United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Solid Waste And
Emergency Response
(OS-340)
EPA/530-SW-91-002
Issue #3
Summer/Fain 991
•PA Native American Network
A RCRA Information Exchange
The Camp© Experience
Campo Indian Reservation
is one of the Kumeyaay (Koo-
me-YAI) tribes of San Diego
County, California. The his-
toric territory of the Kumeyaay
stretches from northern San
Diego County into the north-
ern Baja (Mexico). The three
main bands of the Kumeyaay
are the Ipaay, the Tipaay, and
the Pal Pal (entirely in Mexico).
Nine reservations in the
county from the Tipaay band
of the Kumeyaay include the
Barona, Viejas, Jamul,
Capitan Grande, Cuyapaipe,
Manzanita, La Posta, Sycuan,
and the Campo. The total
"Tipaay population is about
1,500.
To improve our economic
status, the Campo members
began a solid waste project in
1987. Under the General
IN THIS ISSUE
• The Campo Experience
• Money Matters
« IMS and Solid Waste
Council System, a framework
was developed by the Tribe to
structure the administration of
a solid waste program. Ulti-
mately, the business side of
the project was separated from
Tribal politics, and the Campo
Environmental Protection
Ag;ency (EPA) was created to
maintain Tribal control of the
project. The Tribe maintained
the financial resources for
expertise when needed and
developed standards that met
or exceeded California's.
Enforcement powers for the
Tribal agency were developed.
With this framework in
place, the Tribal corporation
with gpypn majnr
waste firms. The Tribe's
conditions were so strict that it
took several months to find a
company willing to meet them.
Trie process culminated in
September 1990, when the
General Council voted to
approve the conditional lease
to a waste management firm.
The condition in the lease is
an acceptable Environmental .
Impact Study (EIS). The
Department of the Interior's
policy requires BIA involve-
ment as the lead agency for
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Recycling ffroject of
Cheroke© Reservation
Last year tr|| North Carolina
Community C||jLb Council
composed of ojficers from all
10 communitj|development
clubs on the dperokee Reser-
vation decidedjrto clean up the
Reservation aip to do some-
thing about trie environment.
Following a sejftiinar on waste
management Recycling, spon-
sored by the Cherokee Reser-
vation Cooperative Extension
j. 3 s
Service and tlq
Club Council,
Community
^Recycling
Committee wa^l established.
The CommMee faced a
-number-Qfjprcj ilemsrrinelucling
" funding and f|idmg a site fdf
the center. Thl; recycling
center was coitstructed from
funds donated ^by civic organi-
zations, clubs! fend_ private
businesses arjijjndividuals.
(One lady ever,.!gave the prize
money she won in the local
garden contest The Eastern
Band of Cherckees gave the
committee a small piece of
property for
center, and tlj
e recycling
3 Oconoluftee
Job Corps con'tributed the
workers for itijEDnstruction.
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Cherokee Recycling
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Specialist with NC State
University are coordinating the
workshop.
The Reservation population
is working very hard toward
improving their environment.
At the recent dedication of the
recycling center, Driver Pheas-
ant, the Education Outreach
Coordinator of the Cherokee
Museum, opened the cer-
emony with a quote from Chief
SeattlerTou did not weave the
web of life; you are merely a
strand in it. Whatever you do
to the web, you do to yourself."
Chief Seattle's statement
explains the Indian's view of
the sacredness of the earth.
—Contact Eddie Almond, Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians,
(704)497-6611
MONEY
EPA Science
Scholarships for Native
Americans
EPA has awarded a
$120,000 grant to the Ameri-
can Indian Science and Engi-
neering Society (AISES) to
fund a college scholarship
program for students who
qualify on the basis of aca-
demic achievement and a
commitment to the needs and
culture of American Indian
tribes. The scholarships are
$4,000 per student for one
year of study and' are awarded-
on a competitive basis. Appli-
cants must: (1) be accepted for
full-time study at an accred-
ited four-year college or uni-
versity, having completed at
least two years of college work
with a minimum grade point
average of 2.5 (students in
graduate programs also are
engineering
include chemij
biochemistry,
neering,
ence, hydrolog;
tal economicsl
entomology,
disciplines;
statement e:
and how know;
culture was ac
experience, st
reservation); (4
essay of 250 .'
stating personj tl
to environment
tribal lands;
work summer|
tion or at
environmental!
a|d
(oj^ SJL.
xpjkining1
.EPAJlfa
job is offered.
awards are set;
announced at j he annual
AISES meeting
D^C., in NoverrjJDer
—Contact Dick Lol
(703) 308-8553
eligible); (2) mlj'or in one of the
environmentalifscience or
to
try, biology,
ij ihemical engi-
sci-
environmen-
toxicology,
other related
Bjubmit a brief
_ when
edge of tribal
Quired (work
, fly, living on a
submit an
irds or less
commitment
jd protection on
(5) agree to
areserva-
professional
cholarship
duled to be
in Washington,
1992.
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% Second U.S. Conference on f
Municipal Solid Waste
In response to the-overwhelmlng success
of the First U.S. Conference on Municipal
Solid Waste, EPA Is sponsoring the-Second
U.S. Conference on Municipal Solid Waste
in June 1992. The Conference will offer
more than 3O sessions and workshops on
planning, legislation, and all aspects of
solid waste management. Nine main
areas will be covered: integrated
; planning r and— BaarvagemoFrf;— ©eonomlcs
• and costs of solid waste management-
reduction and reuse; recycling and
composting; combustion; lana disposal;
education and outreach; and special
wastes. Anyone interested in
participating- as a panelist or speaker
needs to submit a brief abstract of the
proposed topic and a brief professional
biographical sketch, by October 22, 1991
to:
Bhawna Agarwal
Assistant Conference- Planner
SWANA/GRCDA; P.O. Box 7219
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 585-2898; FAX: (301) 589-7069
Contact: Susan Mann, MSW Conference
Coordinator, EPA, (202) 260-6263.
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* Memorandum of Agreement,
The Environmental Protection Agency, tri]
of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Servic
the Department of Housing and Urban }
Development have signed a Memoranal
Agreement concerning environmental pn
on Indian lands. The agreement define!
responsibilities of the four agencies with-
controliing and preventing pollution on 1
and allows for close cooperation by th«J
in fulfilling^ mutual obligations to tribes, f
Contact: Martin D. Topper, (202) 26O-501
» Bureau
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the
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EPA's Office olSolid Waste has a variety of programs designfl
communities with managing municipal solid waste. One sucl
funded by the Municipal and Industrial Solid Waste Divisions
Peer Match program. This program is designed to "match" ej
municipal solid waste management with communities seekinj
their specific problems. For example, if a community is inter]
a recycling program, an expert with experience in working wil
of that size, with the same basic requirements, is "matched ' tl
community. The program is operated through grants to the If
Managers Association (ICMA) and the Solid Waste Associate
America (SWANA, formerly GRCDA). 1
Contact: Sarith Guerra of ICMA at (202) 962-3649 or Charlol
SWANA at (301) 585-2898. 3
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