DATE:December23, 2015
SUBJECT:Hold the Date Announcementfor the April 2016 New York/New Jersey RRT Meeting
FROM:Steve Touw
EPA RRT Coordinator
TO: RRT Members and Attendees
Please mark your calendars for the next New York/New Jersey Regional Response Team (RRT2) meeting, which will be held on April 13th through 15th, at the Historic Thayer Hotel, located on the grounds of the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. We will announce the meeting registration website and additional logistical information concerning access to West Point as soon as those arrangements are finalized.
Due to guest room and meeting space availability, our plans are to commence the meeting on the afternoon of Wednesday the 13th, and to adjourn early in the afternoon on Friday the 15th. So please make your travel plans accordingly.
The Thayer Hotel has reserved a block of rooms, arriving on Wednesday April 13thand departing on Friday April 15th. The rooms are at the government per diem rate of $106/night. Reservations may be made by calling the hotel reservations department at 800-247-5047 or 845-446-4731, and referring to the “US Coast Guard” room block. The room block has a cutoff date of March 13th. Government personnel are reminded to present completed and valid tax exemption forms upon check-in. A fillable New York State Exemption Certificate form is attached to this email.
A draft agenda is under development, and will be sent out in the next few weeks. If you have topics of potential interest to the RRT, please contact me via email at or phone at (732) 906-6900, or Ron Catudalat r (617) 223-8587, as soon as possible, so we can accommodate your requests and include them on the agenda.
Additional information concerning this meeting will be posted on the RRT2 website at disseminated by email. If you are not currently on our email distribution list, and would like to receive future meeting and other RRT2-related information, please contact me by email. Likewise, if you no longer wish to receive RRT2-related emails, please let me know and I will remove you from our distribution lists.
To ensure that all interested representatives are made aware of this meeting, please pass on this notice to any other members of your staff or agency/department, and to your local counterparts as well.