What Regulators Want: Improved Quality of Site Characterization Through Effective Communication and the Conceptual Site Model Approach

June 23, 2004
Publick House in Sturbridge, MA

June 29, 2004
Sheraton in Portsmouth, NH

AGENDA

8:30	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00	Welcome and Review of Agenda Sturbridge, MA: Leo Hellested, Chief - Waste Management Division, RI DEM Portsmouth, NH: Fred McGarry, Chief Engineer - Site Remediation Programs, NH DES
9:15	Why Are We Here? The Need for Better Characterization and Reports and How the Conceptual Site Model Can Help Gregg Hunt, State Sites Program Deputy Division Director - Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, MA DEP
10:00	Developing a CSM John Gilbert, PE - GeoInsight, Inc.
10:45	Break
11:00	CSM and Work Plan Development - Case Studies Break into small groups (6-10 people each) Facilitated by: Richard Spiese, Site Manager - Waste Management Division, VT DEC, and Gregg Hunt, State Sites Program Deputy Division Director - Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, MA DEP
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Group Discussion of Case Studies Each breakout group reports back on a different CSM aspect Facilitated by: Richard Spiese, Site Manager - Waste Management Division, VT DEC, and Gregg Hunt, State Sites Program Deputy Division Director - Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, MA DEP
2:00	Validating the CSM Carol Bois, LSP - Bois Consulting Company, Inc.
2:45	Break
3:00	How Does a Regulator Review Your Report, and Why Do REgulators Want a CSM? Panel Discussion Sturbridge, MA: Elsie Patton, Waste Planning and Standards Division Director - Bureau of Waste Management, CT DEEP Gregg Hunt, State Sites Program Deputy Division Director - Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, MA DEP Leo Hellsted, Chief - Watse Management Division, RI DEM Richard Spiese, Site Manager - Waste Management Division, VT DEC Portsmouth, NH: Mark Hyland, Director - Division of Remediation, ME DEP Gregg Hunt, State Sites Program Deputy Division Director - Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, MA DEP Fred McGarry, Chief Engineer - Site Remdiation Programs, NH DES Richard Spiese, Site Manager - Waste Management Division, VT DEC
3:45	Adjourn