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Day 4: Thursday
State/EPA/Tribes Sessions ONLY
8:15 AM
Reduction in TRI Reporting Facilities - a State & Regional Review
Andy Opperman, NJ Department of Environmental Protection
Ruth Borgelt, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
MaryAnn Kowalski, US EPA, Region 2
John David Burns, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
9:15AM
Juan Parra, Idell Hanson, and Diane Fowler
10:00AM
Colin Finan and Dr. Todd Kuiken, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars,
10:45AM
Empowering the Exchange Network
Chris Clark, EPA Office of Information Collection
General Comments & One Concern...
This was only my second trip to the National Conference. I do confess that my EPCRA knowledge was very limited in '08 but with more than a year's experience "under my belt", '09's session was that much more enjoyable. Many thanks for the scholarship...without it, I would not have been able to attend this outstanding forum. I do agree with entertaining the idea of making this an every-other-year event to allow more time for topics/issues to develop along with the opportunity for EPA Regions to collaborate with their state counterparts on ways to enhance the TRI program.
And finally, I was very pleased to hear more discussion on the quality of TRI data. In SC, we participate in the SDX program. So when a facility electronically reports to EPA, they automatically meet the reporting requirements of my state and no additional quality checks are performed upon their air emissions data. However, if problems with the data are detected (i.e., we typically discover that facilities over-report their air emissions to TRI by one or more orders of magnitude when compared to our state emissions inventory), we promptly notify the EPA Regional office of our findings.
It goes without saying that accurate TRI data is crucial to the success of EPCRA, NEI, NATA, and RSEI. Communities base manpower and resources on these data sources to address issues of human and environmental health. It is hoped that as future TRI submissions come in, less discrepancies in the data are detected.
2009 National Conference
The 2009 TRI National Conference was a success.Thank you to ECOS & EPA for planning a great conference.This was my third year in attendance and each year gets better.Without the scholarships many states would not have been able to attend.
All sessions were informative and generated lively discussions, and beneficial to all who attended.
As a follow up to Day 4 STATE/EPA discussion - meeting every other year for the National Conference may be a good idea in order to reduce cost and to allow other critical items to be addressed. In the off year each region could meet with their states to address issues and promote discussion, and consider possible topics for future conferences. These meeting could also be set up in a web cast format.