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IS THERE LIFE AFTER 2007?
WHERE DO TRIBES WANT TO GO
WITH THE WRAP?
Partnership
• The WRAP partnership has facilitated many
successful dialogs on air quality issues
• Shared experiences and exchange of cultural
values have enhanced air quality efforts by
states and tribes to develop programs that
benefit both tribes and states
• SIPs are required to be submitted
December 2007
• Does WRAP exist beyond regional haze?
• TDDWG and Tribal Caucus
recommendations for tribal partnership
with the WRAP
1. Particulate matter in rural
communities
• Inconsistencies in the U.S. EPAs proposed
Coarse rule and the existing PM2.5 rule
• Metropolitan Statistical Areas (population of
100,000 or more) for application of a
monitoring program
Action
 Apply for funding for research into health
impacts of PM
 Use the WRAP’s existing PM data to
facilitate health research into respiratory
diseases in rural areas, which include
most tribal populations
2. Risk management analysis
• Required in many grant solicitations
• Action
• The Tribes request that the WRAP develop
a template designed to determine which
risk management tools are most effective
and efficient for both states and tribes
3. Dust modeling
• No current model for dust analysis
• Action
• The WRAP should urge EPA to provide funding
to the WRAP to proceed with research and
scientific applications to find an acceptable dust
model in support of tracking RPGs
4. Climate Change
Dramatic evidence of climate change documented
by tribes and affecting traditional lifeways:
– forced relocation of Alaskan tribal communities
– fewer fish in the waters due to warmer temperatures
– migration of big game to areas not commonly visited
and reduced game populations
– water fowl not present in previous nesting grounds
Action
• Secure additional funding to support Tribal travel
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to WRAP climate change meetings and trainings
The WRAP should examine research into the
effects of climate change on air quality in the
West
Work with Center for Climate Change to add
GHGs to TEISS, to measure tribal emissions of
GHGs
The WRAP staff should continue to seek funding
to support studies of Climate Change
5. Oil and Gas Emissions
• Water quality and air quality are
connected
• Oil and Gas production increases
emissions
• Tribes are affected by oil and gas
exploration and production
Action
• The WRAP should ensure that the increased
emissions from oil and gas production are
included in the EDMS and factored into future
projections
• The WRAP should seek funding from private
foundations and from EPA discretionary funds for
Regional Administrators
6. Atmospheric Deposition
• Excessive levels of either methylmercury
or elemental mercury from major sources
affect fish populations
• Sources include electrical generating units,
cement manufacturing industries, and
prescribed fires
Action
• The WRAP should begin to stress the
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interrelationship between airsheds and
watersheds affecting both tribes and
states
Gather more data via monitoring on
mercury deposition in the west
Use EDMS and RMC to track mercury
emissions and identify mercury deposition
areas
7. Consumption of PSD increments
• Recent litigation supports states and tribes
that do not have the tools to properly
track the consumption of PSD increments
• This is particularly important to the tribes
that have designated their reservations as
Class I airsheds
Action
• The EPA should provide funding to the
WRAP to develop:
– A model to identify a baseline for PSD
incremental consumption; or
– A tracking system that allows for the proper
designation of areas for industrial
development while maintaining the air quality
of the existing airshed
8. Continuing Collection of Tribal Data
• Continuing ability of tribes to gather data
is necessary to fully support RPGs for
regional haze SIPs and FIPs (and TIPs)
• The continuing need for modeling as more
tribes complete their emission inventories
and submit data to EPA
Action
The WRAP should seek:
• Funding for the TDDWG to continue to function
as it does at this time
• Continued contractor support for ITEP and the
TEISS software, for data input and analysis for
the Regional Haze Rule and impacts on tribal
lands
• The WRAP should investigate methods and
models to monitor minor source activity and
begin to research methods to prevent additional
contaminants that diminish PSD incremental
consumption on state and tribal lands
• Continued funding for current NTEC programs
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Technical Assistance to tribes to develop TIPs
Facilitation of effective tribal partnership in SIP process
Facilitation of inter-RPO issues
• Analysis of Tribal Set-Asides for SO2 and NOx
9. Ozone
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Ozone is rapidly increasing in western rural
communities, which includes 95% of western
tribes and a significant percentage of WRAP
states
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Action
Use the existing CMAQ modeling tools to
model ozone emissions and the increase in
new source contribution in rural areas
Summary
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Rural PM
Risk Mgmt Analysis
Dust Modeling
Climate Change
Oil & Gas Emissions
• Atmospheric
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Deposition
PSD Consumption
Tribal Data
Ozone
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