- Northwest Contaminated Sediment Cleanup Projects
- Freshwater Sediment Quality Guidelines
- PCBs, Dioxin & Background – DMMP Deliberations
- Upper Columbia River
- Lower Duwamish Waterway
- Key Technical Issues
- Managing Residuals During Dredging
- Achieving Remediation Goals Using the Food Web Model
- Other Timely and Important Issues & Updates
8:00-8:45 Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Welcome
, Introductions & Program Overview
Holly Duncan
Environmental Law Education Center
POLICY, LEGAL & REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
9:00-9:30 Environmental Regulation of Sediment
- Latest Developments in Addressing Contaminated Sediment
- Update on EPA's Northwest Sediment Cleanup Projects
Sheila Eckman, Associate Director, Office of Environmental Cleanup
US EPA Region X
9:30-10:00 Cleaning Up Contaminated Sites in Washington: Policy and Regulatory Developments
- Washington's Sediment Cleanup Program
Chance Asher, Manager, Aquatic Lands Cleanup, Toxics Cleanup Unit
Washington Department of Ecology
10:00-10:30 Latest Legal Developments Affecting Sediment Cleanups
- Implementation Issues for the Puget Sound Initiative
- Wood Waste, Dioxin Policy, Tribal Consumption Rates & Other Hot Topics
Steve Thiele, Stoel Rives LLP
10:30-11:00 Break
SEDIMENT ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT
11:00-11:30 Freshwater Sediment Quality Guidelines -- Update and Overview
Teresa Michelsen, PhD
Avocet Consulting
11:30-12:00 Bioaccumulative Compounds Below Regional Background
- Update on Dredged Material Management Program Deliberations
Kate Snider
Floyd | Snider
12:00-1:00 LUNCH (On Your Own)
UPPER COLUMBIA RIVER & LOWER DUWAMISH WATERWAY
1:00-1:30 Liability & Interesting Legal Issues on the Upper Columbia River
- Elements of the Settlement Agreement
- Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals
Alexandra Smith
Lane Powell PC
1:30-2:15 State and Federal Collaboration on the Lower Duwamish Waterway
- Innovative Approaches to Source Control and Identifying Potentially Responsible Parties
Sarah Good, Toxics Cleanup Program
Washington Department of Ecology
and
Grechen Schmidt, Office of Environmental Cleanup
US EPA Region X
2:15-2:45 Break
TECHNICAL HOT TOPICS
2:45-3:15 Key Technical Issues at Contaminated Sediment Projects
- Case Studies of Large Complex Sediment Sites
Lisa Saban
Windward Environmental LLC
3:15-3:45 Managing Residual Contamination During Environmental Dredging
- Advances in Dredging Technologies
Paul Fuglevand
Dalton Olmsted & Fuglevand
3:45-4:15 Getting to Your Remediation Goals Using a Food Web Model
- Protecting Human Health and Ecological Receptors
John Toll, PhD
Windward Environmental LLC
4:15-4:30 Questions & Discussion
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