Purpose of Workshop: 

• Exchange information on PCB characterization
• Exchange information on current and new monitoring methods.
• Exchange information on future and proposed PCB reduction efforts
• Follow-up on focus on PCBs in the State of the River Report.

8:30 am            Welcome, Mary Lou Soscia, EPA

What Do We Know About PCBS? and Why do we care? (30 minutes)

Toxic Substances Control Act - Overview of PCB regulations and enforcement, traditional and emerging sources, Scott Downey, EPA

Atmospheric Deposition, Bruce Hope, Oregon DEQ

Health Risks of PCBs, Dave Farrer. Oregon Department of Human Services

What Are We Learning in Portland Harbor? (30 minutes)

Sediments, Surface Water, Stormwater, Fish Tissue, Watershed conditions, Eric Blischke EPA

10:15 – 10:30 – Break

Columbia Basin Monitoring Panel – (60 minutes) Facilitated by Lorraine Edmond, EPA

Dale Norton, Washington Department of Ecology

Willamette and Columbia PCB Study, Agnes Lut and Jim Coyle, Oregon DEQ

Lower Columbia River Monitoring, Jennifer Morace, USGS; Krista Jones, Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership; Lyndal Johnson, NOAA Science Center

Otter and Osprey Eggs, Robert Grove, USGS

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

What has been done at the Corps Hydroelectric Facilities? - (30 minutes)

            Paul Ocker, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Two Case Studies (20 minutes) Bruce Long, EPA Region 10

Stormwater Tracking – Urban Areas (20 minutes) Dawn Sanders, City of Portland BES

2:30 – 2:45 – Break

Oregon Toxics Reduction Strategy (20 minutes) Kevin Masterson, Oregon DEQ

Industrial and Municipal Success Stories (30 minutes)

Van Alcoa, Paul Skyllingstad, WA DOE

Columbia Slough, a watershed approach, Speaker invited

Panel Discussion: Knowing what we know now, what should we do next? (45 minutes) Facilitated by Andrew Kolosseus WA DOE, Panelists: EPA, Portland Harbor, City of Portland, WA DOE

4:30 pm            Adjourn

5:00 pm            Optional Social Activity

This workshop is now full. If you would like to be put on the waiting list, please email Summer Goodwin at goodwin.summer@epa.gov .