* WHAT :* West Virginia University is receiving a $500,000-plus Environmental Protection Agency award for a sustainable energy parks on mine-scarred lands project. More details will be announced as part of the keynote activities of the 2008 West Virginia Brownfields Conference.

• WHO :* Susan Janowiak, director, Office of Brownfields and Outreach, EPA Mid-Atlantic Region; Paul Ziemkiewicz, director, West Virginia Water Research Institute at WVU , home of the Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center; Sen. Robert Plymale, D-Wayne (Plymale promoted the establishment of the West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Centers, with the northern center at WVU and the southern center at Marshall University); and Randy Huffman, secretary, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, whose agency works with the Brownfields Assistance Centers.

• WHERE :* Pullman Plaza Hotel, Virginia Room, Huntington

• WHEN :* 9-9:45 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 10

• ABOUT THE CONFERENCE :* The West Virginia Brownfields Conference is an annual event of the West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Centers. This years host is Marshall University of the Southern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center. With the themeA Path to Progress,the conference will feature sessions about site selection, environmental insurance products and risk transfer options, understanding site cleanup options, and case studies of the Little League 3 development at the former Owens-Brockway site in Huntington, the city of Nitro and Volcano Island, a proposed indoor/outdoor water park on the former Fairmont Coke Works Superfund site.