Area Designations for 1997 Ground-level Ozone Standards
Tribal Recommendations and EPA Response
EPA originally asked the states and tribes to recommend whether or not areas were in attainment in 2000. Many states and tribes complied, but because of continuing litigation, the Agency deferred designation action.EPA asked the states and tribes to, by July 15, 2003, either reaffirm or revise their 2000 recommendations or submit new recommendations. EPA will make its final designations based on these reaffirmed, revised, or new recommendations. Tribal recommendations and EPA response letters are presented here. EPA will make final designations by April 15, 2004.
State information for both 2000 and 2003 is available on the State Recommendations page.
Correspondence from persons outside the agency is catalogued on the outside correspondence page.
Green markers on the map below indicate tribes participating in the recommendation process in 2003 (and possibly 2000). Blue markers placed on the map indicate tribes that participated in the recommendation process in 2000.
For more detailed geographical information about tribal lands, see
the Bureau of Indian Affairs map.
The documents listed below are tribes' submittals to EPA's request for recommendations on the designations of areas for the 8-hour ozone standard and EPA's responses to those submittals. EPA will make final designations by April 15, 2004.
You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA's PDF page to learn more.
The quality of these PDF files are quite variable, and are the result of the quality of the documents provided to Ozone Policy and Strategies Group (OPSG) at this time. OPSG will update the quality and completeness of these files as the documents become available.
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| Arapahoe Tribe | |
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| Aroostook Band of Micmacs | |
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| Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes | |
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| Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians | |
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| Blackfeet Tribe | |
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| Campo Band of Mission Indians | |
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| Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe | |
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| Chippewa Cree Tribe | |
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| Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes | |
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| Cortina Band of Indians Cortina Indian Rancheria Wintun Tribe | |
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| Crow Creek Sioux Tribe | |
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| Crow Tribe | |
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| Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation | |
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| Eastern Shoshone Tribe | |
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| Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe | |
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| Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians | |
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| Forest County of Potawatomi Community | |
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| Fort Belknap Indian Community | |
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| Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation | |
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| Gila River Indian Community | |
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| Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians | |
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| Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians | |
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| Jamul Indian Village | |
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| Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians | |
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| Keweenaw Bay Indian Community | |
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| Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians | |
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| Little River Band of Ottawa Indians | |
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| Los Coyotes Band of Indians | |
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| Lower Brule Sioux Tribe | |
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| Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation | |
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| Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians | |
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| Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin | |
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| Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe | |
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| Mohegan Tribe | |
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| Morongo Band of Mission Indians | |
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| Narragansett Indian Tribe | |
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| Northern Cheyenne Tribe | |
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| Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation | |
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| Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi | |
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| Oglala Sioux Tribe | |
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| Oneida Indian Nation | |
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| Onondaga Nation | |
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| Paiute Indian Tribes of Utah | |
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| Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point | |
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| Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine | |
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| Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe | |
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| Penobscot Nation | |
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| Pokagon Band of Potawatomi | |
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| Pueblo of Jemez Indian Community | |
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| Pueblo of Picuris Indian Community | |
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| Pueblo of San Ildefonso Indian Community | |
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| Pueblo of San Juan Indian Community | |
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| Pueblo of Sandia Indian Community | |
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| Pueblo of Zuni Indian Community | |
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| Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma | |
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| Rosebud Sioux Tribe | |
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| Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri | |
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| Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe | |
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| Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community | |
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| Seneca Nation of Indians | |
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| Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate | |
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| Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians | |
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| Soboba Band of Mission Indians | |
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| Southern Ute Indian Tribe | |
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| Spirit Lake Tribe | |
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| St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin | |
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| Standing Rock Sioux Tribe | |
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| Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation | |
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| The Navajo Nation | |
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| Three Affiliated Tribes | |
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| Tonawanda Band of Senecas Nation | |
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| Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas | |
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| Tuscarora Nation | |
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| Ute Indian Tribe | |
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| Ute Mountain Ute Tribe | |
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| Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) | |
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| Yankton Sioux Tribe | |
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| Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe | |
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Letters pertaining to the delayed effective date of the Clark County, Nevada designation appear on the Clark County, Nevada page.