Annual Meeting
South Atlantic 2008
Environmental Management Conference on Critical Issues and State Hot Topics .
The 2008 SASS Meeting and Conference was held in Williamsburg,
Virginia on November 20 and 21, 2008, at
the Williamsburg Hospitality House.
Sessions
included discussions of Global Climate Change, MACT and Risk
Assessments in the Courts, New Source Review, and State Hot Topics. The
following program includes links to the slide presentations as provided by the
speakers.
Environmental Management Conference on Critical Issues and State Hot Topics
November 20-21, 2008
Program
Thursday November 20, 2008
12:45
Welcome and opening remarks (Dean Kaiser, Conference Chair)
1:00 pm
Session A: Global Climate
Change
Moderator: Sardar Q. Hassan, Department of Defense
Congressional Proposals/ Federal Regulatory Activities at EPA, Allison Rumsey, Arnold and Porter, LLP
Electric Industry Position and Activities, Lenny Dupuis, Dominion Resources Services, Inc.
State Climate Change Action Plans/ SIP Process, Jeffrey King, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Status of Climate Change Registry/Inventory Activities and Potential State Issues Related to Implementing Such Efforts, Jim Southerland, Consultant
Small Business and Citizen Actions, Flint Webb, Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations
2:30
Break
3:10 pm
Session B: MACT and Risk
Assessment in the Courts
Moderator:
Dean Kaiser, Stratus Environmental Services
Jim Eddinger,
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, USEPA
Bob Bessette, Council of Industrial Boiler
Owners (CIBO)
Mary Sullivan
Douglas, National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA)
Friday, November 21, 2008
8:00
am
Session C: New Source Review
Moderator:
Rahul Thaker, NC Division
of Air Quality
Status of NSR
Reform, Donald Van der Vaart, NC DENR, Raleigh,
NC
NSR Permitting
under PM2.5 Implementation Rule, Raj Rao, US
EPA, OAQPS, RTP,
NC
Emissions
Increases under NSR, Mack McGuffey,
Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, GA
10:20 am Break
10:40 am
Session D: Views from the State Directors - Hot
Topics
Moderator:
Leo Stander, Falcon Engineering, Inc.
Cecily Beall, Associate Director, Air Quality
Division, District Department of the Environment, Washington,
DC
George Aburn, Director, Air and Radiation
Management Administration Department of the Environment, Baltimore,
Maryland
Keith Overcash, Director, Division of Air Quality,
Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina
Myra Reece,
Chief, Bureau of Air Quality, Environmental Quality Control, Department of
Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, South Carolina
Mike
Dowd, Director, Air Quality Division, Department of Environmental Quality, Richmond,
Virginia
12:40
pm
Luncheon
Speaker: Renewable
Energy Resources,
Cathy Taylor,
Director, Electric Environmental Services, Dominion Energy, Inc.