Overview

The AFPM Environmental Conference program focuses on regulatory and policy issues at the plant level. The meeting format consists of both technical presentations and question and answer sessions. The sessions are designed to address the impacts of various environmental regulations on refineries and petrochemical plants and to provide solutions and compliance mechanisms for a facility. A tabletop session highlights technologies and systems developed or used by organizations to improve environmental compliance and controls. The Conference features industry experts from refining and petrochemical companies.

Online registration closes October 18, 2024.

 

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Schedule
Sunday October 20, 2024
12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Registration
01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Monday October 21, 2024
07:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Registration
07:30 AM - 08:00 AM
Monday Breakfast
Monday Speaker Breakfast
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
General Session: Welcome Remarks & Keynote Address
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
General Session: All They are is Dust in the Wind: The Annual PM2.5 NAAQS
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
General Session: Air Permitting Developments: Never a Dull Moment
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
General Session: HON
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
General Session: LDAR/Gasoline Distribution
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Coffee Break
03:15 PM - 04:15 PM
General Session: It’s Getting Hot in Here – A Discussion on Climate Strategy and Reporting
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Tuesday October 22, 2024
07:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration
07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Tuesday Breakfast
Tuesday Speaker Breakfast
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
General Session: RMP
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
PFAS: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: The Ubiquity of PFAS and the Current Regulatory Regime to Manage all of it. Now.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
General Session: NSPS Kc
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Luncheon w/Speaker
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
General Session: BWON
Time Title
12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Registration
01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Time Title
07:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Registration
07:30 AM - 08:00 AM
Monday Breakfast
Monday Speaker Breakfast
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
General Session: Welcome Remarks & Keynote Address
John R. Auers — Managing Director, RBN Energy
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
General Session: All They are is Dust in the Wind: The Annual PM2.5 NAAQS
Rich Hamel — Technical Director, ALL4 LLC
Aaron Ramcharan, Baker Botts L.L.P.
Rohit Sharma — Manager, Environmental Issues, LyondellBasell Industries
Sam Short — TCEQ Deputy Director of Air Permits Division, TCEQ
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
General Session: Air Permitting Developments: Never a Dull Moment
Jon Bloomberg — Attorney, Squire Patton Boggs
Phillip Fish — Senior Chemical Engineer, Barr Engineering Co.
Patrick McKean — Managing Consultant, Trinity Consultants, Inc.
Christopher Whitehead — Sr. Environmental Justice Consultant, Worley Consulting
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Aurelia S. Giacometto — Secretary of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
General Session: HON
David Dempsey, Trinity Consultants, Inc.
Doug Goetz — Program Manager, Clean Air Engineering
Hedrick Strickland — Environmental Consultant, TRICORD Consulting, LLC
Andrew Woerner — Partner, Environmental Resources Management
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
General Session: LDAR/Gasoline Distribution
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Coffee Break
03:15 PM - 04:15 PM
General Session: It’s Getting Hot in Here – A Discussion on Climate Strategy and Reporting
Kyle Brzymialkiewicz — Vice President - Gulf Coast, Anew Climate
Michael Cheatham — Associate Technical Partner, Engineer, Environmental Resources Management (ERM)
Amy M Marshall — Air Quality Practice Director, ALL4 LLC
Connie Prostko-Bell, ALL4
Mike Waller, Ashworth Leininger Group
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Time Title
07:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration
07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Tuesday Breakfast
Tuesday Speaker Breakfast
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
General Session: RMP
Alexandra H Bromer, Perkins Coie
Alana Hodge — PSM/RMP Compliance Manager, Provenance Consulting | Trinity Consultants
Cicely Striolo — Global Manager, Oil & Gas and Chemicals, Copperleaf Technologies Inc.
Joel Trinkle — Sr. Air Quality Consultant/Vice President, Barr Engineering Co.
Allison Ahcan — Principal Consultant, Environmental Resources Management
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM
Rebecca Broussard — Office of Emergency Management, U.S. EPA/HQ
Jeff Gunnulfsen — Senior Director of Security & Chemical Risk Management, AFPM
Misty Sinclair, Trinity Consultants, Inc.
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
PFAS: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: The Ubiquity of PFAS and the Current Regulatory Regime to Manage all of it. Now.
Daniel Compton — Corporate Sales Director/ PFAS SME, Veolia North America
Adam Driscoll — Environmental Engineer, Barr Engineering Co.
Doug Hatler, Altra Sanexen
Matthew Hodges — Director, Regional Env. and Regulatory Affairs, Valero Energy Corporation
Jenny K. Phillips — Director, Technical Development Unit, TRC
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
General Session: NSPS Kc
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Luncheon w/Speaker
Matthew Leopold — Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
General Session: BWON
Ron Clark — Executive Vice President, PROtect, LLC
Larry G. Darcey P.E. — Environmental Manager, Galveston Bay Refinery
Taras Lewus — Regional Vice President, Atlas Technical Consultants
Dawn Neal — Client Relationship Manager, TRICORD Consulting, LLC
Justin A. Savage — Partner, Sidley Austin
David R. Wall — Regional Manager, Trinity Consultants, Inc.

Registration

Registration fees are based on AFPM membership. If your company is a member of AFPM, you qualify for the member fees.

Save $100 on registration fees by registering on or before September 30th. Registration fees increase on October 1. Online registration closes on October 18, 2024.

Registration Cancellation Policy

Cancellations may be made by September 20, 2024 with no penalty. Cancellations made online or written cancellations postmarked, faxed, or emailed between September 21 and October 4, 2024 will receive a refund of fees, less a $100 processing fee. No refunds after October 4, 2024. No telephone cancellations.

Workshop Fees
Fee By September 30 After September 30
Member $350.00 $450.00
Non-Member $495.00 $595.00
Registration Fees
Name Price Available To
Member Registration - Early $950.00 Member/Government
Member Registration - Late $1,050.00 Member/Government
Non-Member Registration - Early $1,450.00
Non-Member Registration - Late $1,550.00
Spouse Registration $100.00

Details

Registration Includes:

Admission to the general sessions, the reception and tabletop session on Monday, and luncheons Monday and Tuesday.

Who Should Attend:

Environmental representatives of refinery and petrochemical plants and service organizations will benefit from attending this conference.

Meeting Attire:

Business Casual (no tie; jacket optional)

Travel Information:

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport - 15.3 miles - 30 minutes

Taxi: Approximate cost from the Louis Armstrong Airport to the downtown hotels is approximately $45 one way.
Valet Parking: $49.00 daily

Housing

Reservations cannot be made prior to registration. Upon completion of registration, on the registration confirmation page as well as in your confirmation email you will be provided instructions on how to reserve your hotel accommodations. Should you have any trouble in making your reservations please contact us at ENV@afpm.org

Be sure to register and reserve your room by the cut-off date of September 30th.After September 30th, reservations will be accepted on a space available basis at the prevailing rate.

New Orleans Marriott
555 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70130


Guest Room:
Room Rate: $249.00 Single/Double Occupancy per night plus applicable taxes

By registering for this meeting you signify that you have read, understand, and agree to abide by AFPM's policies on registration, housing, cancellation, spouse/guest registration, and fees.

REGISTRATION POLICY
Those who are present at the site of an AFPM meeting and/or occupy a hotel room in the AFPM room block to conduct business with industry personnel gathered for that meeting are expected to register for that meeting and pay the registration fee, whether or not they attend a specific function.

FEE POLICY
Member Fee Eligibility - The member rate is based on membership information currently on file with AFPM. If your company is not currently a member, the non-member fees will be charged to your credit card.

SPOUSE/GUEST POLICY
A guest is a spouse/significant other, friend or an adult child (18 years old or older) who is not in an industry-related occupation. A co-worker, an associate or spouse who works within the industry may not use the Spouse/Guest Registration category.

CANCELLATION POLICY
Registration cancellations may be made online or emailed to ENV@afpm.org Substitute conference registrations may be made in advance or on arrival with no penalty, and must be submitted in writing to ENV@afpm.org.

Cancellations may be made by September 20, 2024 with no penalty. Cancellations made online or written cancellations postmarked, faxed, or emailed between September 21 and October 4, 2024 will receive a refund of fees, less a $100 processing fee. No refunds after October 4, 2024. No telephone cancellations.

RECORDING POLICY
Video recording, streaming or broadcasting of the exhibit hall, general sessions, workshops and discussions is strictly prohibited. Audio recording is permitted only in the workshops and for the sole purpose of private use. Any recording for purposes of reproduction or distribution without the written consent of the AFPM is strictly prohibited.

PHOTO RELEASE
By registering for this conference, I hereby grant AFPM, its licensees and assigns, the right to use my name, biographic material, as well as, photos, or videos taken of me during the conference in news media, websites, publications, programs, articles, and/or marketing materials.

AFPM Antitrust Guidelines
AFPM takes its antitrust compliance obligations seriously and our antitrust policy goes beyond the minimum requirements.

To ensure compliance with the antitrust laws and avoid any appearance of anticompetitive activity, every participant in AFPM meetings and AFPM activities must adhere to the AFPM antitrust guidelines.

Therefore, there should be no discussion or disclosure of information with respect to:

  • Individual company's prices, profits, premiums, surcharges, or discounts;

  • your intent to do business with specific customers;

  • proposed product offerings;

  • allocation of geographic or product markets;

  • any refusal to deal with a customer or supplier;

  • how to respond to the market behavior of a competitor;

  • company's non-public, confidential information; or

  • any other topic involving a potentially anticompetitive practice.


It is not only your duty to follow the AFPM policy, but also to affirmatively stop any conversations on impermissible subjects. If a discussion presents an antitrust issue, raise your concern immediately. If the discussion continues, announce that you are leaving the meeting because you have an antitrust concern and immediately report your concern to AFPM staff and legal counsel. These Guidelines apply both during the meeting and at informal social events involving AFPM members.

This reference is an overview of AFPM's Antitrust Guidelines. It is not a substitute for legal counsel. Any and all antitrust related concerns should be addressed to AFPM's General Counsel.

ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL CONDUCT CODE
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (“AFPM”) has adopted the following “Ethical Responsibility and Professional and Personal Conduct Code” (hereinafter, “the Code”). Every member of AFPM, their designated representatives, and non-member attendees at all AFPM meetings and forums agree to abide by the Code as a condition of membership in AFPM and attendance and participation at AFPM meetings and forums.

The Code requires the following of all individuals attending AFPM meetings and forums:
• Adherence to the AFPM bylaws and the AFPM policies and procedures, as adopted by AFPM’s Board of Directors.
• Strict compliance with antitrust laws.
• Adherence to all applicable federal and state laws.
• Maintenance of the highest level of professional and personal ethical behavior while attending AFPM meetings and forums.
• Prevention of certain behaviors, including harassment, violence, intimidation and discrimination of any kind involving race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or, where applicable, veteran or marital status.
• Assurance that conduct at all times and in all professional and personal dealings with each other and other attendees is with the highest level of integrity and courtesy.
• Sharing of knowledge and expertise as speakers at AFPM educational events and sessions whenever practicable, without soliciting or explicitly promoting their own organization's products or services.
• Working to instill public and consumer confidence in the petrochemical and refining industries, its member companies, and its professionals, avoiding any action conducive to discrediting members of AFPM.
• Refraining from scheduling general attendance meetings, receptions or other events at times that conflict with substantive programming or social events at AFPM meetings without express written permission of AFPM.

Failure to abide by the Code may result, for the first offense, in informal censure of a company or individual by the AFPM Executive Committee. If violations of the Code continue after such an informal censure, a company may be subject to expulsion from AFPM, or an individual to exclusion from participation in AFPM activities, by the Board of Directors.

ENTERTAINMENT POLICY
We ask your cooperation in observing Association policy on activities held in conjunction with any AFPM meeting:

• Meetings or social activities should not be scheduled that take registrants away from AFPM programs and AFPM-sponsored activities;
• Any company sponsoring a function to which 25 or more people are invited should outline its plans for advance approval by AFPM. In general, such functions will be approved if they do not unduly take registrants away from AFPM-sponsored activities;
• All representatives of companies sponsoring hospitality activities are expected to register for the meeting;
• Food, beverage and service personnel (bartenders, hostesses, etc.) must be obtained through the hotel catering department;

Sponsorship Information

Show your support for the industry and get additional exposure at the conference by sponsoring at the Environmental Conference.

Sponsorship opportunities are available. Send an inquiry to Latoya Britt at sponsorships@afpm.org.

Download the sponsorship brochure

Name Description Price
Custom Room Keys AFPM offers the premier knowledge-sharing conference to keep you well informed of today’s environmental regulatory and policy issues that affect your facility. Learn from the best in the field on diverse air, water, and waste topics during the AFPM Environmental Conference. $5,000 Select
Session Sponsor: Monday, October 21, General Session - HON AFPM offers the premier knowledge-sharing conference to keep you well informed of today’s environmental regulatory and policy issues that affect your facility. Learn from the best in the field on diverse air, water, and waste topics during the AFPM Environmental Conference. $5,000 Select