Search

Member Pipeline - Legal - Alert (Leg01-7)

To: Members & Affiliates
From: National Office
Date: August 22, 2001
Subject: AMSA 2001 LAW SEMINAR
Reference: Legal Alert 01-7
Plan Now To Attend. . .
DEVELOPMENTS IN WATER & WASTEWATER LAW
November 14-16, 2001
Savannah Marriott Riverfront
Savannah, Georgia

2001 Law Seminar - A "Must Attend" for Key Public Agency Staff
The Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA) is pleased to present the 2001 Law Seminar, Developments in Water & Wastewater Law. The Law Seminar will take place at the Savannah Marriott Riverfront Hotel in beautiful Savannah, Georgia from November 14-16. Registration information, as well as a preliminary agenda for the Seminar is attached for your information and review.

Seminar Covers Hot Legal Topics, Offers Practical Legal Advice
The 2001 Law Seminar will provide attendees a unique opportunity to examine critical environmental legal and regulatory developments and hone practical legal skills. Attendees will hear the latest thinking from lawyers, engineers, and other agency leaders on the impact of these developments on their agencies.

This year's Law Seminar includes a timely wet weather focus, and a special "underground" view of how sewer overflows really occur and their relative impacts on water quality. Top practitioners will address the overlaps and tensions between the various wet weather programs, and AMSA agency representatives will offer real world perspectives on how they confront wet weather challenges in their regions. The Seminar also offers an updated "primer" on the total maximum daily load (TMDL) program, which will emphasize how the TMDL landscape has changed in recent months and outline strategies to ensure TMDL success. The interplay between TMDLs and permitting also will be addressed, as will the nuts and bolts of forming and managing a discharger coalition. Other topics rounding out the Seminar agenda include fish advisories, internet resources for publicly owned treatment works, nutrients, discussion of new and controversial approaches taken in the Great Lakes Initiative, and a presentation on legal ethics challenges for public agency attorneys by a nationally recognized ethics expert.

Skills Focus - Negotiations for Water & Wastewater Practitioners
This year's Law Seminar also brings one of the nation's premiere environmental mediators and negotiation trainers directly to conference attendees, Dr. Lawrence E. Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Senior Fellow with the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. Professor Susskind has offered tailored training programs for over 50 major companies and organizations in North America and Europe, and has taught more than 35,000 corporate executives, public-sector managers, and citizen activists. Professor Susskind will provide a dynamic workshop on key tools and approaches to improve the tenor and success of all types of negotiation situations encountered by water and wastewater practitioners, including permitting, enforcement actions, watershed coalitions, and neighborhood relations. He then will apply these principles to AMSA member agency real world negotiation experiences and sharpen our skills further. Attendees will return to their agencies with new resources for negotiating more effectively.

CLE Credits Available
Individuals attending the Law Seminar are eligible to receive Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits. AMSA is securing credits in a number of key states to ensure all in attendance will be eligible through reciprocity. The number of CLE credits awarded for attendance varies by state. Past AMSA Law Seminars have been approved for up to 14 credits in some states. This year's new legal ethics session will make ethics CLE credits specially available. Details on the number of CLE credits available for this year's Law Seminar will be made available in coming weeks.

Ensure Your Participation - Register Today!
Make plans now to attend this important seminar by completing the attached registration form. Contact the Savannah Marriott Riverfront, 912/233-7722, or Marriott Central Reservations, 800/228-9292, to ensure the special rate of $149. Please keep the following deadlines in mind as you make your plans:

n October 23, 2001 Hotel Reservation Deadline to Receive Conference Rate

n October 31, 2001 Advanced Seminar Registration Deadline

Detailed program information is coming your way shortly, so watch your mail and visit AMSA's web site for the latest conference information and online registration - http://www.amsa-cleanwater.org. Please don't hesitate to contact AMSA's National Office if you have any questions about the 2001 Law Seminar, 202/833-AMSA or info@amsa-cleanwater.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Savannah!

Attachments:

For these downloadable files, you must have the Acrobat Reader. If you don't have the Acrobat Reader, click on the icon below to download a copy. After you download and install a copy, return to this page and click on the link above for the downloadable file.