Under a new agreement with the Salt River Project in Arizona and Public Services
of New Mexico, the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will receive
approximately $700,000 from permit fees, formerly paid to the U.S. EPA, for tribe's
clean air program. The tribe will use the money to pay for monitoring emissions
at two power plants on the reservation, the Navajo Generating Station and the
APS Four Corners Power Plant.
"This is a big step in terms of tribal sovereignty and in terms of power companies being good neighbors and business partners to recognize the competence of our department to conduct this technical work," Calvert L. Curley, manager for Navajo Nation EPA Air and Toxics Department, said in a statement reported by Indian Country Today.
