Office of Environmental Health & Protection

OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & PROTECTION PROGRAM (NOEH&PP)

NOEH&PP Food Service Sanitation Code/Regulations help guide us in responsibility for permits, Food Handlers Training classes/card and certificates to meet the Regulatory requirements in operating a food service establishment.

NOEH&PP issues the Navajo Nation Sanitation Permits and/or Itinerant Permits for food service establishments and temporary vendors

NOEH&PP HOURS OF OPERATION FOR PERMITS IN WINDOW ROCK, ARIZONA

·       -MONDAY - FRIDAY     8:00 AM TO 12:00 PM -  1:00 PM TO 5:00 PM  Walk-in

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FOOD

Annual and Temporary Permit:

·       -Annual Permanent Food Establishment

o   Retail, Restaurants, Snack Bar/Deli, Bakery, Meat Departments, Institutional Kitchens, etc.

o   Sanitation Permit operation: $10.00

·       -Temporary Food Permit:

o   Flea Market food stands, Roadside Market/vendors, Snow Cone, Piccadilly, etc.

o   Temporary Permit operation: 6 months   $5.00

       12 months  $10.00

PAYMENT METHOD

·       -Annual Permanent Food Establishments:

o   Payment accepted by: Credit Card/Debit, Business Check, Money Order, Certified Check or Navajo Nation ICRs.

·       -Temporary Food Permits:

o   Payment accepted by: Money Orders only (no cash). 

·      -Please make money orders payable to: NAVAJO NATION

WEBSITE: www.ihs.gov/foodhandler

*Make sure it is I.H.S website. The site is from Albuquerque and the food handlers is free.

• Develop and ensure the implementation of environmental health and protection strategic plan policies and procedures.
• Develop and implement partnership agreements with health care, public health services providers/agencies and chapter communities on the Navajo Nation and surrounding service delivery areas.
• Compliance functions - legal, programmatic and financial – compliance related to applicable OHSA/NOSHA/ADA policies and procedures.
• Services include training, public information.
• Pursuant to 2 N.N.C. § 1604, (A), issuance of sanitation permits and respective fees and fines and penalty for environmental and protection sanitation violators.
  
• Develop, implement, enforce and regulate inter and intra agency agreements in relation with environmental health, safety and protection including but not limited to: food safety, water safety, air safety, waste management and safety, toxic chemicals, disease vectors, safety hazards, habitat alterations, migrant camp and facility, mineral safety, safety of fair/recreational equipment and facility.