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Presentations
2005 Annual Industry-Environment Conference
The Business Council’s 30th Annual Industry-Environment
Conference was held October 12 to 14. The conference featured sessions
on a wide range of environmental compliance and policy issues,
including air and water permitting programs, environmental remediation,
hazardous and solid waste management, chemical facility security,
environmental enforcement, and others. We are pleased to present
below all formal session presentations made at the Conference.
If you have any questions or comments regarding conference material
or content, please feel free to contact Ken Pokalsky, Director
of Environmental Programs for The Business Council. He can be reached
at 518-465-7511, ext. 205, or by email at ken.pokalsky@bcnys.org
The majority of the presentations can be
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here for a free download.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Concurrent Workshops 1 - 4
- Regional Issues, DEC Regions 1, 2 and 3
Robert Kulikowski, NYC Office of Environmental
Coordination, Presentation
Peter Scully, Region 1, NYS DEC, Presentation
• Regional
Environmental Issues / Problems / Initiatives
- Air Program Update
Robert Bielawa, NYS DEC, Presentation
Thomas Christoffel, NYS DEC, Presentation
John Higgins, NYS DEC
Kenneth Newkirk, NYS DEC, Presentation
• PSD / NSR regulatory
reforms
• Title V Program / Implementation and Financing
• Electronic Reporting Project
- Environmental Remediation / Program
Implementation & Policy Development
Dale Desnoyers, NYS DEC, Presentation
• Vapor Intrusion
/ DEC Prioritization Policy
• Brownfield Program soil standards / technical
guidance / grants
• Superfund Program Implementation
- NYS Chemical Facility Security
Program
George Estel, NYS Office of Homeland Security, Presentation
Al Stenson, U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
Presentation
• Overview
of Chemical Facility Security Law
• Priority Chemicals and Facilities
• Practical Approaches: Security Assessment & Upgrades
10:45 - 12:15 p.m. Concurrent Workshops 5 - 8
- DEC Regional Directors, Regions 4, 5 and 6
Tom Hall, Region 5, NYS DEC, Presentation
Ronald Novak, Region 6, NYS DEC
Steven Schassler, Region 4, NYS DEC
Sandra Lebarron, Region 6, NYS DEC, Presentation
• Regional
Environmental Issues / Problems / Initiatives
- NYS Chemical Facility
Security Program
Repeat of Workshop 4
- Brownfield Act / Practitioners' Experience & Assessment
Kenneth Kamlet, Newman Development Group, LLC,
Presentation
Linda Shaw, Knauf Shaw LLP, Presentation
Thomas Walsh,
Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, Presentation
• Lessons Learned under Title 14
• Recommendations for Program Changes
• Brownfield Funding & Tax Credits
- Managing Hazardous Materials
/ RCRA Program Update
Deborah Aldrich, NYS DEC,
Presentation
Paul Counterman, NYS DEC, Presentation
Steve Hammond, NYS DEC
Tom Lynch, NYS DEC, Presentation
Peter Pettit, NYS DEC, Presentation
• HW Manifest
Program Changes
• Part 370 Update
• Part 360 Revision Process
• NYS Mercury Products Law
1:45 - 3:15 p.m. Concurrent Workshops 9 - 12
- DEC Regional Directors, Regions 7, 8 and 9
Sean Hanna, Region 8, NYS DEC
Kenneth Lynch, Region 7, NYS DEC, Presentation
• Regional
Environmental Issues / Problems / Initiatives
- Air Program Update
Repeat of Workshop 2
- Environmental Remediation / Program Implementation & Policy
Development
Repeat of Workshop 3
- Regulatory Innovations
Louis Alexander, Dan DeMicco
John Vana, NYS
DEC, Presentation
• NYS
Environmental Leaders Program
• Reforming DEC Adjudicatory Processes
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Concurrent Workshops 13 - 16
- Brownfield Act / Practitioners' Experience & Assessment
Repeat of Workshop 7
- Managing Hazardous Materials / RCRA Program
Update
Repeat of Workshop 8
- Regulatory Innovations
Repeat of Workshop 12
- Enhancing Environmental Performance: Technical & Financial
Assistance Programs
Brenda Grober, Empire State Development,
Presentation
Amy Schoch, Empire State Development
Frederick McCandless, NYS Environmental
Facilities Corporation
John McKeon, Presentation
Ed Kear, NYSERDA, Presentation
• NYSERDA Environmental
/ Energy Project Funding
• ESD "Environmental Management Investment Program"
• NYS EFC Financing Opportunities
Friday, October 14, 2005
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Concurrent Workshops 17 - 20
- Environmental Law & Enforcement / State & Federal
Perspectives
James Ferreira, NYS DEC
Dore LaPosta, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Presentation
Michael Myers, NYS Department of Law
• State
/ Federal Trends and Initiatives
• Status of Key Litigation
- Regulating Water Discharges & Usage
Sandra Allen, Mike Holt,
Mark Klotz, NYS DEC, Presentation
Steve Sanford, NYS DEC, Presentation
Bruce Terbush, NYS
DEC, Presentation
• Great
Lakes Programs
• Industrial / Utility Intake Structures
• Water Quality Standards / PCB and
Mercury Permitting Issues
- Technical & Legal Responses at Vapor
Intrusion Sites
Mark Distler, O'Brien & Gere, Presentation
Robert Tyson,
Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC, Presentation
• Engineering Responses to Vapor Intrusion
Impacts
• Legal Issues and Considerations
- Enhancing Environmental Performance:
Technical & Financial Assistance Programs
Repeat of Workshop 16
10:45 - 12:15 p.m. Concurrent Workshops 21 - 24
- Environmental Law & Enforcement / State & Federal Perspectives
Repeat of Workshop 17
- Regulating Water Discharges & Usage
Repeat of Workshop 18
- Technical & Legal Responses at Vapor
Intrusion Sites
Repeat of Workshop 19
- Emerging Issues in Chemical Production & Use
Kathleen Kunzer, American Chemistry Council,
Presentation
• The
European Union REACH Program
• EPA Research Initiatives
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