Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
2024 PAEP Annual Conference
Please mark your calendar now and plan to join PAEP at
Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center
State College, PA
September 11 – 13, 2024
PAEP Annual Communities Corridors & Connections Conference to engage on a diverse range of hot topics facing environmental professionals today. Taking place September 11-13, 2024, in State College, PA, at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center, the PAEP Annual offers the opportunity to exchange ideas and information and analyze current trends that will expand your knowledge, connections, and ability to stay informed and prepared for the future. Highlights of the agenda include:
- Overview of the Proposed Compensation Guidelines
- Preservation Jeopardy! Test Your Historic Preservation Knowledge
- Updates from PA DOT and PA DEP
- USFWS Species Status and Project Review Update
- And more!
Come Early for the PAEP Pre-Conference Workshop: Buckle Up and Learn to Navigate the Twists and Turns of NEPA in Transportation
Has NEPA sometimes left you feeling battered and bruised? At first glance, NEPA sometimes seems like it should be straightforward…until it isn’t. In route through transportation project delivery, inevitably there are twists, turns, bumps, and detours – whether they be regulatory changes, public controversy, project complexities, agency conflicts, etc. Some issues are anticipated, while others pop up when least expected, for further details on what to expect at this pre-conference workshop. Separate registration and fees are required.
To register for this course (it is not included in the PAEP Conference registration fee), please complete the requested information on the registration page. Note: The early registration cut-off date for PAEP members and non-members is August 16th. We strictly adhere to these cut-off dates to adequately prepare for the course.
The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center
- You must identify yourself as part of PAEP24A Conference to obtain the group rate. It is important that you indicate any special rooming needs or arrangements at the time of this call.
- Group Room Rate is $129 for Single/Double occupancy for standard guest room (the rate does not include taxes).
- PAEP cannot guarantee room availability. The discounted group rate concludes on August 16. Rooms will be available at the discounted rate until that date, or until the block is filled, whichever comes first. Please know that the PAEP room block usually fills well before the deadline. At that point, you are competing with other guests for rooms. Requests for reservations after August 16 will be accepted by the hotel on a space and rate availability basis. For those making reservations prior to the deadline, rooms may also be available at the group rate for the three days prior to and the three days after the actual conference to accommodate vacation planning.
Click Here to download the brochure.
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2024 PAEP Annual Conference
September 11, 2024 - September 13, 2024
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Beyond the Basics: PFAS Environmental
Behavior, Transport, and Remedies
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
at 12:00 (Noon) Eastern
Owing to the unique properties of the carbon-fluorine bond, PFAS are physically and chemically stable, have very low surface energies, and have excellent surfactant properties. Past and current uses of PFAS include uses in drilling fluids, heat transfer fluids, and to impart film forming properties (i.e., allowing water to “wet” an oil surface) in aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs). Additional uses of PFAS include coatings and inks, floor waxes, photographic emulsions, cleaning agents, lens anti-fog solutions, plating liquids, the manufacture of polymeric PFAS, mold-releasing agents, oil- and water-resistant surface treatments, and dry cleaning. These same properties that make PFAS useful in a broad variety of commercial, industrial, and consumer applications also have unique consequences towards their behavior in the environment and for treatment of these compounds. This talk will cover “the advanced basics” of PFAS definition, properties, and environmental chemistry and distribution, the implications for management and use of water resources, and will present an overview of the current landscape of remedial technologies.
Presenters: Jim Fenstermacher, PE, and PFAS Technical Lead for Ramboll Americas, provides leadership site investigation and remediation technologies and has over 30 years of environmental consulting industry experience, including research and development of innovative technologies to address PFAS impacts in the environment. His areas of expertise include site investigation and remediation of traditional and emerging contaminants, with emphasis in the areas of contaminant fate and transport, complex site characterization, and the designing and implementation of remedial systems. Jim leads Ramboll’s PFAS Subject Matter Expert team where he focuses on building relationships with academia and with technology developers to assess and bring emerging PFAS treatment technologies to clients. He also provides project teams across the company with remediation technical expertise including, technology selection and design, training and mentoring staff, and participation across multiple technology practice groups.
Registration Deadline: August 23, 2024
Note: Registration is for one entrant. Any other individuals who would like to join this session are required to complete their own registration forms. The registration fee is set per person, not per connection.
PAEP Members – Webinars are free to current members but you will still need to register.
Non-Members – the fee for the webinar is $20 per person.
Registrants will be sent an email, closer to the date of the event, providing information on how to join the webinar.
“The Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals aims to promote environmental education, research, planning, assessment, review, and management through the formation and operation of a nonpolitical multidisciplinary professional society.” The content of our webinar series is not developed by PAEP, but by the presenters themselves.
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August 28, 2024
August 28, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Past Events
Upcoming Events
Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency (P2E2) Roundtable Meeting at Walmart Distribution Center, Tobyhanna, Monroe County.
On August 20th the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals (PAEP) P2E2 Roundtable held its quarterly meeting at the Walmart distribution center in Monroe County. The topic focused on the robust sustainability practices including recycling and energy efficiency of the world’s largest retailer. The company provided a presentation and on-site tour where they explained that over 90% of the waste generated within the facility is recycled.
Walmart has “sustainability stations” strategically placed throughout the building. The company has over 17 miles of automated conveyors that ship over 300,000 cases of freight each day to Walmart stores in four states. The site consists of a 200 acre campus that includes the main distribution center building, which encompasses 1,250,000 square feet of floor space (30 acres under roof). Also housed on the campus is a truck maintenance garage, pump house, waste water treatment plant, and parking for over 2000 trailers.
New members of the Roundtable were welcomed and two have asked to join the Steering Committee. The new members asked many questions to Walmart’s senior management team. More information on Walmart’s sustainability program that focuses on energy, waste, and sustainable products can be found here.
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August 20, 2015 - November 3, 2015
12:00 am - 4:39 pm
Join us and see how Ultra-Poly recovers value from materials that are difficult or even previously impossible to process. Their operations have the potential to save significant natural resources and change recycling in America.
Click here for additional information
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Start Time
November 19, 2015
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Join us to discuss Geisinger Health System’s sustainability initiatives. Geisinger’s Sustainability Program works toward improving and increasing environmentally friendly programs and includes a focus on reducing waste, minimizing the use of hazardous materials, reducing energy and water use, preventing pollution of local waterways and increasing recycling efforts.
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February 4, 2016
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Come join your fellow PAEP members at Knute’s Pub in Shippensburg, PA to learn about Shippensburg University’s Center for Land Use and Sustainability (CLUS) and hear about some of the exciting projects with which the CLUS is involved. Social networking and Business Card Drawing will be from 5:30-6:00 PM with the presentation from 6:00 to 7:00 pm.
There will be no registration fee for the event; however, a head count is needed in advance to provide to the meeting location and to coordinate potential carpooling. Please RSVP to JT Graupensperger @ moc.inonnepnull@regrepsnepuargj or 717-620-5922 by Thursday, April 7, 2016.
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Shippensburg University's Center for Land Use And Sustainability
April 14, 2016
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
2016 Annual Conference 2016 PAEP Conference Registration Packet
May 11-13, 2016
Toftrees Resort, State College PA
***UPDATE On-Line Registration and Payment Closes at midnight on May 9, 2016. Payments Accepted at the Door via CC or Check***
You are cordially invited to participate in the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference at Toftrees Resort, in State College Pennsylvania.
Conference sessions and speakers will cover many subjects relevant to today’s issues, including an update to the FAST ACT, FERC process and regulations, energy independence, wetlands and streams impacts and mitigation, land recycling, public involvement in low income communities, an update tot he PA Conservation Explorer tool, regulatory permitting information, new PennDOT initiatives and mitigation for historic bridges.
Our keynote address will be made by PA DCNR State Secretary Cindy Dunn, a PAEP Karl Mason awardee. Ms. Dunn has been a supporter of PAEP, and we are pleasedshe can be here to update our members on the path DCNR is taking to protect Pennsylvania’s natural resources as well as discuss new DCNR programs.
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Full Conference
May 11, 2016 - May 13, 2016
2:00 pm - 12:30 pm Full Conference Registration includes attendance at each of the day’s events and meals for that day.- Non-Member Full Registration Includes one PAEP General Membership for 2016.
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May 11 : Off-site Tour Penn State Arboretum and Creamery
May 11, 2016
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Not included in the Full Registration
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May 11 : Welcome Reception
May 11, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Heavy Hors D’oeuvres/Cash Bar with Exhibitors
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May 12 : One-Day Rate
May 12, 2016
7:00 am - 8:30 pm Includes all sessions, meals and materials for that specific day. (This fee does not include PAEP membership dues for non-members.)
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May 12 : Reception Dinner
May 12, 2016
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May 13 : One-Day Rate
May 13, 2016
7:30 am - 12:30 pm - Includes all sessions, meals and materials for that specific day. (This fee does not include PAEP membership dues for non-members.)
A workshop for Environmental Professionals
The Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals (PAEP) in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Southeast Regional Office are proud to bring you a Professional Development Training Class:
Strategies for Wetland, Stream and Species Mitigation
(Ecological Offset Solutions)
When there are unavoidable impacts to wetlands, streams and endangered species habitats, those projects may be required to mitigate for the impacts to those natural resources. Whether this is a stand alone project on a single site or a linear project involving miles of potential impacts, planning for mitigation is an important task for the Environmental Professional, Resource Manager and Project Owner.
At our 2016 PAEP Annual Conference members of Resource Environmental Solutions (www.res.us) gave a great presentation on wetland and stream mitigation strategies, as well as the use of species/conservation habitat banking. Although Wetland Banking has been in existence for a long time and is the preferred mitigation strategy, banking use in eastern Pennsylvania is very limited. Both PennDOT and RES have successfully been using banking in central and western Pennsylvania for several years. Conor Gillespie and Jonathan Kasitz of RES will explain some of the available strategies that can be used to mitigate for unavoidable project impacts using a watershed approach, including the integration of wetland, stream and species mitigation.
We are sorry but space is limited to 50 people!
Friday July 29, 2016 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm
1st Floor Conference Room
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Southeast Regional Office
2 East Main Street
Norristown, PA 19401
For Directions and Parking information:
http://www.dep.pa.gov/About/Regional/SoutheastRegion/Pages/Directions.aspx
The PADEP Office is also conveniently located near public transportation facilities: SEPTA High Speed Line and Manayunk/Norristown Regional Line.
This is a Bring Your Own – Lunch and Learn Event
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PAEP/PADEP Workshop
July 29, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Date: Thursday, August 18, 2016
Time: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Place: ETAC/NCC: Fowler Family Southside Center 511 E. Third St., Bethlehem, PA 18015
Room 605 – Phone Number: 610.332.6103
Directions: From East or West: Find your best route to Rt. 22. Take the 378 S. exit. Follow Rt. 378 S to the Third Street exit. Merge left onto Third Street and follow to the 500 block. Click here for map and directions
Attendees Limit 25 attendees (max)
Cost: Free. (Please pass this on to anyone else you know who might be interested.)
RSVP: Mike Parrent (lim.liamnull@vic.tnerraP.L.leahciM Use “P2/E2 meeting” in the subject line. Please provide your name, title, business name, and phone number. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes as we will be walking for the tour!
Required: Attendees must be 18 years or older, no smoking, and no photographs allowed.
Deadline: Register by Thursday, August 11, 2016
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August 18, 2016
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
PA Conservation Explorer Lunch n’ Learn Event
presented by: Mr. Kent Taylor
Natural Resource Program Specialist, PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry
Kent will give an overview of the new PA Conservation Explorer, an online tool for conservation planning and PNDI environmental review. Participants will learn about the tool’s capabilities and how it has changed from the previous PNDI Environmental Review Tool. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session to help current users learn more about specific topics and issues.
WHEN: Friday, September 9th 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Check-in starting at 11:30 am)
WHERE: Civil and Environmental Consultant, Inc., Seminar Room 2, 333 Baldwin Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15205
COST: $10 – Members $15 – Non Members
Lunch will Consist of subs, fruit and various sides.
Register online by Tuesday, September 7th
OR
RSVP attendance to Sarah Lavin at sml104@pitt.edu, and have cash/check payable at door.
We will also be selling raffle tickets for a chance to win a beautiful wall art piece donated by one of our members. All proceeds will go towards our PAEP scholarship program.
Event Sponsors:
RHEA Engineers & Consultants, Inc.
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
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Western Section Lunch n' Learn
September 9, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Field Trip for Environmental Professionals
The Fort Washington business park and interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery County has been subject to significant flooding problems for decades. To help this issue, Upper Dublin Township contracted URS (now AECOM) to design and build two new flood-retarding structures along tributaries to Rapp Run and Pine Run. This project involved an interdisciplinary team of professionals from Colorado, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania and was successfully permitted and built within 3 years. The challenges to obtain the first regulatory approvals for a new “dam” in Pennsylvania since 1985 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Dam Safety, and Montgomery County Conservation District were discussed at PAEP’s annual conference in May 2016. Archeology, bog turtles, red-belly turtles, legacy sediment, visualization assessments, and the creation of a compensatory wetland mitigation site on a former soccer field were all components to creating structures that successfully control flood waters without adversely impacting the surrounding environment. Come see the structures and wetland mitigation sites in person and hear a synopsis of the project!
FREE for PAEP Members
$5 non-members
BYO Lunch
We are sorry but space is limited to 25 people!
Questions? Call 610-832-3597 or email moc.moceanull@leppop.harobed
Thursday October 6 , 2016 12:00 PM
McDonald’s Parking Lot
Dreshertown Plaza Shoppping Center
1650 Limekiln Pike, Dresher, PA 19025
Participants will be contacted in the event of inclement weather to advise if tour will be rescheduled
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Thursday
October 6, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Pennsylvania State Programmatic General Permit Lunch n’ Learn and Webinarpresented by: Mr. Jared N. Pritts U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District The PASPGP program is a general Section 404 permit issued under the federal Clean Water Act by the Corps on a Pennsylvania‐wide basis for activities that would cause no more than minimal adverse environmental effects. Jared will give a presentation outlining the significant changes made to the program within the newly enacted PASPGP‐5. WHEN: Lunch n’ Learn check‐in starts at 11:30 am Civil and Environmental Consultants, Inc. Seminar Room 2333 Baldwin Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15205 Live Webinar: Online via GoToMeeting.com Cost: Lunch will consist of assorted subs and various sides. Register by Tuesday, October 11th ONLINE OR RSVP attendance to Sarah Lavin at ude.ttipnull@401lms, and have cash/check payable at door. NOTE: If you plan on attending the live webinar, you MUST register online. |
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RHEA Engineers & Consultants, Inc. Civil and Environmental Consultants, Inc. |
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Oct 13th Lunch n' Learn
October 13, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm