According to a press release from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA has formally established a Committee which helps the Amerindian tribes across the country to provide more input on chemical pollution toxic and other related environmental issues.
EPA announcement was made Tuesday and enrolled in an effort to give Indian tribes more power and authority when it comes to protect their public health and environmental health of their land. The Tribal National Toxics Committee will help EPA work with individual tribes these environmental issues while still emphasizing the importance of the sovereignty of tribes and cultures, values and heritage.
Director assistant for the EPA Office of chemical safety and Pollution Prevention Steve Owens commented on the performance of EPA establishing the NTTC: "as focus us on chemical safety and identify ways to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals and prevent pollution in Indian territory, it is absolutely essential that we listen to our tribal partners." We want to ensure that we address the ways that members of the tribes are affected by toxic substances and promote pollution prevention efforts that take into account their interests and needs. ?
The NTTC have a series of meetings and forums, which the first is scheduled for June 1-2 in Washington. Meetings and open forums will give tribes a way to express their opinions on new management strategies and programs that affect their environmental health and to work with the EPA for improvements. The main objective will focus on the needs of unique environmental health which differ in each native American tribe. In addition, specific issues, the NTTC will deal, according to the official website of the NTTC, include preventing poisoning by lead from lead-based paint, the expansion of the prevention of pollution and exhibition initiatives and the management of chemical waste on tribal land.
Addressing lead poisoning in tribal communities has long been an important initiative of the EPA. According to another EPA press release, the Federal Environment Agency has developed a teaching and programs to process and evaluate the problem of lead poisoning and children Amerindian tribes of radiation exposure. The EPA has also been giving grants and federal funding to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in the County of Indian with the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) grants in 16 different and the tribes recognized by the Federal Government in California, Nevada and Arizona, region 9 Lead program EPA Southwest Pacific Web site.
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