Tribal Exchange Network Involvement Robert Holden, National Congress of American Indians

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Tribal Exchange Network InvolvementRobert
Holden, National Congress of American Indians
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Outside Looking In Perspective

• Tribes repeating the states initially cautious
  approach
• Historical Use of One-Stop grants gt EN grants
• FRS data and node development
• Challenges
• 562 tribes all with different needs and
  capacities
• Linking tribal business drivers to EN offerings
• Non-tribal EN governance understanding of tribal
  issues
• Non-tribal EN governance education
• Tribal representation at all EN governance levels
• Non-tribal EN governance attendance/participation
  at tribal events
• NCAI bridge to the EN (meeting caucus
  hosting/sponsorship)

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New Initiatives

• Tribal Strategy Development
• Other tribal-initiated projects
• Open Dump Inventory
• Model RFP template
• others

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Draft Exchange Network Tribal Strategy
Development

• EPA OEI - American Indian Environmental Office
  (AIEO) developed initial draft strategy
• 11/2006 meeting (OEI-NCAI) to revise, refine
  update strategy
• 3/2007 meeting with tribes, etc. for comments
• Goal
• Make strategy representative of tribal thought
  and experience for meaningful relationship with
  EN
• Develop viable strategy to increase EN tribal
  participation

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Why develop a strategy?

• EN has the potential to assist tribes in
  improving their capacity and exchanging
  information with many partners
• Exceptional opportunity for tribes to participate
  in EN governance and influence its development
• Same technology can support data exchange with
  multiple agencies, tribes and other trusted
  partners

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Why develop a strategy?

• Support ongoing work of tribes with grants and
  continuing support for tribal funding
• Same technology can support the exchange of data
  with multiple agencies, tribes and other trusted
  partners
• land management focus
• Supernode concept

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Proposed Goal

• Tribal Target - By 2010, grant recipients that
  have received 2007 or prior year Exchange Network
  grant money to build a node or exchange data
  electronically, will be participating in the
  Exchange Network.
• "Participating" is defined as any of the
  following 1) node-to-node data sharing, 2) node
  client-to-node data sharing, or 3) electronic
  transfer of data to CDX (i.e. web-based) and
  subsequent publishing of the data by EPA's CDX
  node to authorized Exchange Network partners as
  appropriate.
• Some of the 2002 and 2003 tribal grants funded
  activities such as building web pages and
  databases, but not node development or data
  transfer. These grant recipients are encouraged
  to fully participate in the Exchange Network as
  defined above.

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