2011 Environmental Conference
Monday, October 24 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011
New Orleans Marriott
555 Canal Street [map]
New Orleans, LA 70130-2349
Schedule of Sessions and Special Events
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Sunday October 23, 2011 |
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Registration/Badge Pick-up |
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NPRA Workshop: Flares and Flaring – Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
This event is open to Conference Registrants Only. A separate registration fee is required for this event. |
Monday October 24, 2011 |
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Early Bird Coffee & Rolls |
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Registration |
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Keynote Session
Keynote Address TBA |
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Suits/Legal Session
The Tulane Environmental Law Clinic: A Profile of the Gulf South's Most Active Environmental Public Interest Organization Greg Johnson and Megan Spencer, Liskow & Lewis From Here To A Penalty: Anatomy of EPA Civil Administrative Enforcement Joseph Guida and Jean Flores, Guida, Slavich & Flores, PC EPA's Clean Air Act Regulatory Agenda for Refineries: 2012 and Beyond Roger Martella, Jr., Sidley Austin LLP |
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Coffee Break |
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Remediation/Water Session
Water Conservation, Total Dissolved Solids, and Whole-Effluent Toxicity Testing Jeffrey D. Meyers and Ronald Gantz, C.H. Guernsey & Company and Michael Page and Neta Hercyk, ConocoPhillips Company Polyethylene Diffusion Bag - Groundwater Sampling Without Purging Robert Sherrill, Sage Environmental Consulting, L.P. Patented Low-Cost Removal of Petroleum Impacts in Groundwater John Gee and Gregory Council, Tetra Tech GEO and Shen Wang, Halliburton Health, Safety & Environment |
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Luncheon with Speaker
Challenges for the Refiner Under the Obama Administration's New "Clean Water Framework" LeAnn Johnson Koch and Alexandra Magill Bromer, Perkins COIE LLP |
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NAAQS/NSR Session
Challenges for Modeling Compliance With Short-term SO2, NO2, and PM2.5 Ambient Standards Robert Paine and David Heinold, AECOM Effect of New NAAQS Air Dispersion Modeling Requirements on the Petroleum Refining Industry Jennifer Geran, Sage Environmental Consulting, L.P. NSR 2011 Update - New Challenges for Refiners Kenneth Weiss, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and William Wehrum, Hunton & Williams, LLP |
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GHG Session
BACT for GHG – Where Do We Stand? Ron Crum, URS Corporation Effective PSD Permitting Strategies for GHG Emissions Timothy Desselles, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Valero’s Implementation of EPA's Greenhouse Gas Mandatory Reporting Rule Tal Logback, Dan Wang, and Abhi Trivedi, Valero Energy Corporation Demonstration of CO2 Capture & Sequestration for Steam Methane Reforming Process for Large Scale Hydrogen Production Ken Welch, Keith Adams, Kurt Metzler, Bob Hutchison, and Kent Kisenbauer, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. |
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Technical Poster Session & Reception
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Tuesday October 25, 2011 |
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Early Bird Coffee & Rolls |
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Registration |
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Emissions Estimation Session
Sweden’s Approaches to Refinery Emissions Inventories and Their Influence on the U.S. EPA Alex Cuclis, Houston Advanced Research Center Quantifying Inaccuracies and Categorizing Risk for TANKS4.0 Errors in Organic Liquid Storage Tanks Emissions Estimation Jim Miller, Jr., Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Accurate PM10 and PM2.5 Emission from Cooling Towers with Variable TDS, Input Andrew Woerner, Royal Smith, and Toby Hanna, ERM |
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Coffee Break |
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Other Issues Session
Understanding the Delay and How to Comply with TSCA Chemical Data Reporting Diana Samples-Caudill, Marathon Petroleum Company LP and Anita Firestine and Loree Fields, URS Corporation The Impact of Policies on Fuel Quality Changes Globally Liisa Kiuru-Griffith, Hart Energy Lessons Learned During the Start-up of a Major Refinery Expansion Jason L. Bradford, Marathon Petroleum Company LP and Loree Fields, URS Corporation Triple R – Refinery Residual Risk Phil Norwood and Rob Gronewold, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) |
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NPRA Branding Message |
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Luncheon with Speaker
Hilton Kelley, Environmental Justice |
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Panel Discussion
Newsreel: Regulatory & Legislative Update Michael Norman, Delek Refining Ltd. Cynthia Gleason, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP |