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Tribal Data Development Work Group
Meeting Minutes for 17-June-99
Attendance (members): John Cox, Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Bill Grantham, NTEC
Jenifer Williams, Nez Perce Tribe
Attendance (non-members): Randy Ashley, Confederated Salish & Kootenai
Tribe
Farshid Farsi, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
Philbert John, Jicarilla Apache Tribe
Rose Lee, Yakama Indian Nation
Jay Littlewolf, Northern Cheyenne Tribe
William Malone, White Mountain Apache Tribe
Paul Mountlcastle, ITEP
Opening Pray given by John Cox.
The group discussed the need to provide the WRAP forums and
committees with an update on the status of the Tribal Data
Development Work Group (TDD-WG) tasks. The update would be
given during the final day of the general group meeting. The
general group was interested in getting feedback on the specific
budget changes, timeline changes, or work plan changes.
Overview of TDD-WG work plan and tasks:
- Form Tribal Working Group
- Develop Mission
- Outline Work Plan and Budget
- Promote Tribal Coordination
- Overview of Funding Sources
- Gather/Review WRAP Tribal Data
- discussed the difficulty with getting Tribal data, lack
of participation or reluctance to release information
- look into using the Information Release Form (developed
by the Jicarilla Apache Tribe) as a way to insure that
the data will not be misused.
- need to increase the percent data recovery( i.e., response)
to questioners sent to Tribes from ITEP.
- Quantify Tribal Data Gap. This should fall out of the
survey now underway.
- Develop Plan to Fill-In Tribal Data Gap
- develop plan for gathering emission inventory data
- ITEP is providing interns to Tribes for the specific
propose of gathering environmental data regarding their
Reservation
- need to identify where different Tribes are with developing
an emissions inventory
- Develop Guidance Document for Working with Tribes
- the guidance document is almost complete
- the guidance document is also relevant for contractors
- Provide Guidance for the Development of a Tribal Database
- Provide Guidance to other Forums/Committees
- Maintain and Improve the Tribal Data Development Work
Group section of the WRAP WEB page
- Discussed some of the issues regarding a password for
viewing internal documents. We decided that finished or
nearly finished documents would be placed on the public
section of the WEB page, other documents that were not
ready for release would only be accessed by members of
the TDD-WG.
General Discussions:
TDD-WG Conference Call - reviewed the action items from
the previous minutes and discussed the need to develop work
plans
Budget Discussion - it is initially assumed that the majority
of the TDD-WG budget would be spent on collecting Tribal data.
Work Plan/Tasks - the workgroup needs to re-evaluate the
timelines (identify limiting factors) to determine if the group
will be able to provide specific deliverables
Liaison - Jay Littlewolf is the TOC liaison, Liza Daley
is the Communications Committee liaison
WRAP Travel Expenses - some of the participants expressed
concerns about the amount of time it takes to get travel reimbursements
from NTEC. It was thought wise to adhere to the current system,
if problems persist we could formally inform NTEC of the concerns
NWAM Committee - participants expressed their concerns
about the new committee, Rose Lee agreed to work with Bill
Grantham in setting up a conference call with the interim Tribal
committee members to discuss specific issues/positions prior
to the next official meeting
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