Agenda Monday, November 14, 2011 8:00am Registration Open

8:00am – noon STORET/WQX Training (Kristen Gunthardt, US EPA HQ)

8:00am – noon Wetlands Financing Training (Glenn Barnes, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Environmental Finance Center)

1:00pm – 5:00pm Opening Plenary Session – Ballroom – Pojoaque Drummers, Honor Guard, and Opening Prayer by War Chief Luke Duran – Official Welcome: Governor Rivera, Pojoaque Pueblo – Opening Remarks: Michael Lopez, Field Representative for Senator Tom Udall – US EPA Welcome: Ellen Gilinsky, Senior Advisor, Office of Water – Invited Speaker: Dr. Daniel Wildcat, Haskell Indian Nations University – Invited Speaker: Miguel Flores, Acting Deputy Regional Administrator, US EPA Region 6 – Housekeeping

Evening Reception Hosted by Pojoaque Pueblo Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Track #1 – Pueblo Ballroom Fundamental Continuous Track for Beginners Track #2 – Tewa 2 Track #3 – Tewa 3

8:30am – 9:45am Grants Management – Introduction to Water Quality Watershed Based Planning: Introduction and Refresher Standards Introduction, Development of – Nikole Witt and George Craft, – Wendell Smith, EPA Region 9 Plan, Sample of Successful US EPA Region 6 – The Pueblo of Sandia: Water Plan Quality Standards and the – Janette Marsh, NPDES Program: A Tribal US EPA Region 5 Perspective, Scott Bulgrin, Moderator: Diane Evans, US EPA Region 6

10:00am – 11:30am Developing Your Water Water Quality Standards: – Tribal Water Quality Quality Program (Establishing Protecting Tribal Waters Monitoring Programs in the a Baseline Program) 106 – Nancy Schuldt, Fond du Lac Klamath River and Major Program Band of Lake Superior Tributaries, Ken Fetcho, – Nikole Witt, US EPA Region 6 Chippewa, and Colin Larrick, Yurok Tribe; Crystal Ute Tribe Bowman, Karuk Tribe Moderator/Presenter: Frances – Green Infrastructure and Low Desselle, EPA HQ and Diane Impact Development with Evans, US EPA Region 6 319 Funds, Nancy Arazan, US EPA HQ Moderator: Jamie Fowler

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 (continued) 11:45am – 12:45pm Tribal Consultation Conference Call on Waters of the US (During Lunch)

1:00pm – 2:15pm Introductory Case Studies to Developing a TAS Package for Data Management: STORET & 106 and 319 Water Quality Standards WQX – Implementation of Riparian – Dan Cozza, US EPA Region 5 – Kristen Gunthardt, US EPA HQ Restoration to Address Chronic Water Quality Impairments and Issues, Taos County, NM, Robert Gomez, Jeff Ogburn, Mark Trujillo, – Springs Sediment Reduction Project, Shirley Piqosa, Hopi Tribe Moderator: Jennifer Fullam, NM Environment Department

2:30pm – 3:45pm Quality Assurance: CWA 104(b)(3) - Wetlands Data Management: STORET & Developing a QAPP Program WQX - Success Stories (Basic Introduction)/ –Romell Nandi, US EPA HQ; Tom – Water Quality Data Monitoring Strategy/ Johnson, US EPA Region 8; Jim Management, Program Monitoring Design (Basic Zokan, US EPA Region 10; Scott Integration, and Sharing, Deb Overview) O'Daniel, Confederated Tribes Madison, Fort Peck – Don Matheny, of Umatilla Indian Reservation Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes US EPA Region 10 – EPA Region 10 Tribal Wetland – Monitoring, Managing and Work Group: Emerging Submitting Water Quality Patterns and Networks, Scott Data Under CWA 106 and O'Daniel, Confederated Tribes 319, Christine Woodward and of Umatilla Indian Reservation Todd Woodard, Samish Indian Moderator: Jim Zokan, Nation US EPA Region 10 Moderator: Kristen Gunthardt, US EPA HQ

4:00pm – 5:15pm How to Work with a Lab Wetlands Program (cont) – CWA Federal Inspector – Quality Assurance Plan for – Kalispel Wetland Restoration Credentials Authority and Surface Water Data Efforts in the Pend Oreille Applications: A Tribal Collection, Eric Rich, Valley, Ken Merrill, Kalispel Perspective, Scott Bulgrin, Nation Tribe Sandia Pueblo – CWA 106 Tribal Water – Reconnecting a Wetland to – Pueblo of Tesuque Water Quality Monitoring, John C. Thirty-cent Creek, Ray Colby, Quality Monitoring Program: Parada, La Jolla Band of Makah Tribe Where We've Come, Jeremy Luiseno Indians – Manning Lake Wetlands Tribal Yepa and Ryan Swazo-Hinds, Moderator: Dan Cozza, Wildlife Refuge, Jeanne Spaur, Tesuque Pueblo US EPA Region 5 Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Moderator: Jennifer Fullam, NM Tribes Environment Department Moderator: Jim Zokan, US EPA Region 10

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 7:30am – noon Morning Field Day at San Ildefonso (optional field trip)

Track #1 – Pueblo Ballroom Fundamental Continuous Track for Beginners Track #2 – Tewa 2 Track #3 – Tewa 3

8:30am – 9:45am QAPP Development Workshop – Matching 319 and 106 with Agricultural-related Tribal – Don Matheny, Restoration Priorities, Ron Case Studies US EPA Region 10 Figlar-Barnes, Skokomish – Surface Water Quality of Tribe Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, Tej – Yurok Tribe’s NPS Attili, Kansas Kickapoo Tribe Implementation and – Water Pollution in Irrigation Monitoring Programs, Ken Ditches, Elaina Osife, Salt Fetcho, Yurok Tribe River Pima-Maricopa Indian Moderator: Felicia Wright, US Community EPA HQ Moderator: Nancy Arazan, US EPA HQ

10:00am – 11:30am TMDLs and Tribes Tribal Case Studies (continued) - 303(d) Impaired Waters – Implementing Agricultural Program and Tribal Lands, Best Management Practices Jamie Fowler, US EPA HQ through CWA 319, Pete - Incorporating the TMDL Nylander, Southern Ute Process into Tribal Indian Tribe Watershed Planning, – Restoring Connectivity of a Delinda Simmons, Fond du Lac Reservation Oglala Sioux Tribe and Dr. Trout Stream, Nancy Schuldt, Scott Kenner, Fond du Lac Band of Lake SDSM&T/RESPEC Superior Chippewa Moderator: Diane Evans, US Moderator: Nancy Arazan, US EPA Region 6 EPA HQ

1:00pm – 5:30pm Afternoon Field Day at San Ildefonso (optional field trip)

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 (continued)

1:00pm – 2:15pm Develop an Annual Water Mining in Your Back Yard, Fish Tissues and Fish Studies Quality Assessment Report / Using 106 and 319 – Joel Lusk, US Fish and Analysis of Water Quality – Dan Cozza, EPA Region 5 Wildlife Service, New Mexico Monitoring Data / Integrating – Use of Tribal CWA 106 Ecological Services Field and Lab Data for Analysis / Funds to Assess the – Data Analysis of the Levels of Developing Trends Potential Effects of Existing Human Toxins in Fish within – Wendell Smith, and Former Uranium the Salt and Verde Rivers, US EPA Region 9 Processing Facilities on Amy Miguel, Salt River Pima- – Forrest John, Groundwater on the Ute Maricopa Indian Community US EPA Region 6 Mountain Ute and Wind Moderator: Jennifer Fullam, River Reservations, NM Environment Tony Ranalli, USGS Department Moderator: Robyn Delehanty, US EPA HQ

2:30pm – 3:45pm NPS Project Evaluation and Nutrient-related Tribal Case Success Studies – Approaches and Tools for – Nutrient Monitoring of the Effective Water Monitoring: Pine River, Kirk Lashmett and Emphasis on Stream BMP Katie Frye, Southern Ute Effectiveness, Adam Sigler, Indian Tribe Montana State University; – Using 106 and 319 Programs and Ginger Paige, for Lake Restoration on the University of Wyoming Fond du Lac Reservation, Kari Extension Hedin, Fond du Lac Band of Moderator: Peter Monahan, Lake Superior Indians US EPA Region 8 Moderator: Robyn Delehanty, US EPA HQ

4:00pm – 5:15pm Developing your NPS Program – Leveraging Funding Biological and Habitat NPS Assessment Report and – Sustainable Financing for Monitoring/Macro- Management Program Plan Water Quality/Wetland invertebrate Sampling Using Data from 106 Program Programs, Glenn Barnes, – Selection of the Best – Wendell Smith, University of North Monitoring Tools to US EPA Region 9 Carolina, Chapel Hill Accurately Assess Low Order Environmental Finance Stream on the Yakama Center Reservation, Jody Cornwall, Yakama Nation Moderator: Peter Monahan, – Integrating Tribal Stream US EPA Region 8 Monitoring Data Sets into Regional Multi-metric Frameworks, Stephanie Ogren, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Moderator: Dan Cozza, US EPA Region 5

6:00pm – 7:30pm Evening Reception for Table-top Poster Displays and Vendors

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Track #1 – Pueblo Ballroom Fundamental Continuous Track for Beginners Track #2 – Tewa 2 Track #3 – Tewa 3

8:30am – 9:45am BMPs and Management Groundwater/Source Water Outreach and Education Tools Measures/Structural vs. Non- Monitoring – Santa Ana Youth Hands on Structural – Chi Ho Sham, The Cadmus Hydrology Outreach (SAY – Janette Marsh, US EPA Region 5 Group, Inc. H20), Tammy Montoya, – Strategies to Improve Water Moderator: Robyn Laura Pena, and Glenn Quality in a Saltcedar Delehanty, US EPA HQ Tenorio, Santa Ana Pueblo Dominated Reach of the Gila – Outreach and Education in River, Charles Enos, Gila River the Red Lake Watershed,

Indian Community Jenilynn Bohm, Red Lake Moderator: Peter Monahan, US Band of Chippewa Indians EPA Region 8 Moderator: Frances Desselle, US EPA HQ

10:00am – 11:30am ITEP's Climate Change Program: Case Studies Local Pueblo Case Studies Capacity Development, – Bay Mills 319, Dan – Challenges of Surrounding Networking and Technical Tools Tadgerson, Bay Mills Urbanization and Growth, for Tribal Environmental – Miccosukee Standards Frank Chaves, Sandia Pueblo Professionals Development Grant: – Taos Pueblo Post Fire – Mehrdad Khatibi, Institute for Developing Hydrologic Watershed Restoration Tribal Environmental Standards to Protect Program, Robert Gomez, Jeff Professionals Designated Uses of the Ogburn, Mark Trujillo, Taos Miccosukee Federal Pueblo National Tribal Water Council Reservation, James Erksine Moderator: Jennifer Fullam, Presentation and Tyler Weinand, NM Environment – National Tribal Water Council Miccosukee Tribe Department (NTWC) Moderator: Nancy Arazan, US

EPA HQ Moderator: Felicia Wright, US EPA HQ

1:00pm – 3:30pm Closing Session – Pueblo Ballroom – Leveraging Federal Funding Panel Discussion (with USGS, NRCS, Forest Service, BOR and BIA) – Closing Remarks – Closing Prayer

Friday, November 18, 2011

7:00am – 4:00pm Optional Field Day at Taos Pueblo

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