EPA at WEFTEC - EPA Speaker Series at WEFTEC
EPA Participation at WEFTEC
October 5-9, 2024
The EPA Speaker Series returns this year at booth #1939, covering a broad range of National Water Program resources, tools, and programs.
EPA will also be hosting “office hours” to facilitate one-on-one dialogs with staff experts to answer your questions. Visit the booth to gain valuable face-to-face access to agency experts, who are available to discuss priority topics such as affordability, environmental justice, PFAS, resilience, and sustainability.
Below is a schedule for the EPA Speaker Series and “office hours.” All times listed are central local time. Please note, speakers are subject to change.
| Monday, October 7 |
Topic | EPA Team Member |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Speaker Series: Wastewater Surveillance: Methods, Sampling Design, and Mapping |
Smiti Nepal |
| 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Speaker Series: Build America, Buy America; and American Iron and Steel | Leslie Corcelli |
| 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Speaker Series: Financing Flexibilities Offered in a WIFIA Loan | Brian Donovan, Ashley Osler |
| 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Build America, Buy America; and American Iron and Steel | Leslie Corcelli |
| 11:20 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. | Publicly-Owned Treatment Works Influent Study (PFAS): EPA’s New Study Identifying Industrial Sources of PFAS through a Collaboration with POTW Partners across the Nation | Sean Dempsey |
| 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Speaker Series: Emerging Contaminants | Dr. Cissy Ma |
| 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Clean Water State Revolving Fund (including CWSRF Emerging Contaminants) | Michael Deane, Heather Strathearn, Smiti Nepal, Jake Adler, Logan Loadholtz |
| 1:20 p.m. - 1:35 p.m. | Speaker Series: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Technical Assistance Initiative | Rebecca Reilly-Lott |
| 1:35 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Technical Assistance | Rebecca Reilly-Lott, Addison Chau, Mindy Luetke, Travis Ostrom |
| 1:40 p.m. - 1:55 p.m. | Speaker Series: New Technical, Financial, and Regulatory Support Tools for Wastewater Lagoons | Jake Adler |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. | Facilitated Discussion: Current Perspectives on the Design of Nature-based Solutions for Wastewater Treatment | Emily Parker, Michael Mezzacapo |
| 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Speaker Series: WIFIA Financing for Small and Disadvantaged Communities | Brian Donovan |
| Tuesday, October 8 |
Topic | EPA Team Member |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Office Hours: Stormwater | Lisa Biddle |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Speaker Series: Co-digestion, Renewable Identification Numbers, and Energy Recovery at Water Resource Recovery Facilities |
Phil Zahreddine, Dr. Cissy Ma |
| 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | PFAS in Biosolids: EPA’s Biosolids Risk Assessment for PFOA and PFOS, Upcoming National Sewage Sludge Survey, and Other Biosolids Program Activities | Colleen Flaherty |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Clean Water Technology Center | Jerome Oliver, Emily Parker, Jake Adler, Wenxin Liu |
| 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Speaker Series: Build America, Buy America; and American Iron and Steel | Achal Raj, Aaron Tytschkowski |
| 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Office Hours: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permitting | Kathryn Kazior |
| 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Speaker Series: Clean Watersheds Needs Survey/ Sewershed Mapping | Smiti Nepal |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | ELGs CAFO Study under the Effluent Guidelines and Limitations Program | Paul Shriner |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Build America, Buy America; and American Iron and Steel | Leslie Corcelli, Achal Raj, Aaron Tytschkowski |
| 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act | Brian Donovan, Ashley Osler |
| 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. | Speaker Series: Using WIFIA Funding to Complete Capital Improvement Plan Projects | Brian Donovan, Ashley Osler |
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Federal Funding Opportunities and Risk Assessment Tools to Assist Communities for Climate Impacts | Zach Schaffer, Frances Josephs, Aliza Furneaux, Audrey Ramming |
| Wednesday, October 9 |
Topic | EPA Team Member |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Speaker Series: Build America, Buy America; and American Iron and Steel | Leslie Corcelli |
| 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Speaker Series: Innovative Technology and Intelligent Water Systems State Revolving Fund Investment | Jerome Oliver, Heather Strathearn |
| 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Speaker Series: Preparing Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems for Climate Change Impacts | Emily Parker, Michael Mezzacapo, Heather Strathearn |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Stormwater Technical Assistance | Travis Ostrom |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Office Hours: Clean Water Technology Center |
Smiti Nepal, Jerome Oliver, Emily Parker, Heather Strathearn, Jake Adler, Michael Mezzacapo |