NEWMOA Solid Waste Program Training Workshop

9:00        Check-in & Continental Breakfast

9:30        Welcome & Introductions 

9:45        Landfill Post 30 Year Post-closure Financial Assurance & Performance Criteria

• • Introduction, NH DES recent rule changes, & stakeholder input - Mike Gulilfoy, NH DES
  • Roundtable on lessons learned – what is working & challenges:
    - Financial assurance requirements for ongoing monitoring & maintenance
    - Criteria used to lessen monitoring & other requirements
    - Requirements & experience with handling situations where monitoring results    exceed acceptable concentrations/criteria
    - Requirements & experience with handling remediation of damage/problems

• • Discussion & next steps

11:00     Networking Break

11:15     MSW Facility Issues & Strategies for Improving Compliance             

• • Transfer station operator training program – Cindy Darling & Paula Clark, ME DEP
  • Efforts to enforce waste disposal bans & results– John Fischer, MassDEP
  • Issues & challenges related to transfer of MSW by rail – Rick Clarkson, NYS DEC
  • Discussion & next steps

12:15     Lunch (provided)
              Keynote:  The Future of Waste Management & Changing Facility Needs
              Ted Siegler, DSM Environmental

1:15       C&D Debris Challenges & Strategies for Improving Compliance at Processors

• • Maine’s rule setting 50 percent recycling standard – Paula Clark, ME DEP
  • Roundtable on what is working, challenges, & lessons learned
  • Discussion & next steps

2:00        Networking Break

2:15        Anaerobic Digestion & Other Conversion Technologies

• • Operating plastics-to-oil conversion facility – Kathy Prather, NYS DEC
  • Operating AD facilities that accept food scraps – Carla Hopkins, ME DEP & Sally Rowland, NYS DEC
    - regulatory approach & permit conditions
    - management of digestate & other residuals
    - lessons learned & resulting efforts

• • Discussion & next steps 

3:45        Wrap-up & Next Steps 

4:00        Adjourn

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