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UST DESIGNATED OPERATOR INSPECTION OVERVIEW 2.0 M-C1 100676

Monday 8am to 10am

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	264 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Angela Samayoa, Brenda Puepke
Objective	An overview of how 2715 and 2716 of 23CCR are met compliantly by a working CA UST Designated Operator; and how an experienced UPA inspector evaluates.
Description	An overview of how 2715 and 2716 of 23CCR are met compliantly by a working CA UST Designated Operator; and how an experienced UPA inspector evaluates a UST system's compliance based upon records review. Order of review is crucial so that you are truly looking at what is in CERS compared to what is onsite and finally, how these two sources are documented in the UST Designated Operator Inspection Report.

STATE WATER BOARD'S EVALUATION OF CUPA UST PROGRAM ELEMENTS M-C2 100677

Monday 10am to 11:30am

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	281 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Kaitlin Cottrell, Jenna Hartman
Objective	To provide participants with the framework of how the State Water board performs CUPA evaluations.
Description	This presentation will provide an overview of the State Water Boards CUPA evaluation process. Topics will include program structure, quality assurance techniques, and the unique review aspects for single-walled USTs ahead of the December 31, 2025 deadline for permanent closure.

UST BASICS - HOW TO CONDUCT AN INSPECTION FOR BEGINNERS M-C3 100678

Monday 1pm to 5pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	281 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0 ICC: 4.0
Speakers	Hung Pham
Objective	This session will provide Underground Storage Tank (UST) Inspectors guidance on conducting UST facility inspections.
Description	This course is a beginners guide to provide UST Inspectors guidance on how to conduct UST facility inspections. The course is designed for new inspectors or prospective inspectors with no experience. The presentation would be in layman's terms. Participants will be shown checklists and examples of inspections along with provided reafferences to corresponding statues and/or regulations. The presentation will focus heavily on the annual inspection.

WHEN A CITY BURNS DOWN - THE TRAGEDY OF PARADISE TU-C1 100679

Tuesday 10am to 12pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	270 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Thomas Parker, Thomas Henderson
Objective	To provide a UST CUPA perspective when s natural disaster strikes.
Description	In November 2018, the Camp Fire struck the town of Paradise causing 85 civilian fatalities. Tom Parker of Butte County Public Health will discuss the chaos of the initial days and the strain on the CUPA in the aftermath. Tom will discuss the issues associate with manpower limitations, environmental restoration, and those trials specific to the UST Program that would likely occur during any natural disaster.

TECHNICAL DETAILS: SINGLE-WALLED SYSTEMS TU-C2 100680

Tuesday 1pm to 3pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	288 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Austin Lemire-Baeten
Objective	This session will provide participants with a technical understanding of monitoring and testing compliance related to single-walled systems.
Description	This course will cover technical requirements of single-walled underground storage tank systems. Topics discussed will assist local agencies in ensuring monitoring and testing compliance of single-walled systems, and assist UST stakeholders on compliance requirements after the December 31, 2025 closure deadline, to include new underground storage tanks designed and alternative construction options.

SINGLE-WALLED UST OUTREACH AND RUST TU-C3 100681

Tuesday 3pm to 4pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	311 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0 ICC: 1.0
Speakers	Johnny Wales, McLean Reich
Objective	To provide updates on the ongoing efforts to assist with closure of single-walled USTs, updates to RUST, and how RUST applies to UST closure
Description	Redhorse Corporation, partnering with the State Water Board and USEPA, has been engaged in both outreach to single-walled UST owners and operators and analysis of the single-walled UST population, and would like to share updates. We will also share updates to the RUST program which assists eligible small businesses with funding for their UST projects, via grants and loans, and relate RUST back to single-walled UST closure.

OVERVIEW OF THE UST LEAK PREVENTION PROGRAM W-C1 100682

Wednesday 8am to 10am

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	268 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Thomas Henderson
Objective	This session will provide participants with knowledge of past, present and future UST Program activities as they relate to all types of stakeholders.
Description	This session will provide participants with an extensive overview of UST Program activities over the last year, and those activities that are planned for the future. Additional topics include the connection between inspection and compliance, as well as how design, construction, testing, and maintenance have a significant impact on reducing the number of releases to the environment. Single-walled USTs and Chapter 16 rewrite will be addressed.

UST STATEWIDE TAG MEETING W-C2 100683

Wednesday 10am to 12pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	261 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Luis Romero Zaragoza
Objective	Technical Advisory Group meeting lead by the Southern California TAG
Description	Discussion of technical UST issue. This meeting is for UST Regulators only.

UST COMPONENTS 101 PLUS W-C3 100684

Wednesday 1pm to 5pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	260 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0 ICC: 4.0
Speakers	Gerrit Kovach, Theresa Congdon
Objective	To be able to identify different parts of the UST system included in leak detection, spill containment and overfill protection and certifications.
Description	This course will be an open presentation with an array of UST Components with the objective of learning and identifying different parts and finctions for UST inspections. This will include many field photos and videos and a collection of actual UST sensors, leak detectors, piping and other components from different systems (Veeder Root, Pneumeractor, etc.). A new UST components field guide will also be included with this presentation.

UST PLAN CHECK: VPH SYSTEM INSTALLATION AFTER REMOVAL TH-C1 100685

Thursday 8am to 12pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	252 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0 ICC: 4.0
Speakers	Angela Samayoa
Objective	An overview of how evaluate plans for the installation of a new UST system after the removal of a UST system at the same location. More than you think
Description	As most agencies large and small are learning, even cities that are built up are now seeing tank replacement projects that add more than the usual installation project. We will start our session from the premise that you have removal plans and a set of install plans for the same location. We will dig into Fire Code, CHSC, 23 CCR and more

ABANDONED UST CLOSURE OUTREACH TH-C2 100686

Thursday 1pm to 2pm

Room	MARQUIS BALLROOM CENTER
Seating	295 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0 ICC: 1.0
Speakers	Douglas McDevitt, Johnny Wales
Objective	This session will give an overview of efforts to assist with restoring compliance to abandoned, unpermitted USTs.
Description	Redhorse Corporation staff, partnering with the State Water Resources Control Board and US EPA, would like to share updates on the RAT (Removal of Abandoned Tanks) initiative, which aims to use enforcement correspondence and aid with financial assistance applications to compel owners of properties associated with abandoned, unpermitted, unmonitored USTs, to bring the USTs back into compliance.