Washington Environmental Cleanup Conference
June 15, 2007
Washington Convention Center
Seattle, Washington

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

8:30-8:45 -WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

Holly Duncan, Environmental Law Education Center

FEDERAL & STATE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP PROGRAMS

8:45-9:15 - EPA Cleanup Programs, Policies & Priorities

• Update on Northwest Cleanup Projects
• Latest Developments in Addressing Contaminated Sediment
• State and Federal Coordination on Federal Superfund Sites

Lori Cohen,
Associate Director, Environmental Cleanup US EPA, Region X

9:15-9:30 - Cleaning Up Contaminated Sites in Washington: Policy and Regulatory Developments

• Governor's Puget Sound Initiative
• Cleaning Up Contaminated Sediment
• Source Control, Preventing Recontamination & Other Timely Issues

Chance Asher, Manager
Aquatic Lands Cleanup, Toxics Cleanup Unit
Washington Department of Ecology

9:45-10:15 - Break

LAWS & TECHNOLOGY

10:15-10:45 - Latest Legal Developments Under CERCLA & MTCA

• Interaction of Federal and State Environmental Cleanup Laws
• Litigation, Legislation & Regulation
• Liability, Contribution & Cost Recovery

Alan Bakalian
Hanson Baker Ludlow Drumheller

10:45-11:15 - CERCLA, MTCA, & the Clean Water Act

• How Do All the Regulatory Pieces Fit Together at a Contaminated Sediment Site?
• Interaction, Regulatory Overlap and Working with the State and Federal Agencies
• Update on Some Sediment Projects in the Northwest

Rod Brown,
Cascadia Law Group

11:15-12:00 - Sediment Remediation Technologies

• Where Have We Been and What Changes Have We Seen?
• What Are the Emerging Technologies?
• Successful Cleanup Strategies & Recent Case Studies

Philip Spadaro, Sr. Vice President
ARCADIS/ BBL

12:00-1:00 - LUNCH

NATURAL RESOURCES DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

1:00-1:30 - Natural Resource Damages Assessment at Northwest Waterways

• Resolving NRD Claims at Multi-party Complex Sites
• Creative ideas for Allocating & Quantifying Liability
• Cost Effective Solutions

Loren Dunn,
Riddell Williams

 

1:30-2:00 - Habitat Equivalency Analysis & Habitat Restoration Projects

• How Does a HEA Work?
• Discounted Service Acre Years (DSAYS)
• Case Studies: Hylebos & Thea Foss Waterways

Cliff Whitmus,
Geomatrix Consultants

2:00-2:30 - Break

HOT TOPICS & TIMELY CLEANUP ISSUES

2:30-3:00 - Mining

• Cleaning Up Contamination from Abandoned Mines
• Protecting Human Health and Ecological Systems
• Case Studies of Large and Small Mines

Cliff Villa, Assistant Regional Counsel
US EPA Region X Adjunct Professor
Seattle University

 

3:00-3:30 - Toxic Chemical Loading to Puget Sound

• Toxic Chemicals in the Puget Sound
• Phase I - Initial Estimate of Toxic Chemical Loadings to the Puget Sound
• Data Gaps & Next Steps

Jim Maroncelli, Environmental Scientist & Project Manager
Washington Department of Ecology

3:30-4:00 - Groundwater/Surface Water Interaction

• What is the Latest Technical Information on Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction
• How Should the Issue Be Addressed?

Bill Locke
Integral Consulting

4:00-4:30 - Pollution Source Control at a Superfund Site

• Results of Recent Source Sampling on the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site
• Where are the Sources and What Can Be Done to Control the Contamination?

Beth Schmoyer
City of Seattle