Dan Spadoni distributed the travel expense vouchers to the members and said the mileage reimbursement remains at 32.5 cents per mile and the year remains 1999. Dan Spadoni discussed the upcoming 30 th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22 and reviewed the regional events that DEP will participate in. He also reviewed the DEP Earth Day handouts provided to each round table member. McJunkin then introduced DEP Regional Director, Robert Yowell, for a discussion on DEP s watershed teams. Yowell said that Governor Ridge will make an announcement on Growing Greener grant awards later this week which is one part of the puzzle.
Watersheds are areas that people associated with.
Yowell said that about three years ago DEP started thinking about how to do a watershed focus. There is no one boundary that would suit everything. For the most part, regional boundaries correspond fairly well with watershed boundaries. The DEP managers proposed that program managers would be team leaders with each team containing members from different DEP programs. Yowell mentioned that there is a story on the web called the Tiadaghton Watershed, written by DEP Secretary Seif, which describes how the watershed focus would work if implemented.