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NJIT Campus Center

June 4, 2019

Time/Location	Event	Sponsor
8:00AM - 8:45AM	Registration, Breakfast & Networking
8:45AM - 9:00AM	NSCW Overview, Welcome and Introduction	Dresdner Robin
2nd Floor Ballroom A
9:00AM - 10:00AM	Plenary - Hotter than Hot Topics in Sustainable Redevelopment Throughout the Northeast	GEI Consultants
2nd Floor Ballroom A
10:00AM - 10:05AM	Poster Presentations - Colleen Kokas, Environmental Liability Transfer
10:05AM - 10:35AM	Exhibit Hall, Coffee Break and Posters
10:35AM - 11:25AM	Breakout Sessions 1
2nd Floor Ballroom A	Breakout 1A - How Opportunity Zones Will Actually Work	Langan
2nd Floor Ballroom B	Breakout 1B - Environmental Project Failures (aka "Troubled Environmental Projects") Why Site Remediation Projects Go Over Budget, Take Longer and Often Fail	WCD Group
1st Floor Atrium	Breakout 1C - Brownfields Education in the Pursuit of Environmental Justice	Environmental Liability Transfer
11:25AM - 11:35AM	Break/Transition to Breakout Sessions
11:35AM - 12:25PM	Breakout Sessions 2
2nd Floor Ballroom A	Breakout 2A - Emerging Contaminants & Brownfield Redevelopment Is It Possible	Advanced GeoServices, Holland & Knight, and Great American Insurance Group
2nd Floor Ballroom B	Breakout 2B - Expediting Brownfield Vapor Intrusion Assessment and Mitigation Efforts	Sanborn Head, Langan & VaporSafe
1st Floor Atrium	Breakout 2C - Focus Session: Help Us Grow	LSRPA, NYCBP, BCONE & NJSWEP
12:25PM - 12:50PM	Lunch & Networking	SynerGen Solar
2nd Floor Ballroom
12:50PM - 1:10PM	Awards and Scholarship Presentations
2nd Floor Ballroom
1:10PM - 1:20PM	Presenting Sponsor - Geoffrey Forrest, LSRP, Dresdner Robin
2nd Floor Ballroom
1:20PM - 1:55PM	Keynote Address - Jason Bram of the Federal Reserve Bank
2nd Floor Ballroom
1:55PM - 2:05PM	Break/Transition to Breakout Sessions
2:05PM - 2:55PM	Breakout Sessions 3
2nd Floor Ballroom A	Breakout 3A - Risks of Resilience and Sea Level Rise in Waterfront Opportunity Zones: The New Due Diligence	AKRF
2nd Floor Ballroom B	Breakout 3B - Getting Your Fill of Fill - A Discussion of the Issues Brownfield Developers Should Be Aware of When Testing, Disposing and Reusing Building Materials, Including Concrete, Brick and Block&	Peak Environmental LLC and Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC
2:55PM - 3:05PM	Break/Transition to 2nd Floor Ballroom
3:05PM - 3:30PM	Lightning Round Talks
2nd Floor Ballroom A	Lightning Talk A - Leveraging the Power of Advocacy to Strengthen DC's Climate Ready Plan	Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
2nd Floor Ballroom A	Lightning Talk B - SPEED - NYC's Updated Environmental Mapping Application	NYCBP
2nd Floor Ballroom A	Lightning Talk C - Sustainability in Development Practice for Impacted Sites Applying Front End Re-Metrics to Building Demolition, Remediation and Construction Planning	GEI Consultants
3:30PM-3:35PM	Poster Award - Presented by Colleen Kokas, Environmental Liability Transfer
3:35PM - 3:45PM	Wrap-Up & Closing: Steve Jaffe, BCONE President and Rick Shoyer, NSCW Chair
3:45PM - 5:15PM	Reception and NSCW 10th Anniversary Cake-Cutting Ceremony
2nd Floor Gallery

CEC Credit Information

Licensed Site Remediation Professionals:

• DE, NY & PA - No requirement for continuing education
• NJ - Attendees can earn 1 Technical CEC per hour of attendance, up to a total of 2.5 Technical.  However, if they attend Breakout 2A instead of 2B, they would earn 2.0 Technical and .5 Regulatory.  No LSRP can earn more than a total of 2.5 CECs total. 

Legal - Attorneys

• MA - No requirement for continuing education
  
• PA / NY - 4.5 CLEs
  
• NJ - Course No. 193 - 7.2 CLEs 

Professional Engineers

• NJ Professional Engineers has been approved for 6.0
• MA, PA & CT - No requirement for continuing education

Professional Geologists

• NJ, NY, MA, PA & CT - No requirements for continuing education OR it's on an honor system and a course completion certificate will suffice when audited.
  
• DE - students can apply on their own for no charge.

Planners

• NJ, NY & PA have no requirements for continuing education