Elevate the American Indian Office and move it west
What the document says“AIO should be significantly elevated as a stand-alone EPA Assistant Administrator office.”
The chapter asks that the office be led by a politically appointed, Senate-confirmed Assistant Administrator, ideally with strong ties to a federally recognized tribe, that it be located in the American West closer to most tribal nations with Oklahoma City, Dallas and other cities suggested, that all tribal grants and matters run through it, and that tribal staff report to it rather than to regional offices.
What the document actually says“AIO should be significantly elevated as a stand-alone EPA Assistant Administrator office.”
This office should be raised up. It should stand on its own.
One office handles work with tribal nations. It sits inside other offices now. The book says it should stand alone. It should also move out west.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed elevates EPA's American Indian Office to a stand-alone Assistant Administrator office, moves it west, or routes tribal grants and staff through it. The nearest candidate, the presidential memorandum of January 23, 2025, directs the Interior Secretary to develop a plan for full federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, which concerns one tribe's status rather than how the EPA is organized. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.