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## US. EPA accepts Gila River Indian CommunityS 

### environmental plan Cia Ri lndi News SACATON 

### - After seven years in the making, the Gila River Indian Cordty Department of

### Envirunmental Quality delivdto the U.S. Envinmmental

### Prokction Agency a Tribal Implementation Plan, 

### a blueprint ofhow to achieve improved air quality on tribal lands. At a Feb. 21 ceremony held inside the Council chambers, representatives h the U.S. EPA, State 

### Department of EnvinmmentalQuality, tribal council members and local elected officials gathered 

### "In establishingthe Tribal Implementation Plan, the Gila River Indian 

### Communityhas not only established a saies of essential euidclines fa achievine cleaner air 

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a very open way, reflecting input hm the wmmunity," said Deborah Jordan. Director, 

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### Air, ~e~i& 9. 'The Gila River Tribal Implementation Plan provides the kork to protect our air quality now and for future generations," said Margaret Chk, director of Gila River IndianCommunity Departmentof EnvironmentalQuality.

"WeareprondtohemCfirst Tni government in the nation to complete a comprehensiveair quality plan."

Located in centralArizona, the Gila River Indian community encompasses over 

### 600 square miles, and 

### has three industrial parks, and 

### three casinos.

Tbe Gila River Indian 

### Cormrmnity's Departmentof Environmental Quality had spent 

### the last seven years developing a Tribal ImplementationPlan to protect air quality

on tribal lands, a kt nationwide. In addition, tbe Gila River tribe develqd a team of emvimnmental professionals, the majority of whom

an Native American, to adminis& and enforce this plan.

Other envhnmental innovations 

### introduced by the Gila River 

### tribe include:

A permittingprogram, 

### aif

### monitoring program, and an ermss~ons 

### Gila River Indian Community 

### Page 5 

# first tribal government" to comprehensive air quality plan

inventory;

Implementatjon and enforcement of a 

### medical waste management
program; 

# - Specific ordinanws for local businesses and dwtries 

### such as aluminum exbusionplants, an 

### ex- plosives manufachum, several sand and gravel opedoas, and chemical supply 

# - Regularinnsthat wver dustemissions, and the storage and handling of

### metal cleaom.

"With the 

### permit, we're now able to issue air quality operating

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### mirs," said 

### Dan Blair, the program's wmpliance 

### and enforcement 

### man- ager. Blair said they can now charge permit fees to differentcompanies

on tribal laad. Tbe fas, he said, go towards maintainingthe program. "I don't lmow how much we'll be wllecting,but we still will need the grant."

In 1999,Gila River applied for the Federal Clean

### Air Ad 105 Funding. "Gila River was the first to receive 

## m* posefa a phdograph. Far left, MargaretCook, Diredaof Gila Ri that funding," said Blair, who 

### has In- Community Depamnentof Enviromnental Chality, DeborahJordan. Dibeen with the 

### program for over nine rector, EPA

### Oltics of Air, Region 9. 

### and Atizona MQ diredor Steve Owens.

vears and holds an Entomoloev de- &e. 

### Before coming to GilaEver, he was the lead air pollution investigator forMaricopa County.

Blair said the main reason Gila River was able to get their pmgram off 

### the ground before other trii

was their stsff.

"We hired good people," he said. '"The 

### staffberein air quality people

are probably one of the 

### best in the nation. Tbq [even] do haking fa otbcr tribcs."



### 'T?I~ have fivepositions, one p sition is unfilled Tbe staffwnsists of three guys

### who work on monitoring: Will Antone 

### Dl,Air Quality program associate; LeroyWilliams, Envkmmental Engincer, Russell Betsuie, Envinwnemal Team Su

### pervisor, and other support staff.

"Leroy does all the data managment, sending information to EPA, and Russell does all the quality 

### con- trol,"he said

The meram has a mall lab where'th4 monitor for ozone, and On Wednesday, Feb. 21, the Gila River Indian Community deliedbthe otherparticulatemat@ he said U.S. ~nviramental P~oldiOII Agency a Trbd l~tion Plan, a blue "We got dot of wrt 

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### cpW on bibal lands. The ceremonyfea

### dty andthe council," id t~red EPA Regis,9 fir Director Deb& Jordan (Center light, holdingfdder) 

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