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Agencies and organizations offering SWM
assistance
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For grant information for
each of these agencies, see our List
of Grants on our funding page.
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Agency/Organization
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Who to contact |
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Alaska
Native Health Board (ANHB, RASC)
Alaska Native Health Board is an advocacy
organization for Native health. It does not provide technical
assistance, but does award Integrated Waste Management
Planning grants (note this has now shifted to ANTHC).
ANHB staff serves on advisory boards and task forces where
Native health issues are of concern.
It also oversees and organizes
the Rural Alaska Sanitation Coalition (RASC), comprised of interested agencies
and village reps. RASC is set up to dispense sanitary health information,
and review and formulate policy on issues of interest.
Click here for
funding information for ANHB/ANTHC |
www.anhb.org
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Alaska
Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC)
ANTHC has no regulatory role, but is mandated to
assist if possible. ANTHC employs several engineers that
can assist in planning, designing, and building solid
waste facilities. ANTHC relies on state and federal funding,
and works with Regional Health Corporations to prioritize
projects. Solid waste projects are often 'tagged on' to
water and sewer projects with higher priority, rather
than treated as 'stand alone' projects. However, this
is changing slightly.
Your regional health corporation is closely associated with ANTHC, but
can offer separate assistance in landfill permitting, funding, research,
on-site surveys, operation and maintenance planning and implementation,
training, and any additional technical assistance that a community requests.
Click
here to look up your Village Project Engineer |
Regional Health
Corp engineer, or ANTHC engineer, for your village. If
you don’t know who that is, call Art
Ronimus ANTHC, at
1 (800) 560-8637
Also contact Jacqueline Agnew 729-3522
www.anthc.org
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Bureau
of Indian Affairs (BIA)
BIA’s role is
to protect tribal lands and resources and generally serve
out the trust responsibility accorded tribes by the federal
government. Their role in SWM in through protecting tribe’s
environment. BIA has discretionary funding for a variety
of SWM activities, including site closure and road building.
They may provide technical assistance or equipment as
well.
Click here for BIA
funding information |
Kristin K’eit
1 (800) 645-8397
#9
www.doi.gov/bureau-
indian-affairs.html
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Alaska
Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
The Solid Waste Program
under DEC’s Environmental Health Division and
DEC’s Compliance Assistance Office are excellent
resources for technical assistance. ADEC is the state
regulatory and enforcement agency. They set the rules
for constructing, maintaining, and closing SWM facilities,
including dumps. They approve closure plans, and permit
new landfills.
Though limited, ADEC funds some site closure projects through discretionary
funds. To get funding through ADEC, you must have a plan that meets
regulations. ADEC can stop VSW projects from being funded, and their
non-support of
a project may stop other agencies from funding it. So it is good to
at least touch bases with them. DEC also runs a remote maintenance program
through the Division of Facility Operation and Construction that gets
people out to your village for hands-on advice and emergency assistance.
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Anchorage:
Leslie Simmons:
269-7590
Juneau:
Ed Emswiler
465-5353
Fairbanks:
Doug Buteyn
451-2135
Click here for DEC's
solid waste website
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Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA is another good place to go for some advice
and funding. EPA is the federal regulatory and enforcement
agency, but they would only enforce in villages where
an extreme danger to community health and environment
exists and it is not being addressed.
EPA can assist villages by providing:
1) examples of solutions that have been implemented by other villages;
2) technical support over the phone or in the village (or direct people
to some one who can provide them with such assistance); 3) information
regarding existing funding opportunities including contacts, applications,
and review and comment of funding proposals; 4) assistance with solid
waste management planning electronically or on site; and, 5) tips for
public
education activities. EPA funds other agencies and organizations to
handle SWM grants, but typically has some discretionary funds and SWM
demonstration
grants.
Click here for
EPA funding information |
Joe Sarcone,
Rural Sanitation
Coordinator:
271-1316
www.epa.gov
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USDA
Rural Development (USDA, USFS)
Rural Development is dedicated to social and
economic sustainability of rural villages. Technical assistance
and funding is primarily handled through grants and low-interest
loans. Staff might be able to assist you in locating appropriate
funding, technical and planning materials, information,
or contacts. If you are a community near a national forest,
additional resources are available through the USFS.
Click here for USDA
funding information |
Call your regional Rural Dev. Office, or the
statewide office at
Debby Retherford:
761-7705
www.rurdev.usda.gov
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Village
Safe Water (VSW)
VSW is a program for rural villages in DEC’s
Division of Facility Operation and Construction. They
have no regulatory or mandated assistance role. VSW
is a granting agency that provides technical assistance
only to villages who have successfully applied for and
received a VSW grant. Usually a community gets a grant
to study the SWM situation first. Then VSW assists in
identifying the problem and how to solve it.
To get a grant or low interest loan for solid waste, the village needs
to prioritize the project very high on their list, and the project
must fit in with community long-term goals. Grant awards are considered
in conjunction
with ANTHC project awards. If you don’t receive a grant, VSW can
provide some technical assistance, but has no discretionary funding.
The Division of Facility Operation is also a good place to go for training
manuals and training information.
Click
here to look up your Village Project Engineer |
Greg Magee,
Program Manager
269-7613
Click
here for
VSW's website
And
click here for the solid waste matching program
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