Event

Title:	8th National Tribal Conference on Environmental Management (NTCEM)
Date:	Tuesday, June 24 - Thursday, June 26, 2008
Location:	Billings, MT
Contact:	Nigel Fields (fields.nigel@epa.gov), 202-343-9767
Purpose:	Conference goals include improving management capacity of Tribes, identify and share lessons learned, share valued knowledge and experiences of environment and health management, address Tribal sovereignty, the federal trust relationship, and social justice, and to familiarize Tribes with Tribal and non-Tribal environmentl protection initiatives. Three of NCER's Tribal Health STAR Grantees will be presenting on issues of culturally appropriate risk assessments, ecologically-based lifeway scenarios, and a case study of reducing risks from methylmercury within a tribe.
Registration:	TBD
Logistics:	TBD
Agenda:	TBD