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2008 C2P2 Awards Program

Alexandria, VA, July 2, 2008

Susan Bodine, Assistant Administrator of the USEPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, presented the 2008 C2P2 Awards during a ceremony on July 2, 2008. The ceremony for award winners and invited guests was be followed by a reception. The ceremony is part of the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA) 40th Anniversary Meeting.

EPA works with ACAA and other C2P2 sponsors to recognize C2P2 partners for outstanding achievements in the beneficial use of coal combustion products (CCPs) in the categories of Innovation, Enhanced CCP Utilization, Communication/Outreach, Partnership, Environmental Achievement, Research, Overall Achievement, and Lifetime Achievement.

The 2008 C2P2 award winners are:
Pictures of the recipients

Environmental Achievement
First Place: University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center
Special Recognition: PMI Ash Technologies and Dominion

Communication and Outreach
First Place: University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research
Special Recognition: Association of Canadian Industries Recycling Coal Ash (CIRCA) and the University of New Brunswick

Innovation
First Place: Dr. Henry Liu, Freight Pipeline Company
Special Recognition: Wal-Mart

Enhanced Utilization
First Place: PPL Generation
Special Recognition: CEMEX/Mineral Resource Technologies

Partnership
First Place: City of Denver, County of Denver, and University of Colorado Denver Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Program
Special Recognition: AmerenUE and Charah

Research
First Place: The Ohio State University
Special Recognition: Texas A&M University Department of Civil Engineering

Lifetime Achievement
Oscar Manz
E. Cheri Miller

Overall Achievement
Headwaters Resources

If you have any questions or require any assistance, please contact EPA's John Sager (sager.john@epa.gov).

Previous C2P2 Award Winners, for your reference.

2006 C2P2 Award Winners

C2P2 periodically recognizes its partners for outstanding achievements in increasing the amount of CCPs beneficially used. Previously, awards were presented during a ceremony at the National Recycling Coalition's Annual Congress in Atlanta, Georgia October 23-24, 2006.

Overall Achievement

Great River Energy
Great River Energy, an industry-leading electric utility company, partnered with more than 10 public and private organizations to develop a variety of markets for its CCPs. Their partnership with Headwaters, Inc. alone increased Great River' s fly ash sales from Coal Creek Station to 417,000 tons in 2005.

Communication and Outreach

First Place: Los Angeles Community College District
The District's exceptional nine-campus renovation is one of the world's largest Green Building projects and serves as a model for architects and students. Construction practices included high percentages of fly ash in concrete. What's more, the District has a “zero landfill policy” that mandates all construction and demolition debris be recycled or reused.

Special Recognition: Stockton Cogeneration
Stockton worked closely with the community to identify new potential uses for fly ash and bottom ash. Their efforts led to a partnership with Dutra Farms that identified cost effective CCP uses for dairy cattle management operations. In addition, Stockton routinely conducts community outreach about beneficial CCP uses at the annual county agricultural exposition.

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Environmental Achievement

First Place: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Wal-Mart is demonstrating national leadership in environmentally-friendly design and construction practices, including the use of fly ash concrete. Over the past 10 years, Wal-Mart has used more than 350,000 tons of fly ash in its projects and plans to increase this effort in the future.

Special Recognition: Constellation Energy
Constellation's innovative strategies and techniques greatly improved CCP management throughout the company by using a diverse mix of traditional and emerging alternatives. Implementing these strategies has increased ash utilization from less than 10 percent to more than 50 percent over the last 10 years.

Innovation

First Place: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
Caltrans, a state leader in the use of fly ash in paving projects, specified high volume fly ash mixes for the largest bridge project in its history – the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Using innovative specifications and blending techniques, Caltrans was able to improve its workability, hardening, and permeability properties of the concrete.

Special Recognition: University of Kentucky, Center for Applied Energy Research
The University of Kentucky created FastFloat™, a processing technology that produces high-quality, ultra-fine ash suitable for use in high-performance concrete allowing otherwise unsuitable fly ash to be used in high value applications.

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Enhanced Utilization

First Place: Santee Cooper
Santee Cooper, South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility, increased its total ash utilization by more than 90,000 tons from 2004 to 2005. They provided 30,000 tons of fly ash for the $531 million Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge project in Charleston in 2005.

Partnership

First Place: EMC Cement BV and Texas EMC Products
EMC Cement BV and Texas EMC Products created an innovative material, known as CemPozz™, used to replace up to 60 percent of Portland Cement in concrete and has gained wide acceptance in many projects in Texas in particular.

Research

First Place: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for By-Products Utilization
The University has an international reputation for innovative research supporting coal ash utilization and in 2005 and 2006 it conducted five diverse research projects denoting the benefits of CCPs in concrete mixtures.

Special Recognition: Puerto Rico Construction Cluster and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
AES with the University conducted a unique literature review resulting in a list of potential CCP applications that could be used by the island's only fluidized bed combustion generating facility.

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Individual Awards

Individual Achievement: Thomas Jansen, Supervising Engineer of WE Energies' CCP Group
Mr. Jansen is being recognized for his longstanding dedication to the use of CCPs, his leadership in support of beneficial use activities throughout the United States, and his work in developing the concept for the Green Highways Initiative.

Lifetime Achievement: Dr. V. Mohan Malhotra
Dr. Malhotra has worked in all aspects of concrete technology, including nondestructive testing, for the past 35 years. His contribution on the sustainable nature of concrete and how the use of CCPs in concrete contributes to environmental stewardship has marked him as an international expert in the field.

Lifetime Achievement: Dr. P. Kumar Mehta
Dr. Mehta has for decades been one of the world's leading researchers of the use of fly ash in structural concrete. His cement and concrete technology research and academic leadership has paved the way for significant advances in the use of coal combustion products.

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