Day 1 - October 11, 2018
11:00 Registration & Exhibits
1:00 Opening Remarks - Secretary Charles Snavely, Kentucky Energy & Environment Cabinet
1:05 Governor Matthew Bevin
1:35 David Ross, Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Water
2:05 Break & Exhibits
2:15 Legislative Panel
Panelists will discuss issues from the 2018 Kentucky General Assembly and take a look ahead to possible topics and issues in the upcoming 2019 legislative session.
Moderator: Renee Shaw, Producer/Host, Kentucky Educational Television
Jared Carpenter, Chairman, Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Energy
Jim Gooch, Chairman, House Committee on Natural Resources & Energy
Tom FitzGerald, Director, Kentucky Resources Council
Kate Shanks, Director of Public Affairs, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce
Charles Snavely, Secretary, Kentucky Energy & Environment Cabinet
3:10 Break & Exhibits
3:30 Clean Water Act Section 404 Panel
Panelists will discuss the Clean Water Act Section 404 program with an overview of existing processes from permitting to mitigation and opportunities for improvement.
Moderator: Peter Goodmann, Director, Kentucky Division of Water
David Ross, Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Water
Mike Ricketts, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, District Engineer
Mike Hardin, Assistant Director, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resource
Nick Dilks, Managing Partner, Ecosystem Investment Partners
Brian Miller, Executive Director, Northern Kentucky Home Builders Association
4:45 Reception
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Day 2, October 12, 2018
8:00 Continental Breakfast & Exhibits
8:30 Steve Winberg, Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy
9:00 Kentucky Abandoned Mine Lands and Economic Development
Moderator: Bob Scott, Director, Division of Abandoned Mine Lands
Kentucky will soon begin the third round of grant applications for economic development in eastern Kentucky as part of the AML Pilot funding from Congress. Highlights of the first-year projects now underway, as well as presentations of second-year projects, will be discussed.
Tim Gibbs, President/CEO, Ashland Alliance, Boyd/Greenup Counties
Jonathan Webb, AppHarvest, Pike County
Daniel Elliott, President, Enerblu, Pike County
Justin Adams, AML, Water Infrastructure Projects, Letcher/Martin/Knott/Perry/Breathitt counties
10:15 Break & Exhibits
10:30 Energy Panel
This distinguished panel of experts from the federal, regional and state perspectives will discuss concerns about electricity costs, reliability and markets.
Moderator: Charles G. Snavely, Secretary, Energy and Environment Cabinet
Neil Chatterjee, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Asim Z. Haque, Chairman, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Talina Mathews, Commissioner, Kentucky Public Service Commission
Andrew L. Ott, President, PJM Interconnection
11:30 Lunch/Awards Ceremony - Lt. Governor Jenean Hampton
** Kentucky state government employees that would like to have their registration costs interaccounted please use discount code Interaccount when checking out.
**** This Agenda may change at a later date.