At the end of March, Tribal Councilman/ Emergency Management Director, Nelson Andrews Jr was an invitation guest as part of Tribal Perspectives panel during the U.S Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board 2023 Spring Board meeting. He was joined by the Chairman of the Pahrump Paiute Tribe and the staff consultant for the Prairie Island Indian Community. Nelson was able to provide an overview on the issues and concerns related to tribes being in close proximity to nuclear power plants and potentially hazardous waste shipping routes near reservations, in particular the decommissioning site of the pilgrim nuclear power plant. He provided the NWTRB members with a background of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and statistics on the glaring disparities of annual state funding compared to annual tribal funding for emergency management and preparedness efforts. Nelson also serves as executive committee member of the Tribal Radioactive Transportation Committee as well as a member of the Nuclear Energy Tribal Working group which operate under an agreement with the U.S Department of Energy.