The 2010 Fall Meeting will offer environmental professionals from across the country an opportunity to network and collaborate on innovative approaches to solving environmental challenges. This year, ITRC will be celebrating "15 years in Advancing Environmental Solutions". As a collective community, we have been opening doors for new technologies and approaches across many environmental areas since 1995.

This week-long, conference-style meeting will feature outstanding plenary and panel sessions and workshops, as well as ITRC team meetings. Highlights will include a retrospective look at ITRC’s accomplishments to date and a prospective look at the newest advances in remediation. Registration for this meeting will be open to the over 500 current ITRC members in addition to outside parties (registration fee applies) who wish to engage with ITRC.

Session Descriptions

Open to all attendees

Plenary Session – This session will offer environmental professionals from across the country an opportunity to network and collaborate on innovative approaches to solving environmental challenges. Leading environmental experts will share their states' experiences with the Gulf Oil Spill and explore the current technologies and approaches for oil clean up, including the technical areas where further work is still needed. In addition, the plenary session will offer an array of technical presentations from leaders in the field on solutions to other environmental challenges as well as an introduction to ITRC’s first web based technical and regulatory guidance document developed by the Mining Waste Team. ITRC leadership will also hold Co-Chair elections and recognize this year’s award winners.

Reception and 15 Years of Success Talent Show – Help celebrate ITRC’s 15 Years Advancing Environmental Solutions at this year’s fall meeting. ITRC Members are invited to showcase their talent during the Tuesday evening reception. Participation is open to both individuals and groups of team members to perform. Perhaps you would like to share a song, a poem, or even a dance--the stage is yours! Space is limited and will be awarded in the order of group/individual registration. Please be sure that all acts are respectful and in the cooperative spirit of ITRC.

Project Team Meetings – ITRC project teams consist of environmental professionals with diverse environmental perspectives working to develop guidance documents and associated training courses to promote better decision-making when considering innovative environmental technologies and approaches. The result of these projects is a broadened technical knowledge and streamlined regulation of new environmental technologies within the environmental community. These state-led teams consist of members from state regulatory agencies, federal agencies, academia, public and tribal stakeholders, and the private sector. These sessions are for product development by team members. Non-members are welcome to observe.

Open to state environmental agency staff only

Workshop - "Everything You Need to Know About Munitions Response and More" – In the next 10 years, munitions sites across the country will be investigated and restored, with expenditures in the billions of dollars. In order to participate in the munitions response process, state environmental regulators should be familiar with the newest processes and technologies for munitions detection and discrimination. This workshop, facilitated by US EPA and DoD, will provide basic information on munitions response processes and will detail innovative detection, discrimination and classification technologies by experts in the field. A group discussion on potential new munitions projects for ITRC will be held at the end of the workshop. If you are interested in shaping the future of ITRC's role in munitions response, please attend this workshop. Travel funding for state personnel who are not currently members of ITRC may be available. Requests for travel funding should be sent to Carolyn Sistare at csistare@ecos.org.

Other sessions – open to specific groups only

LNAPL Classroom Training Dry Run
State Engagement Meeting
IAP Coordination Meeting
Stakeholder Coordination Meeting
Board of Advisors Meeting