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The mission of the NTTC is to advance pollution prevention and toxics management policies and programs, consistent with the needs, interests, and unique legal status of American Indian tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
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Slide2PrioritiesA. Identify Tribal Exposures to Toxics: Address adverse health outcomes to tribal members and to tribal resources from disproportionate exposure to toxic chemicals by demanding or assuring* compliance with federal law-TSCA
-in conducting risk assessments, considering sensitive subpopulations. *Council response to either word
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Slide3PrioritiesB. Petition EPA to support the establishment of tribal chemical management and risk reduction programs that address tribal needs. Demand* funding for tribes to develop and implement Tribal Pollution Prevention and Toxics programs.* Council response to word
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Slide4PrioritiesC. Increase Tribal Consultation and Collaboration: Influence policy change by advocating for tribal perspectives in decision making.10/27/2016
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Slide5PrioritiesD. Network, Collaborate, and Provide Outreach: Support tribal environmental health initiatives by providing resources and education to help implement effective pollution prevention and chemical management programs.
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Slide6Focus AreasA. Minimize disproportionate adverse health outcomes to tribal members from increased exposure to toxics experienced through their unique cultural, ceremonial, and subsistence practices.10/27/2016
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Slide7Focus AreasB. Increase tribal capacity to understand, monitor, assess, and mitigate toxics’ impacts to local environmental media including subsistence foods and those resources handled, utilized, or consumed in tribal lifeways.10/27/2016
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Slide8Focus AreasC. Enhance tribal consultation and coordination on national chemical risk management policy and pollution prevention initiatives.10/27/20168
Slide9Focus AreasD. Maintain a cooperative exchange of information between tribes, federal partners, and other organizations that represent tribal interests in chemical risk management and pollution prevention initiatives that impact tribal lifeways.10/27/20169
Slide10Increasing Council RepresentationIncreasing Consultation ParticipationAdvocating the Safer Choice ProgramWorking with other TPGs
Helping EPA Risk Assessment Division Embrace
Tribal
Lifeways
Working
with National Groups
Increasing
OPPT support/money
for
data collection on
the 10
workplan
chemicals
Developing a pilot project: Tribal
Exposures Risk Assessment for One Workplan
Chemical
Increasing Education of EPA and Industry about Chemical Disposal in
Alaska
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Slide11Increasing Consultation ParticipationHow do we get 30 people to call into next TSCA consultation?Use videos. Discuss with NTC, that these changes to TSCA were a national priority
and this is the time to commentProvide draft write ups
for Council
to
send
to their contacts
Facilitate
tribal participation in the consultation
process with draft
templates
for tribes to use, including comment letters
Improve
EPA education efforts on
specific topics.
NTTC needs time before consultations to prepare info for tribal staff and leaders.
Do tribes know their voice more powerful than NTTC? (EPA counting # of tribes
commenting
)
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Slide12Increase Council RepresentationWe can have about 12 based on charter, and one alternate for each member. Need Regions 3: DC, DE, MD, PA, VA, WVRegion 4: AL, FL, GA, KY, MS,
NC, SC, TNRegion 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WIRegion 7: IA, KS, MO, NE
Call RTOC
chairs for regional
nominations
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Slide13Action ItemsAdvocate Safer ChoiceNext year at ITEP’s Tribal Lands, NTTC vendor table: outreach for Council membership, NTTC awareness for future consultations, and share about Safer ChoiceGet Safer Choice vendors to
donate SWAG samples to give out with EPA info materialsRuss help us get into NCAI and do the same.
Increase outreach:
NCAI, TLEF,
ATNI, ATCEM, SET, others?
Present to a tribal schools organization, to get the word out for schools.
Have
draft
ordinance or policy about
purchasing less toxic
products, share info about Safer Choice.
Maybe get info from Mohican
with their
casino.
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Slide14Work with other TPGsIdentify where we cross overEPA’s direct implementation for risk assessments for tribal exposures: it is now a legal requirement for EPA.NTC and TPG’s work with AIEO to provide input on what EPA’s direct implementation should look like. E.g., Pesticides only has 80 tribal programs total, so for the other 400 tribes the responsibility falls on
EPA. What would be acceptable direct implementation?
Tribes know that many programs are not fully or correctly implemented due to understaffing but local implementation is better.
The Tribal Pesticides Program Council is
developing
a statement of need
.
EPA doesn’t have
funds to
implement
laws
that Congress
passes.
NTTC could do
something similar for
lead and risk assessments.
Draft
briefing, resolution and letter
that
tribes, NCAI etc.
could
use
What else can be done bring attention
to
this? What has worked in the past? The lindane example.
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Slide15Help EPA Risk Assessment Division Embrace Tribal LifewaysAfter 4 years, tribal issues should be a known priority.Send the Wabanaki Tribe’s exposure scenarios document to Tala Henry, Division Director, and post on NTTC websiteRequest future meetings with Tala because almost starting over from the work did with Stan.Like the fish commission has their Treaty Rights 101 document/ training to educatePut
together a Tribal Toxics 101, a briefer, more basic version of the NTTC Tribal Exposures reportLook into results of a tribal risk assessors conference in the
1990’s
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Slide16Working with National GroupsNCAI, TLEF, ATNI, ATCEM, SET, others?Our Council budget covers one conference or meeting for outreach. In FY16 it was TLEF.Where Council members are also members of those organizations. On the risk assessment issue, NCAI would be a good help.Ask for more money to do these things.Council
outreach to increase Safer Choice, etc.
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Slide17Increase OPPT support/money for data collection on 10 workplan chemicalsEPA asking NTTC/tribes to provide data for tribal exposures. Tribes need money to do those things. Through Doug’s environmental science student research, he could receive research funding from EPA.Need analyses: food, water, sediments, other tribal resourcesEPA is expecting tribes to provide the
data so EPA can do the risk assessment. And seem to be saying, if the tribes don’t give us their data we can’t do the risk assessment.
Petition
OPPT for
money again, because every year
the NTC writes budget numbers, and this has been included.
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Slide18Tribal Exposures Risk Assessment for One Workplan Chemical: a pilot projectProof of principle: a way to demonstrate how this would work, using one of the new 10 chemicals. OPPT has done lead grants for baseline assessment.Pick an eco-region to be able to cover a cumulative population of tribal populationsDoug will contact Barbara Harper about eco-region approach she used.NTTC provide a letter of
support from us for the projectFred will talk to
Oscar Morales at
scheduled DC meeting
on
Dec. 13NTTC discuss soon to solidify
the idea.
It
is important
that the project be attainable
.
Doug can
also talk to Linda
(Birnbaum?) at NIEHS
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Slide19Increasing Education of EPA and Industry about Chemical Disposal in Alaska How can industry support us to prove that their chemical is safe for disposal in any environment?Point out the hole in problem formulation that doesn’t cover disposal in legally unlined landfills and burning Add a section on disposal issues in our exposure document.
In the problem formulation diagrams Tala presented, do a markup of the diagram, adding a bubble for disposalAt DC
meeting
when present NTTC priorities and accomplishments, include
disposal
issuesHave
water
data for unlined landfills, data
mostly heavy metals and
DROs.
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