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Publications & Videos
To help tribes get started some useful publications are...
- Video: "Our Water Our Future: Saving
Our Tribal Life Force Together" (May 16, 2003)
- Brochure: How Water Quality Standards
Protect Tribal Waters (PDF, 2.3MB). A full color brochure explaining
the basics of tribal participation in the tribal water quality standards
program. (April 15, 2003)
- Case Study: The Fort Peck Tribes Use Biological
Criteria for Their Water Quality Standards
Biological criteria allow a tribe to set goals for waterbodies based
on the type and number of aquatic species that should be present. (PDF,
922KB) (April 15, 2003)
- Case Study: The Seminole Tribe of Florida
Uses Water Quality Standards to Solve a Nutrient Problem (PDF, 774KB).
The tribe determined high nutrient levels from large scale agriculture
and tribal activities were disrupting aquatic ecology on the Big Cypress
reservation. Five years after instituting water quality standards the
tribe began to measure decreases in nutrients entering the waters.
(April 15, 2003)
- Glossary of Terms Used in Case Studies (PDF,
767KB) (April 15, 2003)
- Draft
Strategy: Proposed Revisions to the Guidelines for Deriving Numerical
National Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Organisms
and Their Uses. A Guidelines Revision workgroup will be established
to identify, evaluate, and revise the existing Guidelines. (February
6, 2003)
- Implementation
Guidance for Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Bacteria
A draft of the Implementation Guidance for Ambient Water Quality
Criteria for Bacteria has been published for public comment. When
finalized, it will guide state, territory, and authorized tribal water
quality programs in adopting and implementing bacteriological water
quality criteria to protect waters designated for recreation.
- Introduction to Water Quality Standards (PDF,
1.8MB)
- Reference Guide to Water Quality Standards
for Indian Tribes (PDF, 2.8MB)
- Water Management Solutions, A Guide for Indian Tribes
(PDF, 4.1MB)
- Water
Quality Standards Handbook: Second Edition -- August 1, 1994
- Tribal Environmental and Natural Resource Assisstance
Handbook (PDF, 676KB)
- Protecting Public Health and Water Resources
in Indian Country - A Strategy for EPA/Tribal Partnership (PDF,
101KB)
A complete list of Water publications is available through the Water
Online Publications Database. You can find more publications at NSCEP
Publications and at Wastewater Management Indian
Program Publications site.
A series of videos on various aspects of the water quality standards
program have been developed and are available through the Water Resource
Center. The videos are available on loan for 30 days. You can order these
videos on-line at the Water
Resource Center.
Some videos that may be of interest are...
You can also order these publications from the National Technical Information
Service (NTIS) 
and/or the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
.
These clearinghouses provide copies of OST publications for a fee.
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