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
              (continued on p. 2)
 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.
            |J  (continued on p. 2)

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Cherokee Recycling

(continued from p. 2)

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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Btin Board
* 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
e, and
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ffection
the
fespect to
riian lands
^agencies
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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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Native American"
3 to assist '.,
program,
MISWD),isthe
Derts in
solutions to
sled in starting
acommunity
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