Information and Training Links
EPA sites:- Air Pollution Training Institute, offers training for air pollution professionals.
- EPA Enforcement & Compliance Online (ECHO), allows you to search for compliance inspection data within your community.
- EPA Envirofacts Warehouse, search EPA databases for information about hazardous waste, toxic chemical releases, air releases, Superfund sites, and water discharge permits.
- EPA Office of Water, lists water workshops and training courses.
- National Enforcement Training Institute, offers training for Tribal lawyers, inspectors and technical personnel in environmental enforcement.
- Science and American Indians, contains a wide range of information gathered from tribal traditional knowledge, analytical science and integrated approached to science by tribes, EPA, and other Federal agencies and tribal organizations.
- STORET, (short for STOrage and RETrieval) offers information and training on EPA's largest computerized environmental data system.
- Tribal Air Program, Region 10 has a huge tribal air program website with info on grant workplans, monitoring, emissions inventories, training, etc.
- Tribal Science Council is a national forum for tribes and EPA to set environmental science priorities and design solutions.
- Tribal Pesticide Program , this website contains water quality and pesticide training, meetings and workshops.
- West Nile Virus, Region 8 has a West Nile Virus webpage.
- American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, ACGIH has a calendar of scheduled training courses.
- American Indian Health, the National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institute of Health, has a website to address American Indian or Alaskan Native health concerns.
- ATSDR Office of Tribal Affairs, contains info about tribal services, resources and activities at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
- Healthfinder, provides a health question search engine for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
- Indigenous Environmental Network, is a site with health and environmental information on everything from energy to POP's.
- Institute of Tribal Environmental Professionals, ITEP offers training workshops in air, wastewater and solid waste.
- Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition, assists Tribes with Missouri River water issues.
- National Environmental Health Association, NEHA has reference books, training videos, and their annual conference includes training courses.
- National Environmental Services Center, has information on drinking water, wastewater, solid waste and environmental training. They publish Small Flows Quarterly, Pipeline, On Tap and an environmental training newsletter called E-train.
- National Tribal Air Association, has lots of information on air projects, events and policy updates.
- Native Nations Institute, has leadership and management training courses.
- Regional Tribal Operations Committee, Mni Sose maintains this website with information on tribal environmental issues and links to Tribal webpages, the national Tribal Operations Committee and Region 8.
- Rural Assistance Center, this site has a large number of links on tribal health care.
- Training Exchange, Trainex has solid and hazardous waste cleanup and emergency response training information.
- Tribal Air Monitoring Support Center, The TAMS Center, part of Northern Arizona University, offers air training.
- Water Environment Federation, this site has a bookstore, online library and workshops on water quality and wastewater.
If you are looking for information on Tribal Inspector Training, please read this September 30, 2004 Memorandum (97 pages in PDF format). There are currently two websites with training info for Tribal Inspectors. The National Enforcement Training Institute (NETI) has both basic and advanced Inspector Training courses here. The Institute of Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) also offers occasional inspector training courses.
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