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RECENT EVENTS
The Environmental
Protection Agency (Border 2012 Program), together with the City of Chula Vista
and the Baja California Emergency Management Institute recently
sponsored a program developed by the American College of Medical
Toxicology on Chemical Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism.
Basically, it was a great program that discussed the potential impacts
of toxic industrial chemicals. Some of the presentations were
given in English and others in Spanish and on site translation was
available for those of us whose English or Spanish could use a little
work.
This course and
others like it are available from the Border 2012 Project. For
more information in bringing a course like this to your community,
please contact us.
CONFERENCES
The Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of
The American Chemical Society will be held in Tucson, AZ from
October 14-18, 2006. Stephen Melvin will be speaking on Chemical
Facility Vuulnerability Assessments.
The
Continuing Challenge Hazardous Materials Conference will be in
September of this year in Sacramento. More information can be found
at: http://www.hazmat.org/
The
Public Agency Risk Manager's Association (PARMA) Conference will be
next February in Monterey, CA. More information is available at: http://www.parma.com/index.cfm?pageid=545
The
Refrigerating Engineers and Technicians Association (RETA) Conference
will be in Dallas, TX this October. More information is available
at: http://www.reta.com/convention/2006/RETA_2006_convention_reg_pkt_6-4-06.pdf.
These are from Al Fisher from the EPA. For more info on these
conferences, contact him at fischer.al@epamail.epa.gov.
Oct. 17-18 Arizona Commemorates EPCRA (Emergency Planning and
Community
Right-to-Know Act),
Holiday Inn, Casa Grande, AZ (This is a
commemoration of the 20th anniversary of a principal U.S. EPA regulatory act). Two
days of presentations, including U.S. EPA Pacific Southwest Region 9,
and booths/exhibits; organized by the Arizona Emergency Response
Commission (SERC).
Nov. 13-16
HazMat Explo 10, The Orleans Hotel, Las Vegas; the annual mid-year NASTTPO
conference and our (U.S. EPA) Western Regions EPA conference will also
be conducted at the same location. NASTTPO- National Association
of SARA Title Three Program Officials. The EPA conference is
organized and conducted by Region 9 Emergency Prevention and Preparedness
Section (of which I am a member) and is for EPA Regions 9 (San Francisco
office), 10 (Seattle), and 8 (Denver). Our conference focuses on LEPCs in
the regions. This will be HazMat Explo's 10th year, and the three
conferences collectively bring between 700-800 local, state and national
officials to The Orleans Hotel.
If
you are planning a conference or other event and would like Stephen
Melvin
to appear, please call us at (951) 764-3626 or email us at: info@oursafetowns.com.
His bio and information are available here.
TRAINING
CLASSES
Congressman
Rohrabacher's office (in Orange/LA County) is still sponsoring
regular classes on anti-terrorism topics. If you would like more
information on these classes, please let us know.
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