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Environmental Department

Big Sandy Rancheria’s Environmental Department provides environmental focused services to the tribal community. The Department focuses on environmental aspects of keeping Big Sandy lands and the community healthy. 

What We Do

Big Sandy Rancheria’s Environmental Department provides environmental focused services to the tribal community. The Department focuses on environmental aspects of keeping Big Sandy lands and the community healthy.

 

Everything is connected is the theme of the Department. Through Environmental Protection Agency funding staff are able to provide services, educational outreach and activities and special projects.

 

For example, staff - perform routine testing and tracking of ground and surface water for contaminants that may impact drinking water as well as the overall health of the
Rancheria’s ecosystem and the greater San Joaquin River Watershed; provide solid waste management services and special projects including recycling; and provide outreach and education through events such as Earth Day and environmental education activities for the after-school and summer youth programs.

Please call Rebecca Riley  at 559 - 374 -0066 ext. 240

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Environmental Programs Office | General Assistance Program (GAP)

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Indian Environmental General Assistance (GAP)

The GAP grant is multi-media based grant, to provide tribes assistance in all areas of environmental concerns, air, soil, and water.

 

This grant operates in three-year cycles, of which Big Sandy is in our second year of our second cycle. The fiscal year for this grant is October 1- September 30 of each year. A few of the tasks within the new GAP contract are:

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  • Groundwater monitoring plan

  • Purchase of a vehicle

  • Further training for Big Sandy’s Geographic Position System

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For more information, please visit www.epa.gov/indian.

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