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2007 Congress Speaker Handouts

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"Aging Infrastructure” Litigation: How to Prevent It; How to Defeat It!
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“ATD” – Better Than Aspirin for Your Transportation Headache
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A Core Strategy for Utility Cut Repairs
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A Demo! Innovative Street Reconstruction Technologies (Wednesday Workshop/Onsite Demonstration)
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A Framework for Establishing Maintenance Tasks and Life-Cycle Costs for Landscape Projects
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A Remedy for Relieving Sign Inventory Headaches
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A Sign of the Times? Nashville's Automated Sign Inventory
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A Step in the Right Direction: Effective Sidewalk Management
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Administration of Federal-Aid Projects by Local Agencies
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An Asset Management Success Story in Washington, DC!
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Assessing Public Trees after Katrina
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Back to Basics - World Class Hiring, Orientation, Training, and Evaluation to Create and Meet Performance Standards (Afternoon Workshop)
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Back to Basics - World Class Hiring, Orientation, Training, and Evaluation to Create and Meet Performance Standards (Morning Workshop)
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Best Management Practices (BMPs): Water Quality, Flood Reduction
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Beyond Brochures – Community-Based Social Marketing (Wednesday Workshop)
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Biodiesel's Impact on Public Fleet Operability and Economics
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Building Depth into Your Leadership Team
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Building Infrastructure for a Better Future
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C&D Recycling - It's Not Just a California Thing
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Can Trees and Sidewalks Coexist? Yes They Can!
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Canadian National Water and Wastewater Benchmarking Initiative
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Canadian Public Works Association (CPWA) Luncheon
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Clean Roads to Clean Air Program
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COMPUTER WORKSHOP: Microsoft Excel for the Public Works Professional
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COMPUTER WORKSHOP: Microsoft Excel for the Public Works Professional
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Construction Stage One-Calls: The Most Prudent Form of Damage Prevention -and- It's the Law!
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Cost-Loaded Project Schedules
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Creating Livable Communities and Smart Growth
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Cross Jurisdictional Partnering for Street Maintenance Services
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Curbside Recycling Methods & Alternatives
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Desalinization in Mexico
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Designing a Successful "Trenchless" Underground Construction Project
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Designing Storm water Management Facilities as a Community Amenity
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Discover a Public Works Leadership Journey
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Diversity Brunch
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Driving Design - Making Roundabouts Work
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Dynamic Information for Better Business Processes
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Effective Utility Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities - Government Affairs Committee Presentation
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EMAC Attack! Emergency Management Assistance Compact
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Emerging Issues with Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) and Biodiesel Fuel
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Engaging the Community- A Case Study of "Doin' the Green Thing"
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Equipment Replacement Strategies and Fleet Charge-Back Systems: What Do I Need to Know? (Wednesday Workshop)
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Every Crisis Is an Opportunity: Answers for Water and Wastewater Operator Shortage
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Excavator Safety and Operating Techniques
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Experience the Roundabout
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Fiber to the Premises (FTTP): Force Them to Pave?
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Finding Your Future Employees
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Fleet Washing and Stormwater Regulations
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Fleets Roll as First Responders
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From Nearly Potable to Perrier: A Small Cities Solution
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From Woe to WHOA! Public Works Facility Improvements
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Gaining Command & Control of Your Rights-of-Way (ROW)
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Garbage Collection Has Been Franchised, Now the Real Work Begins!
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Get Out of the Same Old Rut! Integrate Trenchless Technology and Design-Build
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Getting the Respect You Want and Deserve
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Getting Your Wastewater Treatment Plant off the Grid
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GIS-Based Management Solutions: Your "Easy Button"
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Going High Tech to Manage and Deliver Construction/Contract Documents and Drawings
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Going Once, Going Twice -- Selling Fleet Assets Online
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Highways for LIFE: FHWA is Speeding Up How We Implement New Technology
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Household Organics – Case Studies in Curbside Collection and Composting
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How Consortiums Help Smaller Communities Do Big Things
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How to Successfully Use Federal Funding for Transportation Projects
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Impact of Increased Stormwater Runoff on Urban Drainage Systems (Summit)
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Improving Capital Project Delivery: A Plan That’s Getting USED!
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Innovative Public Education Programs (Summit)
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Intelligent Transportation System Related Projects - TransGuide/ Signal Pre-emption/Reversible Lanes(Wednesday Workshop/Onsite Demonstration)
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Interviewing for the "Right" Skills
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Is Performance Measurement Stifling Your Performance?
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It's All About Talent: Find it, Keep it and Use it to the Max!
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It's More Than the Sniffles - Public Works Planning for Pandemic Flu
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Keep Your Bridges Open for Years to Come!
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Keeping Your Pipes Clean
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Landfills as an Economic Resource
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Leading Successful & Sustained Organizational Transformation
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Lessons Learned: Integrating GIS with Asset Management, Pavement Management and Mobile/GPS
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Lower Operating Costs AND Healthier Buildings!
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Make Your Public Works Project a Catalyst for Community Change!
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Managing the Urban Forest 101 (Wednesday Workshop)
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Melting vs. Hauling - A Study in Cost Efficiencies
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Mentoring for the Future
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Micro-Unmanned Air Vehicles - A New, Innovative Technology for Public Works!
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Modernizing Fleet Operations
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MONDAY GENERAL SESSION: The Adventure of Change – Timeless Certainties for Uncertain Times
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Money CAN Grow on Trees -- New Software for Effective Urban Forest Management
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Multi-Agency Benchmarking Study: Improving Capital Project Delivery Efficiency
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National Stormwater BMP Database – What Is It? How Can You Use It? (Summit)
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Not Just for Emergencies Anymore! Communicating with the Public
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NPDES Permit Compliance: Checking the Boxes or Improving Water Quality?(Summit)
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NPDES Phase I and Phase II Panel (Summit)
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On the Road Again: Asphalt Recycling
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Opening Session – NPDES Program Update (Summit)
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Pavement Preservation Techniques
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Pre-Caffeinated Parents Are No Longer a Threat with a Safe Routes to School Program!
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Pre-Planning Traffic Incident Response at High-Accident Intersections (Wednesday Workshop)
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Progressive Women in Public Works
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Progressive Women in Public Works Breakfast
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Protecting Your Crews in Traffic: Work Zone Safety Practices
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Protecting Your Landscape Investment
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Proven Concepts in Project Management
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Public Works Around the World!
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Public Works Designs Grand Prix Race Course on City Streets!
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Public Works Historical Society (PWHS) Luncheon: Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) and the Highland Lakes Dams
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Public Works Historical Society Session: History is Now: Passing Along the Public Works Legacy
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Public Works Mutual Aid – Making It Work
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Public Works: Planning for and Responding to a Terrorism/WMD Incident (Wednesday Workshop)
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Putting Sustainability into Action
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Reactive to Proactive – The Metamorphosis of an Agency
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Rebuilding after Katrina - Federal, Urban, and Rural Issues
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Risk Management and Project Delivery -- Take These "Flu Shots" for Healthy Projects
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Safeguarding a Civic Icon for Future Generations
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San Antonio River Improvements Project (Wednesday Workshop/Onsite Demonstration)
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San Diego - Winner of Diversity Exemplary Award
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Selecting Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Controls
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Self Assessment Using the Public Works Management Practices Manual - A Tool for Improving Operations and Management
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So, My Manager Wants Me to Actually Use This Infrastructure Maintenance Management System (IMMS)?
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Soil Strategies That Benefit the Urban Forest and Stormwater Management
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Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan Regulatory Update
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Stormwater – A Powerful Weapon for Stormwater Engineers
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Strategies to Improve Waste Diversion: Outreach and Education
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SUNDAY GENERAL SESSION: Dave Barry
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Tap into LTAP!
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Telling Your Story! Gaining Community Respect through Effective Public Outreach and Media Relations (Wednesday Workshop)
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The Ability of Equipment to Evaluate Pavement Structures
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The Art of Saying "NO"
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The Missing Pieces of the Asset Management Puzzle
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The Oregon Road User Fee Concept and Pilot Program
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The Power of the Penny - A Transportation Funding Solution
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The Red Hill Valley Project: "More Than a Road"
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THOUGHT LEADER PRESENTATION: Leadership Skills for Developing Workforce Resiliency
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THOUGHT LEADER PRESENTATION: Leadership Skills for Developing Workforce Resiliency
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THOUGHT LEADER PRESENTATION: The Future, How Will Public Works and APWA Help To Shape It? (Selected as The Myron Calkins "Excellence in Leadership" Session for 2007)
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THOUGHT LEADER PRESENTATION: The Perfect Storm: Recruitment, Retention, and Engagement
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THOUGHT LEADER PRESENTATION: The Perfect Storm: Recruitment, Retention, and Engagement
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Tracking for Success: Learning to be Better
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Traffic Intervention - Neighborhood Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Program
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Training the Public Works Trainer (Wednesday Workshop)
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TUESDAY GENERAL SESSION: Making an Impact!
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Urban Forestry for Public Works
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Using GIS to Manage Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance for Sidewalks and Curb Ramps
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Using Roadway Lighting as a Successful Countermeasure for Roadway Safety
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Utility System Restoration following a Natural Disaster - Hurricane Katrina Case Study
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Water Knows No Boundaries: Regional Watershed Management
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Water Sector Security: Practices, Approaches, and Collaboration
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Water Works IT: When “Good Enough” Isn’t Good Enough!
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WEDNESDAY GENERAL SESSON: Fostering Sustainable Behavior: Community-Based Social Marketing
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What is ASCE 38-02 and How Will It Affect your Organization?
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What Is She Wearing? What Did He Say? Understanding and Recruiting Younger Generations of Public Works Professionals
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What is Your IQ on Smart Growth?
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Will Work for Free: Students Acting as Pro Bono Design Engineers
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Yes, Decentralized Wastewater Progams Are Growing Alternatives to Sewers - But How Do We Manage these Little Systems?
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You Get What You Pay For: Dealing with Utility Conflicts
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Zero In on Zero Waste - Don't Let Your Bottom Line Go to Waste
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