Call for Papers and Conference Topics

Submit Your Paper for the 2019 FET Environment Conference

Abstracts Due by February 7, 2019

Papers are now being accepted on a variety of topics that have a broad interest across many disciplines and do not include sales-oriented materials.  A recent survey of FET Members included the following Top 20 topics our members are interested in:

  • Regulators perspectives on upcoming rules (state, federal, environmental, safety)
  • Industrial wastewater (e.g., phosphorus technology, thermal challenges, toxicity – WET testing)
  • Emerging Contaminants – PFAs
  • E-Manifest
  • Trending air issues for Industry, Regulators, and Consultants
  • Industrial Stormwater Management
  • Common Compliance Mistakes in Auditing
  • Tools to Manage Environmental Compliance
  • How to Prepare for an Air Permit Audit
  • Virtual Tour of Environmental Violations
  • “Best Practices” for Identifying Training Requirements and Tracking compliance
  • Technology to create paperless recordkeeping system
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Status of changes to RMP and PSM rules
  • EPCRA Reporting – Tier II and TRI
  • Train the Trainer
  • Applicability of DNR No Exposure Certification and its current interpretation of the respective criteria
  • Wastewater sampling and permitting
  • Stormwater Permitting
  • WPDES online reporting system

Other papers focusing on environmental, health and safety topics will also be considered.  All Abstracts are peer-reviewed and you will be notified of the status of your submission. 

Acceptance of an abstract is considered a commitment by the author to present the paper at the 2019 Conference to be held on October 23 – 24, 2019 in Pewaukee WI.

Abstract Submittal Information: Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words; include your name, title, professional affiliations (i.e. CHMM, PE, etc.), company name, address, phone, fax and email address; submit your abstract by email to info@fetinc.org