The Association is proud to welcome four new members this week, including ARJ Construction Company, Inc., Lawrence Ickes as representative; IronPlanet, Chris Owens as their representative; Rajkovich, Williams, Kilpatrick & True, PLLC with Todd C. Myers; and, Mike Chasteen will represent Westech, Inc. We look forward to a long and beneficial relationship.
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The West Virginia Coal Forum will host three forums acrossWest Virginia featuring Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, Congressman Nick Joe Rahall, Congressman David McKinley, UMWA President Cecil Roberts and others to discuss EPA’s War on Coal and, specifically, the agency’s greenhouse gas and Utility MACT proposed rules.
The meetings will be held per the following:
May 22 – Charleston’s Embassy Suites Hotel – 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. featuring Congresswoman Capito and UMWA President Roberts
May 23 – Wheeling’s Oglebay Resort – 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. featuring Congressman McKinley
May 24 – Beckley’s Country Inn & Suites/Mountaineer ConferenceCenter – 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. featuring Congressman Rahall.
Senator Manchin will have a representative at each meeting.
Please confirm your attendance at one or all of the events by e-mailing your name, title, organization and the event you plan to attend to rsvp@wvcoalforum.org.
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Today the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP) published its draft listing of impaired streams that fail to meet state water quality standards and fail to meet their Clean Water Act (CWA) designated use. Referred to as the 303(d) list, streams indentified on the list will ultimately require the development of a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) to adjust pollutant loadings (and NPDES permit effluent limits) allowing them to achieve their designated use. Attached is the “narrative” section of the new 303(d) list document. The entire impaired water listing and supporting information can be found at http://www.dep.wv.gov/WWE/
The 303(d) list is open for public comment until June 11, 2012. Since NPDES permits located on streams identified as impaired can ultimately be subject to NPDES permit effluent limitation reductions through the TMDL process, PLEASE review the list in detail and consider submitting comments / data to the agency on any stream listings that may impact your operations.
Additionally, based on a cursory review of the list, it appears that several streams previously removed have been RE-ADDED to the list for the same parameters.
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The West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame inducted two new members, Charles Holland and Paul Morton, during ceremonies May 4 at the Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, WV as part of the 18th Annual Joint Meeting of the Association and the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute. Current WVCA Chairman Gary White with International Resources and James River Coal and past WVCA Board member Ben Statler were also selected to receive this honor but were unable to attend and will be inducted at next year’s Joint Meeting of the Association and Institutes. Charles T. "Charlie" Holland and Paul Morton were inducted posthumously.
The Coal Hall of Fame was established by the West Virginia Coal Association, the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute and the West Virginia Mining and Reclamation Association in 1998. The Hall resides in the Mineral Resources Building of the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University, in Morgantown.
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Show Your Support for Kentucky Coal
Save the Dates: June 5 in Frankfort and June 7 in Pikeville
Background:
At the request of the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, the United States EPA will conduct hearings in Frankfort on June 5 and in Pikeville on June 7, regarding EPA’s specific objections to 36 individual KPDES permits that would authorize discharges from new or expanded surface coal mining activities in eastern Kentucky.