PROGRAM

(Revised March 11, 1997)
8:30 REGISTRATION
9:00 Welcoming Remarks President Marlene Springer, College of Staten Island, CUNY
- Howard Golub, Director, Interstate Sanitation Commission
- Brian J. Laline, Editor, Staten Island Advance
- Federal, State and City Officials
9:15 Introduction The Hon. John J. Marchi, New York State Senator
9:25 Summary of the Fresh KillsTask Force Report: John R. Oppenheimer - Moderator The State's Point of View
Michael C. Finnegan, Esq., Counsel to the Governor of New York State

The City's Point of View
Marilyn Haggerty-Blohm, Mayor's Office of Operations, The City of New York, and Chair, Mayor's Solid Waste Task Force
10:05 "Where Do We Go From Here?: Wayne D. DeFeo - Moderator Marilyn Haggerty-Blohm, Mayor's Office of Operations
Paul Gallay, NYS Coordinator, Fresh Kills Closure
Martha Hirst, Deputy Commissioner for Solid Waste, NYC Department of Sanitation
James Tripp, Esq., Environmental Defense Fund
Nicholas Dmytryszyn, P. E., Environmental Advisor, Office of S.I. Boro President.
Barbara Warren, Staten Island Solid Waste Advisory Board, S. I. Borough President's Working Group, S. I. Citizens for Clean Air
11:20 BREAK
11:30 Borough Disposal Strategies: Kendall Chrisiansen - Moderator The Task Force's Recommendation and the City's Response - An Explanation Marilyn Haggerty-Blohm, Chair, Mayor's Solid Waste Task Force
11:35 Borough Round Table
Robert LoPinto, P.E. - Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board
Paul Mankiewicz - Bronx Solid Waste Advisory Board
Tom Outerbridge - Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board
Nancy Walby - Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board
Barbara Warren - Staten Island Solid Waste Advisory Board
Bernd Zimmermann, Director, Bureau of Planning & Development, Bronx
12:30-1:15 LUNCH
1:15-2:55 Fresh Kills: Closure of the dump and after - impacts on the environment and the population: Deborah E. Popper - Moderator
1. Health, leachate and air pollution

Health impacts on DOS workers
Elizabeth G. Marshall, Ph.D., Director, Bureau of Occupational Health, New York State Department of Health

Cancer incidence on Staten Island in relation to the landfill
Margrit Kaminsky, Assoc. Public Health Epidemiologist, Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology Unit, NYC Department of Health

Cancer and landfill: The use of obituaries for life history data
Donna B. Gerstle, M.A., M.S..John R. Oppenheimer,Ph.D., Alfred M. Levine, Ph. D., Center for Environmental Science, College of Staten Island

Air emissions and permitting
Barbara Warren, SI SWAB, SICCA, SI BP'S SW Task Force

Impacts of odorous chemicals from landfills
Dr. Ron Poustchi, Ph. D., BE & K


2. Operations to, at and after closure - disposal, environmental monitoring, landfill cover, vegetation, final heights and grades, leachate treatment, methane recovery and gas control

Engineering aspects
Ronald Stannard, P.E., Senior Environmental Engineer, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Albany

Philip Gleason, Director of Landfill Engineering, NYC DOS

Final vegetative cover
Steven Handel, Ph. D., Chair, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University

Stability modeling for the Fresh Kills landfill
Donald Clark, Environmental Science Masters Program, College of Staten Island

Landfill leachate
Mike Kress, Ph. D., Chair, Dept. of Computer Science, CSI

Use of processed dredge material
Eric S. Stern, Contaminated Sediment Program Manager, US EPA, Region 2
Paul Schroeder, Research Civil Engineer, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers


3. Post Closure - end uses
2:55-3:10 BREAK
3:10-5:00 Solutions to the future handling and disposal of solid waste Judith Balfe - moderator 1. Waste reduction - waste prevention, and reduced packaging

Anne Marie Alonso, Office of Waste Prevention & Recycling Service, Council on the Environment of New York City

Bud Colden, Bureau Chief, Recycling and Waste Reduction, NYS DEC

David Kleckner, Deputy Director, Waste Prevention, NYC DOS

David Saphire, Inform, Inc.

2. Recycling - handling of mixed paper and participation rates, only plastics 1&2

Kendall Christiansen, Citywide Recycling Advisory Board

Robert Lange, Director, Bur. of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling, NYC DOS

Randal Coburn, Empire State Development Corp.

Ann Lubrano, Ph. D., College of Staten Island


3. Composting - backyard and centralized
Robert LaValva, Deputy Director for Composting, NYC DOS

Tom Outerbridge Manhattan SWAB


4. Transportation of solid waste for disposal

Ben Friedman, Friedman & Co., Water and rail vs. truck: econ. & envir.

Ron Klempner, Bionomix Associates Dealing with the Railroads

John Szeligowski, TAMS, SISWAB, The existing water & rail

5:00-5:30 Informal discussions with speakers and participants (to be set up at lunch break)
5:30 COCKTAILS and RECEPTION

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