2013 West Coast Regional Meeting

Proceedings

General Session | Water Session | Lumber and Panel | Air Session | Boiler MACT Session | Forest Management Sessions 

General Session

• Welcome and Introduction
  Steve Stratton, NCASI 
   
• US and International Activities Addressing Biogenic CO₂ Emissions
  Reid Miner, NCASI 
   
• Greenhouse Gas Attributes of Manufacturing and Logging Residues used for Energy at Forest Products Facilities
  Dr. Caroline Gaudreault, NCASI 
   
• Overview of Air Quality Issues and Regulations Affecting the Forest Products Industry
  Timothy Hunt, American Forest and Paper Association & American Wood Council 
   
• Probabilistic Risk Assessment: Moving Ahead with NRC Recommendations
  Dr. Bruce Hope, CH2M Hill 
   
• Future of the Forest Sector in the Pacific Northwest
  
  Dr. Thomas Maness, Oregon State University College of Forestry 
   
• Changing Entrenched Wildlife-Forestry Paradigms: A Case Study with Elk
  Dr. Larry Irwin, NCASI 
   

Water Quality

• National Water Quality Update
  Paul Wiegand, NCASI 
   
• Current Rule Updates for the Water Quality
  Standards
  Kelly Susewind, Washington State Department of Ecology; and Jennifer Wigal, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality 
   
• Spokane River Regional Toxics Task Force
  Adriane Borgias, Washington State Department of Ecology 
   
• The Biotic Ligand Model and Its Use in Setting Water Quality Criteria for Metals
  Scott Tobiason and David DeForest, Windward Environmental 
   
• How Low Can You Go? Pre-Anthropocene Mercury Levels in Fish
  Dr. Bruce Hope, CH2M Hill; and Dr. Jeff Louch, NCASI 
   
• Water Quality-Related Research in NCASI’s Aquatic Biology Program: Results from Laboratory and Field Studies, and Implications for Regulation
  Camille Flinders, NCASI 
   

Lumber and Panel Plant Environmental Management

• Overview of the Current NCASI Wood Products Program
  Rob Crawford, NCASI 
   
• Current Issues and Methodologies for Determination of Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions from Wood Products Sources
  Derek Sain, NCASI 
   
• PM_2.5 Measurement and Modeling from Miscellaneous Sources
  Lawrence Otwell, Georgia-Pacific Corporation 
   
• Fine Particulate Matter Emissions at Wood Products Facilities
  Derek Sain and Dr. David Word, NCASI 
   
• Meeting Carbon Monoxide Limits at Wood Products Facility Boilers – Data for Compliance Needs Assessment and Other Related Issues
  Wayne Roberts, Weston Solutions; and Arun Someshwar, NCASI 
   
• Boiler MACT Implementation Issues – panel
  Vipin Varma, NCASI; Lawrence Otwell, Georgia-Pacific Corporation; Ellen Porter, Roseburg Forest Products; Bart Barlow, Boise Cascade Wood Products; and Mitchell Leu, Plum Creek Manufacturing 
   

Air Quality Improvement

• Air Quality Regulatory Developments and Other Issues of Regional Interest
  Vipin Varma, NCASI 
   
• Update – Washington State Air Quality Issues
  Alan Newman, Washington State Department of Ecology; and Andy Ginsburg, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality 
   
• Update on EPA’s Proposed Guidance for Compliance Demonstration with the SO₂ National Ambient Air Quality Standards
  Danny Kringel, ERM 
   
• A Semi-Empirical Method of Estimating Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Wood Chip Piles
  Arun Someshwar, NCASI 
   
• H2SSIM: A Model for Estimating Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Basins
  James Palumbo and Zach Emerson, NCASI 
   
• Carbon Neutrality: Biogenic Deferral and PSD
  Timothy Hunt, American Forest and Paper Association & American Wood Council 
   
• Greenhouse Gas BACT Determinations Related to the Forest Products Industry
  Maren Seibold, Trinity Consultants 
   
• Operating Strategies in the Absence of SSM
  
  Daniel Curry, TRC Environmental 
   
• Reporting Performance Test Data to WebFIRE using EPA’s ERT – Experiences
  Judith Aasland, Avogadro Group LLC 
   

Boiler MACT Implementation

• The Self-Determination of Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials as Non-Wastes
  Vipin Varma, NCASI 
   
• Control Technologies for Meeting New and Existing Boiler MACT Limits
  Arun Someshwar, NCASI 
   
• Considerations Beyond MACT Compliance
  Amy Marshall, URS Corporation 
   
• Wet Scrubbing/ESP Systems for Boiler MACT Compliance
  Steve Jaasund, Lundberg 
   
• NCASI Calculation Tool for Boiler MACT Output-Based Emission Limits – Overview and Compliance Approaches
  Ashok Jain, NCASI 
   
• Compliance Testing for Mercury – Measurement Methods and Considerations
  Lee Carlson, NCASI 
   
• Designing Initial Performance Tests (IPT) for
  multi-fuel boilers– panel
  Rich Garber, Boise Inc.; Nathan Pearson, Simpson Tacoma Kraft Company; Greg Bean, Weyerhaeuser Company; Roberto Artiga, KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation; and Lawrence Otwell, Georgia-Pacific Corporation 
   

Forest Management

• The Influence of Herbicides and Succession on the Nutritional Ecology of Black-Tailed Deer in Forests of Western Washington
  Lisa Shipley, Washington State University  
   
• Effects of Intensive Forest Management on Birds and Arthropods
  Jake Verschuyl, NCASI 
   
• Avian Demography across a Gradient of Management Intensity in Early Seral Plantation Forests
  Jim Rivers, Oregon State University 
   
• Interactions between Intensive Forest Management, Cervid Foraging, and Early Seral Habitat
  Thomas Stokely, Oregon State University 
   
• Amphibian Responses to Downed Wood Retention in Managed Forests: A Prospectus for Future Harvesting in the Pacific Northwest, USA
  A.J. Kroll, Weyerhaeuser Company 
   
• Biological Basis for Review and Reform of the
  Northwest Forest Plan
  Steve Mealey, USDA Forest Service (ret.)  
   
• Riparian Buffers and Salmonid Production in Headwater Streams of Western Oregon
  Steve Cramer and Mark Teply, Cramer Fish Sciences 
   
• Impacts and Recovery Patterns within Aquatic Systems Following the 2007 Storm
  Jason Walter, Brian Fransen, and Maryanne Reiter, Weyerhaeuser Company 
   
• Lessons from Cross-Site Studies of Forested Watersheds: Trends in Water Quality and Effects of Disturbances
  Alba Argerich, Oregon State University 
   
• Herbicides in Streamwater following an Application According to Oregon’s Best Management Practices
  Jeff Louch, NCASI 
   
• Forest Watershed Program Alignment with Current and Near Future Stewardship Concerns
  Robert Danehy, NCASI