MY KIDS, YOUR KIDS, OUR KIDS

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MY KIDS, YOUR KIDS, OUR KIDS

• Rebecca Ware, Director Environment/Energy
• Fort Sill Apache Tribe
• Rt. 2 Box 121
• Apache, Ok. 73006fsaenv_at_yahoo.com

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WHO?

• Fort Sill Apache Tribe
• Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache
• One of seven Apachean Tribes related to each
  other in much the same way as European Nations
  are related to one another.
• Last Tribe held as Prisoners of War by the United
  States government
• April 1913, 186 people were released and went to
  join the Mescalero Apaches and 86 remained in
  Oklahoma.

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WHO?

• Allotments were bought by the government using
  money from the very successful cattle and hay
  business the FSA had developed to buy land from
  deceased Comanche, Kiowa, and Kiowa-Apaches.
• Considered to be dangerous people no land
  purchases were within 5 miles of each other.
• Generations of people were born in captivity.
• The last FSA person from this era died last year.
  

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WHERE?

• Southwest Oklahoma
• Caddo County
• 2 miles north of Apache, Oklahoma

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Tribal Air Quality Background

• EPA General Assistance to Tribes Program
• (GAP)
• EPA AIR
• CAA 103
• Emissions Inventory
• Health Effects
• Impacts to Tribal members Community

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Lessons Learned

• Health Effects/Impacts
• Respiratory Distress/ Disease
• Asthma
• Bronchitis (acute or chronic)
• Emphysema
• Pneumonia
• National Health Interview Survey estimates
  (1986-1990) indicate Indian Men have a 4.45
  prevalence for asthma, women 6.02 while Caucasian
  prevalence is
• 4.26 and 4.30 percent.
• Childhood asthma increased 3 fold since 1990
  

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Lessons Learned

• Cardiovascular Effects
• Increased sickness and premature death
• Coronary artery disease
• Abnormal heart rhythms
• Congestive heart failure
• Diabetes
• Elevated glucose levels

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Tools for Reducing the Impact

• US EPA Region 6 7 Blue Skyways Clean School Bus
  RFP
• Lessons learned
• Timing
• Eligible applicants
• Subgrants
• Fleet information
• National Mobile Inventory Model
• Costs

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Partnerships

• Environmental Department
• Management Team
• Tribal Business Committee
• School Districts
• Oklahoma Dept of Environmental Quality
• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
• Indian Health Services (I.H.S.)

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Submission and award

• Paperwork submitted
• Clarification
• Submit formal
• Award document

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Intent

• Schools unable to purchase new buses or
• upgrade due to lack of funding.
• This allows FSA to assist with funding to improve
  or reduce impact of pollutants to OUR KIDS

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How?

• Diesel Emission Reduction
• Retrofit
• Particulate filters
• Oxidation catalysts
• Closed crankcase systems
• Electronic control modules
• Engine upgrade
• Cleaner fuels
• Replacement
• Bus 1977 and 1992 up to 45
• Engine up to 50

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Measurements

• Extrapolation
• Financial burden
• Tracking of absences from school
• Tracking of Emergency Room Visits

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End of the Story

• Idling Reduction
• Education
• Responsible action
• Rebecca Ware
• 580-588-2298
• fsaenv_at_yahoo.com