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MINUTES OF COMMITTEE MEETING
A1F07 Waste Management in Transportation
July 23, 2000
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Attendees: Tom Abdallah, Jon
Berry, David Boswell, Michael Fitch, Geoff Forrest, Kristen Halsted, Connie
Hill, Hilda Lafebre, Carol LaRegina, Tom Lewis, Brian McLean, Jim Rost, Randy
Schick, Greg Smith, Scott Springer, Bob Tatman, Ed Wallingford, Greg Worrell.
Steering Committee Report. Scott Springer reported on the current status
of membership. The committee currently
has 22 members. Membership rotation
occurred earlier this year. Nine new
members were added to the committee.
Scott asked that all committee members become actively involved with the
committee and serve on at least one subcommittee. Following is a listing of current
subcommittee members:
Summer
Meeting 2001: Jon Berry and Louis Reis
Future
Summer Meetings: Jon Berry, Greg Smith,
Jim Rost
Technology
Transfer: Jon Berry, Gayle Mitchell, Jim
Rost
Annual
Meeting: Hilda Lafebre
Steering: Scott Springer
Research: Michael Fitch, Tom Lewis
Newsletter: Ileana Ivanciu
Scott briefly discussed the
Committees Triennial Evaluation that was reviewed by TRB in late 1999. The committee scored
high (3.64 out of 4.00). Areas where
improvement was requested include:
increase membership with better distribution of membership; increase
member participation; develop and maintain a list of problem statements;
increase co-sponsored activities; and increase technology and transfer.
Research Committee Report. Circular 469 will be updated in March
2002. Michael Fitch reported that Lois
Widmer of CTE ran another report to see whats been done to date with research
relating to the committee. It was
similar to the 1994 survey. Michael and
Tom Lewis developed a survey for research needs which was to be sent out on a
list server, however, the server didnt work and the surveys were recently sent
out by regular mail. About ten responses
have been received to date, with many more expected to be returned. Once the information is received, it will be
summarized. An action plan will then be
developed. A package will be prepared for
the next Annual Meeting (2001). Bob
Tatman asked that they check to see if all the officials in the directory were
sent a survey.
Michael attended the AASHTO Research meeting where $23
million was awarded to various research projects. Not many environmental projects received
funding. Michael has determined that
NCHRP should not be viewed as the primary means for funding research due to the
competition.
Since the committee cannot
directly lobby the AASHTO standing committee, the states must be approached for
research funding. One idea is to send
the survey respondents a customized letter telling them other states with
similar research needs, in the hopes that these states would get together to
fund various research needs. The
Research Subcommittee will make recommendations regarding who receives letters
after results of the survey are received.
Jon Williams Report. Jon reported that over 600 people had
registered for this conference. The next
Annual meeting will be held from 1/7 through 1/11/01. Bob Speicher from TRB is retiring and will be
replaced by Mark Norman.
NCHRP EMS Project. Connie Hill reported Booz Allen was the
selected consultant for this project.
This project includes the EMS research statement that was previously
prepared by committee members. She has a
progress report for the project, which she can provide for inclusion in the
next newsletter.
Wayne Kober Report. Wayne
reported that ten research problems were selected by the AASHTO Standing
Committee on the Environment and sent to NCHRP.
Of these ten statements, five were selected for funding. Jim Codell of the Kentucky Transportation
Cabinet is the chair of the AASHTO Standing Committee on the Environment.
There will be an environmental
stewardship workshop at the 2001 Annual Meeting, held on Sunday.
Annual Meeting. Hilda Lafebre is the new subcommittee
chair. She asked for suggestions for the
focus of the next committee session at the Annual Meeting. EMS is the most likely topic. The committee would like to have one paper
and one conference session.
Summer Meeting 2001. Bob
Pearson had previously talked to Bob Tatman about having a workshop focusing on
environmental management specification development including special
provisions, oversight and implementation.
It is expected DOTs, specification preparers, resident engineers, and
contractors would attend this workshop.
Bob Tatman will ask Bob Pearson if he is willing to chair a subcommitttee
to hold the next summer meeting in Wisconsin.
The Archaeology Committee
expressed an interest in having next summers meeting with the committee. They have already made plans to meet in Key
West. It was decided to pursue having
the meeting in Wisconsin as a first choice.
Update since the Summer
Meeting: The A1F07 Committee will hold
its Summer
2001 meeting in Key West. Louis Reis of
Florida DOT and Jon Berry will coordinate the meeting.
Jon Berry, Greg Smith and Jim
Rost volunteered to be on the Summer Meeting subcommittee, in particular, to
determine where other committees will be holding summer meetings in 2002 and
2003. A formal report will be presented
at the Annual Meeting.
Technology Transfer Committee Report. Jon
Berry distributed the home page for the Federal Remediation Technologies
Roundtable which is an excellent source of information for remediation
technologies (http://www.frtr.gov/). Jon also mentioned CLU-IN, an EPA sponsored
site as another good resource.
Other Issues. Ed Wallingford asked if lead paint was
included in the committees scope since it is such a prevalent problem relating
to bridges. It was determined after the
meeting that this is excluded from the committees scope.
