Meeting Minutes for the TDDWG meeting

Date: January 13, 2000

Time: 9:00AM-3: 30 PM

Venue: Inter Tribal Council of Arizona

Attendees

David LaRoche, EPA-OAR

Bill Grantham, NTEC

Raman Iyer, Chehalis Tribe

John Roanhorse, ITEP

Ondrea Barber, ITCA

Carl T. Jeffries, ITCA

Chris Lee, AIPC

Yolanda Benally, ITCA

Kesner C. Flores, Cortina, NTEC, IOC, EPA

Rebecca Pendergraph, Cortina

Jenifer Williams, Nez Perce Tribe

Julie Simpson, Nez Perce Tribe

Farshid Farsi, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes

Jay Littlewolf, Northern Cheyenne Tribes

Laura Tsosie, ITEP

Anabelle Allison, ITEP

Tony Bynum, EPA-OAR

B.Bobby Ramirez, Salt River Indian Community

Doug McDaniel, USEPA, Region 9

Stanley Patiamo, Puable of Acoma-EPA

Virgil Mesayasva, ITWP

John Cox, CTUIR

Mike George, Arizona DEQ

Paul Mountcastle, ITEP

Julie Ramone, ft. McDowell

After the invocation and introductions, the purposes of the meeting was discussed:

• John Cox:

A brief overview of WRAP/TDDWG activities. How the goals and objectives of TDDWG will be achieved in cooperation with ITEP and other forums within WRAP especially the EI forum.

• ITEP's presentation: Virgil Masayesva
• Bill Grantham presentation w.r.t. budget
• Mike George: Update on EI forum and their needs from TDDWG
• Julie Simpson: Air Pollution Prevention forum.

ITEP Presentations:

Virgil Masayesva

• What has been accomplished/work that's under progress
• Laura Tsosie 80-day assignment with ITEP-her work is to contact all tribes to conduct a comprehensive survey on air quality program. She would also contact all EPA's regional offices.
• Provide recommendations to TDDWG on the project
• Brief introduction of other members of ITEP working for the tribal data development project.
• Virgils' comments on SIP's

Paul Mountcastle's technical report:

• Survey started with 12 tribes. The initial database was designed with available information from these tribes.
• New data received from 4 more tribes
• Separation of multi-media in progress (emphasis on air quality data)

• Collaboration with USGS for GIS interface with the database. (map generation, overlays)
• Regarding GPS units, 3 units are available for tribal use on loan basis.
• Gather preliminary spatial data

• Developing a software for EI module (discussions with Trinity consultants are in progress)
• Objective is to customize the software with emphasis on tribal specific situations
• The cost of design of software ranges from $30-100,000 depending on the complexity of the software.
• For independent verification, Mr. Gary Mulcahy has been contact to conduct this study. The fee is $11,000.

• With TDDWG regarding tribal concerns and needs
• With EI work group/emission forum

Laurie Tsosie's presentation:

• Laura as the EI coordinator for the project
• Confidentiality of tribal data was discussed.
• A closer look at the survey questionnaire. A more refined set of questions will be set in the updated version

Virgil spoke for Liza Daley, who couldn't attend the meeting.

• ITEP's various projects under WRAP was mentioned

• For TDDWG, EI assessment, outreach to tribes, EI data gathering, EI support was discussed.

• Collaborative work with TDDWG in the area of technical support/organizing workshops
• Tribal emission inventory development support

• Coordinated tribal outreach

Bill Grantham

• Budget issues for 1999 and beyond
• WRAP's visibility work plan was submitted to EPA in April,'99
• In July,'99, EPA responded back with comments on the work plan to revised with the integration issue
• EPA has awarded $500,000 of the total of $2 million requested. The rest 1.5 million will be disbursed very soon.
• $50,000 has been allocated for Laura' project.
• $10,000 allocated for Laura's end of 80 day tenure to the long term data gathering
• A total of $110,000 allocated for TDDWG in FY99
• For FY2000, TDDWG request amounts to total of $700-750,000

Bobby Ramirez's

Julie Simpson on Pollution Prevention

• Presented briefly regarding the Pollution prevention forum activities
• The goal is to achieve 10% from renewable sources in 2005 within WRAP region and 20 % in 2015
• $70,000 has been allocated toward gathering data from Tribes and conducting research in identifying tribes utilizing or having the potential to use renewable source of energy.

Final discussions

• Discuss about refining the questionnaire
• Conference call on January 19^th to talk about the questionnaire.