1998: More than 1,000 reservation dumps need cleanup

An Indian Health Service inventory of open-dump sites identifies 1,104 sites needing cleanup on the 314 American Indian reservations. The initial estimated cost for cleanup is approximately $126 million. Because no funding was attached to the Indian Lands Open Dump Cleanup Act of 1994, the Indian Health Service conducts studies of current open-dump cleanups on the Tohono O’odham (Arizona), Makah (Washington State), and Blackfeet (Montana) reservations, to determine how much other cleanup projects will cost.

Theme

Federal-Tribal Relations

Region

Great Plains, Northwest Coast, Southwest