| | Scott Noland, Remediation Products, Inc.
6390 Joyce Drive, Suite 150 West
Golden, CO 80403
Tel: 303.487.1001 Ext. 13
Email: scott@trapandtreat.com
Scott is co-founder of Remediation Products, Inc (RPI). He and his business partner, Bob Elliott, were issued a U.S. Patent in 2004 for their Trap & Treat BOS 100 and BOS 200 in situ remediation products. The company has enjoyed exponential growth due to an extraordinary amount of repeat business generated by unprecedented cleanup success rates at LUST and other sites in North America. Scott has three decades of environmental and in situ remediation experience which led to the development of these remarkable products. Prior to starting RPI, Mr. Noland focused his efforts on innovative, remediation-specific site investigations and hands on experience with nearly all of the in situ technologies available prior to the invention of Trap & Treat. Scott has a compelling message and an exciting set of "new" ideas to share.
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| | Dennis Oberdove, Tank Integrity Services, Inc.
9881 York Theta Dr. Unit D
North Royalton, Ohio 44133
Tel: 440-239-9200
Email: dennisoberdove@tankintegrity.com
Dennis Oberdove President -Tank Integrity Services, Inc.
Mr. Oberdove founded Tank Integrity Services, Inc. (TIS) in 1986. Prior to TIS, Mr. Oberdove worked on aviation fueling systems in the US Navy. After receiving an honorable discharged he was employed in the major oil industry working with underground and aboveground petroleum systems. Mr. Oberdove has also worked offshore refurbishing the support structures on process platforms with cathodic protection systems. Mr. Oberdove is a state certified instructor for Stage II vapor recovery training and a Steel Tank Institute (STI) inspector for aboveground storage tanks. He is also a certified UST installer and has multiple certifications for Precision tank and line tightness testing. Mr. Oberdove also serves as a Board Member of the Ohio Petroleum Contractors Association.
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| | Marco Odah, Accelerated Remediation Technologies
P.O Box 2697
Olathe, Kansas 66063
Tel: 913-438-4384
Email: modah@artinwell.com
MARCO M. ODAH, Ph.D., P.E. is a principal engineer and founder of Accelerated Remediation Technologies, LLP. based in Overland Park, Kansas. Dr. Odah developed and patented the ART In-Well technologies for in-situ remediation of soil and groundwater. He has installed the ART Technologies at more than 350 locations worldwide. Dr. Odah has more than twenty years of experience in designing and implementing soil and groundwater remedial technologies.
Dr. Odah earned his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri/Kansas City and his M.S. and B.S. in civil engineering at the University of Kansas. He is a registered professional engineer in several states. Dr. Odah can be contacted at P.O. Box 2697, Olathe, Kansas, 66063. Phone (913) 438-4384, Fax (913) 438-4388 or modah@artinwell.com.
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| | Say Kee Ong, Iowa State University
Dept of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
486 Town Engineering Building
Ames, IA 50011
Tel: 5152943927
Email: skong@iastate.edu
Dr. Say Kee Ong is a professor with the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Cornell University and a master’s degree from Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining Iowa State University, Dr. Ong worked for several years with Battelle Memorial Institute in the development of remedial technologies for contaminated sites and treatment technologies for industrial wastewater and hazardous wastes. Current research include fate and transport of pollutants in engineered and natural systems, development of compact biological treatment processes for hazardous waste and industrial wastewater, and site remediation technologies. |
| | Ron Poltak, NEIWPCC
Boott Mills South
116 John Street
Lowell, MA 01852-1124
Tel: 978-323-7929
Email: rpoltak@neiwpcc.org
Ron Poltak has served as the executive director of the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission since 1983. Under his leadership, the Commission has dramatically increased its activities related to water quality, wastewater treatment, drinking water, and training, and expanded its focus to include issues such as nonpoint source pollution, underground storage tanks, and new threats like mercury. Before joining NEIWPCC, Ron served as the director of the New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation. He also spent 15 years with the New Hampshire Governor’s Office in various senior environmental positions. In total, Ron has spent more than 30 years in environmental policy development and implementation. In May 2006, he received an EPA Lifetime Achievement Merit Award, which honors individuals who have shown particular ingenuity and commitment in their efforts to preserve the environment. |
| | Jennifer Pruett, New Mexico Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau
2044 Galisteo Drive
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
Tel: 505 984 1815
Email: jennifer.pruett@state.nm.us
Jennifer Pruett received her B.A. from Yale and her J.D. from the University of New Mexico (“UNMâ€). She was Assistant General Counsel and Special Assistant Attorney General for the New Mexico Environment Department (“NMEDâ€) for six years and helped create the state’s underground storage tank regulatory program. From 1990 until 2006, Ms. Pruett was a sole practitioner, working primarily in the area of environmental law. She taught several environmental law courses as an Adjunct Professor at the UNM School of Law, provided contract litigation services for several law firms in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and was a contract Hearing Officer for NMED. Since September 2006, she has been the Tank Fee Manager for NMED’s Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau, directing its delinquent tank fee collection project. |
| | Stephen Purpora, Purpora Engineering, LLC
P.O. Box 80265
Saukville, Wisconsin 53080
Tel: 262-268-1150
Email: stevep@protanicinc.com
Since 1979, Mr. Stephen Purpora has worked extensively in all areas of underground storage tank, line, and leak detector testing and training, as well as vapor recovery, helium leak pin pointing and cathodic protection inspections. His experience includes over 20 years of field testing and consulting for the petroleum testing industry. Mr. Purpora currently travels extensively throughout the world, training and certifying test technicians on the fundamental and practical applications of testing and troubleshooting underground storage tanks, product piping and vapor recovery systems. In early 2002, Mr. Purpora assumed the position of President of Protanic, Inc. and Purpora Engineering, LLC as well becoming a founding member of Petroleum Tank Training Institute which partnered with PEI on PEI Learning Center, the on line operator training. |
| | John Reese, Shell Oil Products US
2 Houston Center
909 Fannin
Rm 522A
Houston, Tx 77002
Tel: 713.230.5147
Email: john.reese@shell.com
John E. Reese is Fuels Product Management Advisor, US with Shell Oil Products US (SOPUS). In that role, he manages SOPUS's participation in state and federal fuels regulatory initiatives. Prior to joining SOPUS, Mr. Reese spent ten years as an attorney with the American Petroleum Institute (API), where he concentrated on fuels issues. While at API, Mr. Reese participated in legislative activities, rulemakings, and litigation concerning reformulated gasoline, low sulfur gasoline and diesel, mobile source air toxics, oxygenates, and numerous state fuels issues. Mr. Reese has a law degree from Catholic University, a Master of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary, and a Bachelor of Science degree from George Mason University. |
| | Robert Renkes, PEI
P. O. Box 2380
Tulsa, OK 74101
Tel: 918-494-9696
Email: rrenkes@pei.org
Bob Renkes is executive vice president and general counsel of the Petroleum Equipment Institute, a nonprofit trade association representing manufacturers, distributors and installers of petroleum marketing equipment in the United States and 79 other countries. He has been with PEI since 1979 and has spoken/moderated OUST/LUST conference sessions since the 1980s. |
| | Robert Reynolds, Downstream Alternatives Inc.
1657 Commerce Drive, Suite 20 B
South Bend, IN 46614
Tel: 574-233-7344
Email: rreynolds-dai@earthlink.net
Robert Reynolds, president of Downstream Alternatives, Inc (DAI), has served as the Renewable Fuels Association’s Technical Consultant for 20 years. Founded in 1986, DAI provides consultation services to a variety of industry and government clients with fuel related interests. Mr. Reynolds’ has been engaged in numerous projects involving fuel blending, product quality assurance, transportation/logistics, and terminal operations. Mr. Reynolds has authored numerous papers on a variety of fuel related topics as well as detailed studies on ethanol transportation and logistics. Mr. Reynolds’ transportation fuels career spans thirty years and he is widely recognized as an expert on ethanol including its transportation, and infrastructure requirements as well as specifications and properties. Mr. Reynolds is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), serving on subcommittee D.02A on gasoline. He is a member of the National Conference on Weights & Measures, serving on its petroleum subcommittee, and has also been appointed to various state government work groups on fuel related issues. |
| | Ileana Rhodes, Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc.
Westhollow Technology Center
3333 Highway 6 South
Houston, TX 77082-3101
Tel: 281-544-8215
Email: ileana.rhodes@shell.com
Dr. Ileana A.L. Rhodes is a Principal Scientist/Team Lead 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 is a member of environmental monitoring workgroups of the American Petroleum Institute and is in the editorial board of Environmental Forensics. She has a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Louisiana State University and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of New Orleans. |
| | Roland Riegel, Underwriters Labs, Inc.
1285 Walt Whitman Road
Melville , NY 11717
Tel: 631 271-6200 x 22421
Email: roland.a.riegel@us.ul.com
20 years @ UL in three different engineering departments to provide overall safety assessment for certification of a broad range of mechanical & electrical residential, commercial and industrial products with flammable liquid containment expertise.
Selected in 2003 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.
Responsible to provide overall technical decision making, consultation or assistance for all flammable liquid containment product categories (45) by interaction with the Chief Technical Office (CTO), Certifications Program Office (CPO), Strategic Business Units (SBU), Engineering & Follow-Up Services, Regulatory Services, Standards & Legal Departments. Major duties include UL representation on various Model Code Technical Committees and Task Groups; UL representation on various Standards Technical Panels (STP) for generating new or revised requirements; CTO & CPO support through development of global forms for data sheets, technical reports and inspection procedures; and SBU support by development of new business areas and staff training |
| | Gary Robbins, U. Connecticut
Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering
University of Connecticut
1376 Storrs Road
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4087
Tel: 860 486 2448
Email: gary.robbins@uconn.edu
Professor Robbins is well known for his work on MTBE and Expedited Site Assessment. Often called the Professional's Professor for his practical research and down to earth perspective, he is currently working on several UST related projects including: investigating infiltration beneath the asphalt, evaluating the dissipation rate of MTBE in ground water at service station sites following its ban from gasoline, subsurface vapor releases, and compliance monitoring. Author of the award winning software, Expedited Site Assessment: The CD, Dr. Robbins is currently working on new educational software entitled, Virtual Ground Water Academy. The software embodies his practical hands-on philosophy bringing "Education through Simulation" to the forefront of education in Hydrogeology. |
| | Tim Roberts, U.S. EPA - OUST
1200 Pennsylvania Ave.NW
Mail Code: 5402P
Washington, DC 20460
Tel: 703-603-7144
Email: roberts.timothy-p@epa.gov
Tim Roberts is an Environmental Protection Specialist in EPA's Office of Underground Storage Tanks. Tim came to OUST from EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs shortly after the enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Tim primarily works on guideline development and interpretation of the Energy Policy Act, including developing guidelines for secondary containment, operator training, and inspections. He is also the policy lead for the delivery prohibition provisions of the Act. |
| | Gordon Robertson, American Petroleum Institute
1220 L Street NW
Washngton, DC 20005
Tel: 202-682-8190
Email: robertsong@api.org
Gordon Robertson is a Standards Associate with API representing the Subcommittee on Aboveground Storage Tanks and 4 other Refinery Equipment Subcommittees. He has been with API for 9 years. Prior to API, he spent 8 years with the Xerox Corporation implementing TQM. He holds a BA in English and BS in Business from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Averett University and TQM Certification from Marymount University. |
| | David Robinett, VA-DEQ
PO Box 3000
4411 Early Road
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Tel: 540-574-7862
Email: dcrobinett@deq.virginia.gov
David Robinett is the Coordinator for the AST/UST compliance and inspection program at the Valley Regional Office of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in Harrisonburg, VA. He holds a B.A. in Management from Virginia Tech and began his environmental career by traveling the East Coast performing tightness testing on USTs. After four years inspecting vapor recovery systems, Dave switched from performing air inspections to resolving AST/UST compliance issues. He has worked for the Department for 11 years and has a passion for enforcement and anything related to fluid handling systems. He has attended the Appalachian Short Course on Corrosion and maintains a cathodic protection tester certification from STI. |
| | Warren Rogers, Warren Rogers Associates
747 Aquidneck Avenue
Middletown, RI 02842
Tel: 401.846.4747
Email: wfrogers@warrenrogersassociates.com
Warren Rogers is Founder and President of Warren Rogers Associates in Middletown, RI. He has been involved in Storage Tank issues since the early 1980's and led the development of the PetroNetwork S3 Continual Reconciliation System for real-time system diagnostics and ongoing monitoring of tanks and lines at Storage Tank Sites. A former naval aviator, Warren is a named inventor for eight US and International patents for Fuel Management applications. He earned an MS in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from Stanford University. |
| | Cliff Rothenstein, US EPA
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 5401P
Washington, DC 20460
Tel: 703-603-9900
Email: rothenstein.cliff@epa.gov
Cliff Rothenstein has served as the Director of EPA’s Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) since 2000. OUST’s primary mission is to help ensure that the nation’s 640,000 active underground storage tanks operate safely, are in compliance with federal requirements, petroleum releases are properly cleaned up and abandoned sites are cleaned up and reused.
In 2005, major program changes occurred with the passage of the Energy Policy Act. Mr. Rothenstein’s staff has been leading the Agency’s effort to ensure all of the new milestones and requirements under the Energy Policy Act are achieved.
In 1997, three years prior to being named Director of the Office of Underground Storage Tanks, Mr. Rothenstein was appointed as EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Mr. Rothenstein’s key accomplishments include: developing EPA’s position and strategies for Superfund, Brownfields, solid and hazardous waste, and underground storage tank legislation and the Agency’s regulatory agenda. Mr. Rothenstein also served as the Agency’s chief negotiator on Superfund and solid and hazardous waste legislation, and directed 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 the highlights of Mr. Rothenstein’s career on Capitol Hill include working on the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the Federal Facilities Compliance Act, the Pollution Prevention Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Brownfields and Superfund. He also worked on
recycling, community right-to-know issues, regulatory reform and unfunded mandates legislation.
For ten years prior to his time working for Senator Baucus, Mr. Rothenstein specialized in EPA’s economic and regulatory analysis, preparing detailed studies on the impact of major solid and hazardous waste regulations and 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, PMMIC Insurance
465 Alice's Road, Suite H
Waukee, Iowa 50263
Tel: 515 987-0061
Email: pjr@roundsassociates.com
Mr. Rounds is an attorney by education. He has over 18 years experience in the environmental risk management industry. He is President of Rounds & Associates, a business and risk management consulting firm that specializes in the petroleum marketing industry. 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), a property and casualty insurance carrier specializing in environmental liability insurance for petroleum storage tank systems. |
| | Dennis Rounds, South Dakota Office of Risk Management and PEPL Fu
1429 E. Sioux
Pierre, South Dakota 57501
Tel: 605.773.5879
Email: dennis.rounds@state.sd.us
Dennis D. Rounds
Dennis D. Rounds is the Executive Director of the South Dakota Office of Risk Management and the Public Entity Pool for Liability. He also serves as Director of the Petroleum Release Compensation Fund. He holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Mr. Rounds has 25 years of experience as a financial assurance fund administrator and as an environmental engineer, including work in private consulting and with state and federal agencies. He has spoken on environmental risk at numerous national and international conferences. He is an active member of ASTM International and chairs ASTM subcommittee E50.04 on environmental corrective action. He was recently appointed as Chairman of the ASTM Committee on Standards, which oversees procedural requirements and due process. Through ASTM, he headed up the task group that wrote the Risk-Based Corrective Action Standard, which is now under various phases of implementation in over 40 states.
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| | Bill Rule, Montana DEQ
1520 East Sixth Street
Helena, Montana 59620
Tel: (406) 444-0493
Email: brule@mt.gov
Bill Rule has been Montana’s UST Program Manager for seven years after a year and a half with the state’s Petroleum Fund. In that time he guided the implementation of Montana’s third-party inspection program with a delivery prohibition component. He was a member of EPA’s web-based Inspector Training Workgroup and has helped develop the draft Energy Bill guidelines for Operator Training. With Ben Thomas Associates he helped design the nationally acclaimed TankHelper operator training. Bill is a proud graduate of a one-room country school and Montana State University. He’s been a ranch kid, a builder and a retailer. |
| | Sheldon Schall, Wisconsin DOC
201 W. Washington Ave.,
P.O. Box 7837
Madison, Wisconsin 53703-7837
Tel: 608-266-0956
Email: sschall@commerce.state.wi.us
Sheldon Schall is Chief of the Storage Tank Regulation Section in the Wisconsin Department of Commerce. Sheldon, has been involved with fire safety and environmental protection since 1974 as a fire chief, hazardous material emergency response instructor, consultant, and regulatory official. He has been with the Wisconsin storage tank regulatory program since 1988. Presently, Mr. Schall has oversight of the storage tank administrative code technical requirements, the Department of Commerce petroleum product inspection program, the storage tank inspection program, and contractor certification. |
| | Craig Schroer, Indiana Department of Environmental Management
100 N. Senate Avenue
Indiananpolis, IN 46204-2251
Tel: 317/234-0974
Email: cschroer@idem.in.gov
Craig Schroer works for the Indiana Department of Environmental (IDEM) as the Leaking UST Section Chief. Craig has 25 years of environmental management experience in local and state government. For the past 20 years, he managed four separate environmental response programs at IDEM programs including Emergency Response, State Cleanup, Voluntary Remediation and Leaking UST programs. He became the Leaking UST Section Chief in 1998. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Wabash College, he attended Indiana University where he received a Master of Science degree in Environmental Science. In addition, he is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager. |
| | Michael Sexton, VA DEQ
7705 Timberlake Rd
Lynchburg, VA 24502
Tel: 434-582-6233
Email: mdsexton@deq.virginia.gov
Michael Sexton currently manages the Petroleum and Pollution Response Programs for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ’s) South Central Regional Office (SCRO). He 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 16 years of experience in corporate environmental affairs, spill planning, emergency response, remediation, inspections, permitting, and brownfields. |
| | Scott Sherman, US EPA
1200 Pennsylvania Ave; NW
MC 5101T
Washington, DC 20460
Tel: 202-566-0200
Email: sherman.scott@epa.gov
Scott Sherman is the EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. In this capacity, he focuses on policy development and implementation of the nation's hazardous and solid waste programs and cleanup initiatives, including Superfund, RCRA, Emergency Management, Federal Facilities, Brownfields, USTs, and Land Revitalization.
Before his appointment as Associate Assistant Administrator, Scott was the Agency's Associate General Counsel for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, where he managed the Solid Waste and Emergency Response division of the EPA Office of General Counsel.
Scott previously served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas and as a senior legal and policy advisor to Texas state energy and environmental commissioners. He is a member of the adjunct faculty of Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches environmental issues in real estate.
Scott received his B.A. with Highest Honors from the University of Texas and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He also holds an M.S. in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University, where his research focused on the cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield properties.
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| | Matthew Small, U.S. EPA Region 9
75 Hawthorne St. (WST-8)
San Francisco, CA 94127
Tel: 415-972-3366
Email: small.matthew@epa.gov
Matthew C. Small, R.G., Ph.D.
B.S. in Geology from California State University Hayward, Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering U.C. Berkeley, and a registered geologist in the state of California. Matt 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 U.S. EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks, Region 9 in San Francisco, California. 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. |
| | Roy Spalding, University of Nebraska
Deapartment of Agronomy and Horticulture
131 Keim Hall
Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
Tel: 402 472 8214
Email: rspalding1@unl.edu
Roy's research interests surround investigations of pactices to prevent and remediate nonpoint agrochemical contamination using state-of-the-art-methods and stable isotope tracers. He has over 100 publications in the field. His latest interests surround the impact of the increased grain-ethanol production on the regional groundwater. Roy also is a principal at Hydro-Trace Incorporated, a groundwater consulting firm. His company's research is active in volatile organic compound remediation, point source remediation of urea, and ammonia (above ground) and contaminant assessments. He received his master from the University of North Carolina in Envron. Sci. and Eng. and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in geochemical oceanography. Roy is a past member of ITRC's In Situ Bioremediation and MTBE teams. Roy serves on several environmental advisory boards.
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| | Curtis Stanley, Shell Global Solutions
3333 Highway 6 South
Houston, Texas 77082-3101
Tel: 281-544-7675
Email: curtis.stanley@shell.com
CURTIS C. STANLEY
Global Discipline Lead – R&D and Advocacy
Senior Principal Consultant
Shell Global Solutions (US), Inc.
Soil and Groundwater Management
Westhollow Technology Center
3333 Highway 6 South
Houston, TX. 77082-3101
(281) 544-7675
e-mail:Curtis.Stanley@Shell.com
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Curtis C. Stanley received his B.S. degree in Geology with an emphasis in Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1979. He has been employed by Shell Oil Company and various subsidiary companies since graduation. Currently, Curt is employed by Shell Global Solutions which is the technical arm of Shell’s worldwide operations. In addition to his advanced geologic training at Shell, he has participated in advanced hydrogeologic courses at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Waterloo.
As the Global Discipline Lead for R&D and Advocacy, Curt coordinates global R&D/Advocacy efforts and provides technical support to the various organizations within Shell such as Manufacturing (Refining and Chemical), Retail, Distribution, Pipeline, Waste Sites, and Exploration and Production, and Legal. He has conducted or supervised subsurface investigations and remedial action at over 500 locations in 43 states (and several countries). Curt is certified through the NGWA as a Certified Ground Water Professional and through AIPG as a Certified Professional Geological Scientist. In addition, Curt is a licensed geologist in North Carolina and Texas. He is also an EPA Peer Reviewer and is the chairman of API's Soil/Groundwater Technical Task Force. As part of Curt’s efforts through API; dozens of research projects, technical bulletins and outreach programs related to oxygenates have been finalized since the early 1980’s. Curt is also a member of the ASTM E50 Committee on Environmental Assessment. Curt participated in development of the several ASTM Standards related to risk-based decision making along with associated national RBCA training and implementation programs.
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| | jennifer steffes, CDLE
633 17th Street, Suite 500
Denver, Colorado 80202
Tel: 303 318-8539
Email: jennifer.steffes@state.co.us
Jennifer Steffes is the Petroleum Assessment Section Supervisor for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Oil and Public Safety (OPS). She has been employed with the State of Colorado for eleven years, where her responsibilities have included; developing guidance documents and cost guidelines, managing the LUST Trust grant and the State Lead program, overseeing the remediation of petroleum impacted sites, and supervising the Assessment Section. Prior to working at OPS, Jennifer was an Environmental Specialist for eight years with the Storage Tank Program at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Jennifer holds a B.S. degree in Geology from the University of Florida. |
| | Amy Steinmetz, MT DEQ
P.O. Box 200901
Helena, MT 59620
Tel: (406) 841-5053
Email: asteinmetz@mt.gov
Amy Steinmetz is an Environmental Specialist for the State of Montana's Petroleum Release Section. Prior to employment with the State of Montana, she 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, and has just accepted a position in the Montana LUST Trust program. Ms. Steinmetz has bachelor's degrees in Biology and Chemistry. |
| | Richard Swanson, Georgia EPD
4244 International Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30354
Tel: 404-362-2582
Email: richard_swanson@dnr.state.ga.us
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. |
| | David Terry, Department of Environmental Protection
One Winter Street, 6th fl.
Boston, MA 02108
Tel: 617-292-5529
Email: david.y.terry@state.ma.us
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. |
| | Leland Tong, MARC-IV Consulting
1616 4th Ave
Williston, ND 58801
Tel: 701-572-1826
Email: ltong@marciv.com
Leland Tong serves as Vice President for MARC-IV Consulting. His client responsibilities include positioning biodiesel in the regulated fleet marketplace and advising the National Biodiesel Board on market development, economic issues and outreach activities.
Mr. Tong also serves as the chairman of the National Biodiesel Accreditation Commission. The eleven member commission is responsible for the strategic direction and development of the program BQ-9000 program. The BQ-9000 program is the quality assurance certification program of the biodiesel industry.
Mr. Tong earned his undergraduate degree in Fargo, ND at North Dakota State University majoring in Agricultural Economics. He also received a Masters degree
in Agricultural Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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| | Dale Urban, Utah Dept. of Environmental Quality
168 North 1950 West
Salt Lake City, Utah 84116
Tel: 801-536-4100
Email: durban@utah.gov
Dale Urban has worked for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality since 1990 as a project manager in the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program. His duties include contract and construction management for state-led petroleum investigations and cleanups, and he serves as the Petroleum Brownfields Coordinator for Utah’s tank program. Dale obtained his B.S. degree in Geology from the University of Utah in 1990, and is a registered professional geologist in Utah. |
| | Tammy Vander Bloemen, Iowa DNR
502 East 9th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319
Tel: 515-281-8957
Email: tammy.vander_bloemen@dnr.state.ia.us
Tammy has been an Environmental Specialist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Underground Storage Tank Section since 1999. She is a project manager for leaking underground storage tank sites in southwestern and southeastern Iowa as the sites go through the Iowa Risk Based Corrective Action process. |
| | Frank Vernon, Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Room 483
P.O. Box 52000-2000
Jim Thorpe Building
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73152-2000
Tel: 405-521-4683
Email: f.vernon@occemail.com
Frank Vernon is an Oklahoma certified licensed remediation consultant and is currently employed as a Project Environmental Analyst with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Petroleum Storage Tank Division. His current position involves oversight on underground storage tank investigations, remediation of UST sites and development of continuing education workshops for environmental consultants and regulators.
He is a graduate of East Carolina University with a BA in geography and geology and earned an MS in Geology at Texas Christian University. Prior work experience includes exploration for and development of hydrocarbon reserves. Other employment involved minerals exploration and oversight and management of exploration projects throughout the western United States and oversight on landfill investigations in the eastern United States.
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| | Joseph Vescio, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
Tel: 703-603-0003
Email: vescio.joseph@epa.gov
Joe Vescio is currently the Team Leader for Corrective Action in EPA's Office of Underground Storage Tanks. Joe is a Professional Geologist with 24 years experience in site investigation and remediation. He worked for 9 years in FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program, 11 years in EPA's Superfund program, and has spent the last 5 years in the Underground Storage Tank program at EPA headquarters. Joe has worked on a number of projects involving preliminary assessments, site inspections, corrective action, superfund remedial actions, and others. |
| | david walchshauser, Missouri Department of Natural Resources
7545 S. Lindbergh Blvd
Suite 210
St. Louis, MO 63125
Tel: 314-416-2960
Email: dave.walchshauser@dnr.mo.gov
David is an Environmental Specialist with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Tanks Section. As a member of the Remediation Unit, David reviews assessment related documentation and provides oversight of UST clean-ups using the Missouri Risk Based Corrective Action Guidance Document (MRBCA). Through the USTFields Program, he also coordinates with the City of St. Louis to remove abandoned USTs located inside the City limits. Prior to 2001, David conducted compliance inspections of solid waste facilities in southwest Illinois. David is a 1987 graduate of Southwest Missouri State University (Missouri State) with a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science and Resource Management. |
| | Alex Wardle, Virginia DEQ
13901 Crown Court
Woodbridge, VA 22193
Tel: 703-583-3822
Email: awardle@deq.virginia.gov
Alex Wardle is a petroleum remediation geologist with Virginia's Department of Environmental Quality tasked with reviewing the investigations and remediations of LUST sites. Before joining DEQ Alex worked as a geoenvironmental consultant across Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Alex obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, England. He is a Virginia Professional Geologist, a UK Chartered Geologist, and a certified European Geologist. |
| | Ken Wilcox, Ken Wilcox Associates, Inc.
1125 Valley Ridge Drive
Grain Valley, MO 64029
Tel: 816 443 2494
Email: kwilcox@kwaleak.com
Ken Wilcox is has been involved with underground storage tank issues for the past 25 years. He currently operates the Fuels Management Research Laboratory, a faciilty that conducts 3rd party evaluations of leak detection systems for fuel storage tanks. He has also been active in developing new testing procedures including large lines and tanks at operating facilities. His prior experience at Midwest Research Institute includes assisting in the developement of the current UST regulations an in the field testing stationary sources. Dr. Wilcox also has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Southern California. |
| | John Wilson, U.S. EPA/Office of Research and Development
R.S. Kerr Center
919 Kerr Lab Road
Ada, Oklahoma 74820
Tel: 580 436 8534
Email: wilson.johnt@epa.gov
John Wilson, U.S. EPA/ORD, R.S. Kerr Center
Ada, OK 74820
Tel: 580 436 8534
Email: wilson.johnt@epa.gov
John Wilson is a research microbiologist for U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development. He has a B.S. in Biology from Baylor University, an M.A. in Microbiology from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Cornell University. He has worked at the R.S. Kerr Environmental Research Center in Ada, Oklahoma since 1978. Currently, Dr. Wilson is leading an evaluation of the natural biological processes that degrade fuel components in ground water. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Wilson provides training and technical assistance to the EPA regions and to state agencies on natural attenuation of chlorinated solvents and BTEX compounds in ground water.
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| | Kelly Wright, Shoshone Bannock Tribes
Pima Drive (P.O. Box 306)
Fort Hall, ID 83203
Tel: 208.478.3903
Email: kwright@shoshonebannocktribes.com
Kelly C. Wright is the Environmental Waste Management Program Manager for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. Working for the Tribal government since 2003, his responsibilities include management of CERCLA, RCRA, Brownfields and Underground Storage Tank Sites.
Kelly has more than 20 years experience as an Environmental Professional. Since 1986, he has served in scientific capacities for Department of Energy, State Environmental Regulatory agencies and the private sector. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and a Master in Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Idaho.
Kelly has overseen the removal of Underground Storage Tanks throughout Idaho and is currently working on obtaining Federal Credentials through the U.S. EPA Region 10 to independently conduct inspections on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.
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| | Gregory Young, Vaporless Manufacturing, Inc.
8700 E. Long Mesa Drive
Prescott Valley, AZ 86314
Tel: 928-775-5191
Email: gyoung@vaporless.com
Gregory Young is an industry leader who provides educational seminars on leak detector function, testing, and trouble-shooting. He is a panel participant and presenter to numerous national standards groups on various topics concerning line leak detection and testing. Mr. Young participated in EPA meetings in Washington, D.C. to develop line leak detection criteria. Greg is president of Vaporless Manufacturing, Inc., a company on the leading edge of equipment development for the petroleum industry. VMI’s innovations include: All Fuels Compatibility, collaboration with Bill Purpora and Penrod Geisinger to develop the first commercially available equipment for testing line leak detectors for catastrophic leak detection performance, the first MLLD certified to meet EPA leak criteria, and the first electronic assist of MLLD to combat thermal contraction. |
| | Andrea Zajac, State of Michigan
P.O. Box 30241
Lansing, Michigan 48909-7741
Tel: 517-335-7294
Email: zajacanma@msn.com
Ms. Zajac has been in the underground storage tank program for 17 years. She is active in Underwriters Laboratories (UL 58, 1746, & 1316), ASTSWAMO UST Taskforce, and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA 30 & 30A). The Michigan storage tank program also regulates above-ground storage tanks containing flammable and combustible liquids, liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) storage and dispensing, compressed natural gas (CNG) storage and dispensing, and liquefied and gaseous hydrogen storage and dispensing.
She is a graduate of Michigan Technological University, with a B.S. in Geological Engineering. |
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