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Join us on Tuesday, January 12th from 8-9:30am at the Community College of Vermont in White River Junction for the second in our Business Breakfast Series.

Did you know there are opportunities for free training for you and your employees? Find out how to tap into federal funds from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Act! Meet Jeb Spaulding, Chancellor of the Vermont State College (former VT State Treasurer), and CCV President Joyce Judy, who will share other initiatives important to the Vermont business community.

Full breakfast catered by Maple Street Catering. $5 for members of the Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce, $10 for non-members.

Register here: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ec08b8erfc36b2d5&llr=sar6bdeab

This webinar will introduce participants to the basics of publishing your QGIS map to the cloud. QGIS Cloud offers a simple way to take your QGIS Map Project and make it available to all via the web. QGIS is free, open-source GIS mapping software.

Click here to register for this FREE webinar:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2390222102089760257

 

For more trainings, go to https://vcgi.vermont.gov/events to see information on webinars and other trainings so you can learn how to use GIS!

Agenda:TAC January Agenda

District Leveling: District Leveling 2016

November Minutes: TAC November Minutes

For a copy of the TRORC Business Meeting agenda, click here: TRORC Board Meeting Agenda 1-20-16

Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change in the Upper Valley

Joint Meeting by Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission, Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, Vital Communities

Upper Valley Adaptation Workgroup

 

Montshire Musuem

January 20, 2016

5:30-8:00

 

AGENDA

530 – 6:30 pm

Main meeting room

Poster presentations on mitigation and adaptation projects by organizations.

Meet staff and network with board members

 

5:30-6:00

Business meeting of TRORC in classroom

 

6::30 – 6:50

·       6:30 – 6:34 Welcome from the three directors  (Nate Miller, Tom Roberts, Peter Gregory)

·        6:35 – 6:45 Introduction to Upper Valley Adaptation Workgroup, What is “mitigation”  vs “adaptation”? – Alex Jaccaci

·        6:45-6:55 Thinking about risk and uncertainty – Kevin Geiger

 

6:55 – 7:15

Presentation by Erich Osterberg , Assistant Professor Department of Earth Science, Dartmouth College
·         Overall state of science and observed measurements as regional as possible

·         Future range of climate possibilities, global and regional

 

7:15 – 7:20

Questions and Answers

 

7:20 – 7:50

Presentations by TRORC, UVLSRPC and VC on mitigation and adaptation – past, present and future

 

7:50 – 8:00

Closing –Alex on UVAW community resilience project going forward

 

Catering will be provided from 5:30-6:30 so please RSVP to Dee Gish at [email protected] or 802-457-3188.

 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites you to a free half-day compliance assistance workshop on Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and Clean Air Act, Section 112(r) Risk Management Program (RMP). These workshops are designed for new environmental compliance managers. The workshop will cover threshold determinations, exemptions and other commonly asked questions. For compliance with EPCRA and RMP, there are various planning and reporting requirements on businesses and industries that store and/or use certain chemicals and materials.

EPCRA and RMP were designed to protect your business, your employees and your community should a chemical accident occur. The EPCRA data and Risk Management Plan better prepares emergency response personnel and the community to handle an incident should one occur.  The RMP program requires the submission of a RMP plan and coordination with the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) prior to the storage of RMP chemicals above the threshold quantities.

Let us help you to make your business and community a safer place. EPCRA requires facilities having certain chemicals, with quantities as low as one pound, to submit annual chemical inventory (Tier 2) reports. For calendar year 2015, the reporting deadline is March 1, 2016. By attending a workshop, you could avoid an enforcement action under EPCRA resulting in penalties of up to $37,500 per chemical violation, per day. Likewise, the Risk Management Plan helps to ensure the safe storage, use and processing of chemicals at a facility.

EPCRA & RMP Workshop Agenda

8:00    Sign-in & Network
8:30     Welcome & Overview
8:45     What is and how do I report an Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS)
9:00     What must be reported on my Tier2 form

9:30   Reporting electronically via Tier2 Electronic Reporting Software

10:15   How do I use the “List of Lists”

10:30   Break
10:40   How does the new Global Harmonized SDS affect Tier2 Reporting
11:20   Who must comply with the CAA Risk Management Program?

Noon   Adjourn

 

Fill out the application and send to [email protected]: EPCRA-RMP Region 1 Workshop Application