Transcript Steve_Crawford_AIR PROGRAM

PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBE
AIR PROGRAM CAPABILITIES
AND ASPIRATIONS
Wind power
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AIR PROGRAM STAFF
• MARVIN CLING
• MARVIN CLING
• MENTAL SUPPORT FROM Steve Crawford
Environmental Department
focus
• Healthy Environment
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Air, water, land
Healthy Tribe
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Community
Issues
• Ambient Air
Exhaust pipe of North America
When Ohio River Valley belches, we breathe it in.
Paper mill, Cutler Navy Base, potential new
industry
• Water
Paper mill, salmon industry, sardine,
mining, tanning
• Watersheds
Impacts on Tribal Health
• Life span. 3rd World level
• Diabetes, asthma, CVD, Drug and alcohol,
accidents
• Psychological
ADHD, Alzheimer’s and MCI, behavioral
problems
DALY
Disability Adjusted Life-Year
• Index to measure community health
• Uses matrix of morbidity and mortality
• Accuracy and sensitivity entirely
dependent on quality of data
• “Good” data yields potentially extremely
valuable tool
DALY uses
• Measure Tribal Daly
• Remediate mold in houses, reduce
respiratory problems
• DALY index improves
• Grant money flows in
• Tribal health improves
Environmental Department
Emphasis
• Breaking down the silos:
Environmental Department
Health Department
Housing
• EPA
• BIA
• HUD
• “CROSS-CUTTING”
MET.STATION
O3
PM2.5 TEOM
AQS
INDOOR AIR
• MOLD
• RADON
MOLD
• 24 RESIDENCES WITH SERIOUS PROBLEMSCOMPLAINTS TO HOUSING AUTHORITY
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5 SAMPLED DURING LAST MONTH
5 MORE THIS MONTH
HUD FUNDING TO REMEDIATE
COOPERATION WITH HOUSING AUTHORITY
FISH CONSUMPTION SURVEY
• FIRST SURVEY COMPLETED 2001
PRE-QAPP DAYS
• SURVEY QUESTIONS DEVELOPED BY TRIBE
• ANALYSIS OF HEAVY METALS, DIOXINS OF 4
SPECIES – LOBSTER, CLAM, COD, SCALLOP
LAB DID NOT PASS QUALITY CONTROL
TESTS
MULTI-MEDIA GRANT
OAQPS
AIR MODELING OF TOXICS
FOOD CONSUMPTION SURVEY
FOOD TOXICS ANALYSIS
MODELING
• RTI, EPA OAR
• HYSPLIT BACK TRAJECTORY MODELING
CALCULATE MERCURY, DIOXIN, PCB
DEPOSITION FOR PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBE
RESERVATION.
CONSUMPTION SURVEY
• REGION 10 SOFTWARE, FOR SEVERAL
NORTHWESTERN TRIBES.
• SOFTWARE WALKS THE INTERVIEWER
THROUGH THE QUESTIONNAIRE
• FOODS UNIQUE TO NW.
• TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
NORTHEAST SURVEY
• MODIFIED FOR NORTHEAST FOODS
REQUIRES DIGITAL PHOTOS OF PRE AND
POST COOKED PORTIONS, LIVE ANIMALS
• SAMPLING PROTOCOL
• IRB
• ICR (OMB REQUIREMENTS FOR SURVEY
WORK
FOOD TOXINS
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MERCURY
PCBs, DIOXINS
A FEW OTHER HEAVY METALS
QAPP APPROVED DEC. 2006
PROPOSED WIND FARM
AT T-19
50.5 MW, 24 TOWERS
$76 MILLION
TIDAL POWER
SITE 2
SITE 1
RESERVATION
Product and Technology
• The UEK®System is an enhanced energy converter
of kinetic energy contained in rivers and tidal flow.
• Patented technology: “Bi-Directional Hydroturbine
Assembly For Tidal Deployment” No:- 6,139,255 October 31, 2000 (USA)