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 – Pueblo 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 New Mexico 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, Sandia Pueblo 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 Mountain 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 2011 National Tribal Water Quality Conference, November 14–17, 2011, Buffalo Thunder Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1 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, Taos Pueblo – Hopi 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, Navajo 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 2011 National Tribal Water Quality Conference, November 14–17, 2011, Buffalo Thunder Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2 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) 2011 National Tribal Water Quality Conference, November 14–17, 2011, Buffalo Thunder Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico 3 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 2011 National Tribal Water Quality Conference, November 14–17, 2011, Buffalo Thunder Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico 4 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