Restoring Greenspace/June 23-24/Philadelphia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Submitted by  "Vanessa Kauffman" <vkauffman@wildlifehc.org>:

Don't Miss this Opportunity to Register at Current Rates for WHC's 2004
Restoring Greenspace Conference! 

Wildlife Habitat Council 
Presents:
Restoring Greenspace:
Using Ecological Enhancements at Regions 2 & 3 Contaminated Sites
June 23-24, 2004
Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue

The current deadline for present rates, May 28, is around the corner!
Visit online
http://www.wildlifehc.org/events/restoringgreenspace.cfm to sign up
today! Space is limited and it is important that you register now to
ensure you have a spot and take advantage of lower rates.

Contact greenspace@wildlifehc.org for questions or more information.

WELCOME

The Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) works with its member companies and
conservation groups on voluntarily enhancing properties for wildlife
habitat benefits and promotes the inclusion of ecological enhancements
as part the restoration efforts for a site. 

WHC has made significant progress in achieving these goals through a
series of conferences. The first three conferences were designed to
discuss the barriers and develop strategies associated with the
implementation of ecological enhancements on contaminated lands. The
'white paper' entitled "Making the Case for Ecological Enhancements" was
generated by participants to highlight the benefits, relevant
considerations and implementation standards used in the development of
ecological enhancements.  

Moving to the regional level, WHC is promoting on-the-ground measures
and developing demonstration sites to increase the use of ecological
enhancements in restoration efforts. We are using the conference in
Philadelphia, June 23-24, 2004, to promote this effort and we hope you
can participate.  

WHC thanks the following sponsors: ODUSD I&E, BP, Bridgestone Americas
Holding, Inc., ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This meeting is
supported by the U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
(OSWER) and Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST). (As of May 24, 2004.)

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Corporate Landowners - Project Managers, Corporate Remediation Managers
Individual Landowners
Developers- Commercial and Residential
Service Providers, Technology Vendors, and Consultants
Local, State and Federal Regulators
Community Groups 
Environmental Groups

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

* Present findings of policy and technical experts in Regions 2 and 3 on
benefits and lessons learned from projects where ecological enhancements
have been implemented as interim remediation measures and end uses. 
* Take a first hand look, via field trips, at sites in Regions 2 and 3
where ecological enhancements have been successfully incorporated as
part of site restoration efforts.
* Identify innovative partnerships and approaches to brownfields
remediation using ecological enhancements in the urban environment.
* Establish a multi-stakeholder workgroup that will work in Regions 2
and 3 after the conference to develop an implementation action plan to
increase the use of ecological enhancements. 

As background, for the past three summers, WHC organized and hosted
meetings of industry, government and conservation organizations to
promote the inclusion of ecological enhancements as part of site
restoration programs in Superfund, RCRA Corrective Action and
Brownfields. Some key results of the conferences are the creation of an
Objectives and Action Agenda that presents a set of recommendations and
strategies to an assembled audience of key stakeholders in industry,
government and the conservation community on how to implement this
concept more efficiently. 

Also, WHC entered in cooperative agreements with EPA's OSWER and OUST to
implement the recommendations of the Objectives and Action Agenda. The
first regional conference outside Chicago was highly successful and
focused on the implementation of ecological enhancements at the local
level. Proceedings of all the conferences are posted online at http://www.wildlifehc.org/events/rcra.cfm.

LIMITED EXHIBIT SPACE AVAILABLE

Join Bridgestone Americas Holdings, CDM, CH2M Hill, NOAA, Five Star
Restorations and URS, just to name a few in the exhibit hall.  There are
a limited number of exhibit spaces available for corporations,
consulting firms, government agencies and NGOs to present information
that demonstrates the use, values and experiences in applying ecological
enhancements in site remediation.  The exhibition will be used
throughout the conference, during breaks and pre- and post- conference
sessions as part of the sharing of information that will further
encourage the use of this approach.  We encourage those interested to
sign up quickly for this limited space online at
http://www.wildlifehc.org/events/restoringgreenspace_registration.cfm.
If you are a NGO, please contact us for special consideration.

The Wildlife Habitat Council is a nonprofit, non-lobbying organization
dedicated to increasing the quality and amount of wildlife habitat on
corporate, private and public lands. WHC devotes its resources to
building partnerships with corporations and conservation groups to
create solutions that balance the demands of economic growth with the
requirements of a healthy, bio-diverse and sustainable environment. http://www.wildlifehc.org

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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