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About Tansey
Tribal-State Environmental Liaison,
Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada
Ms. Smith is a member of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Western Shoshone Northern Paiute and Navajo. She has a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Anthropology from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She previously worked with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe in various departments such as environmental, natural resources, and cultural resources.
As an environmental protection specialist she worked on the Clean Water Act (CWA) 319 and CWA 106, Radon, Childhood Lead Awareness, and wellhead protection programs. As a Natural Resource assistant, she worked with Tribal members on water allocations for agricultural use. As the Coordinator for the Great Basin Inter-Tribal NAGPRA Coalition she worked with fifty plus Great Basin Tribes located in Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Colorado parts of Arizona and California on cultural resource issues throughout the Great Basin area.
Currently, Ms. Smith is working in the Tribal-State Environmental Liaison Program for the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada. Her role is to enhance the communication and understanding between the Tribes and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, where environmental interests are present, to coordinate the development of written protocols as they relate to tribal sovereignty and environmental issues, defining the roles and responsibility of the State and assist NDEP and tribal staff in expediting assessment and clean up operations at mine sites
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