A detailed agenda will be posted by March 13.

This year's MECC will feature the following consecutive tracks on June 9 and June 10 in the Agenda Structure below:

Track

Topics

  1. Basic Training
  • Air Permits
  • Compliance Best Practices Intro to EGLE
  • Environmental Audits
  • Floodplain Management
  • MiEnviro and how to use it
  • Stormwater and Wastewater Operators
  • Waste 101
  • Waste Surveys
  • Wastewater
  1. Materials Management
  • Part 115
  • Materials Management Planning
  • Food Waste
  • Re-Trac Recycling Reporting Data System
  • Beneficial Reuse
  • Common Hazardous Waste Violations
  • Contingency Planning
  • Used Oil and Liquid Industrial By-products
  • RCRA
  1. Wastewater, Stormwater, Water Resources Permitting
  • Groundwater discharge
  • Groundwater technical session
  • Industrial Pretreatment
  • Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Program
  • NPDES
  • Permitting and Case Studies Stormwater Regulations
  • Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control
  • Wetlands, Inland Lakes, and Streams
  1. Air Quality
  • Air Toxics Screening Levels
  • Calculating Potential to Emit
  • Equipment requirements
  • Exemptions and Records
  • Landfill case studies
  • MiEnviro Portal for Air: Compliance forms and permit applications
  • SIP Updates
  • Stack tests
  1. Remediation / Redevelopment
  • ASTM Standards
  • Brownfields
  • Case Studies
  • Conceptual site models
  • Due Care
  • Incremental soil sampling
  • Legacy Contaminated Sites
  • MIRBCA
  1. Environmental Emergencies
  • Case studies
  • Chemical storage at fixed facilities
  • Dam safety and incident response
  • Hazardous material releases
  • Hazard assessments
  • Managing hazardous chemicals at warehousing and distribution facilities
  • Part 5 – Spillage of Oil and Polluting Materials
  • Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule
  1. Hot Topics
  • Community Engagement
  • Data Center Envrionmental Considerations
  • FOIA Best Practices
  • Lithium-ion batteries
  • Microplastics
  • Permit Coordination
  • Siting law for renewable energy and storage facilities
  1. Drinking Water
  • Backflow Prevention and Cross Connection Control
  • Consumer Confidence Reports
  • Contaminants of Emerging Concern
  • Environmental Health Assessments

 


Agenda Structure

DAY 1 – JUNE 9, 2026

TIME

SESSION

7:30 a.m.

Registration -Breakfast and Visit with Exhibitors

9:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

9:30 a.m.

Visit Exhibitors

10:00 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

10:45 a.m.

BREAK

11:00 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

11:45 a.m.

LUNCH | NETWORKING | EXHIBITORS

1:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

1:45 p.m.

Networking Break and Refreshments – Exhibitor Hall

2:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

3:00 p.m.

BREAK

3:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

4:30 p.m.

Informal Reception at Lansing Brewing Company

 

DAY 2 – JUNE 10, 2026

TIME

SESSION

7:30 a.m.

Registration -
Breakfast and Visit with Exhibitors

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

9:00 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

9:45 a.m.

BREAK

10:00 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

10:45 a.m.

BREAK

11.00 a.m

 

11:45 a.m.

LUNCH | NETWORKING | EXHIBITORS

1:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

1:45 p.m.

Networking Break and Refreshments – Exhibitor Hall

2:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

3:00 p.m.

BREAK

3:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

4:00 p.m.

Adjourn