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Solid Waste Management on Tribal Lands
White Mountain Apache garbage truck
Solid Waste Resources
Publications
This guide, Developing an Abandoned Vehicle Program for Tribal Governments, provides a step-by-step process for developing an abandoned vehicle clean up program and is intended to assist tribal leaders pursuing this type of program.
The Tribal Solid Waste Costing Tool and accompanying spreadsheet are intended to help tribal leaders make decisions about solid waste collection and disposal and to determine feasibility for implementing the following programs:
- Tribally-operated collection service
- Tribally-operated transfer station
- Tribally-operated landfill
- Tribal Solid Waste Program Costing Tool (32 pp, 2.2M)
- Tribal Solid Waste Program Cost Tool Spreadsheet (.xls, 52K)
Please contact Michelle Baker for any question you may have at: 415-972-3206, or baker.michelle@epa.gov.
EPA Publications Related to Tribal Solid Waste
Indian Health Service 1998 Open Dump Report 
Sample Solid Waste Codes and Ordinances
- Tribal Legal Code Project: Environmental Review Codes
- Examples of Tribal Codes and Ordinances
- Template of Tribal Solid Waste Code
Tribal/Solid Waste Organizations
- Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. (ITCA)
- National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC)
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)
- Tribal Solid Waste Advisory Network (TSWAN)
- Solid Waste Alaska Network (SWAN)
- Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP)
- Native American Environmental Protection Coalition (NAEPC)