1. Ondrea Barber GRIC DEQ Executive Director
4/24/2017
Gila River Indian Community Department Of Environmental Quality Air Quality Program
Ondrea Barber
GRIC DEQ Executive Director

2. Introduction Background Air Quality Program Looking Forward GRIC DEQ
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Introduction
Background
GRIC
DEQ
Air Quality Program
Regulatory Development
Outdoor Air Monitoring
Looking Forward

3. Gila River Indian Community
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Gila River Indian Community
Akimel O’odham (Pima) & Pee Posh (Maricopa)
Reservation established in 1859 by Executive Order
Central Arizona – Maricopa & Pinal counties
374,000 acres or 584 square miles
20,145 enrolled members
15,500 Reservation population
The Gila River Indian Community (Community or GRIC) is a federally recognized Indian tribe located in south-central Arizona, within both Maricopa and Pinal counties. The Community covers a land base of 372,000 acres and borders the Phoenix metropolitan area - Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, and Maricopa. The Community has 7 districts and an estimated 20,145 enrolled tribal members; it is home to Maricopa, Pima, and multicultural people. The strength of the Community derives from its cultural spirit, industriousness, and maintenance of traditions. Today the Community strives to preserve its core values while facing demands of a rapidly changing world. In spite of high unemployment, poverty, and health issues exacerbated by the economic situation, the Community has made a concerted effort to develop positive networks and programs.

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Green- Agriculture
Red-Industrial/Commercial Development

5. Department of Environmental Quality - DEQ
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Department of Environmental Quality - DEQ
Established in 1995
Created new and consolidated existing programs
Air Program established in 1995
25 full time employees
Approximately 2/3 of budget from US EPA grants
Other funding- tribal, permit fees,etc.
The Community Government has demonstrated a commitment to protecting its environment by taking steps to manage and protect its air, water, and land resources with creation of the Gila River Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in DEQ has grown based on tribally approved plans to address environmental issues related to air/water quality, emergency response planning, solid/hazardous wastes, the community right-to-know act, and pesticides with educational outreach and comprehensive regulatory capability. DEQ has been delegated to the task of management, oversight, and implementation of environmental protection and regulatory programs.

6. GRIC DEQ Air Quality Program- WHY?
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GRIC DEQ Air Quality Program- WHY?
Protect human health & environment
Manage local sources of air pollution
Assert GRIC tribal sovereignty
Local vs. federal regulatory oversight
Assess local air quality & inform community
Support economic development opportunities
Support GRIC’s cultural heritage as an agricultural society

7. GRIC DEQ Air Quality Program
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GRIC DEQ Air Quality Program
Permitting
Compliance & Enforcement
Monitoring
5 FT Staff
Dan, Will – Permitting, Compliance, Enforcement
Leroy- data mgmt, designations, exceptional events
Russell, Keith – Monitoring
4 Staff Federally funded (CAA & Exchange Network)
1 Tribally funded
New Staff Member in AQ Program Manager (Tribally Funded)

8. GRIC DEQ Air Quality Program
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GRIC DEQ Air Quality Program
Air Quality Regulatory Program
Tribal Implementation Plan (or Air Quality Management Program, AQMP)
1st Tribe w/ AQMP
Authority to issue air permits
Regulatory Program
Rules and Regulations
Operating Permit Program
Compliance/Enforcement
Emissions Inventory
AQMP Timeline
AQ Program staff hiring beginning 1998
TAS application Approved by Council (Nov. 1, 2006)
TAS approved by EPA Oct. 21, 2009
Air Quality Management Program Plan (TIP) Approved by Council (Dec. 6, 2006)
Submitted AQMP (TIP) to EPA for Federal Enforceability (Feb. 21, 2007)
Expect EPA to publish Federal Register Notice Jan. or Feb. 2010
Industrial Facilities
Three industrial parks, 50 businesses & industries
Other GRIC-Area Sources
40,000 agricultural acres
Acreage will increase to 146,000 over next 10 years
Interstate 10 bisects Community (largest source of air pollution)
Encroachment (Phoenix, Chandler, Gilbert, San Tan Valley, Casa Grande, and city of Maricopa)
AQMP
Part I. General Provisions
Part II. Permit Requirements
Part III. Enforcement
Part IV. Administrative Appeals
Part V. Area Source Emissions Limits
Open Burning
Fugitive Dust
Part VI. Generally Applicable Individual Source Requirements
Visible Emissions
VOC Usage Storage & Handling
Solvent Metal Cleaning
Part VII. Source-Category Specific Emission Limits
Secondary Aluminum
Aerospace Manufacturing and Rework Operations
Non-Metallic Mineral Mining
Open Burning Permits (landscape waste only)
Fugitive Dust Producing Activities Ordinance
Earth Moving Permit/Dust Control Plan (1 acre or larger)
Applies to initial development of Ag. Lands
Unpaved Parking lots at Commercial/ Industrial facilities
GRIC Air Program Issues Air Quality Operating permits beginning 2009
Public comment on permits
Conducting completeness checks on permit apps. ongoing
ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS:
CEMEX Asphalt Plant
Formally Rinker
Numerous Problems
Open Elevator
Baghouse Fines
Magnehelic gauge
Maintenance
EMISSION INVENTORY
GRIC initially completed an emission inventory of GRIC sources in This was more for the program development or as a need assessment to begin an air quality program at GRIC. This EI was updated in 2007 by GRIC, which again was more used for the TIP submittal process
But in general the EI is part of the regulatory program development more directed at the permit program.
An emission inventory is an accounting of the amount of ambient air pollutants discharged into the atmosphere. An emission inventory usually contains the total emissions for one or more specific green house gases or air pollutants, originating from all source categories in a certain geographical area and within a specified time span, usually a specific year.
Emissions and releases to the environment are the starting point of every environmental pollution problem. Information on emissions therefore is an absolute requirement in understanding environmental problems and in monitoring progress towards solving these. Emission inventories provide this type of information.
An emission inventory is generally characterized by the following aspects:
Why: The types of activities that cause emissions,
What: The chemical or physical identity of the pollutatns included,
Where: The geographic area covered,
When: The time period over which emissions are estimated,
How: The methodology to use.
GRIC’s emission inventories are compiled for use in policy processes.
Policy use: by policy makers to track progress towards emission reduction targets, develop strategies and policies or; they can also be used for science studies such as computer modeling for planning.
All GRIC facilities that have a permit must submit an Emissions Inventory. Normally, an EI is provided by the facility on annual based (as a requirement), but since not all the sources on GRIC are permitted it is currently not required. And EI is resource intensive for the small staffing at GRIC DEQ AQP.
GRIC also did an emission inventory of the Green House Gas about two years

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This map is a story teller about location of GRIC, jurisdiction, air shed, designation, Clean Air Act timeline about GRIC (and tribes)
Bottom line is more of jurisdiction and sovereignty. GRIC’s ownership of and management of program and resources
located in south-central Arizona, within both Maricopa and Pinal counties
borders the Phoenix metropolitan area - Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, and Maricopa
Red dots shows PM10 monitors in the valley
GRIC has 3 PM10 sites
The other PM10 sites outside of GRIC boundaries are maintained by ADEQ, Maricopa County, and Pinal County.

10. GRIC DEQ Air Quality Program (Cont.)
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GRIC DEQ Air Quality Program (Cont.)
Air quality monitoring
Pollutants of concern
Ozone (emission sources from cars, trucks, etc.)
Particulate Matter (10 micron size- i.e., dust)
GRIC Air Monitoring Network
3 Sites
Casa Blanca (continuous PM10 monitor + weather station)
St. Johns- District 6 (cont. PM10 monitor + Ozone + weather)
Sacaton – District 3 (cont. PM10 + Ozone + weather)
Special-purpose monitoring
Tire fires, wild fires
JATAP – Air Toxics Assessment
In the beginning of the air monitoring program (2002), GRIC AQP monitored for PM2.5 also know as PM fine or 2.5 micron size particles, i.e. soot or can be plant pollens. GRIC monitored PM2.5 for about a year and found the concentration of PM2.5 near or below the environmental background levels (about 4 to 6 ug/m3). The NAAQS for PM2.5 is 12 ug/m3 for the annual average and 35 ug/m3 for the 24 hour average std (Dec. 2012). GRIC requested a waiver to not monitor for PM2.5 to EPA and was granted by Region 9 EPA office. In addition, PM2.5 is tedious and resource intensive compared to PM10 monitoring. It help justify to EPA in re-allocating resources.

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Upper left and bottom left photos – Tire fire near the town of Maricopa (south of District 5) in Fire started late in the afternoon. Low wind conditions moved the smoke over District 5 and District 4 areas. The smoke elevated higher into the atmosphere within the GRIC areas. Smoke did not come to ground levels until it reached the east valley (areas of Gilbert and Apache Junction). GRIC DEQ Air Program closely monitored the plume and coordinated with various DEQ agencies and GRICOEM).
Right, top and bottom photos – is the wild fire known as the Ethan Fire in Where the salt cedar in District 6 and 7 caught fire in the month of June. Fire took almost more than a week to put out. Again DEQ Air Program was part of the emergency management team in providing real-time PM10 and weather data to the emergency control center.

13. Information Technology
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Information Technology
Regulatory requirements
Clean Air Act
Air monitoring data
Exchange Network
GRIC DEQ/MIS
EPA database (Air Quality System, AQS)
The Gila River Indian Community is comprised of several entities operating to support the Community’s Vision and Mission. The GRIC Government is comprised of departments and programs which support GRIC administrative functions. Management of Information Systems (MIS) Department is a GRIC Government department, which provides information technology service and support for GRIC Government departments and programs. The mission of the Management Information Systems Department is to ensure a comprehensive information technology infrastructure for the Gila River Indian Community.
GRIC currently submits criteria air monitoring data to Air Quality System (AQS) using AQS Web application through manual log in via the Exchange Network and the EPA Common Data Exchange (CDX). AQS database contains ambient air pollution data collected by EPA, state, local, and tribal air pollution control agencies from thousands of monitoring stations.  AQS also contains meteorological data, descriptive information about each monitoring station (including its geographic location and its operator), and data quality assurance/quality control information.  The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) and other AQS users rely upon the system data to assess air quality, assist in Attainment/Non-Attainment designations, evaluate State Implementation Plans for Non-Attainment Areas, perform modeling for permit review analysis, and other air quality management functions.  AQS information is also used to prepare reports for Congress as mandated by the Clean Air Act. The Community uses the air quality data from the AQS data in various decision making processes especially in development and land use planning.
GRIC DEQ realizes the need to effectively collect, quantify and transmit environmental data for use in making informed decisions about environmental conditions and understands the advantage of storing and accessing data for future use. Current methods of environmental media monitoring and data collection and storage are not uniform throughout the division, thereby slowing the generation of necessary reports. The GRIC Exchange Network is valuable for GRIC DEQ by providing upgrades to current software and hardware systems at GRIC. And federal funds under this project greatly enhance data exchange processes within GRIC DEQ, the Community and other agencies. The GRIC Exchange Network funding improves GRIC DEQ’s abilities to comply and meet future environmental reporting requirements. The Community will be able to better access and uses the environmental data with the Exchange Network for decision making processes.

14. Education /Outreach Schools District meetings Elderly meetings
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Education /Outreach
Schools
District meetings
Elderly meetings
Multi-agency workgroups
GRIC DEQ Air Program provides outreach to the Community to various audiences. AQP provides air monitoring information to the community. An annual outreach is provided to the Community on the AQP’s air monitoring data from the previous year (known as the Air Monitoring Network Review). They also include all the natural exceptional events recorded where the PM10 monitor exceeded the national health based standard. Program also includes a message on respiratory health protection during such events. All within GRIC areas.

15. Next Steps Complete regulatory program Complete Part 70 program
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Next Steps
Complete regulatory program
Permitting all GRIC facilities
Compliance Inspection Program
Complete Part 70 program
Policy fix
Air Quality Control Region (or Airshed)
EPA consultation
Exceptional Events demonstration
Designations of PM10
Resources

16. Gila River Indian Community Department of Environmental Quality
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Gila River Indian Community Department of Environmental Quality
GRIC DEQ Air Program
P.O. Box 97
Sacaton, Arizona
Phone #: (520)
Fax #: (520) lw