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Fall 08 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 1 1 Second Mesa Culture Center Website 2016 0 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 1 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Hopi Tribe Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2018 U.S. Economic Development Administration Prepared by: Hopi Tribe Office of Community Planning and Economic Development and Land Information Systems OCPEDLIS 2 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 3 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Hopi Tribal Council Executive Branch Timothy L. Nuvangyaoma, Hopi Tribal Chairman Clark W. Tenakhongva, Hopi Tribe Vice Chairman Wilfred L. Gaseoma, Tribal Treasurer Theresa Lomakema, Tribal Secretary Alfonso Sakeva Jr., Sergeant at Arms Village of Bakabi Village of Kykotsmovi Clifford Qotsaquahu David Talyumptewa Lamar Keevama Jack Harding Jr. Davis Pecusa Phillip Quochytewa Sr. Herman G. Honanie Upper Village of Moencopi Village of Mishongnovi Robert Charley Pansy K. Edmo Leroy Shingoitewa Craig Andrews Bruce Fredericks Annette F. Talayumptewa Philton Talahytewa, Sr. First Mesa Consolidated Villages Albert T. Sinquah Village of Sipalouvi Wallace Youvella, Sr. Norene Kootswatewa Alverna Poneoma Rosa Honani THE FOLLOWING VILLAGES CHOOSE TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT AND DO NOT HAVE VILLAGE REPRESENTATION ON THE TRIBAL COUNCIL. Village of Shungopavi Village of Oraibi Village of Hotevilla Village of Lower Moencopi 0 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 1 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope of Plan ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Exhibit A .................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Current State of Hopi ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Background ............................................................................................................................................................... 19 Socio Economic ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 Education ................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Water ........................................................................................................................................................................... 40 Solid Waste ................................................................................................................................................................ 47 Public Utilities .......................................................................................................................................................... 49 Energy ......................................................................................................................................................................... 53 Renewable Energy .................................................................................................................................................. 61 Transportation ........................................................................................................................................................... 70 Economic Development ........................................................................................................................................ 74 Land ............................................................................................................................................................................. 82 Department of Natural Resources .................................................................................................................. 91 Strategic Projects, Programs and Activities of Hopi Tribal Government ....................................... 93 Plan of Action ....................................................................................................................................................... 102 Appendix A ............................................................................................................................................................ 109 Reservation Vegetation Zones ..................................................................................................................... 111 Paavahu: Water Resources .......................................................................................................................... 115 TUTSKWA NIQW TOKO‘AT: Land and Mineral Resources ....................................................... 121 2 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Executive Summary The Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (herein after known as ―CEDS‖) has been prepared by the Hopi Tribe to serve as a guide to assist the tribe in promoting greater economic development and economic self-sufficiency for the Hopi people and their reservation communities. The CEDS examines and evaluates the current state of the Hopi Tribe‘s infrastructure and facilities as necessary components of the tribe‘s overall plan to develop and maintain its reservation lands as a permanent sustainable homeland for the Hopi people. The CEDS will also identify the economic development challenges facing Hopi through an examination of the policies and procedures that either help or hinder Hopi in the pursuit of its strategic objectives, along with an analysis of proposed projects and their possible impacts on the Tribe‘s present and future economic development and upon its members. The assertion of its sovereignty and establishing a strong strategic plan and organization, along with good leadership will enhance the ability of the Hopi Tribe to implement the CEDS framework. The framework or viewpoint of the CEDS will be to assess the Tribe‘s current situation and offer recommendations and strategies for improving and to continuing a resilient and sustainable Tribal nation. The CEDS is a living document that reviews all projects whether under EDA or other Federal funding and actively annually updated by consultant Joelynn Ashley 2015 to 2017. The tribe intends to review and update the CEDS annually as a collaborative effort lead by OCPEDLIS. The CEDS had identified and reviewed the current external national and state policies regarding climate change and the economic challenges and threats posed by this issue for the Hopi Tribe through the Clean Air Act (CAA). The national movement has swayed the pendulum from fossil fuels to renewable energy, given the decline with natural gas. Having no tax base, the Hopi Tribe over the last 40 years has relied on its Black Mesa coal leases with Peabody Energy to produce the bulk of its governmental revenues. The coal revenues have been relied on historically to produce 88%2 of the Hopi Tribe‘s General Fund – the revenues that are used to fund the essential 2 Analysis of Economic Impacts on the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation of a Stringent NOx BART Decision for the Navajo Generating Station, March 1, 2010, Pg. 39. Prepared for the Hopi Tribe. ICF Resources, LLC, Fairfax, VA 22031 Letter Dated March 1, 2010 from Leroy Shingoitewa, Chairman, Hopi Tribal Council, to Jared Blumenfeld, EPA; Document number 0211 in the docent for the ANPRM: EPA-OAR-2009-0598. 3 Hopi Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy governmental services provided by the Tribe to its people. Fueled by growing concerns over global climate change, dramatic changes in federal environmental policies with respect to coal-fired energy production pose huge economic challenges for the Tribe, which will essentially face a collapse of its economy if its coal sales were to end with a potential closure of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) located in Page, Arizona. The Hopi Tribe is among the most underdeveloped and most vulnerable populations in the United States and has already suffered enough from stringent and inflexible environmental regulations.3 The shutdown of the Mohave Generating Station (MGS) has already imposed a highly disproportionate economic burden on the Tribe. The shutdown of NGS, the sole remaining buyer of Hopi coal after environmental regulations shut down MGS ten years ago, would devastate the Hopi Tribe…‖4 The Hopi have suffered lost the revenues from MGS, a lost between $3.6 million to $6.8 million5, as a result of these challenges and that the loss of NGS will spell economic calamity in the absence of alternative revenue sources and a diversified economy that is not heavily dependent on a single revenue source. The CEDS will discuss how the climate change and the change in the energy industry continues to affect the tribe‘s future finances and will review current tribal policies, plans and proposed projects in light of the challenges posed for the Hopi Tribe by climate change