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Tuesday 12 October
Emissions and Air Quality
Ongoing Revisions on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, and
Implications for the Railroad Industry
Mark Weitz - The RETEC Group, Inc.
David Seep - Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
A Customer Perspective - Railroad Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
Reduction Strategies
Lori Sonnier - Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.
Todd Cort and Connie Sasala - Cameron-Cole, LLC
Trading Credits for Mobile Sources
Francisco J. Acevedo - Environmental Protection Agency
Hybrid Technology for theRail Industry
Frank Donnelly and Raymond Cousineau
Railpower Technologies Corp.
NOx Standards and Technology for Locomotives
David E. Brann - General Motors Corporations
Diesel Emissions - Heavy Duty Truck vs. Locomotive
Roy Primus - General Electric Global Research Center
Tackling Rail Diesel Emissions in Europe - For New and Existing Fleet
Mads Berendorff - International Union of Railways (UIC)
Pollution Prevention and Noise and Vibration
Report on International Railway Noise Research from IWRN
Carl Hanson - Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc.
Energy Efficiency
EcotransIT Ecological Transport Information Tool Transport it
Ecologically!
Raimondo Orsini - Trenitalia S.p.A.
Options for Improving the Energy Efficiency of Intermodal Freight Trains
Yung-Cheng Lai, Chris Erickson and Christopher P.L. Barkan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Larry Milhon - Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Technologies for Railways
Jessica Ahrens - Deutsche Bahn AG
Environmental Management Systems
Railroads and the American Chemistry Council Responsible Care Management System
Rick Nath - CSX
How Do We Measure Progress?
Lanny Schmid - Union Pacific Railroad
Four Years of Environmental Audits at Amtrak: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly?
Roy Deitchman and Robert Noonan - Amtrak
Evaluation of Benchmarked RR Auditing Programs
Alden Anderson - The RETEC Group, Inc.
Wednesday 13 October
Risk and Liability Management
Use of Statistics to Assess Compliance with Michigan Part 201 Cleanup Criteria
Bradley Johnson - Golder Associates Inc.
Sarah Hession - Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Strategic Planning for Railcar Cleaning
Bob Schmidt and Steve McNaughton - Union Pacific Railroad
Jim Gorley - Cameron-Cole, LLC
When Good Analytical QA/QC Isn't Good Enough for the Regulatory
Community
Fred Closmann and Craig Niedermeier - The RETEC Group, Inc.
Robert Werner - Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway
Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor: Rail Operation Planning and the
Environmental Process Working Hand-in-Hand
Linda Amato - The Resource Group Consultants, Inc.
Thomas White - Transit Safety Management, Inc.
The Strengthening Role of Institutional Controls in "Brownfield"
Property Transfers
Randall Smith and Pawan Sharma - Camp Dresser & McKee
Compliance
Review of Current Railroad Environmental Issues
Robert Fronczak - Association of American Railroads
SPCC Compliance Evaluation Process
Steve McNaughton - Union Pacific Railroad
Ken Rose - Cameron-Cole, LLC
Panel Discussion of Federal Permits Required for Railroad
Construction Projects
John Morton - HDR Engineering
Victoria Rutson - Surface Transportation Board
Roger Wiebusch - United States Coast Guard
Chandler Peter - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
David Seep - Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
Team Approach and Agency Coordination are Keys to Successful
Environmental Permitting - BNSF Bridge 235.66
Michael Madson, Michelle Bissonnette, Sarah Emery, and Shannon McCauley
HDR Engineering, Inc.
Ken Jennison and Jim Cunningham - Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
Cathodic Protection 101
Mike Stanfill - Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
Lou Koszewski - US Tank Protectors, Inc.
Facility Assessment Compliance Evaluation (FACE), 2004 Results
Christoper LoRusso - Amtrak
"Surface Water TMDLs - An Impending Storm for US Railroads?"
Ole Mersinger and Paul Putzier - The RETEC Group, Inc.
Charlie Duffy - Canadian Pacific Railways
Storm and Waste Water
Capital Improvement Project Delivery by Design/Build: Successes
and Challenges
Randall Smith - Camp Dresser & McKee
Paul Kuhlmeier - Kansas City Southern Railway
Designing and Building a Compact, Multi-Level and Multi-Purpose
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Rory Mullennex, David Schaad and Lohman Thompson
Marshall Miller and Associates, Inc.
Kevin Hauschildt - Norfolk Southern Railway Company
Walnut shell Filtration for the removal of free oil and suspended solids:
A Case Study on Railroad Transportation Wastewater Treatment System Design
J. Gregory Menniti - Chester Engineers, Inc.
John Calhoun - CSX
Electronic Preparation of DMRs - An Alternative to Piles of Paper
Dillon L. Magers - Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
AdriAnn T. Smith - Environmental Works, Inc.
John L. Williams - Pace Analytical Services, Inc.
Thursday 14 October
Remediation
A Self-Sustaining Energy Source for High Vacuum Dual-Phase
Extraction System
David Abranovic and Doug Shenk - ERM
Edwin H. Honig - Union Pacific Railroad
Use of Hydrocarbon Baildown Tests to Predict the Recovery and
Volume of Free-Phases Hydrocarbons in the Subsurface
Andrew Kirkman - The RETEC Group, Inc.
Judy McDouough - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
Management of Impacted Soils During Reconstruction of a Rail
Transportation Corridor
John Cavanaugh and John Moe - ERM
Alan Nye - CTEH
Michael Grant - Union Pacific Railroad
TBD - Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (Caltrain)
A RBCA Approach to Derive Site-specific LNAPL Clean-up Criteria
David Abranovic and Doug Shenk - ERM
Edwin H. Honig - Union Pacific Railroad
Free Product Recovery Without the Wait and Cost
Chuck Cline - Marshall Miller and Associates, Inc.
E.W. Chambers - Norfolk Southern Railway Company
Biological Treatment of PAH-Contaminated Groundwater:
A Rail Yard Case Study
Christine Guay and Helene Richer - Golder Associates, Ltd.
Denis Rho - Biotechnology Research Institute
Stella Karnis - Canadian National Railway
Benefits of Bioslurping
Rhonda Gibson and Ted Lietzke - Earth Tech
Remediation of a Rail Car Maintenance Facility
Frank Myerski and Robert Rittmeyer - ENSR International
J. Jay Grove - GATX
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