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C2P2 News and Events
- Agricultural Uses of FGD Gypsum Workshop
Indianapolis, IN, November 17-19, 2009
A workshop on Agricultural Uses of FGD Gypsum will be held November 17 – 19, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis, IN. The workshop is organized by C2P2, ACAA, EPRI, and USDA, and follows upon the success of a similar workshop on agricultural and industrial uses of FGD Gypsum held in October 2007 in Atlanta. This workshop will bring together representatives from the electric utility industry, government regulators, gypsum marketers, the academic and technical community, agricultural extension specialists, agribusiness companies, non-governmental organizations, and individual growers/turf managers. This year’s presentations will cover:- FGD Gypsum Fundamentals
- Power Plant vs. Natural Gypsum USDA
- EPA and Other Perspectives of Interest
- Soil Properties Plant Responses to Amendments
- Basic Environmental Information Specific Crops
- Regional Perspectives
Please visit www.fgdproducts.org 
for more information, a full agenda and for a Registration Form.
- FHWA Announces New Recycled Materials Resource Center (RMRC)
The FHWA recently awarded the new RMRC to the University of New Hampshire and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, headed by Center Directors Kevin Gardner at UNH and Craig Benson at UW-M. This is an exciting development that continues a tradition of academic and research excellence at the RMRC. The USEPA supports the RMRC through an Interagency Agreement with the FHWA. The RMRC continues to be an important resource for USEPA's industrial material recycling and C2P2 programs. The RMRC will release an update to the “User Guidelines for Waste and Byproduct Materials in Pavement Construction” in the fall, including an update on the use of coal combustion products. For more information, please visit the Recycled Materials Resource Center Web site.
- Welcome New C2P2 Partners:
- Amended Silicates, Inc.
- Black Diamond Granuels, Inc.
- EnvoSmart Technologies B.V.
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Indiantown CoGeneration Limited Partnership
- LA Ash Inc.
- Lifetime Composites LLC
- Monmouth University
- Nature First - Green Ecological Managed Services
- Tri-State Generation and Transmission
- U.S. Minerals, LLC
C2P2 is a collaborative program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency that depends on active partnerships for its success. New partners are welcome, from individual researchers and entrepreneurs to universities, government agencies, and large corporations. Our goal is to increase the CCP utilization to 50% by 2011 from 40% in the most recent 2005 ACAA annual survey.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact USEPA's John Sager (sager.john@epa.gov) at (703) 308-7256 or ICF International’s Victoria Thompson (vthompson@icfi.com) at (202) 862-2982.