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CIEC BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

Wednesday, December 15, 2011 @ 10:00AM

Mojave Desert AQMD Offices

14306 Park Ave., Victorville, CA. 92392

Attendees:

Bud Biggs, Mitsubishi Cement                                 Absent

Frank Sheets, TXI                                                     Present

Chuck Fryxell, MDAQMD                                       Absent

Gene Moscaret, Moscaret Associates                     Present

Eldon Heaston, MDAQMD                                      Present

Robert Kniss, SCE                                                     Present

Terry Caldwell, Caldwell, Kennedy & Porter           Absent

Jackelin Simmons, Cemex                                         Absent

Amarjits Gill, Cemex                                                 Absent

Derrick Nicholls, Lehigh Southwest                         Absent

Mark Cunningham, PG&E                                     (Via phone)

David Long, CIEC                                                    Present

1. Frank Sheets chaired the meeting in Bud Biggs absence.  The minutes were pproved as sent.

2. Administration Report –

1. Executive Director Replacement.  Mr. Sheets reviewed the status of the selection of a new Executive Director position.  He asked that Board members review the submitted proposals and direct all questions to David Long, who will collate and redistribute the questions to all Board members.  Copies of the proposals should be forwarded to Mark Cunningham.  A tentative schedule for the selection was agreed to.

1.      Any questions related to the submittals should be provided to Mr. Long by January 9, 2006.

2.      A conference call among the Board members is scheduled for January 11, 2006 at 10AM. 

3.      Mr. Biggs would negotiate any contract with the selected candidate.

4.      Selection would be made no later then January 16^th.

There was a general discussion on the attributes of the two candidates and consensus that each person had skill sets that would fit well with overall CIEC objectives.  It was also agreed that what the approach the Board might decide on for moving forward with major CIEC projects might be the determining factor on the selection of the candidate.  Bob Kniss indicated a preference for Ms. McQueen’s strong technical background in cement technologies, especially as the focus of the Technology Committee in 2006 would be in evaluating energy efficiencies

2. Office Relocation update – Mr. Long indicated that the move to the new office at Crestmore was complete, but that keys for locking up the office made not yet been found.  Mr. Sheets would follow-up with Crestmore staff to arrange for the office keys.  Gene Moscaret thought that the Board previously agreed to relocate the office to the MDAQMD. 

Mr. Sheets indicated that the decision on relocation had not been made as was in part determined by the selection of the Executive Director. Maintaining the office at the existing location had the benefit of not having to change mailing address and phone numbers.

3. Accounting – Mr. Long reported that Teri Bordwell had agreed to continue providing accounting services, until a determination is made on the handling of accounting by the new Executive Officer.

3. CIEC Membership – Mr. Moscaret briefed the Board that the need to select an Executive Officer has had an affect on membership solicitation.  He indicated that National Cement had a concern that the Executive Officer selection not lead to CIEC moving toward lobbying for approved approaches for environmental compliance, but focus on technological aspects to address environmental issues.
4. Cyanide/Potliner Patent update. Mr. Long reported that nothing new had transpired, during this reporting period.
5. Biosolids Update -  Long
   1. CASA – The California Association of Sanitation Agencies has agreed to undertake a State-wide effort to collect data on biosolids for review by the cement companies.  They had asked that the CIEC provide guidance on what type data and sample preparation would be best to collect.  The CASA group also asked for meetings with the interested cement companies.  A list of possible dates was being circulated.  After some discussion, the Board asked that Mr. Long contact Ed Morton of Lehigh to see if he could share the information on biosolids fuel spec’s for this purpose.  Mr. Long was also directed to contact Cal Port Colton for fuel spec’s for a Long kiln.
   2. Cement Plants Long was directed to contact the cement plants who expressed interest to see if any had specific data needs
   3. The Board agreed that interested plants should be contacted to participate with a joint meeting with CASA representatives.  Mr. Morton had requested that an early January date be considered.  The Board however suggested a late January date as a preference.  Mr. Long was tasked to arrange meeting dates and location.  Mr. Moscaret preferred Whittier if possible.
   4. Mr. Sheets made a strong point in emphasizing that any financial arrangements would be outside CIEC involvement, and would be driven by the needs of the plant and agencies, but could not be linked to any preconceived plan.  He also asked if Mr. Long was intending to become involved in biosolids management following his leaving CIEC.  Mr. Long indicated that he had no intention of becoming involved, except perhaps on special projects assigned by CIEC.
6. Fitch Fuel Catalyst –Mr. Long indicated that the folks at High Grade Materials had not provided the fuel usage information.  He was scheduled to meet with High Grade staff following the Board meeting.
7. Committee Reports (Taken out of order so that Mr. Kniss could leave)
   1. Technology Committee – Mr. Kniss indicated that no Technology Committee meeting had been scheduled, but that the California Energy Commission had approved changes in various rebate programs that would extend the implementation period to beyond 1 year.  These programs would have a direct effect on the energy efficiency efforts that are to be the focus of the Technology Committee for 2006.  These rebate programs may also assist in funding the capital costs for any biosolids handling system, if there was a concurrent electrical saving from the reduction in coal grinding (as an example).  Mr. Sheets asked if Mr. Kniss would be able to provide a summary of the program to the attendees at the biosolids meeting, Mr. Kniss indicated he had a power-point presentation available.  Mr. Cunningham was asked if he could involve the PG&E representatives involved with the No. Cal. cement plants.  He indicated he would find out who was servicing the plants.
   2. Finance Report – The standard financial report was distributed with the Agenda Packet.  The report covered the period ending November 30, 2005. For the third month in a row the expenses slightly exceeded revenues.  Mr. Long indicated that this was due to additional staff and expenses related to the November biosolids conference.
   3. Legal Report – None

8. Carbon Dioxide Project Update – Long/Sheets

A.  Climate Registry Protocols for the Cement Industry were approved.  Mr. Sheets indicated that since the protocols had adopted nearly all of the suggestions provided by the PCA that there was little controversy over the rules.  He stated that it was his opinion that these protocols would at some point in the future be the basis of regulation, and that the Registry would eventually be folded into the Air Resources Board.

B.     Demonstration Project Costs – Mr. Long indicated that the project cost for

A 500 lb/day (90 day period) would approximately be double the cost of having the demonstration facilities built at proponent’s facilities.  The project cost outline for both the Phase I and II that were previously distributed to Energy Commission member was included with the Agenda.

C.  Funding decision - Mr. Long indicated that it had been over two years since the original proposals were submitted and that a decision on how or if to fund this project was in order.  He had taken the liberty of asking El Paso if there was interest in funding ½ the phase I costs, since they had an interest in the Carbozyme technology for removing CO2 from their methane sources.  He was awaiting a reply.  He also indicated that Oxy was interested in loaning the funds with a guarantee from the cement companies.  Mr. Long was unclear as to what positive steps were being taken to secure state or federal funds.  The long delay to move forward or make any decision as to a schedule for funds was in the opinion of Mr. Long unfair to the two selected technology companies.

D.  Meeting with other cement plants was on hold pending any significant decision on moving forward with this project.

E.      Press release is still on hold.

9. Cal Port Co-operative Projects

d.      Electron Beam – Long reported that there was still interest by Hadley and Aldrich and that the cost of a demonstration remained in the $200,000 range.  He reminded the Board that the concept was to jointly fund the project with Cal Port, with Mr. Biggs to raise the issue with the Mike Robertson the Plant Manager at Cal Port.  There had been a 5-month delay in contacting Mr. Robertson.  Mr. Sheets asked if there was interest on the part of the consulting group, why they were not interested in funding the demonstration.  Mr. Long replied that the company would be putting in a significant contribution, but that the arrangement as discussed provided for CIEC to retain some financial interest in the technology if we were to arrange for funding.

e.       CKD Weathering – The staff at Lawrence Livermore is continuing to work with Cal Port of this project.

f.        Biosolids – Cal Port is interested in looking at use of biosolids as a fuel and is expected to participate in any meetings.

10. Old. New Business – None

11. Next Meeting - To be determined based in part on the Executive Officer selection process.

TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE

CANCELLED

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12353 Hesperia Road

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