Thank you for your interest in the
2008 SBO/SBEAP National Conference.

The 2008 Small Business Ombudsman/Small Business Environmental Assistance Program National Conference will be held on June 17-20, 2008 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Harrisburg-Hershey.  This conference is being designed specifically for state SBOs/SBEAPs, other small business environmental assistance providers, US EPA, and small businesses.   Session topics will range from technical rule/policy updates to program and personal development issues.  Opportunities will be available for programs to network and share compliance assistance tools.  For materials and presentations from past conferences, go to www.smallbiz-enviroweb.org/sba/conferences.html.   This annual conference is a wonderful opportunity to share tools your program may have developed to help small businesses with their environmental needs. 

Online registration for the conference is now open!  Go directly to the Registration page.  If you have already registered for the conference and still need to pay, go directly to the credit card payment form or check/purchase order payment form.  Also, please fill out the payment form that pops up after you submit your registration even if you are not paying the fee right now--we are keeping track of how people (will) pay.  Thanks!

Make your hotel reservations now by clicking here to ensure the SBO group rate of $97 plus 9% tax per night. 

NOTE ON GREENING AT THE CONFERENCE:  The Crowne Plaza Hotel Harrisburg-Hershey is working closely with the conference planning committee to make this the greenest conference ever!  Some of the greening actions for the conference include:  requiring requests for linen and towels to be changed; recycling plastic, glass, and cardboard; shutting down floors during low occupancy, paper recycling in the conference area (already recycle in offices), green cleaning, donating full trays of food, and providing extra food to employees.  Some actions still being discussed include possible provision of bins in public spaces and working with PADEP on alternative energy applications.  Look for a poster at the conference that will detail all greening actions.  Thanks to Stacey Washington, SC DHEC, for her work with the hotel on all of these greening activities.