Tuesday, March 20 8:00 am 12:00 pm Registration Open 8:00 am 9:30 am Continental Breakfast 8:30 am 5:30 pm Annual Meeting & Conference 8:30 am 9:00 am President s Welcome & Opening Remarks State of SCAA Union Address Board Elections / Report 9:00 am 10:00 am Millennials and the Not So Fine Art of Emergency Response Devon Grennan, Moderator: Angie Martin, Heritage Environmental Services LLC Patrick Altendorf, Acme Products Tim House, Moran Environmental Services LLC Bob May, HEPACO, LLC Joe Rohlfing, Heritage Environmental Services LLC Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce. More than 35 million millennials and Generation-Y employees (those born after 1980) are starting their careers and looking for jobs with companies who can meet their aspirations. This panel will explore the Millennial personality and temperament, focusing on differences from previous generations. We will share our experiences, positive and negative, in integrating this generation into our workforces. The Millennials on this panel will provide insight to what attracts this age group to companies and how companies keep and groom our future leaders. This is about more than just salary and benefits: according to the Human Resources Management Center, millennials are looking for purpose. They are attracted to businesses focused on solving problems in society, who develop professionals, and offer the prospect of flexibility, well-being and growth 10:00 am 10:30 am Morning Break
Tuesday, March 20 (continued) 10:30 am 12:00 pm SCAA Government & Regulatory Affairs Update Government Affairs Initiatives Summary of Partnership Action Team (PAT) Meetings DOT Hours of Service Initiative Current Regulatory Trends Federalism and the Trump Administration. Changing Landscapes Between States & Federal Questions & Answers Open Discussion 12:00 pm 2:00 pm SCAA Luncheon 1:00 pm 2:00 pm Luncheon Keynote Address Unity of Effort Moderator: Devon Grennan, Brian House, Moran Environmental Services LLC Angie Martin, Heritage Environmental Services LLC John Temperilli, Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, LLC (CTEH) Devon Grennan, CDR Valerie Boyd, USCG Liaison Officer to FEMA 2:00 pm 3:30 pm Better Serving Your Customers Through Innovation Moderators: Tim Acri, EMS, Inc. and Donny Beaver, HalenHardy, LLC James Bubba Bryan, Norfolk Southern Railway Chris Lawhead, Duke Energy In order to achieve success you must work on your business every single day. Ranging from overall business strategy through finance, human resources, technology, operations and the quality of your products or services. Every person in an organization is needed to achieve an amazing customer experience but using innovation can increase this experience for the Customer. Customer expectations and competitive offerings are always on the rise. Your processes, policies, skills, and motivations have a lot to do with keeping customers coming back and even more to do with customers deciding not to come back. Think of your own situation as a customer whenever you ve decided not to go back to a certain product, service or place, it was usually because you were turned off by a process, policy, skill, or motivation, right? This session will hopefully present a few ideas on how you can use innovation to impress your Client so they keep coming back.
Tuesday, March 20 (continued) Daily Program 3:30 pm 4:00 pm Afternoon Break 4:00 pm 4:30 pm NOFO (Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies) and its Oil on Water Program Don Toenshoff, Jr., IBC Renewables, LLC Director and a Private Equity Investor A brief introduction to NOFO and the annual Oil on Water R&D program. 4:30 pm 5:30 pm Moving Past the UAS Basics: Advanced UAS Application Strategies and Operations Moderator: Robert Chambers, Global Risk Solutions, Inc. John Bradley, H20 Environmental, Inc. Lisa DiPinto, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration Jay Cho, BSEE Oil Spill Presparedness Division Response Research Branch Improved old strategies in fast water booming with Drones, Extreme Shallow Water Boats, and portable winch systems. Using heavy lift drones to assist us in rigging our boom sites. Deploying Boom faster, safer and with less Human Resources. 5:30 pm 7:00 pm Formal Reception Crystal Ballroom Hilton Hotel
Wednesday, March 21 Daily Program 8:30 am 9:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:00am 4:30 pm Annual Meeting & Conference 9:00 am 10:30 am Lessons Learned From Our Safety Committee Moderator: Stephen Pelna, The Lewis Group Val Garner, SWS Environmental Services Steve Pavlovich, SET Environmental, Inc. Dan Sobieski, Witt O Brien s Members of SCAA s Safety Committee will bring forward lessons learned from their daily operations. Topics will showcase an in-depth look at actual events which have occurred. The discussion will then go a step further to speak about the efforts employed to eliminate the potential of a similar event from occurring again. Those efforts will then be examined to see how successful they were. Recommendations will be made for others to follow the same path. 10:30 am 11:00 am Morning Break 11:00 am 12:00 pm SCAA Committee Meetings Open to all SCAA members SCAA Communications / Marketing Committee SCAA FEL SCAA Finance Committee SCAA Membership Committee SCAA Past Presidents & Nominating Committee SCAA Planning Committee SCAA Technical Advancement Committee Moderator: John Silva, Moran Environmental Recovery LLC Devon Grennan, Chair Tim House, Chair Nelson Fetgatter, Chair John Parker, Chair Scott Metzger, Chair John Silva, Chair Wally Landry, Chair This session will provide an opportunity for each SCAA Committee Chair to inform the SCAA membership of the framework of each committee. SCAA encourages all SCAA members to join the committee(s) of their choice.
Wednesday, March 21 (continued) 12:00 pm 1:30 pm Deli Luncheon 1:30 pm 3:00 pm Regulatory Updates Session: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association United States Coast Guard (MER) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) National Pollution Fund Center (NPFC) March 21 3:00 pm 3:30 pm Industry Partners Update: APICOM American Salvage Association (ASA) Moderator: John Allen, Spill Control Association of America (SCAA) David Westerholm, Office of Response and Restoration (NOAA) Capt. Joseph B. Loring, Office of Marine Environmental Response Chief, Policy Development Division (CG-MER-1) John Caplis, Oil Spill Preparedness Division at the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Reggie Cheatham, Director, Office of Emergency Management David K. Lehman, Director, Oil Spill Preparedness and Emergency Support Division, Office of Pipeline Safety William Grawe, Director of the National Pollution Funds Center (NPFC) Matt Melton, Vice President (APICOM) Richard Fredricks, Executive Director (ASA)
Wednesday, March 21 (continued) 3:30 pm 3:40 pm Closing Remarks Devon Grennan, 3:40 pm 4:45 pm USCG National Pollution Funds Center Workshop Moderator: John Allen, Spill Control Association of America (SCAA) Robert Rioux, Deputy Division Chief of Claims Adjudication Division Donna Hellberg, Lead Program Analyst, Claims Division William Dodson, Lead Program Analyst, Claims Division The National Pollution Funds Center is offering access to technical claims personnel to provide an understanding of the claims process, offer examples, and answer questions for response contractors and other potential claimants. Take the time to have direct access to those who can assist with your claim. 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Casual Reception Crystal City Sports Bar 529 23rd Street South Arlington (A short walk from the hotel)