| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||