September 20, 2007 Mercury Stocks Stakeholder Panel Meeting

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Location: Holiday Inn Capitol Hill
550 C Street S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20024
Agenda: HTML version | PDF version (2 pp., 15 K, About PDF)
Attendees
Minutes (PDF) (22 pp., 97K, About PDF)
PowerPoint presentations:
- Mercury: the good, the bad, and the export ban (PDF) (22 pp., 134K)
- Updated Supply Data and Sources of U.S. Mercury (PDF) (11 pp., 113K)
- Private Sector Storage and Costs of Private Sector Storage (PDF) (13 pp., 139K)

Agenda

Welcome (8:30-8:45)
Wendy Cleland-Hamnett, EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

Introductions and Meeting Process (8:45-9:00)
Sheila Canavan, Facilitator

Presentation (9:00-9:45): Updated Supply Data and Sources of Mercury
EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

Break (9:45-10:00)

Presentation (10:00-10:45): Private Sector Storage and Costs of Private Sector Storage
EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

Presentation (10:45-11:30): An Export Ban and Alternatives
Dr. Edward Balistreri

Lunch (11:30-12:30)

Panel Discussion on Supply and Demand and Sources of Mercury (12:30-1:45)
      1. Should there be different strategies for short-term and long-term management of non-federal stocks of mercury?
      2. What impacts would restrictions on international trade in mercury have on the management of non-federal stocks?
      3. How would changing the nature of the trade restrictions change the impact?
      4. How would trade restrictions affect the stocks of mercury, including primary mining of mercury, and the use of mercury in artisanal mining?

Individual Stakeholder Feedback (1:45-3:00)
5 minutes per stakeholder

Break (3:00-3:15)

Next Steps (3:15-3:30)

Public Comment (3:30-4:00)

Follow-up Stakeholder Discussion (4:00-4:30)

Adjourn

Attendees

Susan Keane	Natural Resources Defense Council
Ryan McGinness	State of Nevada
Anil Mehta	Defense National Stockpile Center
Alan Ray	USGS
Arnold Kuzmack	EPA
Lynn Petros-Winn	Recycle Technologies
C. Mark Smith	Massachusetts DEP
Ray Graczyk	Northeast Lamp Recycling Company
Jerry DiCerbo	Department of Energy
Steve Barringer	Barrick Gold
Glenn Farber	EPA/OPEI
Stephen Surface	DNSC
Cynthia Manson	IEC
Wendy Cleland-Hamnett	U.S. EPA
Timothy Lehman	U.S. EPA
Linda Barr	U.S. EPA
Sue Slotnick	U.S. EPA
Sara McGurk	U.S. EPA
Tom Groeneveld	U.S. EPA
Maria Doa	U.S. EPA
Sheila Canavan	U.S. EPA
Naceema Thompson	BLH Technologies