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• Developing a centralized water quality database to be shared 

 by all tribes and other entities; 



• Developing an educational program on how to prevent and stop water 

 pollution, especially nonpoint source pollution. The program would 

 also acquaint Indian cmd non-Indian people of tribal efforts to combat 

 water pollution and why clean water is so important to the tribes; 



• Continuing to disseminate water quality information quickly and 

 uniformly among tribes; and 



• Helping tribes coordinate their activities with natiorul Indian 

 organizations. 



Developing water testing laboratories and data management programs would carry 

 high front-end planning and equipment costs. Developing and beginning to operate 

 all of these centralized progrjuns would require additional staff. 



Individual Tribal Programs And Implementation Of Cooperative Programs: 



In Stage III the individual tribes would continue to develop, maintain and implement 

 their basic water quality programs. All tribes intend to have water quality standards 

 and water quality programs enacted into ordinances and regulations in this phase. In 

 addition, with the experience of several years of developing water quality programs 

 and with basic water quality staff in place, tribes sharing watersheds and/or treaty or 

 other rights concerning the same waters would undertake to develop, formalize and 

 implement joint intertribal water quality programs. 



Such cooperative developments among tribes will not necessarily all occur at the 

 same time. The tribes involved in the Skagit System Cooperative, Point No Point 

 Treaty Council and Upper Columbia United Tribes orgaiuzation, to some degree, 

 already have developed joint water resource efforts. Many other tribes, the 

 Stillaguamish and the Tulalip for ir\stance, have enjoyed long working relations with 

 each other on water matters affecting shared drainages. 



It will be in this point of Stage HI, however, that the participating tribes would devote 

 concentrated effort to bring about closer cooperation among themselves in given 

 watersheds or management areas. This effort will require considerable discussion 

 jmd formed planning. 



To take advantage of cost savings juid the multiplied positive effects of regional 

 programs, such regional opportunities could include: 



• Development of watershed, regional and statewide intertribal water 

 p>ollution response plans amd teams, especially for deeding with oil 

 spills; 



• Development of staff expertise to use on a watershed or regional basis; 



• Development of specific watershed or regional water quedity plans; 

 and 



• Development of watershed or regional water-testing laboratories. 



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