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Choctaw Nation & Climate Change - A Brownfields Coming of Age Story

Our desired audience would be intermediate brownfield coordinators or environmental professionals who have a brownfield program. We plan to share our story about how we moved from a simple…

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Abandoned Uranium Mines & Voluntary Alternative Housing on Navajo Nation

Would like to present the AUM remedy selection on Navajo Nation that was selected by USEPA. The controversy that it created between several Navajo communities, the impact that the PRP left within the…

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20/20 Vision - Set Your Sights on Brownfield Actions

Brownfield projects pose unique challenges, often lacking a clear redevelopment path. The Vision To Action (V2A) process uses established community planning methods to engage…

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Tribal Drivers: Compelling Action at CERCLA Sites

Tribal attorneys, consultants, and environmental staff will hear case studies of sites where tribes compelled action at cleanup sites without the support of state or federal partners, or in the face…

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Federal Health Technical Assistance in Preparing, Responding, or Recovering From Environmental Emergencies

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) have subject matter experts…

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From Remediation to Restoration - A Tar Creek Story

Tribal employees who are involved in the superfund remediation and restoration process can see the progress made by Quapaw Nation at the Tar Creek Superfund Site after ten years of work. Attendees…

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The Housing and Environment Overlap & Coordination

Most of us come to environmental concerns through the Tribal Response Program route but many tribes have housing arms that develop and maintain affordable housing for the tribe. Let's talk about…

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Improving Battery Collection & Recycling Rates on Tribal Lands

Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure law, EPA is charged with developing labeling guidelines and collection best practices to improve the recycling rates of various types of batteries. This includes…

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Tribal Specific Risk Assessment for Superfund Sites - Navajo Nation

The desired audience for this presentation would be Tribal Environmental Professionals. I plan on discussing the Navajo Abandoned Uranium Mines Risk Calculator. The discussion will focus on the…

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Rural Alaska Brownfields Programs - Challenges & Successes

Kawerak, Inc. is a tribal non-profit in Alaska's Bering Strait Region that since 2016 has been helping the villages it serves assess and cleanup Brownfields sites. During this session,…

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Modernizing a Tribal Transfer Station for a Sustainable Future

This presentation is geared towards tribes with waste transfer stations that are looking to make technological, structural, and environmental improvements to their site. The first part of the…

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Portland Harbor - Moving Forward to Cleanup

This session will be an overview of the complex Portland Harbor Superfund Site (Site), an update on how EPA is moving forward to cleanup, and a discussion around how EPA coordinates with Tribes at…

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Making a Case for Federal Solid Waste O&M Funding - Highlights From Tribal Workgroup Members

Can you afford to provide residential solid waste services? Have you undertaken rate analysis or developed a fee structure? This session will highlight a national effort to calculate cost of solid…

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Incorporating TEK Tribal Worldview Into "Traditional" Solid Waste Management Trainings

(With Jacqueline Shirley of the Rural Community Assistance Corporation/Native Village of Hooper Bay) Please join this session to learn about how important it is to incorporateTraditional Ecological…

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What Do I Do with This Gas Station? Paths Forward with Brownfields & Other Resources

You’re invited to a conversation about: • Identifying reuse and revitalization challenges at gas stations with above ground or underground storage tanks, whether they are old,…

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Managing Fuel System Data for Environmental Protection

Don’t be surprised by what’s under the ground. Good information about your UST system (tanks, piping, ancillary equipment) and a good data system to manage that information is vital to…

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