DRAFT AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Regional Tribal Operations Committee & Tribal Caucus Meeting
Blue Oak Center
10:00 am – 8:00 pm Conference Registration
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
7:00 am – 5:30 pm Conference Registration
8:30 – 8:45 am
Opening Ceremonies
Bingo Hall (2nd Floor)
Master of Ceremonies – Teri Red Owl – Executive Director, OVIWC
Veteran’s Color Guard – Posting of Colors
Blessing
Song
Dancers
8:45 – 9:15
Tribal Leaders/Tribal Elders Remarks
9:15 – 9:45
U.S. EPA Welcoming Remarks
9:45 – 10:00
Break
10:00 – 11:30
Keynote Speaker – Dr. Robert Marquez
11:30 – 1:00 pm
Lunch (On your own)
1:00 – 2:00
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Media
Title
Water
10: You Can Do It!
Water
4: CWA 106: Collecting Water Quality
Data on Tribal Lands
22: Creative Materials Reuse Pilots &
Community Engagement in Successful
Tribal Solid Waste
32: Essentials for a Healthy Home
(2 hour Workshop)
27: Education and Outreach –
Renewable Energy
(3 hour Workshop)
21: Integrated Pest Management –
Funding Opportunities
Solid Waste
Health
Renewable Energy
Land
2:00 – 2:15
Refreshment Break
Presenters
Room
Terry Dock
Blue Oak (40)
Audrey Johnson
Willow (100)
Jaime Collins
Sequoia (100)
Jill Sherman-Warne
Sycamore (100)
Mansel Nelson
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Nina Hapner, Carla Thomas
Sage/Laurel (90)
2:15 – 3:15
Media
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Title
Grants
33: Budget Workgroup
Grants
34: GAP 101
Solid Waste
Health
Renewable Energy
Water
3:30 – 4:30
Media
41: Solid Waste Sustainability Tool
32: Essentials for a Healthy Home
Continued
27: Education and Outreach –
Renewable Energy
Continued
12: Hydrogeology and Water Issues of
the Hopi Tribe
Title
33: Budget Workgroup
Grants
35: GAP Guidebook Overview
Land
Renewable Energy
Solid Waste
Room
Blue Oak (40)
Laura Ebbert & The GAP
Project Officers
Oral Saulters
Willow (100)
Jill Sherman-Warne
Sycamore (100)
Mansel Nelson
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Lionel
Puhuyesva,
Duffield & ??
Jim
Sequoia (100)
Sage/Laurel (90)
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Grants
Air
Presenters
Marta Burg & Others
28: California’s Climate Change Scoping
Plan
15: Using a Community Climate Change
Survey to Identify Impacts to Traditional
Lifeways
27: Education and Outreach –
Renewable Energy
Continued
23: An Overview of the Chumash’s
Innovative Waste Initiatives
5:30 – 7:30
Evening Poster Session
Wet Bar
8:00 - Midnight
Evening Entertainment - Tentative
Wet Bar
Presenters
Room
Marta Burg & Others
Blue Oak (40)
Laura Ebbert & The GAP
Project Officers
David Mallory
Willow (100)
Jill Sherman-Warne
Sycamore (100)
Mansel Nelson
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Kelly Schmandt
Sage/Laurel (90)
Sequoia (100)
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
9:00 – 10:00 am
State Environmental Agency Director Breakout Sessions
California, Arizona & Nevada
California Environmental Protection Agency
Arizona Department of Environmental
Quality
Nevada Division of Environmental
Protection
Matt Rodriquez, Secretary
Salt Grass Center
Henry Darwin, Director
Sequoia/Sycamore
David Gaskin, Deputy Administrator
Blue Oak/ Willow
10:15 – 10:30
Refreshment Break
10:30 – 11:30
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Media
Water
Grants
Solid Waste
Air
Water
Air
Title
8: Native Waters with Project WET
Overview
36: GAP Guidebook Workplans
Workshop A
20: U.S. EPA Agency-wide Plan Re: Solid
Waste Management Capacity Assistance
to Tribes
47: Suggestions from the Field: Planning
for and Operating an Air Monitoring
Station Efficiently
39: WQX/STORET
29: Education and Outreach – Air
Quality
(3 hour Workshop)
Presenters
Room
Mary Kay Wagner
Blue Oak (40)
Laura Ebbert & The GAP
Project Officers
Willow (100)
Tonya Hawkins & Others
Sequoia (100)
Andy Tolley, Melissa Estes
Sycamore (100)
Audrey Johnson
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Mansel Nelson
Sage/Laurel (90)
11:30 – 1:00 pm
Lunch (On your own)
11:30 – 1:00 pm
Training on Ecotech Ozone Analyzer & MetOne BAM Beta Attenuation Monitor
Ecotech Booth in Exhibitor Area – Pre-register at their booth, lunch provided.
1:00 – 1:45 pm
Regional Administrator Remarks
Jared Blumenfeld, U.S. EPA Region 9, Regional Administrator
Bingo Hall (2nd Floor)
2:00 – 3:00
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Media
Land
Multi-Media
Water
Land
Water
Air
3:15 – 4:15
Title
42: Geophysical Surveys on Brownfields
Sites
45: Watershed Regeneration Through
Permaculture Design
9: Native Waters with Project WET
Hands on Activities
(2 hour Workshop)
14: Creating a Tribal Earth Day: A Tool
for Community Outreach and Education
49: Water Quality Assessment Report
(WQAR)
29: Education and Outreach – Air
Quality
Continued
Presenters
Room
Laurie Suter
Blue Oak (40)
Carmen Gonzales
Willow (100)
Mary Kay Wagner
Sequoia (100)
Jill Sherman-Warne
Sycamore (100)
Audrey Johnson
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Mansel Nelson
Sage/Laurel (90)
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Title
Presenters
Land
Media
19: I-11 & Intermountain West
Blue Oak (40)
Multi-Media
37: Tribal Leaders Roundtable
Sondra Rosenberg, Michael
Kies
Jared Blumenfeld
Mary Kay Wagner
Sequoia (100)
Water
Multi-Media
Water
Air
9: Native Waters with Project WET
Hands on Activities
Continued
40: Documenting Native American
Resource Use: The OV Paiute & The
Power of GIS Map-making
3: Tribal Water and Wastewater
Infrastructure Programs
29: Education and Outreach – Air
Quality
Continued
Jenna
Kayed
Cavelle,
Room
Sammy
Willow (100)
Sycamore (100)
Audrey Johnson
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Mansel Nelson
Sage/Laurel (90)
4:15 – 4:30
Refreshment Break
Pool Terrace
4:30 – 5:30
Connor Byestewa, Jr. Environmental Awards
L. Robert Ulibarri, LACO Associates (Invited)
Pool Terrace
7:00 - Midnight
Evening Entertainment - Tentative
Wet Bar
Thursday, October 24, 2013
7:30 am – 4:30 pm HAZWOPER 8-hour Refresher Course - Tentative
Taught by ________________
Classroom 1 – Casino Administration Floor
8:30 – 9:30
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Media
Multi-Media
Grants
Water
Title
26: TAP Meets TEK: Hopland Approach
to Sustainable Agriculture
36: GAP Guidebook Workplans
Workshop B
5: Intro to Water Quality Standards
7: SAFIT Bugfest
(4 hour Workshop)
Water
Multi-Media
Land/Brownfields
9:45 – 10:45
25: Creating Videos for Environmental
Education
16: Tuluwat Village Cleanup
(2 hour Session)
Land
Water
Air
Land/Brownfields
Laura Ebbert & The GAP
Project Officers
Willow (100)
Wendell Smith
Sequoia (100)
Joe Slusark (Eugenia
McNaughton)
Alan Bacock
Sycamore (100)
Stephen Kullman & Others
Sage/Laurel (90)
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Title
Presenters
6: Establishing Tribal Representation
with the North Coast Resource
Partnership
17: Indigenous Farming Project
Cynthia Naha, Javier Silva,
& Paul Kelley
Blue Oak (40)
Alan Bacock, Anya
Kamenskaya
BryAnna Vaughan,
LeBaron
Joe Slusark (Eugenia
McNaughton)
Syndi Smallwood
Willow (100)
2: Quality Water Data or Water Quality
Data?
7: SAFIT Bugfest
Continued
Water
Room
Blue Oak (40)
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Media
Water
Presenters
Meyo Marrufo
51: Applying to TAS for Air – What Does
it Mean?
16: Tuluwat Village Cleanup
Continued
Room
Mark
Stephen Kullman & Others
10:45 – 11:00
Refreshment Break
11:00 – 12:00
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Media
Land
Grants
Water
Water
Solid Waste
Air
Title
18: Pairing Environmental Work with
Job Training
36: GAP Guidebook Workplans
Workshop C
1: Proposed Hydraulic Fracturing Rule
7: SAFIT Bugfest
Continued
46: Solid Waste/Recycling on Susanville
Indian Rancheria
30: Indoor Air Quality in Tribal
Communities
(3 hour Workshop)
Presenters
Sequoia (100)
Sycamore (100)
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Sage/Laurel (90)
Room
Lars Davenport
Blue Oak (40)
Laura Ebbert & The GAP
Project Officers
Willow (100)
Christopher Lloyd, Richard
Estabrook
Joe Slusark (Eugenia
McNaughton)
Laura
Medvin,
Christi
Goodman
Sequoia (100)
Mansel Nelson
Sage/Laurel (90)
Sycamore (100)
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Lunch (On your own)
1:30 – 2:30
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Media
Title
48: Nonpoint Source Pollution Projects
at the Summit Lake Reservation
13: Impact of Global Warming on the
Great Basin
11: Water and Energy Efficiency
(2 hour Panel Session)
7: SAFIT Bugfest
Continued
Water
Land
Water
Land
Multi-Media
50: Interactive Time Management
30: Indoor Air Quality in Tribal
Communities
Continued
Air
Presenters
Rachael Youmans
Blue Oak (40)
William Campbell
Willow (100)
Linda Reeves & Others
Sequoia (100)
Joe Slusark (Eugenia
McNaughton)
Jill Sherman-Warne
Sycamore (100)
Mansel Nelson
Sage/Laurel (90)
2:30 – 2:45
Refreshment Break
2:45 – 3:45
Breakout Sessions & Workshops (Blue Oak Center & Salt Grass Center)
Media
Room
Title
Presenters
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Room
Blue Oak (40)
Grants
Water
Air
36: GAP Guidebook Workplans
Workshop D
11: Water and Energy Efficiency
Continued
44: Owens Dry Lake Struggles &
Assistance Needed
Laura Ebbert & The GAP
Project Officers
Willow (100)
Linda Reeves & Others
Sequoia (100)
April Zrelak
Sycamore (100)
Salt Grass/Tule (90)
Air
30: Indoor Air Quality in Tribal
Communities
Continued
Mansel Nelson
4:30 – 5:00
Conference Closing Ceremony – Blue Oak Center
Evaluation/Raffle
Closing Address: (Speakers TBA)
Blessing
Veteran’s Color Guard – Retiring of Colors
8:00 - Midnight
Evening Entertainment - Tentative
Wet Bar
Sage/Laurel (90)