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$nuironmental Consultant T}iu Jun 1992 Summary: The Policy Dialogue Committee is comprised of representatives from the federal government, the mining industry, the states, and the enuironmental community. The objective is to prouide a forum to refine and further develop issues related to managing mining waste and to facilitate the exc}~ange of ideas and information among t}ie interested parties. the Committee meets approximately every six weeks in different locations around the country to discuss mining waste issues, including: scope of the potential federal regulatory program; federal-state relationship; technical standards; enforcement, and public participation. She meetings are usually combined with site visits to mining facilities. 1 am one of eight environmental representatives and am on the technical standards subcommittee. A "w}iite paper" on these issues is currently being deueloped, and it is envisioned that t}iis paper will prouide substantive information for the development of RCRA Subtitle D regulation of hard-rock mining wastes. 0t}~er Relevant Experience Inuited speaker at the American Mining Congress Annual Convention, September, 1990 Inuited speaker at the Northwest Mining Association Annual Meeting, December, 1991. Talk title: "The Challenge of Pollution Prevention in the Hard-Rock Mining ]ndustry." testimony before U.S. Congress on hard-rock mining waste regulation: June, 1990 and June, 1991. Preparation of joint comments on the Mineral Processing Wastes Report to Congress, January, 1990. Presented a workshop on pollution preuention in the hard-rock mining industry at a conference sponsored by Environmental Defense Fund: Building Solutions to Toxics: Using Pollution Prevention to Protect Groundwater, November, 1991. Member of the coordinating committee of the Enuironmental Mining Network, 1990-1991, a coalition of enuironmental groups concerned about hard-rock mining. The Enuironmental Mining Network deueloped an alternative to U.S. EPA's "strawman" (draft pre- proposed rules designed to elicit comments for formal rulemaking). I wrote the section on pollution preuention. I 5:4~ pm Page 10 of 11 Inuited participant to EPA Cyanidation Mining meeting, EPA Office of Pollution preuention and Toxics, June 1992