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Brownfields Training,
Research, and Technical
Assistance Grant Fact Sheet
Cherokee Nation
Environmental
Program
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. Abrownfield site is real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through assistance agreements to provide training,
research, and technical assistance to facilitate
brownfields revitalization.
Organization Description
The Cherokee Nation Environmental Program (CNEP)
and the Inter-Tribal Environmental Council (ITEC)
protect the health of Native Americans, their natural
resources, and their environment as it relates to air,
land, and water by providing technical support,
training, and environmental services in a variety of
environmental disciplines. Currently, there are 41
ITEC member tribes that reside in Oklahoma, New
Mexico, and Texas, representing an estimated enroll-
ment of 467,000 citizens. The ITEC Brownfields
tribal response program assists its members with the
assessment and redevelopment of perceivably con-
taminated properties.
Cherokee Nation
Environmental
Programs Brownfields
Methamphetamine
Training
Grantee:
Cherokee Nation Environmental Program
Project Focus:
Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Related
to Methamphetamine Contaminated Sites in Indian
Country
Project Period:
September 2007 to September 2010
Project Description:
Building on the ITEC's previously developed meth-
amphetamine awareness training in FY 2006, the
CNEP, in partnership with ITEC, will enhance the
existing training to include a "train-the-trainer"
component focused on assessment and cleanup of
methamphetamine-contaminated brownfields sites.
The Meth Lab Assessment Training is designed to
empower participants with the information and tools
necessary to safely and effectively address the re-
sidual contamination generated by illegal production
of meth. The training will include a model checklist,
which will identify and estimate costs associated with
methamphetamine assessment and cleanup, while also
incorporating research and technical tools developed
by the DEA, FBI, and other non-federal organizations,
universities, and tribes. In addition to teaching
students how to identify, assess, and remediate former
meth lab sites, participants will learn how to identify
their community and governmental stakeholders, as
well as learn how to construct and maintain a tribal
response program. The dynamic training approach
will encompass a variety of training mechanisms that
will provide the most current and most informative
material available so that participants will have the
resources necessary to train and develop their own
response team.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-07-241
September 2007
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit the
EPA Brownfields web site at: http://www.epa.gov/
brownfields or call 202.566.2777
For further information about the ITEC Brownfields
tribal response team and its brownfields training and
technical assistance activities, visit http://
www.itecmembers.org/ or call 918.453.5005..
*The information on this fact sheet is subject to
change.
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