The 2023 Schedule is posted below but is still in development. Please check back for updates.

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Wednesday May 10 2023

DAY 1

1:15 pm - 2:30 pm : Breakout Session 1

1.1 Tri-state Riverfront Revitalization

Camilla Warren, EPA - Moderator

Roundtable Discussion with Mayors on Riverfront Revitalization

Wed 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Brownfields / Land Use

1.2 Small Changes, Big Impacts: Zero Waste Goals, Climate Change, & Sustainability in Solid Waste

Julie Hall - Moderator; Jennifer Harrman

Wed 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Solid Waste

1.3 De-carbonizing Transportation and Promoting Equity

Wed 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Energy / Transportation

1.4 Remedial Technologies

Andrew Alexander, PG, RSM, BLE, Inc; Daniel Pile, REGENESIS; Bruce Kennington, Ramboll.

Enhanced Bioremediation of PCE in Groundwater using Milk Solution; Hydrocarbon Plume Remediation Using PetroFix - A Micron Scale Activated Carbon Fluid; Engineering Design to Thermally Treat a Deep TCE Source Beneath an Active Manufacturing Facility

Wed 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Remediation

1.5 TO-15A and Specialty Air Analysis

Wed 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Air / Climate

1.6 Side Slope Riser Repair at West Camden Using Geophysics and Non-standard Drilling

Wed 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Solid Waste

1.7 Water. GIS Projects Supporting Water Resource Management

20 minutes: ASSESSING PUBLIC DRINKING WATER PROTECTION AREAS THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM METHODOLOGY, by Rebecca Ransom, USGS. 20 minutes: DEVELOPING A DASHBOARD FOR LAND USE CHANGE EVALUATION BY WATERSHED ACROSS TENNESSEE, by Jeremy Hooper, TDEC DSWM; 20 minutes: MAPPING PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM SERVICE AREA BOUNDARIES IN TENNESSEE, by Marie Caiola, Vanderbilt University, Drinking Water Justice Lab

The session will highlight current projects using geographic system information tools to support water resource regulatory programs and understanding hydrologic systems and characteristics in the State of Tennessee.

Wed 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Water

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm : Breakout Session 2

2.1 Brownfields

Camilla Warren, EPA - Moderator

Tips for Rural Brownfcield Communities - speaker TBD

Wed 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Brownfields / Land Use

2.2 Going Beyond the Phase I: Environmental and Social Due Diligence

Dawn Santoianni, Haley & Aldrich - Moderator; Peter Baty, ALO Advisors;

Wed 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Sustainability / Circular Economy

2.3 Alternative Remediation

Jason Curtsinger, P.E., TVA/AECOM; J. Todd Mcfarland, PG, CPG, WSP USA E&I, Inc.; Matt Adkins, CHMM, CSX Transportation, Inc.; Andrew Kiggen, Regenesis.

TVA Gallatin Gun Range Remediation; A Tank Car Fire for the Fourth of July - Rapid Site Characterization and Remediation following the release of Acrylonitrile; In-Situ Treatment of PFAS using Colloidal Activated Carbon.

Wed 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Remediation

2.4 How Do Alternative Energy Sources Play A Role in Climate Change & Testing

Wed 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Air / Climate

2.5 Leachate

Wed 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Solid Waste

2.6 Incinerator Issues Nationwide and Impact of Generators

Wed 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Hazardous Waste

2.7 PFAS Regional and Federal Updates

Aaryn Jones, Special Assistant, Immediate Office, Office of the Regional Administrator, Region 4, U.S. EPA Frannie Nilson, Environmental Toxicologist, Office of the Secretary, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Sonja Favors, Chief of the industrial Hazardous Waste Branch, Alabama Department of Environmental Management Moderator Laurel A. Royer, Carinalis Consulting and Research

The panel discussion will feature representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), and North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) who will present their perspectives on the status of PFAS regulations as well as ongoing and future action plans.

Wed 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Contaminants of Emerging Concern

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm : Breakout Session 3

3.1 TDEC VOAP Regulatory Update

Evan Spann / Troy Keith, TDEC - Moderators/Speakers

Voluntary Oversight and Assistance Program guidance update

Wed 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Brownfields / Land Use

3.2 Water. Innovative Applications of Drones

a. Skytech – Andy Carrol has a private business that leverages drones and satellite imagery for some pretty unique applications (e.g., monitoring conservation easements). b. KYDEP – We’ve been in preliminary conversations with KYDEPs DSWM on their use of drones and they have some great use cases (landfills, UST system documentation/inspections, etc.). We’ll be talking to the Division of Water contact there soon as well since it sounds like they are doing some wetland mapping with drones. Either of these contacts may be able to present and I could inquire. c. I have drone contacts at ESRI and GeoJobe that might be able to present on the topic. Not sure of exact content they’d have for water related items but they’d definitely have software expertise and GeoJobe may have specific use cases. d. Stormpoint - They do a ton of public safety volunteer work with drones and they flew at the Waverly flood as well as other public safety related events in TN, KY and elsewhere. These are also the guys who collaborated with us to show the use case of flying the water plant and water tower for CPWS. There were some great thermal images from that flight and showed potential capabilities for flying that type of infrastructure for emergencies or inspection needs. I could talk to them to gage interest/topic if we wanted to have something like this (more public safety typically than water quality) if that’s appropriate.

Being developed and presenters to be invited

Wed 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Water

3.3 TDEC Vapor Intrusion Guidance: One Year Later

Wed 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Air / Climate

3.4 Extended reality and the conceptual site model – a look to the present

Dace Campbell, XR Consultant; Alec Pestov, vGIS; Scott Anderson, Haley & Aldrich, Inc.

Environmental remediation is an inherently complex, spatial problem. Environmental practitioners are challenged to effectively understand, make decisions, and communicate issues using abstract representations of traditional 2-D media. To overcome these challenges, progressive environmental practitioners are beginning to leverage real-time, 3-D media like extended reality (XR) to provide them with the super-powers needed, like time travel and x-ray vision, to spur stakeholder engagement and positive outcomes. This session will overview the XR landscape of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality solutions available to environmental practitioners, and feature use cases and proofs of concept demonstrating how XR can help you make more effective decisions in remediation.

Wed 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Remediation

3.5 Closure and Post-Closure Landfill Cost Estimates and Long-term Custodial Care

Wed 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Solid Waste

3.6 OBOD and National Implications

Wed 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Hazardous Waste

3.7 Harnessing the Power of Environmental Data

Alex Antonison and Ryan Otter, Middle Tennessee State University; Representative, American Cleaning Institute

Environmental assessments generate large volumes of data. In many cases, these datasets are generated and used in silos, even when it’s produced for public consumption. As a result, the potential power of these datasets is not fully realized due to limited data analytics skillsets, and more critically, the awareness of the tools, technology, available to delineate trends, and outcomes for environmental assessment and management decision-making. This session will introduce example tools that make environmental data more accessible and usable by all stakeholders across the environmental and human health landscape. The goal is to stimulate a discussion on critically evaluating, “do we need more data?” and how we harness already generated data to better identify the gaps and better define parameters for collecting new data.

Wed 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Contaminants of Emerging Concern

Thursday May 11 2023

DAY 2

9:30 am - 10:45 am : Breakout Session 4

4.1 Brownfield Case Studies and Creative Reuse

Patrick Mullligan - Moderator. Speakers listed

Reindustrialization of K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant - Kevin Ironside, RSI UCOR
Overview of ETDD EPA Brownfield Coalition - Lydia BIRK, S&ME; Tim Hendrick, East Tennessee Development District
A Case Study in Residential Adaptive Reuse - Brian Kvam, Stantek

Thu 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Brownfields / Land Use

4.2 Next Generation: Role of Advanced Nuclear in De-carbonizing Energy

Thu 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Energy / Transportation

4.3 Accelerated Landfill Recovery / CTI

Thu 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Solid Waste

4.4 CSM

Joe Ricker, PE, WSP USA E&E, Inc.; Robin Mikeal, AECOM; Duane Guilfoil, PE, AST Environmental.

Groundwater Plume Analytics® Tools for Evaluating Remedy Effectiveness; Leveraging Digital Workflows and Integrated Conceptual Site Models to Elevate Dynamic and Interactive Partnerships; Quantitative High Resolution Site Characterization (hrs.) - A Remedial Design Process to Improve Conceptual Site Models, Develop Surgical Designs, and Manage Stake Holder Expectations.

Thu 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Remediation

4.5 How Does Climate Change Affect The Indoor Air Environment

Thu 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Air / Climate

4.6 Treatment Methods for PFAS (Montrose)

Thu 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Hazardous Waste

4.7 Scientific Data Quality Integrity

Thu 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Sustainability / Circular Economy

11:00 am - 12:15 pm : Breakout Session 5

5.1 Brownfield Funding Opportunities

Olga Perry, EPA and Paula Middlebrooks,TDEC

An overview of grant and loan opportunities

Thu 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Brownfields / Land Use

5.2 Innovation By Battery: Creating New Opportunities for Evs and Electric Grid Storage

Thu 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Energy / Transportation

5.3 Characterization of Disposed CCRs To Determine Sustainability for Beneficial use Harvesting

Thu 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Solid Waste

5.4 The Role of Air Sampling in the Carbon Credits Marketplace

Thu 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Air / Climate

5.5 Wildlife Habitat Landscapes: Certification Options for On-Site land Management

Thu 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Natural Resources / Conservation

5.6 ESG Panel: Career Trends / State of ESG

Dawn Santoianni, Haley & Aldrich - Moderator; Dodd Galbreath, Lipscomb University, Institute for Sustainable Practice; Consultant; Client.

Thu 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Sustainability / Circular Economy

5.7 Corrective Action Orders vs. Permits and Redevelopment Of RCRA Facilities

Thu 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Hazardous Waste

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm : Breakout Session 6

6.1 Brownfield / Land Use

Lamont Price - TNECD, others invited

Brownfield Economic Development Roundtable

Thu 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Brownfields / Land Use

6.2 Advancing Sustainability and Resilience Through Innovation

Dawn Santoianni, Haley & Aldrich - Moderator; Don Haynes, Florim USA; Eastman Chemical, invited (speaker TBD); Ben Chandler, Haley & Aldrich.

Thu 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Sustainability / Circular Economy

6.3 Remedial Tools

Kit Carson, Ramboll; PJ Nolan, PhD; Cole Mayer; Rens Verburg, PhD, WSP USA E&E, Inc.

Expedited Geophysical and Drilling Supplemental Site Characterization Investigation of a Karstic Gasoline Release; Next-generation, high-resolution methods of characterization of solid samples for Environmental Source Demonstrations.

Thu 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Remediation

6.4 Vapor Intrusion Sampling Best Practices / Mitigation

Thu 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Air / Climate

6.5 Recycling of Wind Turbine Blades, Solar Panels, and EV Batteries

Thu 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Hazardous Waste

6.6 Liquid Release Test methods for Landfills

Thu 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Solid Waste

6.7 Water. TDEC Water Wells Program Update

20 minutes: Program Overview, by Ashby Barnes, TDEC. 20 minutes: TN Water Well Desktop Application & DWR Driller Reports. 20 minutes: Future Goals for Wells Program Discussion, by Anna Sartors, Richard Rogers and Ashby Barnes.

The session will discuss current public facing GIS and database applications available for use by all Tennessee stakeholders.

Thu 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Water

3:30 pm - 4:45 pm : Breakout Session 7

7.1 Making the Economic Case for Hydrogen

Thu 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Energy / Transportation

7.2 Applying Digital Technology to Automate Compliance Assurance Monitoring

Thu 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Air / Climate

7.3 Producer Liability and Disposal at End of Life

Thu 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Hazardous Waste

7.4A Remote DNAPL and Implications of Chlorine Solvent Plumes 7.4B Beyond PFAS - Pharma and Personal Care Disruptors

7.4A: Joe Rossabi - Redox Tech, LLC 7.4B: Jeff Paul - Golder/WSP

7.4A: This discussion will present our work on remote DNAPL and the implications for remediation of persistent chlorinated solvent plumes, which was recently published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment. The published data show that contrary to the common assumption that persistent contamination in large chlorinated solvent plumes is always due to back diffusion of contaminants out of the solid matrix, there is the possibility of small, dispersed DNAPL far from the source release area. This means that instead of remedial efforts being limited by the rate of diffusion (very slow and expensive), faster, more effective, and less expensive in situ remediation is possible.

7.4B: The occurrence of endocrine and other biological disruptors in the environment is increasing. The discussion will focus on Pharma and Personal Care Products and their distribution in the environment. Data will be presented from the late 1950s to present. Suggestions of when and where to look for these disruptors, their interaction with nutrients and biota in subsurface and surface waters, and some mitigation and remediation approaches will be presented.

Thu 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Contaminants of Emerging Concern

7.5 Effective Engagement With Water Boards

Dodd to recruit Moderator to lead discussion from perspective of applicants, appellants, and participants of the process. 3 Presenters: Dodd Galbreath, State Water Quality Oil and Gas Board Member and Middle TN Stormwater Board Member; West TN Stormwater Board, TBD; East TN Stormwater Board, TBD. Paula to recruit East and West presenters.

This session will provide insight and lessons learned from leading, managing, and interacting effectively with regulatory boards whether you are a current board member or applicant for a regulatory variance, a permit appeal, or a board appeal to an enforcement action.

Thu 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Water

7.6 Hiking and Helping: Corporate Volunteering and Support of TN State Parks

Thu 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Natural Resources / Conservation

7.7 CCR Remediation and Relocation

Thu 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Solid Waste

Friday May 12 2023

DAY 3

9:30 am - 10:45 am : Breakout Session 8

8.1The Role of Nature Based Solutions in Achieving Carbon Neutrality

John McFadden - Moderator; Jeff Barrie, TN Environmental Council; Keith Kline, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Fri 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Sustainability / Circular Economy

8.2 Achieving Environmental and Financial Sustainability in Transportation with Propane

Fri 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Energy / Transportation

8.3 All Things Green House Gas and Landfills

Fri 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Solid Waste

8.5 A: PFAS and Organic Florine 8.5B: PFAS Precursor Analysis and Data Interpretation

8.5A: Lindsay Boone - PACE Analytical 8.5B: Dora Chiang - WSP

8.5A: The EPA has been consistently updating regulations both proposed and enforceable on PFAS in a wide array of sample matrices. Of note, the EPA announced a proposed rule to designate Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)—also known as Superfund. The U.S. EPA also plans to use available programs to address environmental contamination from leachate and other sources. The agency plans to leverage ELG Preliminary Plan 15 to conduct a detailed study of PFAS in wastewater discharge from landfills. In addition, landfills are covered by National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting and required to report PFAS discharged into the environment under the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) program. Therefore, it is of the upmost importance for environmental professionals to understand the most up to date PFAS methods available to utilize at their project sites. We will cover both speciated PFAS methods such as EPA 1633 and Total Oxidizable Precursor Assay (TOPS) as we as non-speciated organic fluorine methods (TOF, AOF, EOF, TF). We will also compare data from the historical PFAS by Isotope Dilution Method, also know as 537M to data generated from EPA Draft 1633. This presentation will aid in analytical decision making at PFAS impacted sights for cost efficiency and time management.

8.5B: Still PENDING

Fri 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Contaminants of Emerging Concern

8.6 Lamp Recycling Facility Operations and RCRA Permits

Fri 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Hazardous Waste

8.7 Community Engagement in Land Conservation and Outdoor Recreation

Fri 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Natural Resources / Conservation

11:00 am - 12:15 pm : Breakout Session 9

9.1 Environmental Justice and RCRA

Fri 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Hazardous Waste

9.2 Disaster Debris Management Planning

Fri 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Solid Waste

9.3 Trends in PFAS Litigation and risk management strategy

Tiffany Thomas, Haley & Aldrich; Patrick McKeown, ECT2; attorney to be named.

In addition to litigation surrounding the use and disposal of AFFF, other products and processes known or suspected to have employed PFAS-containing materials are facing increasing scrutiny. This panel will present an overview of other PFAS-related litigation and topics of regulatory inquiry with respect to non-AFFF sources and products. Effective strategic management practices will also be discussed, and will include possible action items that may be undertaken to assess potential risks associated with PFAS usage prior to the execution of a sampling program.

Fri 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Contaminants of Emerging Concern

9.4 Drones for Landfills

Fri 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Solid Waste

9.5 Hiking and Helping: Corporate Volunteering and Support of TN State Parks

Fri 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Natural Resources / Conservation

9.6 Water. Regionalization

Development of the West TN Regionalization Plan for Blue Oval City and Sumner County Regionalization Efforts

Being developed and presenters to be invited

Fri 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Water