EIA 2012 National Conference & Exposition
The EIA 2012 National Conference & Exposition will be held Thursday, March 22 through Saturday, March 24, 2012, at the San Diego Hard Rock Hotel, with Professional Development Seminars on Wednesday, March 21, 2012!
San Diego’s white sand beaches, amazing attractions, and sunny weather are the perfect ingredients for great family vacations.
You’ll love the thriving downtown and Gaslamp District, with the Hard Rock at the heart of the fun, and the family will love the San Diego attractions, beaches, Zoo, shopping, golf and other exciting activities.
Click here for the EIA 2012 Registration Brochure!
EIA 2012’s unparalleled technical program features a unique Contractors’ Track this year, with a multidisciplinary line-up of sessions to serve our Contractor attendees:
Safety Plan for Contractors - Kevin Cannan, AAC Contractors
2011 State of the Abatement Industry - BJ Fungaroli, EHG, LLC
Preventing Salvage Theft on Abatement Projects - BJ Fungaroli, LLC
Interrelationship Between Current Trends in Green Building, the Environmental Industry and Building Development: Brownfield Redevelopment, LEED, & Liabilities in Green Building - Lane Kelman, Esquire
Bonding and Insurance Trends - Contract Pitfalls and Insurance Trends - Brian McFarland, Legends
Water Intrusion Concepts for Contractors - Roger Morse
Contractor Sampling & Analytics - Something for Your Crews - Jeff Mlekush
The EIA 2012 Invitation to Exhibit, Sponsor and Advertise is now available! Click below to reach the most concentrated collection of buying power in the industry:
Wednesday, March 21st
10:00am - 2:00pm Registration
8:00am Board of Directors Meeting
10:00am Golf Tournament Tee Times (shuttle will depart hotel
approx. 9:15am)
3:00pm - 7:00pm Exhibitor Set Up
6:00pm - 8:00pm President’s Welcome Reception
Thursday, March 22nd
7:30am - 4:00pm Registration
7:30am - 8:30am Coffee Setup - Exhibit Hall Open
8:00am Moderators Meeting
8:30am - 10:00am EIA Annual Meeting & General Session
10:00am - 10:30am Mid-Morning Break
Exhibit Hall Open
10:30am - 12:00pm Technical Sessions
12:00pm - 1:30pm Vendor Spotlight
Exhibit Hall Open
Lunch Provided in the Exhibit Hall - 12:15
1:00pm - 1:30pm First Timers/Meet the Chapters Mixer
1:30pm - 2:45 Technical Session
2:45pm - 3:15pm Exhibit Hall Open
3:15pm - 4:30pm Technical Sessions
4:30pm - 5:30pm IAQ Round Table & Committee Meeting
5:30pm - 6:30pm Exhibitor’s Welcome Reception - In Exhibit Hall
Friday, March 23rd
8:00am - 9:00am Coffee Setup
Exhibit Hall Open
8:30am - 4:30pm Registration
9:00am - 10:30am Plenary Session
10:30am - 11:00am Exhibit Hall Open
Mid-Morning Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Technical Sessions
12:30pm - 2:00pm Exhibit Hall Open
Lunch Provided in the Exhibit Hall
2:00pm - 3:30pm Technical Sessions
3:30pm - 4:30pm Vendor Introductions & Giveaways
3:30pm - 5:30pm Exhibit Hall Open
Afternoon Break
4:30pm - 5:30pm EMS/ESA Roundtable/Committee Meeting
S&A Roundtable/Committee Meeting
5:30 Exhibitor Tear Down (No exhibitors may tear down before this time)
6:30pm - 9:30pm Annual Dinner/Social
Saturday, March 24th
8:00am - 3:45pm Registration & Coffee Setup
8:00am - 12:00pm Exhibitor Tear Down
8:30am - 9:30am Plenary Session
9:45am - 10:45am Lead Roundtable & Committee Meeting
11:00am - 12:30pm Technical Sessions
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch on your own
2:00pm - 3:30pm Technical Sessions
3:45pm - 5:00pm Asbestos Roundtable & Committee Meeting
5:30pm - 7:00pm Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Professional Development Seminar: Healthy Buildings: A Look at California’s Approach and an Introduction to the New HUD Healthy Homes Rating System
Members: $100
Non-Members: $125
Part 1 - Alan Johanns, Asbestos & Lead Program Manager
City of San Diego, Environmental Services Dept/Energy, Sustainability & Environmental Protection Division
Training on Laws Governing
Mold, Lead-Based Paint, Ventilation and Pest Infestation
This section features the California Department of Public Health training for code enforcement and building department staff regarding laws and regulations which govern lead hazards, mold/moisture, ventilation, and pest infestation in housing. This training will enable you to:
• Identify what constitutes an enforceable violation related to lead, mold, ventilation and pest infestation;
• Understand the health effects resulting from these substandard housing conditions;
• Identify applicable laws and the respective roles/responsibilities of health, housing, and building agencies;
• Clarify what the law requires enforcement agencies to do and what activities are optional;
• Identify resources (additional enforcement funding, brochures, etc.).
This training is primarily targeted to code enforcement officers, housing inspectors, and building department staff.
Part II - Joy Finch, Department Head, Environmental/Health/Safety
Greenville Technical College Corporate and Career Development
An Overview of the Healthy Home Rating System (HHRS)
Each year, housing conditions in the US are implicated in thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of illnesses and injuries requiring medical attention. The HHRS provides a method of grading the severity of threats to health and safety in any dwelling using a risk-assessment methodology. This half-day session will include an overview of the HHRS Guidance and the rating process. Participants will learn how to use the rating system to compare existing hazards to historical averages and develop a numerical score that can be used to prioritize action items.
EIA Technical Program
EIA General Session and Keynote Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Environmental Information Association will open the 29th Annual Conference with the EIA General Session and Annual Meeting, with presentations by EIA Managing Director Brent Kynoch, and EIA President Dana Hudson.
EIA Technical Sessions Thursday, March 22 through Saturday, March 24, 2012
Session 1
Asbestos Risk and Remediation: An Update on Libby, Montana
Jeffrey Camplin
Michelle Hartly
This presentation will highlight the struggles of the USEPA/ATSDR to develop a clean-up process in Libby, Montana that is not based on a risk assessment. There will also be a discussion on new risk information that has been recently developed by the EPA that could be used in future risk assessments. However, the presenters will cover some existing problems with the asbestos “activity-based” testing and IRIS asbestos risk model used to evaluate asbestos exposure from Libby amphibole-contaminated soils falls short of providing an accurate assessment of risk to airborne asbestos and other amphibole mineral fibers.
Session 2 - Contractors’ Track
Preventing Salvage Theft on Abatement Projects
B.J. Fungaroli
Joe Bulat
Copper prices have risen over 300%, if not more over the past several years. The orange gold will make the most honest person turn into a thief. BJ Fungaroli will explain from experience how this has happened to their abatement and demolition firm over and over again in front of him, building owners, consultants, and anyone else on the site. Joe Bulat will politely explain to the audience how naïve BJ has been and explain what we can do to stop these thefts! Joe is retired from over 20 years of police service, he heads up his own security firm as well as regularly puts bad guys in jail as the Director of Security for one of the larger scrap dealers in the country. We promise this to be a highly entertaining as well as informative session.
Session 3
NATCA Taskforce Update: Remediation in the HVAC Environment Position Paper
Cole Stanton
This session will provide an update the NATCA task force, and first-hand synopsis of the first ever position paper on remediation in the HVAC Environment from a member of the committee, and provide insight to a wide variety of attendees from contractors to consultants.
Session 4
Legally Defensible Combustion By-Products Analysis Associated With Wildfire Investigations
Jerry Drapala, Ph.D.
Derrick Tanner
In recent years there has been an increase in insurance claims related to post wildfire contamination. Using improper identification methods based only on optical microscopy can create the risk of generating results that would not be admissible in court. This presentation discusses the methodology of Combustion By-products analysis and provides an overview of the advantages of the proper identification methods (TEM, SEM/EDX) necessary to achieve legally defensible results.
Session 5
EPA Asbestos Enforcement: the Sempra Investigation
Peggy Forney
EPA-NEIC supports numerous asbestos investigations each year. Many have interesting side stories that can be told after trial without breaching confidentiality. This presentation will discuss one case from the original complaint, through the criminal investigation, the sampling, analysis, and the trial.
Session 6
2011 Flooding in North Dakota, An Environmental Consultant’s Perspective
Lila Marquart
This session is ongoing case study of an unprecedented man-made disaster, FEMA’s response, and the condemnation and demolition process. Topics will include regulatory involvement and requirements, indoor air/asbestos/hazard issues, health and safety, climate and location factors, and will include a discussion on how FEMA has changed (or not) since Katrina.
Session 7
Ventilation Design for Indoor Air Quality Management
Rashmi Patil, CESE
Virendra Sethi, CESE
Ruchi Sharma, CESE
In today’s technological society about 90% of the time is spent in an indoor environment and hence the provision of contaminant-free outdoor air to buildings is becoming a necessity. The phrase ‘Sick Building Syndrome’ is synonymous with poorly ventilated and tight buildings. The evidence so far points that poorly ventilated buildings are not necessarily the buildings starved of outdoor air but rather the quality of the air supplied to them is poor. In fact studies in naturally and mechanically ventilated buildings have shown that more complaints related to building sickness such as nasal blockage, headache and lethargy were found among occupants of the mechanically ventilated buildings. This seems to support the argument that poorly maintained ventilation rates are major contributors to building sickness. Hence this study is conducted in buildings with naturally and mechanically ventilated rooms to measure CO2 levels, particulate matter concentration and thermal parameters like temperature and relative humidity.
Session 8
EPA Region 9 Update
Jean Prijatel, EPA
This session will be an update from Ms. Prijatel, Program and Enforcement Officers, Toxics Office, on EPA Region 9 activities. It will include outreach information, as well as information on the RRP Enforcement Policy document in Region 9, the fine structure and various levels of fines associated with different compliance issues.
Session 9
Evaluation of NESHAP Compliance
Thomas McManus, CIH
This session will provide an overview of findings of an evaluation of NESHAP compliance in Clark County Nevada.
Session 10 - Contractors’ Track
Safety Plan for Contractors
Kevin Cannan
This session will emphasize the importance of a solid, well documented, well executed safety plan for contractors. Not only will a good safety plan keep OSHA off your back and keep your workers safe, but it will make you money! Immediately, a contractor will see a reduction in worker’s comp rates and in GL rates. Then, you will notice that jobs get done faster, there are fewer complaints and that’s when the safety program starts to make money. Come take a journey with Kevin Cannan and learn how a safety program dramatically changed his company.
Session 11
Wall Checks - The Good and the Bad
Part 1: How to Accurately Assess for Hidden Mold Using Wall-Cavity Samplers
Daniel Stih, BSE, CMC, CIEC
Using a wall-check to assess for hidden mold can be more reliable and less destructive than cutting holes for visual inspections. Using case studies this session will show how to take better samples to get accurate laboratory data and make the correct conclusion regarding the presence of mold inside wall cavities.
Part II: What Can Go Wrong and the Weaknesses in Wall Checks
Caihmon Connell
While the wall-check technology is very useful, if the samples are not taken correctly and the results not interpreted properly, using it can lead to false conclusions. There are limitations in wall check samples that must be understood. Too many consultants have taken a few wall check samples and reported to the client that there is no mold behind the walls, only to learn later that a serious mold concern existed after all.
Session 12
Comparison of Asbestos Analytical Methods
Owen Crankshaw and Johnathon Thornburg
Airborne asbestos analytical methodologies have evolved over time using different definitions of asbestos fibers and structures, counting rules based on fiber dimensions, and fundamentally different electron and optical microscopy methods. The different methods raise the question whether the results provided by the different methods are comparable and suitable to assess risks associated with exposure. RTI carried out an experimental study using filters loaded with airborne asbestos in an aerosolization chamber to quantitatively determine the differences in analytical techniques using chrysotile, amosite and LIbby amphibole.
Session 13
How We Refreshed Our Asbestos Refresher Training
Richard Haffey
The presentation demonstrates how Mystic Air Quality Consultants consciously expanded MAP required attention to updates in industry technologies, world developments and regulatory changes regarding asbestos and asbestos-containing materials in annual refresher courses over a five year cycle from 2006 to 2011. Discipline-specific examples are included from the refresher courses for abatement supervisors, abatement workers, building inspectors, management planners, project designers, as well as for project monitors and operations and maintenance personnel.
Session 14
An Overview of PCBs
Robert DeMalo, MS
Ed Gerdts, CIH, CSP, LEED AP
While consultants and building owners routinely manage liquid PCBs in electrical equipment, hydraulic equipment, and fluorescent light ballasts, they often overlook PCBs used as plasticizers and conditioners in thousands of products that have been installed in the built environment. These “non-liquid PCB” (NLPCB) are also additives in oil based paints and window caulk. These materials can lead to unintended exposures in our school children and the general public at large. These materials can also contaminate other building products such as bricks and mortar and the soil below any exterior windows. The EPA and TSCA regulate the disposal of these materials and severe penalties can be imposed for non-compliance.
Session 15 - Contractors’ Track
Current Trends in Green Building, the Environmental Industry and Building Development: Brownfield Redevelopment, LEED, & Liabilities
Lane Kelman, Esquire
This session discusses the interrelationship between the current trends in Green Building, the environmental industry and building development, covering all phases of construction. Specifically, it will address Brownfield Redevelopment as it relates to construction site selection, LEED credits for the use of low emitting materials, indoor chemical & pollutant source control, indoor air quality management planning, LEED pilot credits related to hazardous materials and the effect of hazardous material remediation on LEED building reuse credits. Finally, it will provide an overview of potential areas of liability in green building.
Session 16
Investigations of Outdoor Environmental Surface Soot Particulate and Other Darkening Agents
James Millette, Ph.D.
ASTM D6602 “Standard Practice for Sampling and Testing of Possible Carbon Black Fugitive Emissions or Other Environmental Particulate, or Both” was developed for the investigation of outdoor sooty surface problems and distinguishing ASTM type carbon black, in the N100 to N900 series, from other environmental particulates. It is well suited for the study darkening agent complaints. Particulate emissions are contributors to air contamination in industrial and urban environments. Soot is a form of black carbon that is generated as an unwanted by-product of combustion and consequently varies widely with the type of fuel and combustion conditions. Carbon black, on the other hand, is purposely produced under a controlled set of conditions. Other darkening agents such as mold or biological film may look the same as soot to the untrained eye. It is important to be able to distinguish different soots, as well as other environmental contaminants when determining the cause of a surface darkening incident. The presentation will include an example of how procedure was used during an investigation of dark surface particulate in a city where both a carbon black manufacturing facility and an oil refinery were possible industrial sources.
Session 17
Mastic Removal - A Sticky Situation: Worker Protection
Vincent Brennan, CIE
Chris Walker
Mastic removal is a process that affects both abatement workers and those involved in O&M work. This study took advantage of a large dorm renovation on the University of Vermont campus to reassess the process of mastic removal and to look at just how safe it is. This study determined how much time and effort went into each work area, as well as how safe and efficient each worker was while using the product.
Session 18 - Contractors’ Track
2011 State of the Contracting/Remediation Industry
BJ Fungaroli
The asbestos, lead, mold and other indoor hazardous material abatement market correlates to the construction industry in some fashion. While performance in these industries does not always parallel each other they are truly intertwined. Over the past 5+ years we have studied these trends and how they impact our markets across the country. The presentation analyzes both public and private data. Informal interviews of industry participants are also conducted to broaden the reach of our views. We look at what areas of the market are exceling and what areas are not. What potential growth markets are out there and where they are failing. We delve into what your competitors are doing and why they are doing it.
Session 19 - Contractors’ Track
Water Intrusion Concepts for Contractors
Roger Morse
This session will discuss common water intrusion pathways using his architectural background but presented in a contractor-oriented format. The intent is to combine the two disciplines so the contractor walks away with a more rounded understanding of the buildings they restore.
Session 20
Asbestos Detectability: Will the Real Limits of Detection Please Stand Up?
Sean Fitzgerald, P.G.
This presentation will provide a brief history of testing limit derivations for asbestos-containing materials in bulk, dust, and air, up to a snapshot of our extant methods and regulations. The growing concern of lower level contamination and the hypothesis that there is no “safe level of asbestos” suggest the need for a renaissance in our antiquated rules for asbestos and its analysis to meet the new demands of perception, or at least a re-evaluation of whether we as asbestos experts and professionals are bringing the best possible science to the public with due diligence to protect human health. Specific historic examples from PCM and TEM air method genesis shall be discussed, as well as dust re-entrainment K-factors and the (everybody’s favorite) 1% rule. More modern examples will include California’s 0.1%, Canada’s 0.5%, and the Japanese ISO-proposed 0.1% by XRD. Finally, current research will be presented showing significantly lower limits of detectability calculated for the asbestos analytical industry “problem children”: vermiculite and soil. Asbestos in vermiculite detectability research results will be presented, as well as limits of detection determined for soils differentiated by the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS), demonstrating and quantifying the variability introduced by homogeneity, particle size, and plasticity.
Session 21
Wallboard: It’s More Than Joint Compound
Andrew F. Oberta, MPH, CIH
Wallboard (drywall, SheetrockTM) has become one of the most frequently sampled and removed asbestos-containing materials. The words “wallboard joint compound” are invariably juxtaposed, creating the impression that the only asbestos-containing material in a wallboard system is found at the seams. The speaker will illustrate ways to find the seams and take bulk samples to collect all layers of the material according to ASTM E2356 Standard Practice for Comprehensive Building Asbestos Surveys. However, walls (and their horizontal counterparts called ceilings) are complex systems, and his examples will include asbestos-containing materials that are nowhere near the seams. The regulatory nuances of wallboard systems will be discussed. Finally, he will discuss the revisions to ASTM E1368 Standard Practice for Visual Inspection of Asbestos Abatement Projects that cover wallboard removal.
Session 22 - Contractors’ Track
Bonding and Insurance Trends - Contract Pitfalls and Insurance Trends
Brian McFarland
With the constant evolution of Environmental Compliance Laws, like the EPA’s RRP Lead Law, Contractors and Consultants are faced with an ever increasing exposure to an environmental insurance claim. During this session, we will discuss how the insurance industry reacts to these new laws and how you can protect your company through risk transfer.
Session 23
Legal Issues for Hydraulic Fracturing
Marty Jones
“Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a growing component of energy production in the United States. Questions and concerns from regulators, the public, and the press have arisen from ongoing and proposed fracking projects. This presentation will discuss the fracking process and look at historic, new and changing regulations applicable to fracking.”
EIA Roundtables & Technical Committee Meetings
These exceptional opportunities to ask questions and receive answers from colleagues and regulatory representatives are scheduled throughout the conference, including Asbestos, IAQ, Lead, Sampling & Analytical and ESA/EMS. These forums are the best chance to gain valuable information on trends and issues in the industry. Join an EIA Technical Committee to expand your Association participation, and help steer the future for EIA, and your industry!