BIA Eastern Regional Office and USET, Inc.

Trust Resources Workshop

September 27-29, 2005

 

Homewood Suites

                                                                                                                        Nashville, TN

- AGENDA -

 

Monday, September 26 - Travel

 

Tuesday, September 27

 

            Time                 Topic/Speaker

 

8:00 am            Welcome and Introductions

 

8:15 am            GPRA/PART Overview (Central office)

                        Michael Pittman, IA-Strategic Planning (confirmed)

 

9:45 am            Break

 

10:00 am          GPRA/PART, continued

 

11:00 am          Activities of the BIA Office of Special Trustee

                        Herbert Salalaucks, Office of Special Trustee

 

11:30 am          Lunch

 

1:00 pm            Panel Discussion - Funding Opportunities

                        BIA Staff

 

2:15 pm            Break

 

2:30 pm            Integrated Resource Management Plans

                        John St. Pierre, Colville Confederated Tribes

                        Les Benedict, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe

 

3:30 pm            638 Contract Program Reviews - What it means to you

                        Ben Picotte, Branch of Self-Determination

 

4:00 pm            Adjourn

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 28

 

Time                 Topic/Speaker

 

8:15 am            Panel Discussion - Integrating Resources to Meet Tribal Need

Noxious Weeds, Air Quality, Fish Health and Subsistence

                                    Living, Water Quality, other

 

                        Facilitator, Chris Katzenmiller, BIA/ERO, Hydrologist

                        Bill Patton, Regional Indian Coordinator, EPA Region IV (confirmed)

                        Kyla Hastie, Native American Liaison, FWS Region IV (confirmed)

                        Patrick Durham, Native American Liaison, FWS (confirmed)

                        W. Scott Gain, USGS (confirmed)

Terry Clark, DVM, Native American Program Coordinator, USDA APHIS                      (confirmed)

                       

9:45 am            Break

 

10:00 am          Panel Discussion, continued

                        Individual Agency Presentations (~ 20 minutes each)

 

11:30 am          Lunch

 

1:00 pm            Examples of Cooperative Interactions

                        John Banks, Penobscot Nation (confirmed)

                        Other, TBD

 

2:15 pm            Central Office Forestry

                        Tim Moriarty, BIA Central Office

                        Tom Magnuson, BIA Central Office              

 

3:15 pm            Field Trip to new BIA offices (optional)

                        Shuttle service provided

 

Thursday, September 29

 

Time                 Topic/Speaker

 

8:15 am            NRCS EQIP

                        John Rissler, NRCS Nashville

                        Will Printup, Seneca Nation Forestry

 

9:15 am            Panel Discussion - Real Estate Transactions

Facilitators:  Randy Trickey and John W. Smith, Branch of Real Estate Services

                        Leroy Clifford, Environmental Protection Specialist

                        David Saunders, Archaeologist

 

10:30 am          Break

 

10:45 am          Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation

                        Jim Widlak, FWS Ecological Services (confirmed)

 

11:30 am          Lunch

 

1:00 pm            SCA Technical Assistance

                        Joey Ruehrwein

                        Fire Education Director

 

1:30 pm            Tribal Roundtable

 

4:00 pm            Adjourn

 

 

Friday, September 30 - Travel

 

 

Reminder:       Travel reimbursements are available through USET.  Please contact Lisa Berrios, 615-467-1533, or lberrios@usetinc.org, for a travel expense reimbursement form.