What Does a Tribal Air Program Look Like? James Payne Morongo Band of Mission Indians Environmental Department

2 Components Depends on issues, needs, goals for their air quality management objectives Some or all components utilized; some go hand-in-hand –Source evaluation –Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) –Emissions Inventory (EI) –Monitoring –Data management –Data analysis

3 Components (cont.) –Air Quality Plan –Tribal Implementation Plan (TIP) –Permitting –Tribal ordinances –Public education program –Training

4 Source Evaluation Look at greatest issues of concern and how they affect –Health of population –Aesthetics –Future growth

5 Source Evaluation Basis for additional air quality work Tools for evaluation –Federal/state air quality reports/databases –Environmental assessments or impact statements/reports –Windshield surveys, maps –Community –Neighboring tribes and/or local entities

6 Source Evaluation

7 Not labor-intensive Funding sources are variable –General Assistance Program (GAP) –103 Some staff training may be required

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10 Quality Assurance Project Plan QAPP Detailed description: what, where, when, who, how, why of activities Establishes course of action Standardizes procedures When approved and followed, creates legally defensible data

11 QAPP (cont.) QAPPs ensure that –Data collected is measured according to specified protocols –Analysis is performed at certified lab QAPPs can be difficult to complete –Turbo QAPP Required approval from EPA (Region)

12 Emissions Inventory Two-part process –Identifying potential emission sources –Calculating estimated quantities of pollutants emitted by those sources

13 What should be inventoried? Point sources –Process vents –Boilers –Incinerator stacks Mobile sources –Cars & trucks –Trains, boats, aircrafts –Heavy equipment –Recreational vehicles

14 What should be inventoried? (cont.) Fugitive, area & non-point sources –Open burning –Wild/controlled forest fires –Biogenic emissions (vegetation, soils) –Woodstoves & other fuel combustion –Agricultural practices –Paved & unpaved roads –Small sources (drycleaners, paint shops, gas stations, other)

15 Sample Emission Sites

16 Emissions Inventory–Uses Results can be used for –Developing monitoring program –Developing air quality plan –Public outreach and education One or any combination TEISS

17 Monitoring Develops baseline data Includes meteorological (rain, temp, humidity, etc.) Include ambient air (ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, etc.) Includes Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP’s) also known as Air Toxics

18 Monitoring Program Funded by EPA through CAA Sections 103 & 105 –Section 103 – Capacity Building –Section 105 – Programmatic (Includes cost share & TAS)

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22 Data Management Key component! Without proper data management, “valid” becomes invalid for certain purposes Tribal Data Toolbox AQS Software specific

23 Data Management

24 Data Analysis What are the data telling you? Provides insight, forecasting (trends) Used for decision making and setting future goals

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26 Air Quality Plan Long-term tribal program needs and options Goals and objectives Strategies for program development Grant funding

27 Tribal Implementation Plan (TIP) Treatment as a State (TAS), under Tribal Authority Rule (TAR) Tribal Implementation Plan (TIP) is tribe’s individually created plan TIP consists of narrative, rules, technical documentation, agreements tribe will use to clean up pollution

28 Permitting Tribes can utilize their plans to –Issue permits –Conduct inspections –Set regulations congruent with permits

29 Tribal Ordinances Discretion of –Tribal council –General membership –Other tribal government body Utilize Tribal Air Program data and expertise to create and decide on beneficial practices

30 Tribal Ordinances With “inherent sovereignty and jurisdiction over the Morongo Indian Reservation, finds that persons living on or doing business, within the Reservation at times engage in acts that threaten the health and safety of tribal members and other persons within the Reservation, degrade or pollute the air…” “The Tribe finds that it necessary to adopt standards and procedures by which the Tribe can take action to prevent such threats, pollution, and deterioration.”

31 Public Education Health and safety, for the People and Land, for this and future Generations, depends on education Part of grant requirements "Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." (unknown) "Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future." (Lumbee)