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Treatment as a State Status for the Shosone-Bannock Tribes

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The following documents are related to EPA's decision on September 5, 2008, to grant the Shosone-Bannock Tribes' request for "treatment in the same manner as a state."

Treatment as a State Approval Documents

• Decision Document including EPA's Response to Comments (PDF) (14pp, 3Mb)
  • Appendix 1 (PDF) (23pp, 2.7Mb)
  • Appendix 2 (PDF) (9pp, 1.1Mb)

• Approval Letter (PDF) (2pp, 329K)

• Memorandum of Understanding for Water Quality Standards between the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 -- Memorandum of Understanding between the Tribes, IDEQ, and EPA (PDF) (5pp, 210K)

Background Documents

• EPA Fact Sheet (PDF) (2pp, 49K)
• Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Administrative Procedures Fact Sheet (PDF) (2pp, 58K)
• Questions and Answers (PDF) (5pp, 30K)

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