Overview
This two-day seminar is essential for people new to environmental compliance related work, or those individuals looking to gain additional insights or revisit a particular subject area. The seminar provides an understanding of environmental issues and concerns encountered by individuals with environmental responsibilities in a metalcasting facility on a day-to-day basis. This will include practical-level instruction on compliance activities, permitting, reporting, record keeping, testing, pollution control and environmental management systems. This course is a practical prerequisite to the more advanced media specific seminars (ie. Advanced Stormwater, Advanced Air and Advanced Waste & Byproducts).
Conference Agenda
Bryant Esch, Waupaca Foundry Inc.
- Overview of metalcasting issues for the environmental manager
- Potential environmental impacts of metalcasting processes
- Overview of major laws and regulations affecting foundries
- Overview of environmental management systems
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
- Online information reference resources
Bryant Esch, Waupaca Foundry Inc.
Curtis Veit, Waupaca Foundry Inc.
- Waste management laws
- Waste management regulations
- Identification and classification foundry wastes
- Testing/point of generation/baghouse dusts
- Waste generator requirements
- Storage, accumulation and labeling
- Containers, emergency response, planning and training
- Waste minimization and shipment
- Management of Other Wastes
- Oily wastes, empty containers, aerosol cans, contaminated wipes/rags universal waste
- Other non-hazardous foundry process wastes
- Recordkeeping and reporting
Craig Schmeisser, Mad River Strategies
Jeet Radia, McWane, Inc.
Kathy Moore, Keramida, Inc.
- The Clean Air Act
- Review of basic terms and concepts
- Basic emission estimation techniques
- Air permitting
- Construction permits, operating permits
- Major Source/Minor sources, PSD/NSR avoidance concepts
- NESHAPs - Applicable MACT and GACT requirements review
- Stack testing basics - What you need to know
- Air dispersion modeling basics
- Air pollution control systems commonly used in foundries
- Neighborhood issues commonly encountered by foundries
- Road to success: Air Professionals Top 10
Wesley Fleming, Keramida, Inc.
Curtis Veit, Waupaca Foundry Inc.
Greg Kramer, American Foundry Society
- Regulatory background and the Clean Water Act
- Water quality standards
- Technology-based categorical standards
- Production-based effluent limits
- Water usage
- Permit Overview
- Direct discharge NPDES permitting (individual and general)
- Indirect discharge POTW permitting
- TMDL Regulations
- Basis for development
- Impact on permits
- Monitoring and reporting
- Common compliance pitfalls
- Other Issues
Greg Kramer, American Foundry Society
Curtis Veit, Waupaca Foundry Inc
Wesley Fleming, Keramida Inc.
- Introduction to the EPA Stormwater Management Program
- Applicability and relationship to state permits
- Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) development (introduction to AFS template)
- Non-numeric technology-based effluent limits
- Benchmark monitoring
- Visual evaluations
- Routing and comprehensive inspections
- Corrective actions and the iterative process
- State permit variability
- Metalcasting-specific opportunities and challenges
- Overview of common administrative management practices
- Overview of available structural controls
- Common compliance pitfalls
6A. Major Regulations for Metalcasters
Jeff Hannapel, The Policy Group
- Laws and regulations affecting foundries:
- CERCLA (aka Superfund), SARA, EPCRA, TSCA, FIFRA (all w/EPA) and HMTA (w/DOT)
- Asbestos
- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)
- Pesticides and radiation
- Testing
- PFA's
6B. Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans
Mack Overton, Keramida, Inc.
- Who is subject to SPCC rules? What are the requirements?
- What to do when you are subject to SPCC?
- Common complicance issues
6C. Beneficial Reuse and Recycling
Mike Lenahan, Badger Mining Corp.
6D. Management Issues
Mack Overton, Keramida, Inc.
Mike Lenahan, Badger Mining Corp.
- Recordkeeping and reporting
- Training requirements
- Regulatory Inspections (EPA, state, local) - Do's and Dont's
- Community relations
Registration
AFS member: $750 early | $900 standard
Non-member: $1,100 early | $1,300 standard
Early registration ends 2/11/2025.
AFS presents a variety of technical and management conferences (in both in-person and virtual formats). The refund policy for AFS conferences is as follows: 1) Substitutions are accepted at no charge at any time up until the start of the conference; 2) Full refunds are offered if AFS is notified in writing of cancellation at least 30 days in advance of the conference. No refunds or credits are available for less than 30 days written notice.