Diane Daniels

Diane Daniels, director of the environmental and natural resources department at the Osage Nation, said she is pleased with cleanup efforts.

"From time to time, some of these accidents are going to happen," she said."I don't think it was necessarily negligence.It was, in a sense, unavoidable."

The Osage Nation owns all of the mineral rights in Osage County.

Daniels said oil slicks in the middle of a stream near Eagle Creek were three inches thick in some places.

A Thursday Tulsa World story incorrectly represented the position of Diane Daniels, director of the Osage environmental and resource program, concerning a proposed Osage Nation environmental law.Daniels said Monday that the nation needs the proposed law so that it can assume primary authority for implementing the Underground Injection Control Program, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now has jurisdiction for.

Diane Daniels ENR/EPA Director has been working on and with FEMA in the process of mapping out boundaries the Flood Plane of the Osage County Reservation.The Council requested Diane to write a resolution for their approval.

Mentioned in July the Animal I.D. program for Texas, Oklahoma and the Osage Tribe.

Diane Daniels Director

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In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact Diane Daniels, Osage Nation Environmental Director, at 918-287-5333

This came as a surprise to Diane Daniels, ENR director, because the GIS position is essential for her to run her department, she said.Not to mention it also affects the Osage Nation Minerals Council and the Tribal Historic Preservation Department.

"[The committee] recommended not to pass GIS.That is the program that collects all the environmental and natural resource data and pulls it into a database and provides the ability to produce maps for all the data," Daniels said."It's an analytical tool that is used for evaluating and assessing contamination problems and it has one full time position that is for a person that is already in my office."

Daniels said that the committee was concerned that the GIS program was overlapping duties with the Bureau of Indian Affairs when the Minerals Council was concerned, she said.The BIA does not provide the GIS service to her department, she said.Chair of the Natural Resources Committee, Congresswoman Faren Revard Anderson, said that the committee didn't feel like they had enough information in order to make an informed decision."The committee had some discussion that day and the consensus that day was that we had just heard about [the GIS program] at that moment and we suggested that Diane [Daniels] perhaps come in and give us more information," Anderson said.
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The GIS department costs approximately $142,000 and the salary for the position is $48,470 without fringe benefits, Daniels said.Fringe benefits cost $12,786, she said.

The 3rd floor: We have Director - Diane Daniels, Program Assistant - Julia Wright, UIC Program Assistant - Kristian Garrett, (2) Field Inspectors - Henry Lookout and Andrew Yates and Project Specialists II - Darin West.

The 2nd floor: We have Director, Diane Daniels, Program Assistant, Julia Wright, and Project Specialist II, Danna Washbourne.

This came as a surprise to Diane Daniels, ENR director, because the GIS position is essential for her to run her department, she said. Not to mention it also affects the Osage Nation Minerals Council and the Tribal Historic Preservation Department. "[The committee] recommended not to pass GIS. That is the program that collects all the environmental and natural resource data and pulls it into a database and provides the ability to produce maps for all the data," Daniels said. "It's an analytical tool that is used for evaluating and assessing contamination problems and it has one full time position that is for a person that is already in my office."

Daniels said that the committee was concerned that the GIS program was overlapping duties with the Bureau of Indian Affairs when the Minerals Council was concerned, she said. The BIA does not provide the GIS service to her department, she said.

Chair of the Natural Resources Committee, Congresswoman Faren Revard Anderson, said that the committee didn't feel like they had enough information in order to make an informed decision.

"The committee had some discussion that day and the consensus that day was that we had just heard about [the GIS program] at that moment and we suggested that Diane [Daniels] perhaps come in and give us more information," Anderson said.
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The GIS department costs approximately $142,000 and the salary for the position is $48,470 without fringe benefits, Daniels said. Fringe benefits cost $12,786, she said.