A/HRC/21/47/Add.1
TRI Program: Requires each facility located in Indian country to submit TRI reports to the
Agency and the appropriate Tribe, rather than to the State in which the facility is located.
The rule also provides Tribes with the opportunity to request that facilities located in their
lands be added to the TRI and that a particular chemical be added or deleted from the TRI
chemical list.
91.
Health and Environment Impacts of Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation
(June 2008): Five-year plan developed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of
Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Environmental Protection Agency and Indian
Health Service at the request of the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform to address the public health and environmental impacts from historical uranium
mining on the Navajo Reservation.
92.
National Environmental Justice Advisory Council: Currently developing a national
tribal and indigenous peoples’ environmental justice policy to improve the Agency’s
effectiveness when addressing the environmental justice concerns of federally-recognized
tribes, tribal members, state-recognized tribes, indigenous organizations, and other
indigenous stakeholders.
93.
National Tribal Operations Committee (NTOC): Works to ensure more affective
representation of tribal interests within the NTOC and stronger connections between the
NTOC and regional and subject matter tribal partnership groups including air, water and
science councils.
94.
American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO): Supports implementation of federal
environmental laws consistent with the federal trust responsibility, the government-togovernment relationship, and Agency’s 1984 Indian Policy. It participates in the Arctic
Council Indigenous Peoples Contaminant Action Program (IPCAP), which intends to build
awareness and capacity among Arctic indigenous communities to better understand their
contaminant exposures and to more effectively engage in governmental efforts to address
exposure issues.
95.
Border 2020 Program: American Indian Environmental Office collaborates with the
Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA) in conducting effective coordination and
formal government-to-government consultation with United States border tribes and in
outreach to Mexican border indigenous communities.
96.
North American Tribal/First Nations/Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation
Project: American Indian Environmental Office is a lead partner with other federal
agencies, the Canadian government, and a Canadian indigenous not-for-profit organization
in an effort to design a workshop scheduled for September 2012 to focus on climate change
adaptation needs of North American indigenous communities in the area of food security
and traditional plant use.
Department of Transportation
97.
Indian Reservations Roads Program: Provides funds for planning, designing,
construction, and maintenance activities on Indian Reservation Roads. The programme is
jointly administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Federal Highway
Administration’s Federals Lands Highway Office.
98.
Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program/Tribal Transit Program:
Provides a total of $45 million in direct funding to federally recognized tribes to support
tribal public transportation in rural areas.
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