The 17th National Environmental Tar Creek Conference Agenda
Tuesday - September 29
9:00 Welcome: Rebecca Jim, Executive Director, LEAD Agency, Inc.
Louis "Red" Mathia, Board President, LEAD Agency, Inc.
Dean Kruithof, City Manager, City of Miami
9:15 Blessing: Blessing - Glenna J. Wallace, Chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe
9:30 - 10:10 Keynote: Tom Lindley, Journalist, "The Beauty of Tar Creek"
10:10 - 10:25 Break
10:25 - 10:45 Captain Bryant Burnett, EPA Region 7, US PHS Commissioned Officer- USEPA
Todd Campbell and Liz Hagenmaier, Regional Project Managers
Superfund Update
10:45 - 11:00 Rafael Casanova and Robert Sullivan, EPA Region 6, Project Managers
Update OU - 4
11:00 - 11:20 Craig Kreman, Assistant Environmental Director Quapaw Tribe
Quapaw Tribe Remedial Efforts on Tribal Lands
11:20 - 11:40 Brian Stanila, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality,
Update OU 1, 2, 4
11:40 - 12:00 Dr. Bob Nairn, University of Oklahoma
Passive Water Treatment Projects
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Keynote Speakers: Ira Hight, GAP Director, EPA Region 6
Arturo Blanco, Director, Environmental Justice Office, EPA Region 6
1:00 - 1:40 Mark Doolan, EPA Region 7 and Katrina Coltrain, EPA Region 6
EPA OU-5 Report
1:40 - 2:00 Justin Downs, Peoria Hatchery Project/ Restoration of Tar Creek Fish
2:00 - 2:30 Kelly Hunter-Foster, Lead Staff Attorney, Waterkeeper Alliance
EPA's New Clean Water Act Rule; Recent Litigation Update
2:30 - 2:45 Break
3:00 - 3:50 Grand River Watershed : State of Water Quality
Tribal Water Quality Programs Updates
3:50 - 4:45 Richard Zamor, Eco Systems Specialist, GRDA
Earl Hatley, Grand Riverkeeper, LEAD Agency, Inc.
Swimmable, Drinkable, Fishable waters?
4:45 - 5:00 Wrap up
1st Day Silent Auction Ends
5:00 Science Posters and Discussion with Featured Artists // Toxic Tour (seating is limited)
6:00 Fish Fry / Tar Creek Fish Tournament: Entertainment: Songs and Poetry
Silent Auction AND Pie Auction of Baked Goods
The 17th National Environmental Tar Creek Conference Agenda
Wednesday September 30th
9:00 Welcome: Rebecca Jim, Executive Director, LEAD Agency
9:15 - 10:00 Keynote: Marc Yaggi, Executive Director, Waterkeeper Alliance
10:00 - 10:45 Earl Hatley, Grand Riverkeeper
Climate Change: Latest Data, National Campaign Against Unconventional Fossil Fuels
Craig Kreman, Quapaw Tribe Environmental Department:
Clean Power Plan
Angela Spotts, Stop Fracking Payne County:
Grassroots Efforts against Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:25 Climate Change Round Table: Local Strategies
Adaptation & Mitigation
11:25 - 12:00 Dr. Jack Rozdilsky, Western Illinois University
An Emergency Management Perspective on Environmental Disasters
Recovery Circumstance at Picher
12:00
Indian Taco Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 Jane Breckinridge, Butterfly Protection Strategy
1:30 - 2:15 Ray Roberts, Rene Koesler, Rhonda Jeffries Oklahoma Dept. Environmental Quality
Chuck Childs, City of Miami, City Engineer, BF Goodrich Benzene Plume
Angela Helmig, showing the film, The BF Goodrich Project
2:15 – 2:45 Dr. Shirley Chesnut, Roxane Weldon, Health Impacts Panel
2:45 – 3:00 Jerry Dvorak, Issues With Bees and Pollinators
Local Beekeepers Recognized
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00 Dr. Edd Rhoades, Susan Quigley, Christine Benner, Oklahoma Childhood Lead
Poisoning Prevention Program, Oklahoma Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention 2015
4:00 - 4:30 Christen Lee, Wyandotte Nation, Water Conservation
Jessica Stout, NEO Art Instructor
Art As Activism: The Rain Barrel Project
4:30 Wrap up & Closing
Drawing for 2 Pendleton Blankets & Rain Barrel Auction
2nd Day Silent Auction Ends
"We made a commitment that we are going to resolve the problems at Tar Creek."
August 1, 2007, Senator James Inhofe