10-12-94 Roundtable on Business & Environment

                          NEWS ADVISORY
       BUSINESS-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ISSUES TOPIC OF FORUM

     A public policy roundtable on business and the environment
will be held Friday (10/14) at The Ohio State University.  The
program will be held from 8 a.m. to noon at the College of Law,
55 W. 12th Ave.

     Topics and panelists will include:

     =FE Risk assessment for environmental protection theory and
practice, with Samuel Ratick, director, Center for Technology,
Environment, and Development, Clark University; Richard Hicks,
project director, Priorities '95, Columbus Health Department; and
Frank Hood, quality director, Environmental Systems and
Technology Division, Battelle Memorial Institute.

     =FE Emerging integrated approaches to resource planning and
environmental protection, with Jeff Featherstone, senior policy
analyst, Delaware River Basin Commission; Robert Vertrees,
assistant professor, School of Natural Resources at Ohio State;
and Jerome Tianianow, chair of the Steering Committee, Priorities
'95.

     =FE Application of market-based mechanisms for environmental
protection, with Benjamin Hobbs, professor, Case Western Reserve
University; John Palmisano, director, environmental policy, ENRON
Corp.; and Dale Heydiauff, vice president of environmental
affairs, American Electric Power.

     Donald R. Schregardus, director of the Ohio Environmental
Protection Agency will discuss "1994 and Beyond: The Ohio EPA's
Priorities" in the keynote address.

     The goal of the roundtable is to identify public policy
issues on business and the environment and develop an agenda of
research for collaborative studies by specialists in the field
and university faculty, staff, and students.  The roundtable is
sponsored by the School of Public Policy and Management, School
of Natural Resources, and the Graduate School at Ohio State.
More information is available from Mary K. Marvel, professor of
public policy and management, (614) 292-7423.

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