Military Waste Cleanup Program
Federal Facilities Cleanup Workshop 2002
"Empowering Community-Science Partnerships for
Effective Military Waste Cleanup"
The Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California
June 7-9, 2002

Agenda
Friday, June 7
 
5:00 pmRegistration at AJ Toppers Dining Room
6:00 pmDinner & Opening Keynote: Vernice Miller-Travis, Ford Foundation
Title: "Leadership for the Twenty-First Century: Lessons for Environmentalism and for Justice"
 
Saturday, June 8
 
7:30 amContinental Breakfast
Registration open
8:30 amWelcome from ISIS and Introductions
Berh Bernstein, Professor, Hampshire College
Dori Digenti, Program Director, Military Waste Cleanup Project.
9:30 amWelcoming Keynote: The Honorable Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland
10:00 amWelcoming Keynote: Renee Wynn, Deputy Director, EPA Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office
10:30 amBreak
10:45 amDiscussion Forum: What are our guiding cleanup prinicples?
Leaders: Merv Tano, Institute for International Indigenous Resource Management; Katherine Squibb, University of Maryland
12:15 pmLunch
"Update on Military Readiness and Environmental Protection"

Lenny Siegel, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
1:30 pmPlenary Session: Community-Science Partnerships Forum:
What Does a Successful COSP Look Like?
Leaders: Dori Digenti, ISIS Mikwaste, Paul Harris, Fusion Group
2:30 pmPerspectives on Current Military Cleanup Technical Issues (Breakouts
 
Innovative Technologies & Approaches in Military Cleanup
Ron Scrudato, Director, Environmental Research Center, SUNY Oswego
Kent Udell, Professor and Director, Berkeley Environmental Restoration Center
Elizabeth Crowe, Chemical Weapons Working Group
Christine Shirley, Arc Ecology
 
Chemical Mixtures and Human and Environmental Health Effects
David Carpenter, Department of Public Health, SUNY Albany
Emily Monosson, MilWaste Program, Hampshire College
3:45 pmBreak
4:00 pmPlenary Session: Bringing It Together - Youth Perspectives, Principles and Partnerships
5:00 pmBreak
5:30 pmNetworking Reception, AJ Toppers Dining Room
7:00 pmFree Evening
 
Sunday, June 9
 
7:30 amContinental Breakfast
8:30 amPlenary Session: Moving Forward on COSP Partnerships
9:00 amPerspectives on Technical Issues I (Breakouts)
 
Risk Assessment and Cultural Factors
Bill Smith, CE-2
Ranowul Jzar, Citizens for Environmental Justice
 
Community-Focused Science Education and Military Cleanup
Katherine Squibb, University of Maryland Toxicology Department
Bonita Johnson, Bioassessment and Toxics Evaluation, EPA
Pam Miller, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Morris Toolie, Jr. Native Village of Savoonga (Northeast Cape)
 
Information Access and Delivery for Effective Cleanup
Cal Baier-Anderson, University of Maryland/Aberdeen
Patrick Lynch, Clearwater Revival
Peter Strauss, PM Strauss and Associates
Diane Henshel, Public &smp; Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
10:00 amBreak
10:15 amPerspective on Technical Issues II (Berakouts)
 
Creating Standards for Cleanup
Perchlorate Case Study

Tom Zoeller, Professor, Biology Department, University of MAssachusetts, Amherst
DIMP (di-isopropyl methylphosphonate) Case Study
Vicky Peters, Senior Assistant Attornet General, Hazardous Waste Unit, Colorado State
 
Muclear Transport: Public Information Access & Safety
Judith Johnsrud, Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power
Michael Meuser, Clary-Meuser Research Network
Marylia Kelley, TriValley CARES
 
Funding for Community-Science Partnerships
Saul Bloom, Arc Ecology
David Cooper, EPA Region 9 Community Involvement
11:15 amPlenary Session: Action Plan for Community-Science Partnership
12:15 pmLunch
2:00 pmWorkshop Concludes
2:30 pmSpecial Post-Workshop Base Tour, hosted by Arc Ecology
 
The Bay Area has the greatest concentration of closing BRAC bases of any region in the country. Most of these bases are open now and cleanup activites are ongoing. The tour will include the former Oakland Naval Supply Center, Alameda Naval Air Station, Treaure Island, and Hunters Point.
5:30 pmReturn to Oakland Marriott City Center