2012 West Coast Regional Meeting

Proceedings

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FISH CONSUMPTION RATE IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH WATER QUALITY CRITERIA AND
IMPLICATIONS FOR NPDES PERMITS WORKSHOP

GENERAL SESSION

• Business Climate and the Forest Products Industry
  Richard Davis, Washington ResearchCouncil 
   
• Calculating Biomass for Washington State from Forest Residuals
  John Perez-Garcia, University of Washington 
  
   
• Dealing with PCBs in the Spokane River
  Doug Krapas, Inland Empire Paper Company 
   
• Water Sustainability and the Forest Products Industry
  Paul Wiegand and Barry Malmberg, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Update on Domestic and International Climate Change Issues
  Reid Miner, National Council for Air and
  Stream Improvement 
   
• Climate Change Research Update
  Craig Loehle, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   

WATER QUALITY

• National Water Quality Issues
  Paul
  Wiegand, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Washington State Water Quality Regulatory Update
  Cheryl Niemi, Washington State Department of Ecology 
   
• Oregon Water Quality Regulatory Update
  Karen Tarnow, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality 
   
• A Glimpse at the World of Contemporary PCB TMDLs
  Doug McLaughlin, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Panel Discussion – Coping with New Challenges for Old Wastewater Treatment Plants
   
• Improving the Performance of Pulp and
  Paper Mill Effluent Treatment Systems – An Operator’s Perspective
  Paul Klopping, Callan & Brooks 
   
• Wastewater Treatment Challenges at Tacoma Kraft – What’s Not in the Operating Manual
  Greg Narum, Simpson Tacoma Kraft Company 
   
• Coping with New Challenges for Wastewater Treatment Plants
  Phil Pagoria, Weyerhaeuser NR 
   
• Daily Management of Treatment System Performance
  Bill Hoesman, Clearwater Paper Corporation 
  
   
• Impact of Mixing Zone Elimination on
  Whole Effluent Testing (WET) Compliance: Bioassay Response Patterns at 100%Effluent
  Diana Cook, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   

LUMBER
AND PANEL PLANT ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

• Lessons Learned from EPA’s Paper Sector Risk and Technology Review (RTR) for the Panel Sector
  Vipin Varma, National Council for Air and
  Stream Improvement 
   
• Non-Hazardous Secondary Material (NHSM) and Wood Products: What a Waste!
  Timothy Hunt, American Forest & Paper
  Association/American Wood Council 
   
• California’s Proposition 65 Proposal for Methanol: Status and Implications
  Vickie Tatum, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Measurement, Characterization, and Reporting of Gaseous Organic Compounds and Western Activities
  David Word, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Comparison of Emissions from Wood-Fired Boilers at Wood Products Facilities to Reproposed (or Final) Boiler MACT Limits
  Rob Crawford, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Complying with Boiler MACT through Aggressive Tuning, Calibration, and
  Training of Operators
  Bart Barlow, Boise Cascade Wood Products 
   
• Panel Discussion – Current Issues for
  Biofilter Operators
   
• Biofilter Bed Change-Outs
  Mitchell Leu, Plum Creek Manufacturing 
   
• Current Issues for Biofilter Operators
  John Emery, Timber Products Company 
   
• Achieving Plywood and Composite Wood Products (PCWP) MACT Compliance – A Tale of Two Biofilters
  Jess Brown, Collins Companies
  
  Mark Fisher, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
  Sam Myoda, IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group 
   

AIR QUALITY

• Review of New and Emerging Federal Air Regulations
  Vipin Varma, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Washington State Air Quality Regulatory Update
  Alan Newman, Washington State Department of Ecology 
  
   
• Oregon Air Quality Regulatory Update
  Andy Ginsburg, Oregon Department of
  Environmental Quality 
   
• EPA’s Residual Risk and Technology Review (RTR) of the Pulp and Paper MACT Standards
  John Bradfield, US Environmental
  Protection Agency 
   
• Paper Residual Risk and Technology Review Rule: What Comes Next?
  Timothy Hunt, American Forest & Paper Association 
   
• Panel Discussion – Modeling to Meet New
  One-Hour SO₂ and NO_X National Ambient Air Quality
  Standards (NAAQS)
   
• Modeling to Meet New One-Hour SO₂ and NO₂ National Ambient Air Quality Standards
  Anna Henolson, Trinity Consultants 
   
• Implementation of the New 1-hour
  National Ambient Air Quality Standards for NO₂ and SO₂
  Geoff Scott, Golder Associates 
   
• Advanced Dispersion Modeling Techniques to Assist with NAAQS Compliance
  Bob Paine, AECOM Environment 
  
   
• Greenhouse Gas BACT Determinations in the Wood Products Industry
  Maren Seibold, Trinity Consultants 
   

BOILER MACT

• Boiler MACT, CISWI, and NHSM: Will We Ever See Them?
  Timothy Hunt, American Forest & Paper
  Association/American Wood Council 
   
• Fuel/Waste Determinations under
  Non-Hazardous Secondary Material (NHSM) and Commercial Industrial Solid Waste
  Incinerators (CISWI) Rules
  Vipin Varma, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Exploring the Choice between Carbon
  Monoxide Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) and Stack Tests for Biomass and Coal -Fired Industrial Boilers
  Ashok Jain, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Carbon Monoxide Controls and O₂
  Trim Systems
  Fred Kratt, DES Global (invited) 
   
• Wet Electrostatic Precipitator Technology for Boiler MACT
  Steve Jaasund, A.H. Lundberg Associates 
   
• Boiler MACT – Energy Assessments and Boiler Tune-Ups (“Optimization”)
  John Joyce, Sage Environmental Consulting 
   
• Work Practice Provisions for Dioxins/Furans
  Ashok Jain, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
  
   

FOREST MANAGEMENT

• Seven Lessons about Forestry Best Management Practices
  George Ice, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (ret.) 
   
• Technical Analysis of Silvicultural Sources in EPA Water Assessment Data
  John Beebe, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Biomass
  Bob Bilby, Weyerhaeuser Company 
   
• Mercury Cycling in Forested Watersheds:
  Can Land Management Practices Influence Ecological Risk?
  Collin Eagles-Smith, United States
  Geological Survey 
   
• Paired Watershed Studies and Forest Policy
  Liz Dent, Oregon Department of Forestry 
   
• Suspended Sediment Monitoring in the Redwood Region of California
  Kevin Faucher, The Campbell Group 
   
• The Status of RipStream Rulemaking and Analysis
  Jeremy Groom, Oregon Department of Forestry 
   
• All Forest Roads Lead to Washington – DC
  Erik Schilling, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 
   
• Large Ungulate Research Updates:  Elk Habitat Modeling and Herbicide Effects onElk & Deer
  John Cook, Rachel Cook, and Larry Irwin,
  National Council for Air and Stream Improvement
  Evelyn Merrill, University of Alberta
  Lisa Shipley, Washington State University 
   
• Effects of Intensive Forest Management on Birds, Arthropods, and Food Web Dynamics in Young Douglas-fir Plantations
  Matthew Betts, Oregon State University 
   
• Tradeoffs between Intensive ForestManagement, Early Seral Plant Diversity, and Cervid Foraging: Herbicides andHerbivores
  Thomas Stokely, Matt Betts, and Joan
  Hagar, Oregon State University 
   
• Critical Habitat for Spotted Owls:  Wrong Models, Wrong Scale, Wrong Conclusions
  Larry Irwin, National Council for Air and
  Stream Improvement 
   
• Structural Retention and BirdCommunities in Clearcut Forests of the Pacific Northwest
  Gary Roloff and Dan Linden, Michigan
  State University 
   
• Avian Community Responses toEnvironmental and Anthropogenic Disturbances
  A.J. Kroll, Jack Giovanini, and Jay
  Jones, Weyerhaeuser Company
  Ed Arnett, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
  Bob Altman, American Bird Conservancy 
   
• Does Energy Mediate the Relationship betweenAvian Functional Diversity and Within Stand Structure?
  Jake Verschuyl, National Council for Air
  and Stream Improvement
  A.J. Kroll, Jack Giovanini, Jay Jones, and Steve Duke, Weyerhaeuser Company
  Dave McWethy, Montana State University