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Hyatt Regency, Phoenix at Civic Plaza, June 5, 2007 |
| The Water Resources Research Center thanks everyone who attended and helped make the conference a success. |
Many of the speakers have given permission to post their presentations. Those presentations are posted below. All presentations are copyright their respective owners and neither text nor graphics may be reused without express permission from the copyright owner. 7:30 – 8:10 Registration and
light breakfast 8:10 – 8:15 Welcome: Sharon
Megdal, Director, Water Resources Research Center, The University of Arizona 8:15 – 8:30 Opening
Remarks: "Environmental Protection in Arizona: How Far Have We Come?”
Grant Woods, Attorney, Grant Woods PC, former Arizona Attorney General 8:30 – 9:00 Keynote: "Political
Dynamics and the Water Quality Act" Jack Pfister, former General Manager, Salt River Project and Professor, Arizona State University, retired 9:00 – 10:00 History
of the Environmental Quality Act: Past challenges and
the
beginning of ADEQ Nancy Wrona (moderator), Director, Air Quality Division, ADEQ
Jim
Derouin, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP
Roger
Ferland, Partner, Quarles & Brady, LLP
Priscilla Robinson, Southwest Environmental Service, retired
10:00 – 10:15 Break 10:15 – 10:30 Former ADEQ Director Ed Fox (1991-1994) 10:30 – 11:30 WQARF: Past, present and future
Tamara Huddleston (moderator), Section Chief Counsel, Environmental Enforcement Section
Arizona Office of the Attorney
General
Karen
Gaylord, Attorney, Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC
Rick Lavis, Executive Vice President, Arizona Cotton Growers Association
Jim Vieregg, Director of Government Relations, Abrams Airborne
Mfg., Inc. 11:30 – 11:45 Former ADEQ Director
Russell Rhoades(1995-1998)
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch
Recognition of Legislative Leaders: The Honorable Senator Jake Flake, Arizona Senate District 5 The Honorable Representative Ray Barnes, Arizona House District 7 Introduction of the Luncheon Keynote: Samuel Coppersmith, Partner, Coppersmith Gordon Schermer Owens & Nelson, PLC Luncheon Keynote: “The State of ADEQ,” Stephen Owens, Director, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality 1:30 – 2:30 Emerged
and Emerging Contaminants: The Past and Future in Water Quality Science Chuck Graf (moderator), Associate Director, ADEQ Coordinator, Arizona Water Institute Phil Lagas, Vice President, Brown & Caldwell Paul Westerhoff, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University David Quanrud, Research Scientist, Office of Arid Lands Studies, The University of Arizona 2:30 – 3:45 Emerging Policy Challenges Joan Card (moderator), Director, Water Quality Division, ADEQ Delia Carlyle, Chairman, Ak Chin Indian Community Deb Hill, Supervisor, Coconino County Board of Supervisors (D-IV) Trevor Hill, President and CEO, Global Water David Modeer, Director, Tucson Water Sandy Bahr, Conservation Outreach Director, Sierra Club 3:45 - 4:00 Break 4:00– 5:15 The Future of ADEQ: Where do we go from here? (Moderated discussion) Patrick Cunningham (moderator), Deputy Director, ADEQ The Honorable Senator Carolyn Allen, Arizona Senate, District 8 The Honorable Senator Tom O’Halleran, Arizona Senate, District 1 Pat Mariella, Director, American Indian Policy & Leadership Development Center, Arizona State University Alexis Strauss, Director, Water Division, EPA Region 9 Karen Peters, Intergovernmental Programs Coordinator, City of Phoenix 5:30 Reception |
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