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Don’t forget to mark your
calendars for our Annual Meeting: November 7-9th, Riverview Hotel,
Mobile, Alabama.
Many thanks
to those who attended our 2007 Legislative Summit!
The following
presentations were made by PowerPoint.
As they become available, we will endeavor to provide you with
speeches.
Gary Loew, Chief, Programs Integration Division, Army Corps of
Engineers: The President’s FY 08 Budget for the
Corps of Engineers
Barry Holliday, Technical Director, Dredging Contractors of
America: Understanding What is Really Happening in the Dredging Sphere
David V. Grier, Navigation
Specialist, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers: An Analysis of
the Inland Waterways Trust Fund and the Revenues Needed to Support
Baseline and Capability Programs
Don Waldon, Former Administrator, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Development Authority: Will Tributary Waterways Survive?
The Jury is Still Out After 25 Years.
The 2006
Annual Meeting was a great success!
If you would like copies of the presentations, you can download them
below by clicking on hyperlinks (some are quite large, so use the right
click and save as method):
The State of the Corps:
LTG Carl A. Strock, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Washington, DC
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Changes
in the Corps Program, Now and in the Future:
Gary Loew, Chief, Programs Integration Division,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC
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Pacific Northwest Challenges in O&M and Trends for
America in the Future. Karen
Durham-Aguilera, Director of Programs,
Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, Oregon
Needs of the Marine
Transportation System –
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Multi-purpose
Missions and the Government Balancing Act: Helen Brohl, Executive Director, Committee on the Marine Transportation System
Washington, DC
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The
Future for Agriculture and the Need for So-called Low Use Systems: Victoria Schantz, Director
of Government Affairs, Bunge North America,
Washington, DC
The Horizons of
Transportation –
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Understanding
the Needs of Shippers: Stephen W. Haynes, Director - Commodity Marketing and Sales, North Carolina State Ports
Authority Ports of Morehead City and Wilmington, NC, as well as Chairman,
Inland Waterways Committee, National Industrial Transportation League
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Short
Sea Shipping and Container on Barge--Is the Model Transferable? John Akre, Marine Marketing, Port of Portland, OR
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Multi-purpose
Ports of the Future: Patrick Donovan, Director, West Virginia Public Port Authority , Charleston, WV
Handling Potential
Future Emergencies –
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How
Do Our Levees Really Rate?: Jeffrey Jensen, Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies
Program Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Understanding
What Levee Assessment Entails, New Orleans and Beyond: Rob
Vining, Vice President, HNTB,
Arlington, VA
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Building
on Lessons We’ve Learned: Captain Frank M. Paskewich, Captain of the Port, New Orleans Sector,
U.S. Coast Guard
So Goes the
West/Northwest, So Goes the Nation?
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Salmon
Recovery in the Pacific Northwest: Glenn Vanselow, Ph.D., Executive Director, Pacific Northwest
Waterways Assn., Portland, OR
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From Single Critters to Watershed Wide: Northwest
Courtroom Lessons in the ESA War Zone: Walter Evans, Partner, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt,
Portland, OR
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Innovative
Partnerships for Federal Permitting: Joy Keniston-Longrie, Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle, WA
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The
Future of LNG and the Permit Process: Dan Kirschner, Northwest Gas Association, Lake Oswego, OR
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Congestion,
Security and the Environment:
Lessons from California: Norman
Fassler-Katz, Sr., Consultant Senate Transportation Sub-Committee on California Ports
and Goods Movement, Sacramento, CA
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Bringing
Partners to the Table for Real Results: Ellen Johnck, Executive Director, Bay Planning Coalition, San Francisco, CA
Opening Luncheon:
Mr. Guy Stephenson,
Senior Legal Counsel for Weyerhaeuser Company and former President,
Westwood Shipping, Portland, OR
Closing Luncheon:
Speaker: Worth Hager, President, National Waterways Conference,
Inc. Ms. Hager’s presentation is a
“work in progress” for another meeting.
If you would like to add to the current body of work, please contact
her via e-mail. You can access the 2006
President’s Report here.
Thanks to all who joined us at our Budget Summit!
Click here for a copy (right click and save is probably
better) of the PowerPoint on the FY2007 Budget. Click here for a copy of the remarks of Roger Cockrell.
‘Whichy’
Waterways: Finding the Right Charm
for Good Policies and Funding
Presentations:
Data Dilemmas: Dave Lichy &
David Penick
Partnering Organizations: Harry Simmons
(ASBPA), Ted
Coombes (SWPA), Nick Pansic
(COPRI)
Bubbling Areas of Concern: Paul
Revis, Kristen
Meira, Jerry Barnes
Luncheon Presentations:
Mike Parker Speech
(Click
on the link below that will direct you to a page that will allow you to
download a dsslite program from Olympus. Once downloaded,
you will be able to listen to their talks. Click here for the dsslite terms of agreement.)
BG Bob Crear: PowerPoint
and Speech (note: Gen. Crear’s powerpoint presentation includes a clip from Gen. Honore and songs that accompany the slides with red
backgrounds. You need to advance the
early slides yourself. When you get
to the CNN inset with Gen. Honore, you need to
click once on him to hear that part.
The slide show with music is automatic once you reach the red
background slides.)
If
you would like a copy of the DVD on the Port of Victoria and Container on
Barge, please contact Howard Hawthorne at the Port of Victoria at ofc@portofvictoria.com
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