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7:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Keynote Speaker: The Next Generation of Environmental Protection
The Environmental Protection Agency has developed a new strategic plan focused on five goals of environmental improvements in the areas of air, water, land, communities and ecosystems, compliance and environmental stewardship for the next five years. These areas will be at the forefront of policy and legislation mandates as set forth by the EPA. Identify the
projected policy initiatives and mandates set forth by the EPA.
• Learn about the EPA’s 2003-2008 Strategic Plan
• Stay above the curve, learn how your company can anticipate regulatory changes and future compliance issues
• Gain critical knowledge of future mandates

Innovations in Environmental Regulation

Day One

9:30 Leadership Panel: Innovations in Streamlining and
Improving Environmental Regulations
Streamlining and improving environmental regulations
within a company can prove to be a Herculean task for all involved with regulatory issues. Join us and hear how others have successfully implemented the latest technology to improve regulation within their own companies.

10:30 Break

10:45 Innovations in Permitting
• Case studies of permitting innovations
• Model strategies for successful implementation
• Learn of the latest permitting innovations to give your company a competitive edge

12:00 Luncheon Keynote: Legislative Updates on Environmental Issues
As the new legislature considers environmental policy, learn of the newest mandates and policy reforms before the House of Representatives.

1:15 Innovations in Compliance Assistance
• Case studies of compliance assistance innovations
• Model strategies for successful implementation
• Integrate the latest innovations in compliance assistance to give your company a competitive edge

2:15 Effects of Innovation on Environmental Regulatory Costs
• Streamline environmental regulatory costs through effective programming and management
• Study how ‘performance based’ programs can create a bottom-line cost efficiency program
• Best practices case study of how innovation has abridged regulatory costs

3:15 Break

3:30 Creating a Bottom line of Productivity and Cost Efficiency through EMS
• Using EMS to create cost efficiencies within your company
• Lessons learned from case studies in which EMS improved output and proved cost effective

4:30 Adjourn to Reception

Day Two

9:30 Leadership Panel: Best Practices in Performance Based Management of Environmental Regulation
• Move from ‘process’ to ‘performance’ outcome strategies
• Lessons learned from innovative regulatory programs
• Updating and fostering change within current programs

10:30 Break

10:45 Policy Updates for Key Environmental Issues
• Join us and learn of the latest policy updates and mandates from the EPA in key regulated industries

12:00 Luncheon Keynote: A New Strategic Framework for Environmental Innovation
The mission of the EPA’s Technology Innovation Office (TIO) is to advocate more effective, less costly approaches by government and industry to assess environmental issues. As part of the TIO’s mission of working with other federal agencies, states and local governments, consulting engineering firms, responsible parties, technology developers, and the investment community, TIO evaluates policy and institutional obstacles related to the deployment of these technologies. Learn TIO’s current obstacles, future initiatives and innovations.

Breakout Sessions

1:15 Regulatory Innovations in Solid Waste Management
• Case studies of solid waste management regulations
• Model strategies for successful implementation
• Apply the latest solid waste management innovations to give your company a competitive edge!

1:15 Regulatory Innovations in Clean Water
• Case studies of clean water regulatory innovations
• Model strategies for successful implementation
• Learn of the latest clean water innovations to give your company a competitive edge!

3:15 Break

Breakout Sessions

3:30 Regulatory Innovations in Clean Air
• Case studies of clean air regulatory innovations
• Model strategies for successful implementation
• Integrate the latest clean air innovations to give your company a competitive edge!

Regulatory Innovations for Land Use
• Case studies of land use regulatory innovations
• Model strategies for successful implementation
• Learn of the latest land use innovations to give your company a competitive edge!

4:30 Adjourn