2007 Environmental Cleanup Conference

8:00-8:30 - REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

FEDERAL AND STATE CLEANUP PROGRAMS & TECHNICAL UPDATES

8:30-9:00 Update on US EPA's Cleanup Programs: Latest Legal Developments

• New Policy and Regulatory Developments
• Small Business and Brownfield Revitalization Act
• New Legal Developments Under CERCLA
• Practical Suggestions for Managing CERCLA Liability

Lori Cora, Assistant Regional Counsel
US EPA Region X

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

• Policy and Regulatory Developments and Implications for Sites in Oregon's Environmental Cleanup Program
• Priorities and Future Directions
• Strategies and Tools for Moving Contaminated Sites Through the Process

Keith Johnson, Manager, Northwest Region
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

9:30-10:00 Successful Cleanup Strategies

• Innovative Strategies for Approaching a Contaminated Site
• Pursuing the Different Cleanup Pathways: Independent Cleanup and Voluntary Cleanup
• Ecological Risk Assessment
• Experiences from Recent Projects

Stu Brown, Bridgewater Group

LIABILITY: WHO SHOULD PAY?

10:30-11:00 Claims for Contribution & Cost Recovery Under Superfund

• Interaction of Federal and State Environmental Cleanup Laws
• Putting all the Pieces Together in a Superfund Cleanup Action
• Preserving Your Client?s Rights to Recovery & Claims for Contribution

Patty Dost, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt

11:00-11:30 Allocating Liability at Complex Sediment Site

• Special Challenges of Allocating Liability in a Waterway - Who Pays?
• Latest Legal Controversies re: Contaminated Sediment
• Alternative Funding Strategies

David Ashton, Assistant General Counsel
Port of Portland
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11:30-12:00 Insurance coverage

• Update on Environmental Insurance Cases
• Whether and When to Recover From Insurance Companies
• Which Insurance Policies Have Value and Other Timely Issues

David Prange, Prange Law Group

12:00-1:00 LUNCH

NATURAL RESOURCES DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

1:00-2:30 Resolving NRD Claims at Multi-party Complex Sites

• Creative ideas for Allocating & Quantifying Liability
• Habitat Equivalency Analysis & Habitat Restoration Projects
• Cost Effective Solutions
• Case Studies: Hylebos & Thea Foss Waterways

Robert Taylor, General Counsel Division
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Loren Dunn, Riddell Williams
Cliff Whitmus, Geomatrix. Consultants

2:30-3:00 BREAK

SOURCE CONTROL & PREVENTING RECONTAMINATION

3:00-4:30 Source Control at Superfund Cleanup Sites: A Forward-Looking Panel Discussion

• Clean Water Act & CERCLA: Overlapping Authorities & Cross-Program Implementation
• What Do We Need in Place to Prevent Recontamination Post Remedy?
• Characterizing, Monitoring & Assessing Stormwater For Long Term Source Control
• Municipalities? Role in Stormwater Management & Source Control at a Superfund site

Joan Snyder, Stoel Rives LLP
Keith Johnson, Northwest Region, Oregon DEQ
Dawn Sanders, Portland Harbor Technical Manager
Bureau of Environmental Services, City of Portland
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