MCCV Working Committees

 Wednesday, March 19, 2008 * 8:30 to 11:30 a.M.

E&J Gallo Winery * OPERATIONS TRAINING ROOM

Yosemite Blvd and Santa Rosa, Modesto (Map Available on Request)

 

8:30 a.m.    Welcome & Introductions

                      REMINDER:   MCCV Annual Membership Luncheon Meeting

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 * 11 a.m. * Modesto Double Tree Hotel

Guest Speaker * Pamela Creedon, Executive Officer

Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board

Open to Member Companies * Reservations Required

 

 GENERAL REGULATORY (Health, Safety, General Environmental & Misc.)

 

Co Chairs: Steven Sylvester, E&J Gallo Winery & Brenda Moppins, Frito Lay

·                 CPUC’s Big Bold Energy Initiative

·                 Other

 Workforce Issues Committee

Co-Chairs: Tom Nett, Seneca Foods & Jan Roberts, Frito Lay

·         Careers in Manufacturing High School Partnership Year IV-- Click here for promo invitation

 

Special Presentations


 9:00 a.m.    Stanislaus Area Manufacturing/Maintenance Joint Apprenticeship Program

~Introductions of committee members – Mike Kilpatrick, Del Monte Foods

~Committee Overview, Formation and Progress  -  Doug Murdock, Lawrence Livermore Labs

~Comments from an employer rep – Randy Thoe, Fastenal

~Overview of the State’s support  -  Brenda Rogers, State of California, Apprenticeship Consultant

~Community College efforts and progress  -  Pedro Mendez, Modesto Junior College

~Business resource for qualified entry level personnel, what Del Monte is doing – Mike Kilpatrick

~Brief question and answer session

 

WATER COMMITTEE

 

Co-Chairs: Burt Fleischer, Hilmar Cheese & Sharon Melmon, Kennedy Jenks Consulting

·         Food Processing Rinsewater and Byproducts Discharge update
a.
    Byproducts Land Application

·         SWRCB strategic plan for 2008 – 2012
For information:  Strategic Plan

·         State Water Board to revise enforcement policies;
For information:  Enforcement Policy

·         Central Valley Salinity Policy Group activity – Executive and Technical Advisory
For information:  Salinity Policy Group

·         Other Strategic Plan;

·         Irrigated Lands Program - For information Irrigated Lands

 

AIR COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs Tim Durham, Ingomar Packing & Dave Duke, Foster Farms

·         Boiler Rule 4306, 4320 and 4307 – Second Workshop Update
For information: 2nd Draft

·         SJV draft PM 2.5 Plan update

·         Prop 1B Funding Allocation—and SJ Valley’s share—update

·         Healthy Air Living Campaign and Summit For information:  Summit

·         CA Climate Change/AB 32 Updates
For information:  Climate Change Center

·          ARB On-road Heavy-Duty Vehicle Regulations (CARB Private Fleet Regs)

·         Green Waste Composting Rule

·         BACT Cost Effectiveness Changes

·         EPA adopts new 8-hour ozone standard. For information: Ozone Standard

·         PEER Application Deadline (small boilers & water heaters)  is April 1 For information: PEER

 

MCCV ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATES

 

Next Meeting:             Wednesday, April 16, 2008-- 8:30 a.m. E&J Gallo Ops Training Room
                        (We will meet the third Wednesday of every month through December)

 

 

MCCV was formed in order to promote the common business interest of our members in ensuring, protecting and improving the environment and economy of the Central Valley through public education and community discussion of ecological, business and labor issues affecting businesses in the Central Valley. (MCCV Bylaws)

 

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