Tribal Section, Land Division
February 2016
75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
800-EPA-WEST. www.epa.gov/region9/tribai
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Pacific Southwest, Region 9
Serving Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and 148 Tribes
U.S. EPA PACIFIC SOUTHWEST TRIBAL SECTION NEWSLETTER
SPOTLIGHT ON GRANTS
Choice Neighborhood Planning Grants. ($10,000,000). The Housing and Urban Development
Department (HUD) is funding strategies to revitalize neighborhoods. These grants are for
developing a successful neighborhood transformation plan, and building the support needed to
successfully implement that plan. For more information, visit http://go.usa.gov/cQsxw.
DEADLINE. Tuesday, February 9, 2016. Apply online at http://go.usa.gov/cQAJJ. The Funding
Opportunity Number is FR-5900-N-14.
CONTACT. ChoiceNeighborhoods@hud.gov.
Tribal Air Program Funding. The Fiscal Year 2017 Funding Announcement was made available on
December 3, 2015.
DEADLINE Friday, February 19, 2016. Instructions on proposal submittal are posted at:
http://www3.epa.gov/region9/funding/tribalcaa.html.
CONTACT. Lauren Maghran, Maghran.Lauren@epa.gov, or 415-947-4107
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TRAININGS & MEETINGS
40-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response. The Institute for Tribal
Environmental Professionals (ITEP) and the EPA's Environmental Response Team are offering a 40-
Hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response class. This free course is designed for
employees of federally-recognized tribes and will focus on teaching participants to evaluate sites and
recognize hazardous conditions. Topics include health and safety procedures, personal protective
equipment used during work operations at hazardous material sites, and medical monitoring. This
course is open to successful applicants. Requirements: medical clearance and approval of a
supervisor.
WHEN. Friday, February 22, 2016.
WHERE Tribal Air Monitor Support Center, Las Vegas
DEADLINE February 5, 2016. To get an application, contact Roberta Tohannie, (928) 523-2082 or
rob erta. tohanni e@nau.edu.

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Protecting the Environment Through Data. The Tribal Exchange Network is hosting a conference for
tribal professionals to meet and learn about current initiatives, funding, and technical topics related to the
Exchange Network. Thisnetwork is a collaborative effort that strives to support better environmental
decisions through improved exchange of, and access to, environmental data and information. For more
information, visit http://ow.lv/X7Xc2
WHEN & WHERE., February 9, 2016, to, February-10, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [WRONG
DATES: FEB. 9 IS TUESDAY, TODAY]
REGISTRATION http://ow.lv/X7XzT.
CONTACT. Lydia.Scheer@nau.edu.
Understanding Background Ozone. EPA is holding a two-day workshop to address technical and
policy issues associated with background ozone, with one day reserved for representatives of state,
tribal, and local air agencies. The workshop is part of the agency's effort to provide information on the
implementation of the new 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone. EPA also is
releasing a white paper report, which is available at http://go.usa.gov/cQAKi .
WHEN: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 (for tribal and other air agencies) and Thursday, February 25,
2016 (for all stakeholders).
WHERE. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Building, 1110 W. Washington St., Phoenix,
Ariz.
REGISTER. For further information and to register, visit http://go.usa.gov/cQAKi.
All-in-One-Site Training Information. If you love keeping up with the latest information in the
environmental world, take a look at Trainex, https://trainex.org/. The site has comprehensive information
on trainings, including lists of free classes. Available trainings are offered in a variety of media, including
classrooms, Internet seminars, CD-ROMs (course catalog view), streaming video (course catalog view),
independent online trainings (course catalog view), video by mail (course catalog view), and the Internet.
WEBINARS
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Climate Change and Preventing Disease: If you missed the January 12 Tribal Science webinar,
"Water, Our Voice to the Future: Climate Change Adaptation and Waterborne Disease Prevention on
the Crow Reservation," you can listen to it online. For instructions on how to access the presentation,
visit http://ow.lv/X7Ziv for the audio and video recording of the webinar via Adobe Connect.
National Tribal Air Association Calls on all Tribes to Contribute to a Better Understanding of
the Needs for Indoor Air Quality in Indian Country. Since its founding in 2002, the National
Tribal Air Association (NTAA) has been a leading voice for tribal air quality issues, programs, and
policies. With nearly 100 principal member tribes, the NTAA's mission is to advance air quality
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of American Indian Tribes and Alaskan Natives. Currently, the NTAA is working to provide tribes
and the federal government with the first-of-its-kind national snapshot of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
needs for tribal housing in Indian Country with a national needs assessment.
For the first time, NTAA's IAQ Needs Assessment will provide reliable data on the status of
housing in Indian Country, to better understand the impacts from health threats like mold and radon.
NTAA will compile the results of this needs assessment into a final report to be released at the 2016
National Tribal Forum on Air Quality to be held in New York in May, 2016. NTAA will then usee
the results to help tribal and federal governmental leaders understand the extent of IAQ needs in
tribal communities to help focus and direct funds to address IAQ. With a better understanding and
more reliable facts, tribal communities will benefit from healthier homes.
All federally-recognized tribes are invited to submit an IAQ Needs Assessment to NTAA by
February 28. For more information on the NTAA, please visit www.ntaatribalair.org. You can
access the NTAA Indoor Air Quality Needs Assessment here: http: //goo. gl/forms/AKpDSLMEXq.
ODDS & ENDS
A Call for Information: The National Tribal Air Association is working to provide tribes and the
federal government with a national snapshot of Indoor Air Quality in tribal housing, to demonstrate
the need for increased funding to improve indoor air quality. Tribal communities can help provide
the facts needed to make the case to improve funding for indoor air quality in tribal housing by
filling out the association's Indoor Air Quality Needs Assessment, which is at http://ow.lv/X811F.
For more information, visit http://ow.lv/X81Kh.
DEADLINE: Thursday, February 28, 2016. [see next page for contact information]
CONTACT: Andy Bessler, Project Director, andv.bessler@nau.edu. or (928) 523-0526 and (928)
380-7808.

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