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Final agenda

EPA Water Quality Trading News (Aug. 2006) includes the summaries of the facilitated discussions from the Pittsburgh National Water Quality Trading conference.

May 23, 2006
*Paving the way for trading*	Part I 8:30-8:35 Ginny Kibler (preliminaries) 8:35-8:40 Session chair: Craig Derickson, Pennsylvania State Conservationist, USDA-NRCS (pdf) Plenary Session Speakers: 8:40-9:10 Jon Scholl, Agricultural Advisor to the Administrator, USEPA (pdf) 9:10-9:40 Merlyn Carlson, Deputy Under Secretary, Natural Resources and Environment, USDA (link to speech) 9:40-10:10 Kathleen A. McGinty, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (Invited) (notes in pdf) PartII Session Chair: Craig Derickson 10:30-10:50 Sally Collins, Associate Chief, Forest Service, USDA (pdf) 10:50-11:10 Ronda Sandquist, Jackson Kelly PLLC, Colorado (pdf) 11:10-11:30 Bryon Griffith, Director, Gulf of Mexico Program Office, USEPA (pdf)
	Concurrent sessions (1-5 pm)
*I- Trading With Nonpoint Sources* Moderator: William Herz, Fertilizer Institute	1:00 Thomas Green, IPM Institute: BMP "Net Returns" Guaranty for Farmers (pdf) 1:40 Mark Colosimo, U.S. Section, International Joint Commission: A Cost Effective, Watershed Nitrogen and Phosphorous Water Monitoring Strategy Designed to Support Water Quality Trading Market (pdf) 2:20 Antje Siems, Abt Associates Inc: Establishing Water Quality Trading Banks: Opportunities and Barriers (pdf) 3:30 Alex Echols, Sand County Foundation: Precursors to Markets and Trading for Ecosystem Services through Agricultural Incentives (pdf) 4:10 James Shortle, Penn State University: Achieving Greater Reliability in Water Quality Trading Programs with Nonpoint Sources through Explicit Safety Requirements and Reliability-Graded Trades (pdf) 5.30 Adjourn.
*II- Trading Program Design 1* Moderator: Carl Lucero, USDA-NRCS	1:00 Paul Stacey, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection: Connecticut's Point Source Nitrogen Credit Exchange Nonpoint Source and Stormwater Component Feasibility (pdf) 1:40 Mark Kieser,Kieser & Associates A Preliminary Analysis of Water Quality Trading Opportunities in the Great Miami River Watershed, Ohio (pdf) 2:20 Christopher Clark,University of Tennessee: A GIS-Based Assessment of Potential Water Quality Trading Markets in Tennessee (pdf) 3:30 Sara Vickerman, Defenders of Wildlife: The Willamette Ecosystem Marketplace: An Integrated, Multiple Value Trading Program (pdf) 4:10 Julie Vlier, Tetra Tech RMC: Creation of Interstate Water Quality Trading - The Colorado River from Grand Junction to Los Angeles (pdf)
*III- Trading Program Design 2* Moderator: Jon Capacasa, USEPA Region 3	1:00 Scott Van de Mark, Pennsylvania Environmental Council - Ohio Headwaters Initiative: Conestoga River Reverse Auction Project (pdf) 1:40 John Hall, Hall Associates: Minnesota River Nutrient Trading Program Ensures Cost Effective TMDL Implementation (pdf) 2:20 Paula Conolly, City of Philadelphia: Prioritizing Parcels in the Schuylkill River Watershed for Agricultural BMPs to Facilitate Trading (pdf) 3:30 Christopher Obropta, Rutgers University: Water Quality Trading in the Non-tidal Passaic River Watershed (pdf) 4:10 Charles Logue, Clean Water Services: Discussion of the development and implementation of a water quality credit trading program for Clean Water Services (Washington County, Oregon) to meet the Temperature TMDL WLA for excess thermal load. (pdf) 4:50 Adjourn
May 24, 2006
*What can Groups Do To Make Trading Happen?*	Panel 1 Session Chair: Brent Fewell, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, USEPA (pdf) 8:05-8:15 Rhine McLin, Mayor of Dayton, OH, US Conference of Mayors (pdf) 8:15-8:25 John Redding, Secretary/Treasurer, National Association of Conservation Districts (pdf) 8:25 - 8:35 J. Michael Read, President, Water Environment Federation (pdf) 8:35-8:45 James Cox, Executive Director, National Association of State Conservation Agencies 8:45-9:10 Question &Answer Featured Speaker: 9:10-9:25 Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator, USEPA (link to speech) Panel 2 Session Chair: Lawrence Clark, Deputy Chief, Science and Technology, USDA-NRCS 9:55-10:05 Don Parrish, Senior Director, Regulatory Relations, American Farm Bureau Federation 10:05-10:15 Myrna Halbach, Assistant Division Director, Municipal and Industrial Divisions, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Agencies (pdf) 10:15-10:25 Richard Kempka, Director of Energy and Technology Partnerships, Ducks Unlimited (pdf) 10:25-10:35 Paul Faeth, Managing Director, World Resources Institute (pdf) 10:35-11:00 Question & Answer
*Luncheon* (12-1pm)	Featured speaker : Benjamin Grumbles, Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, USEPA (pdf)
	Concurrent sessions (1-5 pm)
*IV-Measuring Trading Program Success* Moderator: Allison Wiedeman, Office of Water, USEPA	1:30 Doug Parker, University of Maryland: Assessing Outcomes of Water Quality Trading Programs (pdf) 2:10 Todd Petty, West Virginia University: Decision Making Tools for Implementing an Innovative Trading Program in Mined Appalachian Watersheds (pdf) 2:50 John Powers, EPA: Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Water Quality Trading Program (pdf) 4:00 Discussion: How do you measure the success of a trading program? (summary)
*V- Trading Markets* Moderator: Sheryl Kunickis, USDA-NRCS	1:30 Jeremy Sokulsky, Environmental Incentives: Entrepreneurs in Water Quality Trading Markets: Who they are, how they help and how to engage them (pdf) 2:10 Kristin Rowles, Georgia State University: Why Trade? Searching for the Elusive Cost Savings from Water Quality Trading (pdf) 2:50 Bobby Cochran, Georgia State University: Brokering exchange in the Willamette: Managing water quality trading and beyond (pdf) 4:00 Discussion: What are barriers and potential solutions to trading? (summary) 5:30 Adjourn. Alternate Chris Lewicki Assessing a Watershed for Water Quality Trading Potential
*VI- Role of Government* Moderator: Susan Odell, Forest Service, USDA	1:30 Gregory Currey, Tetra Tech: Water Quality Trading - The Questions Permit Writers Ask (pdf) 2:10 Susan Burke, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality: NPDES Permit Language Providing for Pollutant Trading (pdf) 2:50 Libby Ford, Nixon Peabody LLC: Trading: What the Courts Have To Say (pdf) 4:00 Discussion: What can government do to promote trading? (summary) 5:30 Adjourn.
May 25, 2006
*Making Trading Work and Future Direction*	8:00-8:05 Session chair: Carl Lucero, National Leader for Clean Water, USDA-NRCS 8:05-8:45 Guest Speaker: Ricardo Bayon, Managing Editor, Ecosystem Marketplace (pdf) 9:00-11:20am Panel 1: Making Trading Work 9:00-9:05 Session chair: Mark Kieser, Acting Chair, Environmental Trading Network, Senior Scientist, Kieser & Associates (pdf) 9:05-9:35 Cy Jones, Senior Technologist, CH2M Hill: Perspectives on Point-Nonpoint Source Trading from the Wastewater Community (pdf) 9:35-9:50 Question and answer 9:50-10:20 Dusty Hall, Program Development Manager, Miami Conservancy District, OH: Great Miami River Watershed Water Quality Credit Trading Program (pdf) 10:20-10:35 Q&A 10:35-11:05 Dennis O'Grady, General Manager, South Nation River Conservation Authority: South Nation River Watershed Trading Program: Over 200 successful trades (pdf) 11:05-11:20 Q&A 11:25am-12:00pm Discussion Group Summaries and Future Direction 11:25-11:30 Session Chair: James Hanlon, Director, Office of Wastewater Management, USEPA 11:30-11:45 Brent Fewell, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, USEPA (pdf) 11:45-12:00 Bruce Knight, Chief, USDA-NRCS (link to speech)