PRELMINARY AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18
9:00 a.m. Registration
HEALTH & SAFETY SESSION
10 A.M. – 5 P.M.
10 a.m. West Virginia Safety Update
Ronald Wooten, Director
WV Office of Miner’s Health, Safety & Training
10:45 a.m. Federal Issues Affecting the Industry
Bob E. Cornett, MSHA District 3 Manager
Robert Hardman, MSHA District 4 Manager
11:30 a.m. Proximity Detection Devices
Jim Dean, WV Mine Safety Task Force
12 noon Lunch sponsored by Jackson Kelly
1 p.m. Respirable Dust Rends and Control
NIOSH
1:45 p.m. Personal Dust Sampler (PDM)
Joe Lamonica, BCOA
2:30 p.m. Break sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson
2:45 p.m. WV Board of Coal Mine Safety Appeals
Clint Smith, Chairman
3:15 p.m. Coal Safety Legal Forum
Mark Health, Spilman, Thomas & Battle
Dave Hardy, Allen Guthrie McHugh & Thomas
Bob Pollitt, Steptoe & Johnson
Tom Rubenstein, Dinsmore & Shohl
5 p.m. Associate’s Welcoming Reception
ENVIRONMENTAL SESSION
10 A.M. – 4 P.M.
10 a.m. Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas
Regulation: Status Update
Stuart Slaven & David Flannery
Jackson Kelly
10:30 a.m. Fundamentals of Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
Inventories and Carbon Footprints
Steve Carpenter
Marshall Miller & Associates
11 a.m. Carbon: Opportunities and Challenges
Greg Henthorne & Clark Talkington
SCC Americas, LLC
11:30 a.m. An Alternative View of Global Climate Change
Dr. Erkan Esmer, Esmer & Associates
12 noon Lunch sponsored by Jackson Kelly
1 p.m. Selenium: Legal & Regulatory Update
Allyn Turner
Spilman, Thomas & Battle
1:30 p.m. Selenium Research Update
Dr. Paul Ziemkiewicz
WV Water Research Institute
2 p.m. Selenium Treatment Technologies Report
Vic Sprouse, MATRIC
2:30 p.m. WV DEP Program Update
Lewis Halstead & Russ Hunter
WV Department of Environmental Protection
3 p.m. OSM Oversight Issues
Roger Calhoun
Charleston Office of Surface Mining
3:30 p.m. Corps Permitting Update
Ginger Mullins & Mark Taylor
Huntington District
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19
7 a.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. Dinsmore & Shohl Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome & Introductions
James O. Bunn
WVCA Chairman
8:45 a.m. State of the State
Governor Joe Manchin
9:15 a.m. U.S. Energy Strategy
Congressman Nick Joe Rahall
United States Congress
9:45 a.m. American Energy Securities Study
Kenneth Nemeth, Executive Director
Southern States Energy Board
10:15 a.m. Break sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson
10:30 a.m. U.S. Coal Forecast
Hal Quinn, President
National Mining Association
11 a.m.
Steve Miller
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
12 noon Mountaineer Guardian Luncheon sponsored by Bowles, Rice, McDavid, Graff & Love And Marshall Miller & Associates
Speaker: Ron Wooten, Director
WV Office of Miner’s Health, Safety & Training
2 p.m. Labor Issues
Anna Dailey
Dinsmore & Shohl, PLLC
2:30 p.m. Environmental Litigation Update
Bob McLusky, Jackson Kelly
3 p.m. Break sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson
3:15 p.m. OPEN FORUM – Electric Utility & Coal
Moderator Dr. Charles Bayless
American Electric Power
Allegheny Energy
James Martin, Dominion Energy
Duke Power
Progress Energy
4:30 p.m. Adjournment
6 p.m. Legislative Reception
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20
7 a.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. BrickStreet Mutual Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome/Introductions
8:45 a.m. The 111th Congress: Looking Ahead
Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito
9:15 a.m. Coal, Energy and the Environment
Rick Remish, Imagine West Virginia
9:45 a.m. WV’s Mining & Reclamation Program
Randy Huffman & Tom Clarke
WV Department of Environmental Protection
10:15 a.m. Break sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson
10:30 a.m. Marking Gas Lines
Nick Preservati, Preservati Law
11 a.m. Reviewing Coal Impoundments & Coal Ash Dams
Jimmy Gianato, Director
WV Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management
12 noon Reclamation Awards Luncheon sponsored by Spilman, Thomas & Battle
Awards Presentation by Randy Hu
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