1. The mission of the NTTC is to advance pollution prevention and toxics management policies and programs, consistent with the needs, interests, and unique legal status of American Indian tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
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2. Priorities
A. Identify Tribal Exposures to Toxics: Address adverse health outcomes to tribal members and to tribal resources from disproportionate exposure to toxic chemicals by demanding or assuring* compliance with federal law-TSCA-in conducting risk assessments, considering sensitive subpopulations. *Council response to either word
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3. Priorities
B. Petition EPA to support the establishment of tribal chemical management and risk reduction programs that address tribal needs. Demand* funding for tribes to develop and implement Tribal Pollution Prevention and Toxics programs.
* Council response to word
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4. Priorities
C. Increase Tribal Consultation and Collaboration: Influence policy change by advocating for tribal perspectives in decision making.
through consultation outreach, submitting comment letters, and facilitating tribal participation in the consultation process.
Increase tribal involvement and response to C&C
Improve EPA education efforts on the topic
Do tribes know their voice more powerful than NTTC? (EPA counting # of tribes commenting)
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5. Priorities
D. Network, Collaborate, and Provide Outreach: Support tribal environmental health initiatives by providing resources and education to help implement effective pollution prevention and chemical management programs.
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6. Focus Areas
A. Minimize disproportionate adverse health outcomes to tribal members from increased exposure to toxics experienced through their unique cultural, ceremonial, and subsistence practices.
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7. Focus Areas
B. Increase tribal capacity to understand, monitor, assess, and mitigate toxics’ impacts to local environmental media including subsistence foods and those resources handled, utilized, or consumed in tribal lifeways.
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8. Focus Areas
C. Enhance tribal consultation and coordination on national chemical risk management policy and pollution prevention initiatives.
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9. Focus Areas
D. Maintain a cooperative exchange of information between tribes, federal partners, and other organizations that represent tribal interests in chemical risk management and pollution prevention initiatives that impact tribal lifeways.
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10. Action Items Increasing Council Representation
Increasing Consultation Participation
Advocating the Safer Choice Program
Working with other TPGs
Helping EPA Risk Assessment Division Embrace Tribal Lifeways
Working with National Groups
Increasing OPPT support/money for data collection on the 10 workplan chemicals
Developing a pilot project: Tribal Exposures Risk Assessment for One Workplan Chemical
Increasing Education of EPA and Industry about Chemical Disposal in Alaska
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11. Action Items Increasing Consultation Participation
How do we get 30 people to call into next TSCA consultation?
Use videos.
Discuss with NTC, that these changes to TSCA were a national priority and this is the time to comment
Provide draft write ups for Council to send to their contacts
Facilitate tribal participation in the consultation process with draft templates for tribes to use, including comment letters
Improve EPA education efforts on specific topics.
NTTC needs time before consultations to prepare info for tribal staff and leaders.
Do tribes know their voice more powerful than NTTC? (EPA counting # of tribes commenting)
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12. Action Items Increase Council Representation
We can have about 12 based on charter, and one alternate for each member.
Need Regions 3: DC, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV
Region 4: AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN
Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI
Region 7: IA, KS, MO, NE
Call RTOC chairs for regional nominations
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13. Action Items Advocate Safer Choice
Next year at ITEP’s Tribal Lands, NTTC vendor table: outreach for Council membership, NTTC awareness for future consultations, and share about Safer Choice
Get Safer Choice vendors to donate SWAG samples to give out with EPA info materials
Russ help us get into NCAI and do the same.
Increase outreach: NCAI, TLEF, ATNI, ATCEM, SET, others?
Present to a tribal schools organization, to get the word out for schools. Have draft ordinance or policy about purchasing less toxic products, share info about Safer Choice.
Maybe get info from Mohican with their casino.
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14. Action Items Identify where we cross over
Work with other TPGs
Identify where we cross over
EPA’s direct implementation for risk assessments for tribal exposures: it is now a legal requirement for EPA.
NTC and TPG’s work with AIEO to provide input on what EPA’s direct implementation should look like. E.g., Pesticides only has 80 tribal programs total, so for the other 400 tribes the responsibility falls on EPA. What would be acceptable direct implementation?
Tribes know that many programs are not fully or correctly implemented due to understaffing but local implementation is better.
The Tribal Pesticides Program Council is developing a statement of need. EPA doesn’t have funds to implement laws that Congress passes. NTTC could do something similar for lead and risk assessments.
Draft briefing, resolution and letter that tribes, NCAI etc. could use
What else can be done bring attention to this? What has worked in the past? The lindane example.
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15. Action Items Help EPA Risk Assessment Division Embrace Tribal Lifeways
After 4 years, tribal issues should be a known priority.
Send the Wabanaki Tribe’s exposure scenarios document to Tala Henry, Division Director, and post on NTTC website
Request future meetings with Tala because almost starting over from the work did with Stan.
Like the fish commission has their Treaty Rights 101 document/ training to educate
Put together a Tribal Toxics 101, a briefer, more basic version of the NTTC Tribal Exposures report
Look into results of a tribal risk assessors conference in the 1990’s
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16. Action Items Working with National Groups
NCAI, TLEF, ATNI, ATCEM, SET, others?
Our Council budget covers one conference or meeting for outreach. In FY16 it was TLEF.
Where Council members are also members of those organizations.
On the risk assessment issue, NCAI would be a good help.
Ask for more money to do these things.
Council outreach to increase Safer Choice, etc.
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17. Action Items
Increase OPPT support/money for data collection on 10 workplan chemicals
EPA asking NTTC/tribes to provide data for tribal exposures.
Tribes need money to do those things. Through Doug’s environmental science student research, he could receive research funding from EPA.
Need analyses: food, water, sediments, other tribal resources
EPA is expecting tribes to provide the data so EPA can do the risk assessment. And seem to be saying, if the tribes don’t give us their data we can’t do the risk assessment.
Petition OPPT for money again, because every year the NTC writes budget numbers, and this has been included.
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18. Action Items
Tribal Exposures Risk Assessment for One Workplan Chemical: a pilot project
Proof of principle: a way to demonstrate how this would work, using one of the new 10 chemicals.
OPPT has done lead grants for baseline assessment.
Pick an eco-region to be able to cover a cumulative population of tribal populations
Doug will contact Barbara Harper about eco-region approach she used.
NTTC provide a letter of support from us for the project
Fred will talk to Oscar Morales at scheduled DC meeting on Dec. 13
NTTC discuss soon to solidify the idea.
It is important that the project be attainable.
Doug can also talk to Linda (Birnbaum?) at NIEHS
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19. Action Items
Increasing Education of EPA and Industry about Chemical Disposal in Alaska
How can industry support us to prove that their chemical is safe for disposal in any environment?
Point out the hole in problem formulation that doesn’t cover disposal in legally unlined landfills and burning
Add a section on disposal issues in our exposure document.
In the problem formulation diagrams Tala presented, do a markup of the diagram, adding a bubble for disposal
At DC meeting when present NTTC priorities and accomplishments, include disposal issues
Have water data for unlined landfills, data mostly heavy metals and DROs.
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