IS THERE LIFE AFTER 2007?

1. IS THERE LIFE AFTER 2007?

2. WHERE DO TRIBES WANT TO GO WITH THE WRAP?

4. Partnership • The WRAP partnership has facilitated many successful dialogs on air quality issues • Shared experiences and exchange of cultural values have enhanced air quality efforts by states and tribes to develop programs that benefit both tribes and states

5. SIPs are required to be submitted December 2007 • Does WRAP exist beyond regional haze? • TDDWG and Tribal Caucus recommendations for tribal partnership with the WRAP

6. 1.Particulate matter in rural communities • Inconsistencies in the U.S. EPAs proposed Coarse rule and the existing PM2.5 rule • Metropolitan Statistical Areas (population of 100,000 or more) for application of a monitoring program

8. Action • Apply for funding for research into health impacts of PM • Use the WRAP’s existing PM data to facilitate health research into respiratory diseases in rural areas, which include most tribal populations

9. 2. Risk management analysis • Required in many grant solicitations • Action • The Tribes request that the WRAP develop a template designed to determine which risk management tools are most effective and efficient for both states and tribes

10. 3. Dust modeling • No current model for dust analysis • Action • The WRAP should urge EPA to provide funding to the WRAP to proceed with research and scientific applications to find an acceptable dust model in support of tracking RPGs

12. 4. Climate Change Dramatic evidence of climate change documented by tribes and affecting traditional lifeways: • forced relocation of Alaskan tribal communities • fewer fish in the waters due to warmer temperatures • migration of big game to areas not commonly visited and reduced game populations • water fowl not present in previous nesting grounds

14. Action • Secure additional funding to support Tribal travel to WRAP climate change meetings and trainings • The WRAP should examine research into the effects of climate change on air quality in the West • Work with Center for Climate Change to add GHGs to TEISS, to measure tribal emissions of GHGs • The WRAP staff should continue to seek funding to support studies of Climate Change

15. 5.Oil and Gas Emissions • Water quality and air quality are connected • Oil and Gas production increases emissions • Tribes are affected by oil and gas exploration and production

16. Action • The WRAP should ensure that the increased emissions from oil and gas production are included in the EDMS and factored into future projections • The WRAP should seek funding from private foundations and from EPA discretionary funds for Regional Administrators

17. 6.Atmospheric Deposition • Excessive levels of either methylmercury or elemental mercury from major sources affect fish populations • Sources include electrical generating units, cement manufacturing industries, and prescribed fires

19. Action • The WRAP should begin to stress the interrelationship between airsheds and watersheds affecting both tribes and states • Gather more data via monitoring on mercury deposition in the west • Use EDMS and RMC to track mercury emissions and identify mercury deposition areas

20. 7.Consumption of PSD increments • Recent litigation supports states and tribes that do not have the tools to properly track the consumption of PSD increments • This is particularly important to the tribes that have designated their reservations as Class I airsheds

21. Action • The EPA should provide funding to the WRAP to develop: • A model to identify a baseline for PSD incremental consumption; or • A tracking system that allows for the proper designation of areas for industrial development while maintaining the air quality of the existing airshed

22. 8.Continuing Collection of Tribal Data • Continuing ability of tribes to gather data is necessary to fully support RPGs for regional haze SIPs and FIPs (and TIPs) • The continuing need for modeling as more tribes complete their emission inventories and submit data to EPA

24. Action The WRAP should seek: • Funding for the TDDWG to continue to function as it does at this time • Continued contractor support for ITEP and the TEISS software, for data input and analysis for the Regional Haze Rule and impacts on tribal lands

25. The WRAP should investigate methods and models to monitor minor source activity and begin to research methods to prevent additional contaminants that diminish PSD incremental consumption on state and tribal lands • Continued funding for current NTEC programs • Technical Assistance to tribes to develop TIPs • Facilitation of effective tribal partnership in SIP process • Facilitation of inter-RPO issues • Analysis of Tribal Set-Asides for SO2 and NOx

26. 9. Ozone • Ozone is rapidly increasing in western rural communities, which includes 95% of western tribes and a significant percentage of WRAP states • Action Use the existing CMAQ modeling tools to model ozone emissions and the increase in new source contribution in rural areas

27. Rural PM Risk Mgmt Analysis Dust Modeling Climate Change Oil & Gas Emissions Atmospheric Deposition PSD Consumption Tribal Data Ozone Summary

28. You want to go WHERE?

29. AllAboard!!