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    Paul Nelson, Environmental Specialist Senior, Underground Storage Tank Section, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

    Paul has worked in Iowa's UST program since it was formed in 1987 as lead worker on the leak prevention side of the program. He joined Iowa's environmental protection department in 1979 and has worked in the solid waste and air quality programs. Paul is a graduate of Iowa State University with a degree in Biology.
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    Gerold Noyes, Environmental Engineer, Manages hazardous sites for the Vermont DEC

    Gerold Noyes has his Professional Engineer license with a Bachelor and Masters degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and a Masters in Environmental Engineering. He has been working for the Vermont DEC for 7 years; prior to that he worked for an environmental consulting firm for 3 years. He presented a discussion of vapor release management issues at the 2005 State Fund Administrators Conference in Salt Lake City. In his spare time he sails on Lake Champlain with his wife and son, he also is a judge for the Vermont State Science Fair.
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    J. Stephen Opp, PG, Environmental Specialist, State of Montana’s Petroleum Release Section

    Mr. Opp received his B. S. in Geology in 1993 from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Prior to employment with the State of Montana, Mr. Opp spent approximately 10 years in the private sector of the environmental industry working on sites throughout the United States. Work in the private sector included numerous site investigations and implementation of various remedial technologies at a wide variety of facilities and sites for multiple clients. Currently Mr. Opp is working on approximately 90 petroleum release sites within the State of Montana.
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      Dan Ostrander, Tennessee Division of Underground Storage Tanks

    Dan Ostrander moved to Nashville in 1978 and after a long stint in the Army began work with the Division in April, 1992 as an Environmental Specialist 3 in the Enforcement Section. His main responsibilities at that time was to conduct some Certificate Inspections and issue Director’s Orders to members of the regulated community that violated the registration, posting of the registration certificate and delivery rules.
    In 1993, Dan was part of the committee that developed and created the Compliance Inspection program. After this program was created, Dan was involved in the field testing of this new program.
    After the Compliance Inspection Program was firmly in place, Dan began issuing Director’s Order for compliance violations. In 2001, Dan was given the additional task of supervising the Notification section. Dan revamped some of the ways the Notification process was performed and added something this section had never had and that was someone to perform quality audits on the information that was supplied by tank owners on the Notification for Underground Storage Tanks form. This insured the information that was being entered into the UST database was accurate.
    Dan is currently an Environmental Specialist 6 and has been married to his wife Susan for thirty-five years. Dan and Susan have three boys and four grandchildren which all live in the Nashville area. Dan’s hobbies include fishing, hunting and collecting baseball cards.
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      James I. Palmer, Jr. (Jimmy)

    In October 2001, President Bush appointed Jimmy Palmer, Regional Administrator for Region 4 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, which covers Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. A Mississippi native, Jimmy holds a B. S. degree in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University and a Juris Doctorate degree, with honors, from the University of Mississippi. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and Licensed Attorney in Mississippi.
    Jimmy served for over 25 years in several capacities in the environmental field with the State of Mississippi, including the Attorney General's Office, the Governor's Office, and, for over 12 years, under three successive Governors, as Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. He then re-entered private law practice before being appointed EPA Regional Administrator.
    The U. S. Department of Justice awarded Jimmy a Distinguished Environmental Enforcement Service Commendation in 1998 and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Gulf of Mexico Program awarded him a Distinguished Service Commendation in 2000. In 1998 and 1999, Jimmy served as Chairman of the U. S. Department of the Interior Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee, for which he received a Secretary of the Interior Award of Appreciation in 2000.
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    Hun Seak Park, P.E., Washington State Department of Ecology, Toxics Cleanup Program, Policy & Technical Support Unit

    Hun Seak PARK, P.E. is a senior civil and environmental engineer with Toxics Cleanup Program at Washington State Department of Ecology, where he provides guidance & assistance to site managers and the public working on contaminated site investigation, cleanups and operation and maintenance activities (under both MTCA and CERCLA). He conducts cost engineering and fate/transport modeling and assessment. His work includes: (1) State technical guidance on Natural Attenuation on contaminated groundwater, (2) State technical policy on how-to-assess the subsurface contaminant vapor migration into indoor, (3) Development of supplementary state guidance on geo-statistics to fit into the risk-based cleanup approach. He received a degree of civil engineer in civil and environmental engineering from Utah State University, Utah and an M.S. in environmental engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand.
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    Bill Reetz, Unit Chief, Public Water Remediation, Storage Tank Section, Bureau of Environmental Remediation, Kansas Department of Health and Envrionment

    Bill is a geologist and project manager of numerous in-situ/ex-situ public water treatment remedial systems in Kansas. Ex-situ granulated activated carbon systems and air stripping systems for public water systems working in conjunction with SVE/AS are managed within his remedial unit. Bill has worked as a co-instructer of several NGWA short courses entitled MtBE Treatment Technology: Design and Implementation. Bill’s group is responsible for project management of over 140 individual remedial sites in Kansas, including tracking remedial system installations for all Public/Domestic Wells in Kansas. Bill has worked for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for over 10 years. He obtained his B.S. in Geology from the University of Kansas in Lawrence and is working toward a M.S. in Environmental Engineering at KU.
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      Stephen G. Reuter

    Born and raised in northern New Jersey where he attended Montclair State College and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology in 1976. Steve answered a newspaper ad to “participate in exciting geophysical field work in the beautiful Rocky Mountains”, and joined Century Geophysical Corporation in Grants, New Mexico.
    Two years of uranium exploration ensued followed by a stint in graduate school at the University of Texas-at El Paso (UTEP). It was 1981, and Exxon hired Steve to work in Midland, Texas at the height of the ’80’s oil boom. Steve resigned his position as a Senior Exploration Geophysicist after 9 years, and broke into the environmental field by forming an independent consulting firm called, “Advent Environmental Services ”
    Steve joined the New Mexico Environment Department Underground Storage Tank Bureau as a Team Leader in 1996 and advanced to become the Bureau Chief. In 2000, he left State work to perform corrective action at Superfund sites. After two years of Superfund corrective action, Steve rejoined the New Mexico Environment Department, Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau in February, 2002 as the District 1 Geologist Manager, where he currently oversees corrective action associated with petroleum storage tanks.
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      Dr. Ileana A. L. Rhodes

    Dr. Rhodes is a Principal Scientist at Shell Global Solutions (US). Her areas of expertise include sampling and analysis of soil, sediments, water and groundwater for environmentally significant compounds; characterization and fingerprinting of petroleum and petroleum products in free phase and in environmental samples; sampling and analysis of hazardous air pollutants in process streams; field methods to expedite site assessment and remediation; regulatory consulting on analytical issues and litigation support. She has a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Louisiana State University (1980) and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of New Orleans (1975).
    Dr. Rhodes is a frequent lecturer at technical workshops in the US and Europe on a variety of issues including environmental forensics, oxygenates and TPH. She is a member of the environmental monitoring workgroup of the American Petroleum Institute and in the editorial board of Environmental Forensics. She was a member of the TPHCWG.
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      Roland Riegel, Principal Engineer, Flammable Liquid Containment Products, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

    Roland Riegel has 20 years experience in three different UL departments to provide an overall safety assessment for certification of a broad range of mechanical, electrical and integrated residential, commercial and industrial products. Experienced in individual or integrated Mechanical & Electrical project handling and engineering review responsibilities for materials, components products and systems with respect to fire, shock and personal injury hazards. Recently selected as UL’s Primary Designated Engineer for Flammable Liquid Containment Products with global responsibilities for complex technical evaluations, consistency of UL certifications, and representation on various Standard & Code technical committees.
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    Yue Rong, Ph.D., Environmental Program Manager, California Regional Water Quality Control Board

    Dr. Yue Rong (a.k.a. ‘Y.R.’) is currently the program manager for the Underground Storage Tank Program at the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region. He has more than 15 years experience with the Board in dealing with groundwater contamination problems in the Los Angeles area. In the first 7 years with the Board, Dr. Rong worked with USEPA in groundwater cleanup of chlorinated volatile organic solvents pollution in the San Fernando Valley Superfund area. He has been a senior staff member of the Board’s multi-disciplinary team in dealing with MTBE groundwater contamination problems in the Charnock and Arcadia well fields in Santa Monica, California since 1997. With his strong technical background recognized by the scientific community, he serves on the scientific advisory board for the annual conference of the Association of Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS), and he is also an Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journal of Soil and Sediment Contamination and an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Environmental Forensics . He also served as chairman for the UCLA Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Student Nominating Committee in 2004. Dr. Rong is the author or co-authors for about 30 peer-reviewed publications. He is the recipient of the Board Outstanding Achievement Award and Supervisory Performance Award. Dr. Yue Rong has his Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), M.S. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Wisconsin.
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    Cliff Rothenstein, Director, US EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks

    Since June 2000, Cliff Rothenstein, has served as Director of EPA’s Office of Underground Storage Tanks. As Director, Mr. Rothenstein is responsible for ensuring that the nation’s one million gasoline storage tanks are designed and operated safely, in compliance with federal leak detection and upgrade requirements, and that all petroleum releases (including MTBE releases) from these tanks are cleaned up promptly and effectively. As Director, Mr. Rothenstein put in place a series of new initiatives to accelerate cleanups, increase compliance, evaluate the decades-old regulations, and launch a series of “UST Fields” pilots to cleanup and redevelop abandoned tanks. Mr. Rothenstein is now responsible for implementing the Underground Storage Tank Compliance Act of 2005.
    Prior to being named Director of the Office of Underground Storage Tanks, Mr. Rothenstein served for three years as EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Among Mr. Rothenstein’s highlights include his work on EPA and the Administration’s positions and strategies on Superfund, brownfields, solid and hazardous waste, and underground tank legislation and the office’s regulatory agenda.. Mr. Rothenstein also served as the agency’s chief negotiator on Superfund and solid and hazardous waste legislation, directing the Administration’s Congressional negotiating teams.
    Prior to joining EPA as Deputy Assistant Administrator, Mr. Rothenstein was a senior advisor to Senator Baucus on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Among Mr. Rothenstein’s highlights include his work on the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the Federal Facilities Compliance Act, the Pollution Prevention Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Ac, brownfields and Superfund. He also worked on recycling, community right-to-know, flow control, interstate waste, regulatory reform and unfunded mandates legislation.
    Mr. Rothenstein also spent ten years with the Environmental Protection Agency specializing in economic and regulatory analysis, preparing detailed studies on the impact of major regulations covering solid and hazardous waste and special reports to Congress on mining and oil and gas wastes.
    Mr. Rothenstein is a former appointed member of the Montgomery County Solid Waste Advisory Committee and holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of California at Davis.
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    Patrick Rounds, President of Rounds & Associates

    Rounds & Associates is a business consulting firm located in Waukee, Iowa. Rounds & Associates provides environmental and risk management services to businesses and industry associations with a specialization in the petroleum marketing industry.
    R&A has conducted over 10,000, third-party, independent compliance, loss control and regulatory inspections of petroleum storage tank facilities in the United States. Mr. Rounds was the Administrator of the Iowa Comprehensive UST Financial Responsibility Fund for 6 years and is currently President and CEO of Petroleum Marketers Management Insurance Company (PMMIC). PMMIC is a property and casualty insurance carrier specializing in environmental liability insurance for petroleum storage tank systems.
    Mr. Rounds is an attorney by education. He has over 16 years experience in the environmental risk management industry and is nationally recognized as a speaker on environmental risk management and financial responsibility programs for petroleum storage tank systems. Mr. Rounds sits on the board of directors of The Foundation For Children & Families of Iowa, is a founding director of Couch Freak Striders and is President of Des Moines Skydivers.
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      Mitch Scheel, Policy Coordinator, Oregon’s Tank Program.

    Mitch has worked in Oregon’s UST, LUST and Heating Oil Tank Programs for the last 10 years. Mitch is also the rules coordinator for the Tank Program, created Oregon’s Operator Training Manual and oversees the training program.
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    Philip Shoemaker, President, SCI

    Philip Shoemaker serves as President of Shoemaker Consulting, Inc., a technology consulting firm, whose focus is implementation of innovative technology solutions to solve business computing needs. He has 16 years of experience related to Enterprise Technology Planning, Enterprise Architecture Services, and Enterprise Application Integration. His specialty is providing strategic direction based on the information asset base, which defines the business mission, the information necessary to perform the mission, the technologies necessary to perform the mission, and the transitional processes for implementation new technologies in response to the changing mission needs. Many projects under his direction utilize a wide variety of technology ranging from mainframe to cutting edge web based and client server implementations. Many of these projects utilized innovative data processing techniques beyond the traditional mainstream, which served to set the standard in on-going development within the organizations where they were applied. Philip has extensive experience with state government data systems with large-scale Oracle DBMS implementations across wide area networks and web based interfaces. Philip earned his Bachelors in Management Information Systems with a Minor in Computer Science from Florida State University in 1989.
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    Chuck Schwer, Section Chief, Waste Management Division, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation

    Chuck Schwer has worked for the VT DEC since 1986. He is the Vermont Petroleum Cleanup Fund manager and supervises staff in the hazardous sites cleanup program. Chuck received a BA in Environmental Geology from St. Lawrence University in New York and a masters in Water Resource Management from the the University of Vermont. He has two children: a sixteen year old daughter and a fourteen year old son.ce of Underground Storage Tanks for more than 12 years, in a variety of capacities.
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    Adam Sekely, Hydrologist, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Brainerd, Minnesota

    Adam Sekely has been with the MPCA for the past three years, during which he has primarily worked in site investigation and remediation within the Petroleum Remediation Program. Adam serves as the program’s GIS coordinator, Minnesota Department of Health liaison, technical analyst for the public water supply contamination project, and technical policy coordinator. Adam has a BS in Environmental Science and an MS in Soil Science with a minor in Water Resources Science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul.
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    Kara Sergeant, Environmental Analyst, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission

    Kara Sergeant and has been with the Commission for the past four and a half years. Kara is responsible for the Groundwater/Source Water Protection workgroup and the UST/LUST/State Funds Workgroup, where she researches key issues and facilitates communication between state and federal managers from New England and New York. She reviews NEIWPCC’s national publication, LUSTLine and is the project manager for the NEIWPCC MtBE surveys. She has been a member of the National Tanks Conference Team and the State Funds Administrators Planning Team since 2001. Prior to her work at NEIWPCC, Kara spent four years at Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM). Kara has received a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Science from Dickinson College and is currently pursuing a Masters degree at Tufts University.
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    Michael D. Sexton, P. E., manages the Petroleum and Waste Programs, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ’s) South Central Regional Office (SCRO)

    Michael D. Sexton has a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU). He is also a professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and has 15 years of experience in corporate environmental affairs, spill planning, emergency response, remediation, inspections, permitting, and brownfields.
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    Ben Shiau, Director of Surfactant Technology, Surbec Environmental

    Dr. Shiau has more than fifteen years research experience in designing groundwater remediation systems, including in situ surfactant flushing, permeable reactive barriers (PRBs), and in situ chemical oxidation. His education backgrounds were in chemical engineering and environmental engineering.
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    John Sohl, CEO Columbia Technologies

    John Sohl is CEO and co-founder of Columbia Technologies a growing clean technology company providing direct sensing technology and software services. The company’s award-winning SmartData Solutions® enables the practical and highly cost-effective implementation of the US EPA TRIAD approach for the assessment, cleanup and monitoring of environmentally contaminated real estate. Mr. Sohl has 33 years of experience in senior technical project management and business development. A former Naval officer, Mr. Sohl holds a BS in Engineering from the US Naval Academy and a MBA from Chaminade University of Honolulu.
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    Matthew Small, R.G., Ph.D., Hydrogeologist / Environmental Engineer, U.S. EPA Region 9

    Matt has a B.S. in Geology from California State University, Hayward, a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at U.C. Berkley, and is a registered geologist in the state of California. He has worked as a hydrogeologist for over 18 years in both private consulting and the public sector on numerous cleanups ranging from underground storage tanks to superfund sites. Matt is currently working as a hydrogeologist for the U.S. EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks, Region 9 in San Francisco, CA. He provides technical support and training to state UST/LUST programs, direct program implementation on Native American lands and is active in creation of national standards and guidelines. Matt has produced extensive publications and presentations on a wide range of topics related to contaminant hydrogeology and corrective action. He has received the EPA Office of Research & Development STAR award, was named Federal Employee of the year in the scientific category in 1993 and 2001, and has been awarded the EPA bronze medal on five occasions for his work on remediation by natural attenuation, monitored natural attenuation and risk-based decision making.
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    Jennifer Steffes, Environmental Protection Specialist, Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Oil and Public Safety (OPS)

    Jennifer Steffes has been employed with the OPS for ten years, where her responsibilities have included developing guidance documents and cost guidelines, managing LUST Trust and State Lead projects, and overseeing the remediation of petroleum impacted sites. Prior to working at OPS, Jennifer was an Environmental Specialist for eight years in the Storage Tank Program at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Jennifer holds a B.S. degree in Geology from the University of Florida.
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      Amy Steinmetz

    Amy Steinmetz is an Environmental Specialist for the State of Montana’s Petroleum Release Section. Ms. Steinmetz received her bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Chemistry in 2001 from Carroll College in Helena, MT. Prior to employment with the State of Montana, Ms. Steinmetz spent approximately 3 years working as a chemist and assistant lab manager at an environmental laboratory, assisting clients with their laboratory needs and analyzing environmental samples for VPH and EPH. Currently Ms. Steinmetz is working on approximately 60 petroleum release sites within the State of Montana.
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    Richard W. Swanson, Program Manager, Georgia Environmental Protection Division

    Mr. Swanson, a licensed attorney at law, is currently the Program Manager for the Underground Storage Tank Management Program of the Environmental Protection Division in the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. In that capacity he oversees all compliance and enforcement; cleanup issues and state fund matters concerning underground storage tanks in Georgia. Prior to his current position, he served as the Legal Assistant to the Land Protection Branch and as Manager of the Georgia Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund, an EPA approved financial assurance mechanism for the tank program which he currently manages.
    As Legal Assistant to the Land Protection Branch, a position which he still holds, he has offered assistance and advice to the branch chief in matters dealing with solid waste handling facilities, underground storage tanks, surface mining and lead-based paint and asbestos programs. He joined the Underground Storage Tank Management Program as the Legal Assistant in June 1990 and has served the Program in various capacities regarding the Trust Fund in addition to being Legal Assistant.
    He serves with the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials as the chair of the Tanks Subcommittee and as chair of the Financial Assurance Work Group.
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    David Terry, Program Director, MA DEP Drinking Water Program

    David Terry has been the Program Director for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s Drinking Water Program since 1990. In this capacity, he is responsible for the oversight of all aspects of the Safe Drinking Water Act including the Underground Injection Control Program (UIC), the Source Water Protection Program, the Water Allocation Program, and coordination of security and emergency planning activities. He was previously the Assistant Program Director, and before that, the Manager of the Water Supply Planning and Development Section responsible for the development of both well head protection and water supply allocation programs.
    Mr. Terry is past President of the Ground Water Protection Council and has been on the GWPC’s Board of Directors since 1993. He is also a member of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA) and has served as the Chairperson of ASDWA’s Source Water Protection Committee. He has also served on the National Drinking Water Advisory Committee’s work groups on source water and UIC/Source Water Protection Program Integration. He is an active member of New England Water Works Association and the Massachusetts Water Works Association.
    Mr. Terry holds a Master’s Degree in Community Planning from the University of Rhode Island and a Bachelor’s Degree in Geography from Middlebury College.
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    Ben Thomas, Ben Thomas Associates, Inc., Principal; Petroleum Tank Training Institute, LLC. Partner

    Armed with only a gas sniffer, a hard hat, and a Chevy Chevette, Ben Thomas started his career in 1986 as a UST inspector for the state of Vermont. He later moved to Alaska and spent seven years as a LUST project manager overseeing cleanup of frozen soils before taking over the statewide UST leak prevention program in 1995. Ben gained national attention at the EPA UST/LUST Conference in 1997 when he showcased one of the first state web sites on USTs he developed for Alaska. Since then he has been known for his innovative work on outreach material, financial responsibility compliance, the ’98 deadline, operator training and the Alaska third party inspection program. Ben left Alaska in 2002 to start his own business and concentrate his interests in education, outreach, and training. Currently he provides training courses for UST inspector and operators, conducts compliance research and analysis, and develops educational material.
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    Dale Urban, Project Manager, Utah Department of Environmental Quality

    Dale has worked for Utah DEQ since 1990 as a project manager in the Leaking Underground Storage Tanks Program. His duties include contract and construction management for state-led investigations and cleanups and he serves as the Petroleum Brownfields Coordinator. Dale obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Utah and is a registered professional geologist in Utah and Wyoming.
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    Frank Vernon BA East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, Geography and Geology; MS Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, Geology

    Oversight of landfill site investigations. This included working with consultants involved in the acquisition of soil and groundwater data and interpretation of data. Also, worked with other County, State and Federal agencies involved in landfill investigatory work and installation. Currently employed as a Project Environmental Analyst with a state agency in oversight of UST site investigations and remediation. Have been involved in the implementation of a workshop for UST contractors to effectively and efficiently delineate continuing source zones on UST sites for continuing education purposes. Minerals Exploration: Managed a number of projects for a public utility over an area covering the western United States. Oversight on drilling and site restoration. Coordinated exploration efforts with contractors and State and Federal regulatory agencies. Petroleum Expiration and Development: Staff geologist for major petroleum company. Generated prospects and was charged with geotechnical oversight on development of existing petroleum reserves.
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    Jim Victor, Environmental Engineer, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Spill Prevention & Bulk Storage Section

    Jim began his career with the New York State DEC in 1998 and has spent the last four years in the Spill Prevention & Bulk Storage Section. He is based out of the Central Office in Albany, where he is primarily responsible for providing technical assistance and regulatory/policy guidance to DEC regional staff and the public. Jim specializes in issues related to petroleum storage and underground storage tank technology. His educational background includes a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Clarkson University and a B.S. in Mathematics from Roberts Wesleyan College.
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    Jim Weaver, Ph.D., Hydrologist, U.S. EPA Region 4, ORD

    Jim Weaver received Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Dr. Weaver has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development for 17 years; initially at the ground water research center in Ada, OK; and, since 1997, at the Ecosystems Research Division in Athens, Georgia. Dr. Weaver has worked on the development and testing of simulation models for fuel releases, evaluation of field behavior of contaminants, and oil spill response planning. His work has resulted in development of the Hydrocarbon Spill Screening Model for simulating impacts of fuel releases, the EPA On Site on-line calculators for site assessments and a training course on fate, transport and modeling of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants. Jim is also the founder of the Apalachee Monitoring Alliance, a volunteer citizens group that monitors water quality in the Apalachee River Watershed of Northeastern Georgia.
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    John Wilson, Research Microbiologist, U.S. EPA R.S. Kerr Environmental Research Center

    John is currently evaluating the natural biological processes that degrade MTBE in ground water. In the past he has conducted research on in-situ bioremediation of fuel spills in the subsurface, and on natural attenuation of BTEX compounds and chlorinated solvents in ground water.
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    Lynn A. Woodard, P.E.

    Lynn A. Woodard is a registered professional engineer. He has held the position Supervisor of the Oil Compliance Section at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Waste Managemessnt Division since 1988. He has a Masters Degree in Environmental Health Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and 32 years of experiences in the field of Environmental Engineering. He is currently in charge of the UST and AST storage tank programs, and associated Vapor Recovery programs.
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      Andrea Zajac, Chief Storage Tank Unit, State of Michigan

    Andrea is a graduate of Michigan Technological University with a B.S. in Geological Engineering. She has worked for the State of Michigan for 21 years, and has been in charge of the technical/rules concerning underground storage tanks for 16 years. She also regulates aboveground storage tanks, liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) tanks, compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas storage tanks and is currently working on being the first state to promulgate rules governing the storage and handling gaseous and liquefied hydrogen. She is a member of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) pamphlet 30 and 30A Committees and is a member of Underwriters Laboratory (UL) STP working committee on UL Standards 58, 1746, and 1316.
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