2013 Tribal Air Quality Priorities

1. 2013 Tribal Air QualityPriorities National Tribal Air Association Executive Committee NTF 2013

2. 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

3. Principles • Sovereignty/ Self-Determination • Tribes have the right to know the quality of their air • Tribes are leaders, strong partners, and co-regulators

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 2013 National Priorities • Oil and Gas development issues on and around Tribal lands • Tribal mNSR issues • Registration • Permits • Implementation • Delegation • Enforcement • Permit Review

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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)

13. 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)

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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?

17. Region 8 • EPA post schedule Through-The-Probe Audit? • Grant flexibility to perform other environmental responsibilities • Increased communication from Montana Office

18. Region 7 • Tribal NSR Implementation • Mercury Deposition Monitoring Network • Proposed Hyperion Energy Center and Keystone XL Pipeline • Impacts of Coal Fired EGU’s

19. Region 7 • Impacts of Climate Change • Tribal Concern of the Possibility of Shifting focus from Ambient Air Programs to IAQ Programs • Trainings/Conferences – NETWORKING

20. Region 6 • Regional Haze • Ozone • Pesticides • Technical support – rulings • Rulings breakdown – Tribal Leaders • Retro Fit Diesel Program

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. Region 1 • Landfill gas/ energy production • East-west highway to split Maine through Tribal lands • Oil Sands • Unmet need in program personnel

26. For more information www.ntaatribalair.com