32nd Annual Meeting and Trade Show
Agenda
Monday, October 9, 2023
11:00 am Golf Check In
11:30 am Golf Lunch
1:00 pm Golf Shotgun Start
6:30 – 9:30 EFO Brewery Crawl
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
7:30 am – 8:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 8:45 am Welcome
- Howard L. “Bud” Ground, EFO President
8:45 – 10:00 am Plenary Session
- Welcome – Scott Thompson, Executive Director, Department of Environmental Quality
- Ken McQueen, Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment
- James McGuire, Regional Counsel, EPA Region 6
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Water Quality Panel – Chair Andrew Pawlisz, Trihydro Corporation
- Update on WOTUS and EPA’s Proposed Federal Water Quality Standards for the Tribal Reserved Rights – Robert Singletary, Deputy Executive Director, Department of Environmental Quality
- Locating the Goalposts in a Rapidly Changing Water Regulatory Game: PFAS, WQS, ELGs, and More – Shellie Chard, Department of Environmental Quality
- Oklahoma Drought Update – Gary McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
- OWRB Comprehensive Water Plan – Amber Wooten, Carollo, for Owen Mills, Oklahoma Water Resources Board
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EFO Awards Lunch
- James R. Barnett Public Servant Award
- Frank Condon Award of Environmental Excellence – GRDA
- 2023 Golf Tournament Awards
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Corporation Commission Panel – Chair Terri Roberts, Oklahoma Environmental Services
- Oklahoma Brownfields and the Historical Aerial Project – Madeline Dillner
- Aerial Photo Viewer & Well Data Finder Tool – Colin Brooks, Oklahoma Corporation Commission
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Environmental Justice
- DEQ EJ Screening Tool & Demonstration – Jennifer Boyle, General Counsel, Department of Environmental Quality
- DEQ EJ Screening Tool & Demonstration – Amy Brittain, LPD Risk Management and Groundwater Manager, Department of Environmental Quality
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Land Protection Panel, Chair Dave Smith, American Airlines
- Fansteel Superfund Site Project – Kelsey Bufford, Environmental Programs Specialist, Department of Environmental Quality
- Where are the Goalposts in Sustainable Materials Management? – Patrick Riley, Environmental Programs Manager, Department of Environmental Quality
- Everything You Want To Know About PFAS In Less Than 30 Minutes – Ken Ede, KF Ede Associates, and Audra Liggenstoffer, Brown Environmental
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Hospitality Suite
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
7:30 am – 8:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 8:35 am Welcome
- Howard L. “Bud” Ground, EFO President
8:35 am – 9:30 am Plenary Session
- Gentner Drummond, Oklahoma Attorney General
- Louisiana v EPA – An Environmental Justice Test Case – Madison Miller, Ryan Whaley
9:30 am – 10:00 am Break
10:00 am – 11:30 am Natural and Cultural Resources Panel, Stephanie Rainwater, Horizon Environmental Services, Inc.
- Tribes, Tribes, and More Tribes – The Anatomy of Tribes and Where They Fall Under NEPA – Sheila Bird, Kituwah Nighthawk, LLC
- Threatened and Endangered Bat Update – Matt Fullerton, US Fish & Wildlife
- Project Pre-Planning for Threatened and Endangered – Laurence Levesque, US Fish & Wildlife
11:30 am – 12:00 pm Box Lunch
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Health and Safety Panel, Chair Jody Reinhart, Trinity Consultants
Contractor Vetting and Management – From Multiple Perspectives
- David Bates, President, D Bates Safety Consulting, LLC
- Cody Vinyard, OGE Energy Corp
- Chris England, Veriforce
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Air Quality Panel, Chair Jeremy Jewell, Trinity Consultants
- SIPs and FIPs / NAAQS Implementation – Melanie Foster, Department of Environmental Quality
- ACOG’s Regional Air Plan Update – Jaron Hill, MGT Consulting, and Monica Smith Griffin, Reagan Smith, Inc.
- New Federal CAA Regulations – Laura Worthen Lodes, Vice President, Altamira
- Is LDAR Coming to Other Industries – Christoff Orr, Consultant, Trinity Consultants
- Legal / Case Law Updates, Don Shandy, Director, Crowe & Dunlevy
3:00 – 3:10 Final Comments and Meeting Closure
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm Annual Meeting, Bud Ground, EFO President