Environmental Cleanup Conference


March 13, 2006
Auditorium, World Trade Center
25 SW Salmon
Portland Oregon
MCLE Credits Available

8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

CERCLA & OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP LAWS

8:30-9:00 Cleaning Up Contaminated Property in Oregon

• Oregon’s Land Quality & Environmental Cleanup Programs
• Large Public Policy and Regulatory Issues in Land Quality
• Priorities, Funding and Future Directions in Environmental Cleanup
• State and Federal Coordination on Federal Superfund Sites
  Alan Kiphut, Administrator, Land Quality Division; Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

9:00-9:30 SUPERFUND -- Latest Legal Issues & Hot Topics

• US EPA’s Cleanup Programs -- CERCLA Turns 25
• Emerging Issues in Congress and EPA
• Managing Liability: Legal Trends & New Concepts
• Practical Suggestions for Working With EPA
  Cynthia Mackey, Assistant Regional Counsel; US EPA, Region X

9:30-10:00 Legal Issues for Cleaning Up Contaminated Property

• Emerging Issues Under CERCLA and Oregon Environmental Cleanup Law
• EPA’s New "All Appropriate Inquiries" Rule
• Practical Suggestions for Moving the Case through the Process
• Reaching a Resolution with State and Federal Agencies and the Other PRPs
  Claudia Powers, Ater Wynne LLP

10:00-10:30 Successful Technical Approaches under Cleanup Laws

• Creative & Cost-Effective Strategies to Cleaning Up and Managing Contamination
• Understanding and Working with Regulators
• Case Studies & Successful Technical Strategies
  Jim Maul, Maul Foster & Alongi

10:30-11:00 BREAK

CLEAN WATER ACT & CERCLA: SOURCE CONTROL AT SUPERFUND

11:00-11:30 Environmental Cleanup and Water Quality

• Clean Water Act & CERCLA – Overlapping Authorities & Cross-Program Implementation
• DEQ’s Joint Source Control Strategy
• Source Control and Stormwater Management
• Who Will Pay?
  Keith Johnson, Manager, Northwest Region Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

11:30-12:00 Source Control at Sediment Cleanup Sites

• Scientific Principles Behind Source Control
• Source Control Methodology – Setting Priorities
• Commencement Bay Case Study
• Lessons Learned & Recommendations for Other Sites
  Todd Thornburg, PhD, RG Anchor Environmental, LLC

12:00-1:00 LUNCH (Provided)

NRDA & RISK ASSESSMENT 1:00-1:30 Natural Resources Damage Claims

• Legal Authority for NRD Claims
• NRD Process and Successfully Resolving Cases
• Representing PRPs—What You and Your Clients Should Know
• Case Study
  Suzanne Lacampagne, Miller Nash LLP

1:30-2:00 Risk Assessment

• Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites: An Evaluation of the State of the Science
• US EPA Science Advisory Board Evaluation of Risk Assessment: A Report from the February 2006 Meetings
• Future Direction of Ecological Risk Assessment
  Bruce Hope, PhD, Environmental Toxicologist
  Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
  Panelist, US EPA Science Advisory Board Ecological Risk Assessment
  February 2006 Workshop

2:00-2:30 NRDA & Risk Assessments at Superfund Sites

• Performing Ecological Risk Assessments & Natural Resources Damage Assessments at Superfund Sites
• NRDA: Current Status of Scientific Approaches
• Case Studies of Successful ERAs and NRDAs.
• Practical Experience and Advice
  Lisa Saban, Windward Environmental, LLC

2:30-3:00 BREAK

LOWER WILLAMETTE RIVER UPDATE

3:00-3:30 Final Steps Under CERCLA -- What Happens After Superfund Cleanup is Completed?

• Reaching the "Construction Completion" Milestone
• "Site Completion" & De-Listing from the National Priorities List
• Long-Term Operation & Maintenance, Five-Year Reviews
• Case Study: McCormick & Baxter Creosote Superfund Site
  Kevin Parrett, PhD, Oregon DEQ

3:30-4:00 Portland Harbor Superfund Site

• Status of the Work on the Portland Harbor Superfund Site
• Potentially Responsible Parties’ Accomplishments to Date
• What’s Next?
  Jim McKenna, Port of Portland
  Bob Wyatt, Northwest Natural
  Co-Chairs, Lower Willamette Group

4:00-4:30 Technical Update on the Portland Harbor Superfund Site

• A CERCLA Remedial Investigation in a Complex Environmental Setting
• The Unique Challenge of a Dynamic Physical System: the Lower Willamette River
• Determining the Nature and Extent of Contamination
• Portland Harbor Data Update and Future Challenges
  Gene Revelas, Managing Scientist
  Integral Consulting
  Consultant to the Lower Willamette Group