8-12: 128(a) Tribal Response Program (Brownfields) 101 – Mickey Hartnett, Envirofields and KSU-TAB / 8-5: Superfund Radiation Risk Assessment - Stuart Walker, USEPA and Fred Dolislager, Oak Ridge National Lab / 8-5: Eight Hour HAZWOPER Refresher Training - Roberta Tohannie, ITEP / 8-5: Tribal Self-Governance through the Administration of Tribal Environmental Protection Programs: The Continuing Relevance of EPA’s 1984 Indian Policy and 1992 GAP Statute - Professor James Grijalva, University of North Dakota; Professor Eric Eberhard, Seattle University; and Luke Jones, USEPA AIEO / 8-12: National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS) – USEPA and FEMA / 8-5 Monday and 8-12 Tuesday: Water & Wastewater Utility Operation, Maintenance and Management (CEUs Provided) –Mark Nelson and Joe Longo from Horsley Witten Group, Inc and staff from the USEPA
Monday
1:00 – 5:00 pm / 1-5: Brownfields Tools to Engage Community and Assess Health Risks – Gary Perlman, ATSDR / 1-5: Hazardous Waste Program Inspections and Emergency Response – Dale Anderson and Rudy Mix, Gila River Indian Community, Department of Environmental Quality
Field Trip: There will be a field trip to New Bedford Harbor, a Superfund site that is an urban tidal estuary with contaminated sediments. This field trip will take place 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday. There is limited space available for this field trip.
WQX Data Submission Assistance: One-on-one assistance will be available for the duration of the Forum.
Tuesday
8:00 – 12:00 pm / 8-12:Restoring the Carbon Nitrogen Balance of the Earth: Soil, Water, Species and Human Safety - John Todd, Professor Emeritus of University of Vermont, President of John Todd Ecological Design; Robert Gough, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy; Brian Thunderhawk, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; Dr. David Benjamin, better Inc. / 8-12: EPA Exchange Network & E-Enterprise for the Environment: A Special Information Sharing Event –*Introduction by Tribal and EPA Staff
*Successful Tribal EN Projects Presented by Penobscot Nation and Bishop Paiute Tribe
*Utilizing the Exchange Network to Update Tribal FRS Data
*Tribal Road Map
*Panel Discussion with EPA and Tribal Staff / 8-12: Training/Exercise on Response to Crude Oil by Rail Incidents – Ralph Dollhopf and Paul Ruesch, USEPA On-Scene Coordinators and Emergency Planners; Ryan Prewitt, CSX Transportation; and Dale Buckholtz, Canadian Pacific Railroad / 8-12: Best Management Approaches to Remediation – Randy Bettelyoun, Oglala Lakota Nation and Steve Dyment, USEPA Technology Innovation and Field Services Division / 8-12: Developing an EPA-Tribal Environmental Plans (ETEPs) - A Step by Step Blueprint and
Strategic Planning for Tribal Environmental Programs – Josh Simmons, Prosper Sustainably / 8-12: Communicating Water through Story, Presentation and Effective Messaging - Sarah Diefendorf, EFCWest / 8-5 Monday and 8-12 Tuesday: Water & Wastewater Utility Operation, Maintenance and Management (CEUs Provided)
Field Trip: There will be a field trip to North Haven RCRA Site-Pharmacia & Upjohn Company facilityfor those involved in brownfields and contaminated sites work. This field trip will take place 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on Tuesday. There is limited space available for this field trip. To register please email: .
Field Trip: There will be a field trip to Uncas Leap and Willimantic Whitewater Partnership sites for those involved in brownfields, contaminated sites, and water programs. This field trip will take place 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on Tuesday. There is limited space available for this field trip. To register please email: .
BREAKOUTS
Day / Oneida/ Penobscot / Passamaquoddy/Brothertown / Schaghticoke / Narragansett / Shinnecock/ Nipmuk / Abenaki / Nehantic/
Pequot
Tuesday
1:30 -3:00pm / Opening Plenary
Featured Speakers: Melissa Zobel, Mohegan Tribe’s Cultural and Community Program Executive Director and
Curt Spalding, USEPA Region 1Administrator
Tuesday
3:30 – 5:00 pm / Developing and Implementing Tribal Solid and Hazardous Waste Programs Under GAP – Luke Jones and Charles RedDoor, USEPA / Phase I and II Site Assessments - Quinton Jacket and Colin Larrick, Ute Mountain Ute / A Conversation with Senior Staff from USEPA Office of Land and Emergency Management / An Orientation to the UST Program - Victoria Flowers, Oneida Nation and Carolyn Hoskinson, OUST Director, USEPA / Environmental Justice, Tribes and Indigenous Peoples - Daniel Gogal, USEPA Office of Environmental Justice; Dona Harris, USEPA AIEO; and Randy Gee, USEPA Region 6
And
Climate Change on Tribal Lands: Approaches to Collaborative Adaptation – Shasta Gaughen, Heidi Brow, and Kurt Broz, Pala Band of Mission Indians; Amber Pairis, the Climate Science Alliance-South Coast / The Penobscot River Restoration Project – John Banks, Penobscot NationAnd
Monitoring Water Quality and Benthic Macroinvertebrates Pre and Post Dam Removal - Penobscot River Restoration Project - Dan Kusnierz, Penobscot Nation / Tribal Infrastructure Task Force Meeting - Ken Norton, Hoopa Valley Tribe and National Tribal Water Council chair; John Wheaton, Nez Perce Tribe and TWRAP Steering Committee member; John Nichols, ANTHC; Sheila Frace, Deputy Office Director; and Matthew Richardson, USEPA Office of Wastewater Management
Wednesday
8:30 – 10:00 am / Backhaul Successes from the North - Anahma Shannon, Kawerak, Inc
And
Santa Ynez Chumash Zero Waste Initiatives - Kelly Schmandt Ferguson, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians / Developing Tribal Cleanup Standards - Susan Hanson, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes; Henry Haven, geologist, Navajo Nation; and Jill Grant, attorney, Jill Grant & Associates / Mining on Tribal Lands – Laurie Suter, Tohono O’odham Nation / Office Hours with Carolyn Hoskinson, OUST Director, USEPA
And
Upcoming UST Regulatory Deadlines, Mark Barolo, OUST Deputy Director / Drones and their use in Environmental Protection - Dale Ohnmeiss, Water Quality Specialist, Ak-Chin Indian Community
And
How to Combine Tribal and Non-Tribal Resources during Disasters – Kellie Poolaw, Caddo County Oklahoma Emergency Management / Management of Ogallala Aquifer on Rosebud Reservation, SD - Syed Y. Huq, Director Water Resources Rosebud Sioux Tribe / Establishing Tribal Water Quality Programs under EPAs Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (GAP) - Luke Jones, Robyn Delehanty, USEPA
And
A Discussion with the National Tribal Water Council and EPA Office of Water - Ken Norton, chair, and other members of the National Tribal Water Council; Senior management from USEPA’s Office of Water and Office of Wastewater Management
Wednesday
10:30 - 12:00 pm / Multi Media Meetup
Wednesday
1:30 - 3:00 pm / U.S. EPA Sustainable Management of Food Program and the 2030 Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal – Chris Beling, USEPA
And
Mohegan Tribe’s Waste Food Recycling Program – Jean McInnis, Mohegan Tribe / Office hours for OBLR – David Lloyd
And
Where’s the Money? Plus Tips and Tricks for Successful Grant Proposals - Victoria Flowers, Oneida Nation and Elizabeth Limbrick, New Jersey Institute of Technology (TAB) / Tribal Superfund Working Group Meeting / Things To Watch For When Using A Commercial Insurance Policy As Your Financial Assurance Mechanism - Audray Lincoln and Heather Mann, Region 6, USEPA / Enacting and Enforcing Tribal Law to Restore Natural Resources--A Case Study Using the Park Service Act as ModelPart 1: The Tribal Law and How it Works
Part 2: Applying the Tribal Law in a Workshop Setting
- Richard Du Bey & Jennifer Sanscrainte , SCB Law; Robert Unsworth and Jen Kassaklan, IEc / Developing a Clean Water Act Section 106 Monitoring Program– Carey Pauquette, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan and David Horak, USEPA Region 5 And
Developing Clean Water Act Section 106 Assessment Reports – Lionel Puhuyesva, Director of Hopi Water Resources Program and Audrey Johnson, USEPA Region 9 / Breaking New Ground on Wetland Monitoring and Assessment: Newly Released Results of the 2011 National Wetland Condition Assessment –
Kathleen Kutschenreuter, USEPA
And
Mannomin- Research, Restoration, and Protection – Allison Smart, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
Wednesday
3:30 – 5:00 pm / Infrastructure Task Force Report on Solid Waste in Indian Country - Charles Reddoor, EPA OLEM; Marta Burg, Attorney Tribal Consultant; Kami Snowden, Executive Director TSWAN; Alex Dailey, IHS, HQS / Prepare A Successful Site Specific Quality Assessment Project Plan Addenda (Phase II Work Plan) - Glenn Daukas, Campbell Environmental Group; AmyJean McKeown, USEPA Region 1; Dale Mitchell, Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Tribe / Grants Mining District, NM - Legacy Uranium Mining – LaDonna Turner, USEPA Region 6
And
Navajo Abandoned Uranium Mines - Vivian Craig and Darlene Jenkins, Navajo Nation Superfund Program; Linda Reeves, USEPA Superfund Program / Emergency Spill Response under OPA - a Tribal Perspective – Don Hurst, Colville Confederated Tribes
And
Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council UST Site Vulnerability Study and Program Updates – Leonard Sabatino and Jeffrey Lyon, ENIPC / Enacting and Enforcing Tribal Law to Restore Natural Resources:
Part 3: The Role of Science &Economics in Supporting Tribal Law
Part 4: Tribal Restoration Projects That Will Withstand the Challenge of Climate Change
- Richard Du Bey & Jennifer Sanscrainte , SCB Law; Robert Unsworth and Jen Kassaklan, IEc / Overview of Water Data Sharing Using WQX - Laura Shumway, USEPA
And
Region 6 Water Quality Reporting Pilot - Micco Emarthla, Seneca-Cayuga Nation of OK and Laura Shumway, USEPA / Protecting Tribal Reservation Waters through Proposed Federal Tribal Water Quality Standards - Mary Lou Soscia, US EPA Andrew Byrne, US EPA
And
Clean Water Act Treatment in a Similar Manner as a State: New Developments and Opportunities - Andrew Byrne, Mary Lou Soscia, and Zoe Ruge, USEPA
Thursday
8:30 - 10:00 am / How To Prepare Now For The Future Of Tribal Solid Waste Program Funding For Cleanups – Roger Hancock, USEPA Region 6
And
New Mexico State Government RAID Grants for Solid Waste Projects – Margaret Chavez, ENIPC / Outreach: Mohawk Style – Julia Jacobs, St. Regis MohawkAnd
Using Student Interns - Results Today, Investment for the Future - Elizabeth Wakeman, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe; John Prohaska, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa / Working with Tribes During Superfund Responses - Anne Dailey, Christine Poore, Jessica Snyder, USEPA / Corrosion in Diesel Storage Tanks -John LeBlanc, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians andRyan Haerer, USEPA And
Choctaw Nation of OK Success with UST Regulatory Benefits - Chuck Tillman, Sr. Director of Operations for the Choctaw Nation Travel Plazas and Greg Pashia, USEPA Region 6 / Expediting the Federal Environmental Review Process in Indian Country - Hilary Atkin, HUD Office of Native American Programs and Michael Drummond, White House Council on Environmental Quality / Tribal Water Quality Standards Presentation – Dan Kusnierz, Penobscot Nation; Daugherty Johnson, Little Traverse Bay Band; Scott Bulgrin, Sandia Pueblo; and Gussie Lord, Jill Grant & Associates / PrivateWellClass.org - An Online Program for Educating Private Well Owners - Steve Wilson and Katie Hollenbeck, University of Illinois And
Drinking Water Utility Water Loss Prevention - Samuel Russell, USEPA
Thursday
10:30 - 12:00 pm / Managing and Transforming Waste Streams – Shannon Davis, USEPA Region 9
And
Effectively Strategizing to Improve Solid Waste Management in Santo Domingo Pueblo – Cynthia Naha, Santa Domingo Pueblo / Tribal Response and Oversight - Mark Junker, Sac and Fox Nation Tribal Response Coordinator and Molly Feldick, Winnebago Tribal Response Coordinator
And
Brownfield RFP/TRP Success Stories - Molly Feldick, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska / Soil Sampling and Decision Making Using Incremental Sampling Methodology – Mary Jo Ondrechen, Northeastern University / PVIScreen: An Innovative Tool to Assess Petroleum Vapor Intrusion – Jim Weaver, USEPA ORD and Robin Davis, retired, Utah Department of Environmental Quality / Innovative Strategies and Tools to Increase Sustainable Behaviors – Shannon Judd, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Dolly Tong, USEPA Region 5
And
Solar Projects in Indian Country - Josh Simmons, Prosper Sustainably / Understanding Harmful Algal Blooms and their potential impacts – Barry Rosen, U.S. Geological Survey And
Muscogee (Creek) Nation: Open Source Applications for Water Quality and Emergency Response - Frank Harjo, Muscogee (Creek) Nation; Doug Timms, Open Environment Software / 10 Years at 10 PPB - Arsenic in Drinking Water - Samuel Russell, USEPA
And
Protecting Tribal Homes and Infrastructure from the Ravages of Climate Change at Passamaquoddy Tribe (Pleasant Point Reservation) - Michael Stover, USEPA Region 1; Marc Paiva, USACE;Normand LaBerge, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point
Thursday
1:30 - 3:00 pm / Make your Voice Count in the RCRA Decision-Making Process - Toshia King, Kristina Torres, USEPA
And
Are You Satisfied with your Outreach Efforts? - TejAttili, La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians / Using Brownfields to Assess Tribal Housing Problems - Quinton Jacket, Ute Mountain Ute; Robert Smith, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe; Jody Ground, Three Affiliated Tribes / Tribal-Led Remediation At The Tar Creek Superfund Site, Quapaw, Oklahoma – Tim Kent, Quapaw Tribe And
Lake Superior Barrel Project - Gary Defoe Jr., Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa / LUST Sites: Protecting Ground Water Supplies – David Anderson, USEPA Region 6; Fran Kremer, USEPA ORD; Jeffrey Lyon, ENIPC; Greg Pashia, USEPA Region 6; Leonard Sabatino, ENIPC; and Jim Weaver, USEPA ORD / Rebuilding an AWESOME Environmental Compliance Program on AkimelO'Odham Land - Amy Miguel, O'ogham/Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
And
USEPA Guidance for Discussing Tribal Treaty Rights - Dona Harris and Jeff Besougloff, USEPA AIEO / Idaho Tribal Fish Consumption Survey: Protecting High Fish Consumers through the Clean Water Act - Mary Lou Soscia, USEPA Region 10 And
Benefit of Sea-Run Alewives for Ecosystem Restoration and Food Fishery – Ed Bassett, Passamaquoddy at Pleasant Point / Non-Point Source (NPS) Restoration Activities Following Catastrophic Wildfires on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation - Cheryl Pailzote and Javis Davis, White Mountain Apache Tribe
And
Integrating The Protection Of Healthy Waters In Tribal Clean Water Act Section 319 And Other Water Quality Programs - Steve Epting, USEPA
Thursday
3:30 - 5:00 pm / Closing Plenary
Final Raffle, Special Performance by Mohegan Tribe Dancers and Drummers,
and Final Remarks and Blessing by Mohegan Chief Lynn Malerba