The Central Texas Chapter, based in Austin, Texas, is the local chapter of A&WMA. The Chapter has over a hundred members in the Central Texas area, consisting of environmental attorneys, engineers, consultants, academia, agency staff (e.g. TCEQ, LCRA), and industry professionals (e.g. AMD, Motorola, Samsung, 3M). The Chapter publishes regular newsletters and holds monthly meetings with guest speakers that discuss air and waste topics of local relevance. These meetings provide members with the opportunity to meet their peers and exchange information. The Chapter also educates the public through volunteer activities and events.
Local
Officer - Gwen Eklund
Elected - AWMA President ELECT - 2009
Spring Symposium Details:
Photos are in May 2008 Newsletter
April, 24, 2008 7:30 am - 6:30 pm
Jackson Walker LLP
100 Congress Ave. Suite 1100
Austin, TX 78701
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Breakfast and Welcome
8:30 am – 9:30 am Latest
Developments in Carbon Sequestration
Activities, Carbon Dioxide Permitting
and GHG Reduction Projects
Mike Nasi, General Counsel,
Clean Coal Technology Foundation of Texas
Darrick Eugene,
Texas Carbon Capture & Storage Association, Vinson & Elkins
Sponsored by Zephyr
9:30 am – 10:30 am Improving
Communication:
Consultants, Attorneys and In-House Personnel
Carol Lear, Chevron
Patti Hershey, LCRA
Todd
Shaw, Austin Energy
Sponsored by Intera
10:30 am – 10:45 am
BREAK Sponsored by ERM
10:45 am – 11:45 am Hot Topics Air
& Waste Permitting:
Steve Hagle, Air Permits Division
Carmichael, Waste Permits
Division
Sponsored
by Lloyd GosseliRichard nk
11:45 am- 1:00 pm Key
Note Address:
Mr.
Les Trobman, TCEQ General Counsel (confirmed)
Sponsored by TRC Corp.
Business Development Strategies:
A Must Do in 2008 for All Environmental
Consultants & Attorneys
Brian Flynn, P.E., MRE
Associates
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Municipal Corner: Frequent
Regulatory
Issues Impacting the Air and Waste
Management of Texas’ Cities
Mr. Arturo Blanco, Bureau of
Air Quality Control,
Environmental
Health Division,
Houston Dept. of Health and Human Services
Ms. Laura Fiffick, City of Dallas
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Air,
Water & Waste Env. Projects:
Davis
Ford, Ph.D., P.E., Adjunct Professor University of Texas,
Davis L. Ford and Associates
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Toxicology
& Risk Assessment:
Update from TCEQ’s Chief Engineer’s Office
Dr. Valerie Meyers, TCEQ
Toxicology & Risk Assessment,
Office of the Chief Engineer
Sponsored by Winstead
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm BREAK
Sponsored by Haynes and Boone,
L.L.P.
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Energy
Development Projects: Biomass,
Wind and Biofuels; Solar & Geothermal;
Waste-reduction strategies
for Farmers,
Composting & Recycling
*Robert Webb,
President Texas
Renewable Energy Industries
Association
The Impacts on Solar
Costs
Bert Haskell, Heliovolt.
4:30 pm –5:30 pm Regulatory
and Government Forum Key Note:
Dan Eden, Deputy Director, TCEQ
Office of Permitting
*Awaiting confirmation from additional panelists.
Sponsored by URS
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Happy
Hour Function
Sponsored by Vinson &
Elkins, LLP
2008 chapter
associate form [New and renewals]
Thanks to: January
17th speaker
Jennifer Clymer,
Climate Change Program Specialist, Austin Energy, SPONSOR: Zephyr
Environmental Corporation
Climate Change:
A Whole Lot More Than Just
Some More Amendments -
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Richard (Rick) Sprott is Executive Director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality
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Sponsor: Austin Chapter of AWMA Topic: Carbon Sequestration Ian
leads the Earth Systems and Environment group at BEG. For the last four
years Ian has been working on policy, legal and technical aspects of
carbon management in the context of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and
sequestration in brine reservoirs. Ian was the geologic sequestration lead
for the FutureGen
Texas Team and in the role was responsible for putting together the
Environmental Information Volume (EIV) that formed the basis for the ES
for the two Texas FutureGen sites. Ian has given numerous talks at
national conferences on gasification technologies and CO2 sequestration as
well as sequestration as a part of EOR. Ian currently has research
interests in: science based regulatory frameworks for CO2 sequestration;
geomechanical and fluid flow modeling of faults and seals in engineered
brine reservoirs; and risk assessment for CO2. Ian is the Co-PI of a $38
million DOE funded project to study a million ton a year CO2 injection
into the water leg of an EOR project at the Cranfield field, in
Mississippi. LOCATION: 301
Congress Ave. Room 360
Please RSVP to Russ Baier at rbaier@austin.rr.com or (512) 986-4195 if you plan to attend.
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