Webinar Recordings

Missed a webinar? No problem! Recordings of past webinars and other webinar materials are available below. Recordings are hosted on EPA's YouTube channel. Click on a category below to view webinars on that topic.

• Community Outreach and Education
• Planning Tools
• Circular Economy
• Environmental Justice
• Disaster Preparedness
• Coronavirus Disease 2019 Resources
• Tribal Coordination/Rulemakings
• Let’s Talk About It Series with the Director of the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION

Tribes Training Tribes: EPA National Tribal Waste Management Peer Matching Program

To strengthen Tribal capacity building and develop sustainable waste management programs, EPA facilitates the National Tribal Waste Management Peer Matching Program. This webinar is an opportunity to learn more about the program from EPA and hear directly from Tribes who have recently participated in the program.

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Community-Based Social Marketing for Tribal Environmental Professionals

In this webinar, you will learn about community-based social marketing and how community-based social marketing can be used to spark positive behavior change in your community. You will also hear from Tribal environmental professionals from Pala Band of Mission Indians and Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa on how they have used community-based social marketing approaches to increase recycling within their Tribes.

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View the slides from this webinar (pdf).

Check out the Related Resources: 

• Tribal Community-Based Social Marketing Training Guide and Recycling Toolkit. 
• Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and EPA Region 5 and Sustainability and Beyond: The Fond du Lac Story, EPA video.

PLANNING TOOLS

Indian Health Service-EPA Memorandum of Understanding: Open Dumps on Tribal Lands Webinar

The Indian Health Service and the EPA’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery share information and provide insight related to improving open dump data, solid waste projects, and programs in Indian Country. During this session, Indian Health Service and EPA highlight the Focus Areas of the Indian Health Service-EPA Memorandum of Understanding and the Tribal Waste Program Assessment Form. Attendees will be able to learn how to review the open dumps on their lands and share their questions.

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Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty through Waste Management Codes and Ordinances

Developing Tribal law is one of the purest and truest expressions of Tribal sovereignty. Developing enforceable codes and ordinances can ultimately assist a Tribe in addressing its unique environmental issues while honoring and preserving its traditions for future generations. Abandoned motor vehicles on Tribal land can pose an especially challenging problem. Combining enforceable law with effective policy and Tribal programs can be one path towards solving a difficult solid waste problem.

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Developing and Implementing Tribal Waste Management Codes and Ordinance

This webinar focuses on the journey to developing and implementing Tribal waste codes and ordinances. Having waste codes and ordinances in place can promote Tribal waste management goals, protect public health and the environment, protect natural resources, and deter improper waste disposal by community members and outsiders. This webinar also focuses on enforcement of Tribal waste management codes and ordinances. Waste management codes and ordinances are only as effective as their enforcement, so it is important to understand the benefits of compliance and the consequences of non-compliance.

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Waste Characterization for Tribal Program Planning

Is your Tribe planning to write or update an Integrated Waste Management Plan? Are you considering waste minimization, composting, or recycling efforts in the near future? Waste characterization can provide essential information for solid waste program planning and community outreach. Simple waste characterization can be completed at minimal cost, using basic tools and supplies, and need not require a contractor. Learn how to tailor waste characterization to your Tribe’s needs and how to use the results to gain consensus with Tribal administration and leadership. This training assumes no previous experience and is appropriate for Tribal staff or leadership at any level.

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Check out these related resources: Waste Characterization Pre-Assessment Questionnaire (doc)(46 KB) and ​Waste Sort Data Worksheet (xlsx)(34 KB).

Abandoned Vehicles on Tribal Lands 

Abandoned vehicles pose an environmental and human health threat to Tribal lands. The presence of such vehicles can encourage additional dumping and may attract unsafe or illegal activities. This training features real-world Tribal approaches to tracking vehicle abandonment, scrapping and recycling vehicles, and using outreach and compliance strategies to minimize vehicle accumulation. 

Part One: Explores vehicle abandonment and uncontrolled accumulation and discusses approaches to identifying and tracking potential vehicle concerns. Covers current markets for recycled metals and the impact on auto scrapping. Includes approaches used by Tribes for safely collecting, crushing and removing cars on Tribal lands. 

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Check out is related resource: Developing an Abandoned Vehicle Cleanup Program for Tribal Governments (pdf).

Part Two: Covers examples of codes and ordinances that govern and support abandoned vehicle abatement. Includes case studies from Tribes that have worked with their communities to reduce vehicle accumulation and discourage use of vehicles for illegal encampments. Reviews examples of large-scale vehicle cleanups and identifies options for federal and state assistance.

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Circular Economy

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Battery Initiatives Tribal Feedback Session

In this session EPA covers two EPA initiatives under development:

• Battery collection best practices that are feasible for Tribal, state, and local governments, environmentally sound for waste management workers, and increase the recovery of critical minerals.
• Battery labeling guidelines to improve battery collection including by identifying collection locations, promoting consumer education about battery collection and recycling, and reducing the improper disposal of batteries and associated fires.

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Share Your Insights: New Multi-Million Dollar Grant Opportunity for Recycling Education and Outreach

EPA provides a brief overview and share information on this new grant program to improve waste prevention education and outreach (pdf) and to obtain input from Tribal partners regarding recycling education and outreach needs.

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Share Your Insights: New Multi-Million Dollar Grant Opportunity for Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling

EPA provides a brief overview and share information on this new grant program to improve post-consumer materials management infrastructure (pdf) and obtain input from Tribal partners about your Tribe’s recycling infrastructure needs.

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The National Recycling Strategy: Part One of a Series on Building a Circular Economy for All

EPA provides an overview of the National Recycling Strategy, which frames the actions needed from all stakeholders to create a more efficient and effective recycling system. EPA also highlights the new recycling infrastructure and recycling education grant programs.

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Success Stories: Sustainable Materials Management at Tribal Casinos & Hotels

At this webinar, you will hear from Tribal casinos and resort representatives who are maximizing efforts to reduce and divert wasted food, including through donation of surplus food to local hunger relief agencies, composting food scraps from their restaurants and buffets, and sending food scraps to a local farm for animal feed.

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Starting Community Composting Programs on Tribal Lands

This is a three-part training on how to start community composting programs to divert organic materials from landfills and restore nutrients to the soil.

Watch the recording of Part 1:  Composting Fundamentals.

Watch the recording of Part 2: Composting Methods for Your Community.

Watch the recording of Part 3: Planning Your Community Composting Program.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

EJSCREEN 101: Mapping Tools and EPA Competitive Grants

This webinar provides guidance on how to use EJSCREEN effectively, as well as how to tailor its usage to Tribes’ specific needs, including responding to competitive grants. Several competitive grants being issued by EPA are now including environmental justice provisions. Grant applicants are encouraged, as appropriate, to include data from EPA’s EJSCREEN tool (or other environmental justice-focused geospatial mapping tools) as part of their application to help characterize and describe the affected communities/populations and area(s).

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DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

From Disaster to Recovery: Smart Tools for Disaster Debris

After natural disasters, it's really important to manage the debris effectively so that the community can get back to normal as quickly as possible. This presentation will talk about the tools and models made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that can help people make critical decisions about how to estimate, move, and organize debris during disaster response. We will look at advanced tools like map-based apps, satellite imaging, and forecasting systems that have made managing debris faster and more precise. Additionally, the presentation highlights avenues for obtaining technical support to help Tribes understand and implement these powerful tools, empowering communities to better respond and recover from disasters more effectively and sustainably.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency and Tribal Nations: Building Capacity and Resilience

Are you looking to learn more about preparing for a potential natural disaster? Join this webinar to gain a better understanding of Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster declaration process, funding mechanisms, and trainings. This webinar will review Federal Emergency Management Agency’s grants programs and application process, highlighting those programs connected to disaster funding and mitigation. This webinar will also provide information on the Emergent Management Institute’s Tribal Curriculum and other Federal Emergency Management Agency trainings for Tribal government officials and technical staff.

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Center for Domestic Preparedness: 7th Annual Tribal Nations Training Week

Are you looking for advanced, hands-on emergency response training opportunities specifically for Tribal Nations? Watch this webinar to learn more about Tribal training opportunities offered through the Center for Domestic Preparedness and its partners. The training is held once a year on the Center for Domestic Preparedness campus in Anniston, Alabama. This unique training opportunity is completely funded for state, local, Tribal and territorial emergency responders to include roundtrip airfare, meals, lodging, training and any equipment required during training.

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COVID-19 RESOURCES

Successes and Challenges for Tribal Waste Practitioners during the Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic

During this webinar Tribes from across the nation shared their experiences and discussed the waste management challenges that they have experienced from the beginning of the pandemic through today.

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TRIBAL COORDINATION/RULEMAKINGS

Tribal Consultation on the Universal Waste Regulations for Solar Panels and Lithium Batteries Proposed Rule

EPA hosted an informational webinar for Tribes to explain the Agency’s plan for adding new universal waste categories for solar panels and lithium batteries. EPA discusses the proposed new rules to improve the recycling and management of end-of-life solar panels and lithium batteries by adding new categories for these materials to the universal waste regulations. EPA’s universal waste regulations streamline the hazardous waste management standards for certain categories of hazardous waste that are commonly generated by a wide variety of establishments. Adding solar panels to the universal waste regulations should benefit the wide variety of establishments generating and managing solar panel waste by providing a clear, practical system for handling discarded solar panels. These regulations are expected to promote the collection and recycling of solar panels and encourage the development of municipal and commercial programs to reduce the quantity of these wastes going to municipal solid waste landfills. EPA also proposed universal waste standards specially tailored for lithium batteries, separate from the existing general battery universal waste category.

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View the Solar Panel and Lithium Batteries Universal Waste Proposed Rule slides (pdf).

View the Improving Safety and Effectiveness of Battery Recycling through Collection Best Practices and Voluntary Labeling Guidelines slides (pdf).

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FY 2023 Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes: Winning Strategies for Grant Applications

This webinar is an opportunity to obtain expert guidance from the EPA on the Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes. During this webinar, the speakers addressed:

• A Brief Overview of the Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes.

• How to Use EPA’s National Tribal Waste Management Peer Matching Program to Assist with Transferability.

• Tips and Tricks on How to Write a Successful Grant Application which will include the “Dos and Don’ts” of Writing a High-Quality Grant Application.

• A Grant Recipient’s First-Hand Knowledge on How to Write a Successful Grant Application as well as the Challenges and Lessons Learned While Developing and Implementing a Hazardous Waste Management Program.

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View the Narrative Proposal Checklist (pdf).

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Efforts to Modernize Newspaper Public Notice for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Hazardous Waste Permitting

This webinar focuses on EPA’s effort to allow more flexible options for notice of permitting actions that specify “newspaper.” Newspaper notice is specified by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act statute and regulations for the agency’s intent to issue hazardous waste permits. Additionally, newspaper notice is also specified in the regulations for other permitting actions like permit modifications.

EPA issued a Federal Register notice with its interpretation and with request for comments on alternatives. The comment period closed on February 14, 2022. While there is only one Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste permitting facility on Tribal lands, Tribes may also have interest in public comment on permit actions at hazardous waste facilities near the Tribal lands.

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Polychlorinated Biphenyl Extraction Proposed Rulemaking

This informational webinar is an opportunity for Tribes to learn more about Tribal consultation with EPA on the Polychlorinated Biphenyl Extraction Proposed Rulemaking. The Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery plans to propose to expand the available options for extraction and determinative methods used to characterize and verify the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls waste under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act regulations, as well as make other much needed revisions to various aspects of the polychlorinated biphenyl cleanup and disposal regulations. These proposed changes are expected to result in a positive environmental benefit by greatly reducing the amount of solvent used in polychlorinated biphenyl extraction processes. In addition, the proposed changes are expected to result in quicker, more efficient, and less costly cleanups, due to greater flexibility in the cleanup and disposal of polychlorinated biphenyl waste, while still being equally protective of human health and the environment.

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Applicability of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Organic Air Emission Standards to Equipment and Closure Devices

This webinar provides an overview of the regulatory provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Organic Air Emission Standards found in Subparts AA, BB and CC of title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations parts 264 (permitted facilities) and 265 (interim status facilities). This webinar also introduces the draft guidance memo, Applicability of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Organic Air Emission Standards to Equipment and Closure Devices Guidance Memo that was created as an effort to clarify questions on determining whether equipment and/or closure devices fall under Subpart BB or Subpart CC. This memorandum will provide guidance to permit writers, inspectors and owner/operators of treatment, storage, and disposal facilities and to owners/operators of large quantity generators.

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Fiscal Year 2022 Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes: Developing a High-Quality Grant Application

Are you looking to learn more about funding to develop and implement a Tribal hazardous waste management program? The Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes provides financial assistance to Tribal governments and Tribal consortia for the development and implementation of hazardous waste programs; for building capacity to improve and maintain regulatory compliance; and for developing solutions to address improper management of hazardous waste on Tribal lands.

This webinar provides insight from EPA on how to improve your grant applications and be more competitive. This webinar addresses the following:

• A Brief Overview of the Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes.

• The Technical Assistance/Transferability Criterion.

• How to Use EPA’s National Tribal Waste Management Peer Matching Program to Assist with Transferability.

• Tips and Tricks on How to Write a Successful Grant Application which will include the “Dos and Don’ts” of Writing a High-Quality Grant Application.

• A Grant Recipient’s First-Hand Knowledge on How to Write a Successful Grant Application as well as the Challenges and Lessons Learned While Developing and Implementing a Hazardous Waste Management Program.

Watch a recording of this webinar.

View the slides from this webinar (pdf).

View the Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes Grant Writing Tips (pdf).

View the Fiscal Year 2022 Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes Narrative Proposal Checklist (pdf).

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