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I N D E X (Continued)PAGEPublic Comment Period
190Don Norwood, Urban Community EnvironmentalResource Center, Baltimore, Maryland 190Francis Chin, Maniilaq Association, Alaska 193Chavel Lopez, Southwest Workers Union,San Antonio Texas 194Hilda Booth, Native Village of Noatak, Alaska 196Ron Sherron (On behalf of Susana Almanza, SouthwestNetwork for Economic and EnvironmentalJustice/PODER, Austin, Texas 201Doris Bradshaw, Defense Depot Memphis Concerned CitizensCommittee, Memphis, Tennessee 207Michele Brown, Urban Community Environmental ResourceCenter, Baltimore, Maryland 217Edith Tegoseak, Inupait Community of Arctic Slope,Barrow, Alaska 218Eugene Smary, Warner Norcross and Chair,American Bar Association Section of Environment,Energy and Resources, Washington, DC 222
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M O R N I N G S E S S I O N(8:42 a.m.)
CHAIRMAN SHEPARD: one taketheir seats. ould like to welcome you all on behalf of the NEJAC. dialogue thismorning, advancing environmental justice through pollutionprevention.I’m Peggy Shepard, chair of the NEJAC, and I am going to turnthis over to Charles Lee who will introduce the moderator of our distinguished panel this morning.MR. LEE: body hear me?morning.Today is going to be devoted to a discussion of the direct reportfrom the NEJAC Pollution Prevention Workgroup on advancingenvironmental justice through pollution prevention, and VeronicaEady, from Tufts University, is going to moderate today’s session.Our panel is going to discuss this report withCouncil of NEJAC consisted of members of the Pollution PreventionWorkgroup, which is chaired by Wilma Subra and Ken Warren.the others who are joining them are Ken Geiser, from the Toxics UseReduction Institute, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; ConnieTucker, from the Southern Organizing Committee; Tom Goldtooth,from the Indigenous Environment Network; Sue Briggum, from WasteManagement, Incorporated and Andrew Sawyers, from the MarylandDepartment of the Environment.So, with that, I will turn it over to Veronica.
OPENING REMARKS: GOALS AND GROUNDRULESBy Veronica Eady, Moderator
MS. EADY: Good morning. anted to spend a couple of minutes going over, first of all, what we are going to be doing today;what the framework is for the day. , and maybe mostimportantly, what our goals are.This morning we are going to have an overview of the processCould everyGood morning.I wGood morning.We are going to begin our policyCan everyGood morning. GoodHi.the ExecutiveAndI just wAdditionally
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Cleo Holmes, Concerned Citizens of Eastern Avenue 230Audrey Hadley, Native Village of Buckland 238John Ridway, Washington State Department of Ecology 240Ron Sherron, Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma,Ponca City, Oklahoma 245Robert Gough, Native Peoples and Native Homelands 256David Wise (On Behalf of Marylee Orr), LouisianaEnvironmental Action Network 262Sonia Ivette Dueno, Fellowship of Reconciliation 264Jerome Balter, Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance 269Kathleen Peters Zuray, Tanana Tribal Council,Tanana, Alaska 279Laura Luster, Luster National, Inc. 283
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and a synopsis of the report from the chairs, Wilma Subra and KenWarren, and we are going to hear from the stakeholder panelists.This is just kind of a sampling of the people who worked so hard onthis report on the workgroup.After that we are going to be going through the consensusproposals, and that is where really the heart of today’s discussion isgoing to be; talking about the 11 consensus proposals, getting inputon that and trying to move forward with the report.We have 11, as I said. So I think that it is kind of going to be afast moving discussion. We want to cover them all, and so,throughout the day I am going to be sort of moving us along to makesure that we actually do get through each of them.Our overarching goals for the day are to have an interactivediscussion around the report to get input on particularly theconsensus chapter, and then finally, as I said, to get input on theconsensus proposals before the end of the day.We have a number of ground rules, and I am sure that we are allfamiliar with them, but just to go through them briefly -- and I think thatthey were passed out to each of you. The first one is to use peacefuland respectful language. And as I go through these ground rules, Iknow that we are all familiar with them. We used them yesterday in awonderful discussion on presentations around P2.But, just as a reminder, number two, to be succinct and to thepoint; three, refrain from interrupting and listen until the prior speaker is finished; four, talk to each other rather than at each other; five, askquestions that come from genuine curiosity and avoid rhetoricalquestions; six, allow any participant who is not ready or willing toanswer a question simply to decline responding to it with noexplanation required; seven, cooperate with the facilitator -- andactually, that is me, the moderator -- to make sure that goals of thesession are met.And finally, number eight: Make constructive suggestions if onedoes not like the way the meeting is going. I think those are goodground rules, and sort of keep them in mind as we go through the
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