### MEMORANDUM

TO: Record

FROM: Brent Ruminski , ERG

DATE: 18 July 201 4

SUBJECT: 2014 Water Management for Shale Plays West Conference Materials

On May 28 th 

### through May 29 th



### , EPA attended the 2014 Water Management for Shale Plays West in Denver, Colorado. The conference materials in the following table are provided as

attachments:

### Memorandum

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### Table 1. 2014 Water Management for Shale Plays West Presentations

Presentation DCN Presenter Name and Affiliation Presentation Title

SGE00768.A1 Alexander Robart, PacWest Consulting Partners E&P Infrasture vs. Third

- Party Services Regional Economic &

Environmental Factors

SGE00768.A2 Bob Goltz, Dow Energy & Water Removing Boron and Benzene from Produced Water

SGE00768.A3 Bob Poole, Santa Maria Energy Analyzing AB32 And California's Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) To Realize Requirements and Navigate Between Regulatory Demands

for Cyclic Steam Injection Project

SGE00768.A4 Bob Poole, Santa Maria Energy Examining The Successful Implementation Of An Innovative
Partnership With a Producer And County Governm ent to Deliver

Treated Residential Water For Re

- Use In Stream Generation

SGE00768.A5 Basic Stormwater Management: Leveraging Innovation

SGE00768.A6 Dean Ritts, WorleyParsons Air Pollution Emissions at Flowback/Produced Wastewater Treatment

Plants

SGE00768.A7 Denise Onyskiw, Onyskiw Engineering, LLC Seismicity Concerns for Underground Injection

SGE00768.A8 Dick Wolf, Colorado Division of Water Resources Water Management Strategies in the Niobrara Shale & Piceance Basins

SGE00768.A9 Eric Peterson, NGL Energy Partners LP Water Disposal

– An Assessment of Disposal Wells and Facilities

SGE00768.A10 Georgi Nochowicz, Halliburton Relationship between the Shale Oil & Gas Industry and High Quality
Water Cycle

SGE00768.A11 Harris Williams SB 4 Interim Well Stimulation Tre atment Regulations Text of
Prop osed Regulations

SGE00768.A1 2 John Harris, Paul Williams; Dentons US LLP Water Management for California Shale Plays California Legal and
Regulatory Issues

SGE00768.A13 Jaret Wirtz, Western Area Water Supply Authority North Dakota Regulatory Update

SGE00768.A1 4 Tommy Johnson, David Harry; RockWater Energy Solutions Uinta W ater M anagement

SGE00768.A15 Keith Davidson , Tetra Tech C7 Produced Water Recycling Pipeline

SGE00768.A16 Dan Sampson, WorleyParsons Zero Liquid Discharge Capability, Experience, and Overview

SGE00768.A1 7 Ken Royse, Bartlett & West Water Management in the Bakken

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SGE00768.A1 8 Kevin Rein, Colorado Division of Water Resources Produced Water from Oil and Gas Development in Colorado

SGE00768.A1 9 Matthew Bruff, Altela, Inc. Sustainable Water Treatment, Recycling & Disposal Practices in Shale

Basins

SGE00768.A 20 Nathan Zaugg , MWH Storing Water On

- Site to Maximize Environmental and Economic

Efficiencies

SGE00768.A 21 Ken Nichols, Lindsay Atkinson, CH2M Hill Identifying Viable Water Sourcing Alternatives Beyond Freshwater

SGE00768.A 22 Dick Wolf e

, Dept. of Natural Resources Concerning Petitions to the State Engineer to Make Determinations of
Nontributary Ground Water in the Case of Applications for Well

Permits to be Issued Pursuant to Sectoin 37

- 90

- 137(4) C.R.S

SGE00768.A 23 Dick Wolfe, Dept. of Natural Resources Water Sources and Demand for the Hydraulic Fracturing of Oil and

Gas Wells in Colorado from 2010 through 2015

SGE00768.A 24 Robert Smith, Express Energy Services Sovereign Authority of Decision Making for Water Resources Management... Who Has It?

SGE00768.A 25 Sarah Fletcher, Sourcewater Cambridge Innovation Center at

MIT Water Management Infrastructure Investments: Decision Factors and
Regional Economics

SGE00768.A26 Scott Tucker, Hach Company Evaluating Characteristics of Source, Flowback, & Produced Water for

Effective Water Treatment

SGE00768.A2 7 Scott Wilson, USEAP Office of Water Overview of PEA Authorities for Water Associated with Oil and Gas

Extraction

SGE00768.A2 8 Stephen Hughes, Tetra Tech Treating Produced Water to Generate Beneficial Reuse Byproducts