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