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Tuesday, October 20^th AM Technical Session 1 (EDT)

Time

Speaker(s)

9:45 -10:00

Halina Duda
NYS DEC &
NASLR President

Welcome / Opening Remarks

10:00 –10:30

Ken Eltschlager
OSMRE

Reclamation Contract Considerations for Blasting Operations

10:30 –11:00

Dean Spindler,
Jeff Steiner,
Kristi Dodson
IL DNR

Cropland Reclamation Under SMCRA: Forty-Three Years Later
Abstract
Slideshow

11:00 -11:30

Dr. Kenton Sena
University of Kentucky

Creative solutions to complex ecological challenges: Lessons from an experimental loblolly pine plantation in Kentucky

11:30 -12:00

Matt Metzger
Millborn Seeds

Applied Soil Health Principles

Tuesday, October 20^th PM Technical Session 2 (EDT)

Time

Speaker(s)

Title

3:00 –3:30

Vishnu Srinivasaraghavan
IL DNR

Disparities in Calculating Treatment Costs for Acidic Water When Comparing Field and LabData: A Case Study of the Will Scarlet Mine in Illinois

3:30 –4:00

Sean Mooney
Callanan Industries, Inc.

Operational and safety issues associated with the collapse of undetected historic underground mines

4:00 –5:00

Dr. Martin Rutstein

Naturally Occurring Asbestos: What’s Asbestos?
Definitions, Identification, Characterization
What to do About “It” in Reclamation?

Wednesday, October 21^st AM Technical Session 3 (EDT)

Time

Speaker(s)

Title

10:00 –10:30

Chris McKelvey
NYS DEC

Reclamation of abandoned sites with seized financial security

10:30-11:00

Joseph Moskiewicz
Jonah Blustain
BLM

Mining and Reclamation on Federal Lands in Nevada

11:00-11:30

Kevin Krogstad♥
MT DEQ 

Comparing Monitoring Data to a Moving Baseline (additional detail is in presenter annotation of pdf)

11:30-12:00

Mike Haney, PA DEP & Vice President of NASLR and Executive Committee Members

NASLR/Closing Remarks