| | Eric Arvedon, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protecti
1 Winter St
Boston, MA 02108
Tel: 617-292-5887
Email: Eric.Arvedon@state.ma.us
Eric Arvedon is an Environmental Engineer with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and has been with the state since receiving his masters degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Northeastern University in 1982.
While at MassDEP he has directed the Emergency Response program coordinating all aspects of the response and remediation of sudden releases of oil and hazardous materials to the environment. His oversight included O&M activities of many active and passive recovery systems and remediation activities at many sites throughout Massachusetts. Many of these sites were from leaking underground storage tanks. In 1990 he became Chief of the LUST program, liaison to the Office of the State Fire Marshal (UST compliance) and USEPA (LUST grant management). Some of the projects he has developed in this capacity include the Clean States initiative where all state agencies were accountable and responsible for upgrading their UST facilities and managing their hazardous materials and wastes. |
| | Scott Bacon, California State Water Resources Control Board
1001 I St., 15th Floor
Sacramento, California 95814
Tel: 916-341-5873
Email: sbacon@waterboards.ca.gov
Scott Bacon is a Sanitary Engineering Associate with the California State Water Resources Control Board. He has worked in California's UST Leak Prevention program for 7 years, helping to implement progressive environmental requirements such as periodic secondary containment testing, operator certification, and continuous vacuum/pressure interstitial monitoring. Scott has been a member of the National Work Group on Leak Detection Evaluations since 2003. |
| | Alan Bakeberg, South Dakota Petroleum Release Compensation Fund
445 E. Capital Ave
Pierre, SD 57501
Tel: 605-773-3769
Email: alan.bakeberg@state.sd.us
Alan Bakeberg is the Director of Engineering at the South Dakota Petroleum Release Compensation Fund. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geological Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines. He has over 20 years of experience in emergency spill response, site assessment and risk evaluation, remediation, cost recovery, and controlling costs associated with corrective action at petroleum release sites. In addition, his experience includes seven years as a private, environmental consultant, three years as a state regulator working on surface water issues, and ten years with the South Dakota Petroleum Release Compensation Fund involved with reimbursement of claims, controlling costs for corrective action, and pursuing cost recovery for negligent design, installation, and manufacturing. |
| | Thomas Beaulieu, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
PO Box 95
6 hazen Dr
Concord, NH 03301
Tel: 6032712986
Email: thomas.beaulieu@des.nh.gov
Tom Beaulieu is Chief of UST Compliance Subsection with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. Tom is responsible for managing all elements of the program including: inspector training, development of informational outreach guidance documents and fact sheets, engineering plan review and installation inspections, scheduling of operational compliance inspections, rule making, and enforcement. He has 35 years of experience with the Department of which sixteen have been with the UST program.
During the past few years Tom has overseen the development and implementation of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)within the operational compliance inspection program. This allows the inspectors to download facility information from the ORACLE database to a PDA, input on-site compliance information, print a compliance deficiency report for the owner/operator, return to the office and wirelessly upload the information to the database. This effectively eliminated office paper work and allows additional time for the inspectors to be in the field.
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| | Dave Belyea, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
1102 Lincoln Street
Suite 210
Eugene, Oregon 97401
Tel: 541-687-7340
Email: belyea.david@deq.state.or.us
Dave is currently the manager of the Tanks Program for Western Oregon. He has been with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality as a compliance inspector, cleanup project manager and program manager since 1994. Dave began his experience with underground storage tanks in 1989 drafting regulations and implementing the new program for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. He currently is a member of the ASTSWMO LUST Task Force and International Code Council UST/AST Exam Development Committee. |
| | Steve Bernstein, Jones & Frank Corp.
4720-110 Old Poole Road
Raleigh, North Carolina 27610
Tel: (704) 393-8542 ext. 232
Email: SBernstein@jones-frank.com
Steve Bernstein is the Vice President, Commercial Division, of Jones & Frank Corporation. He is a Licensed Fuel System Specialty General Contractor in 2 States, and has over 27 years of experience (over 25 years w/ Jones & Frank & 3 years in Florida) in the petroleum equipment industry. He has held various positions in sales, operations and senior management. Mr. Bernstein is an active consultant, giving seminars and talks on State/EPA/Fire Code L.R.P.P.s, and he is also a highly recognized Industry Applications Consultant. He is a member of PEI, NFPA, STI and several other industry organizations. He has personally worked in over 8 states. Mr. Bernstein graduated with a B.S. from Gardner-Webb University. |
| | Patrick Boettcher, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Envir
391 Lukens Drive
New Castle, Delaware 19720
Tel: (302) 395-2518
Email: patrick.boettcher@state.de.us
For the last two and a half years, Patrick has been a hydrologist with the State of Delaware's Tank Management Branch. In addition to his primary role as a LUST project officer, he is the team leader for the Branch's aggressive field sampling initiative, operates and maintains the Branch's direct-push rig, and has taken on the responsibility of creating a new hydrogeologic investigation guidance document. Patrick graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.S. in geology in 2003. Following graduation and prior to his employment with the State of Delaware, Patrick worked in the private sector as an environmental consultant. |
| | Tom Calabrese, Envirologic Resources, Inc
2505 SE 11th Avenue
Suite 311
Portland, Oregon 97202
Tel: 503-768-5121
Email: tomcalabrese@h2ogeo.com
Tom Calabrese is a Principal Hydrogeologist at EnviroLogic Resources, Inc., and has been involved in a variety of UST and brownfield cleanups. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Geology from Occidental College in 1981 and worked in ground-water exploration for three years before spending 10 years with an international environmental consulting firm. He founded EnviroLogic Resources in 1997 and is the principal investigator on projects ranging from UST decommissioning to Superfund RI/FS. He has been responsible for conducting projects related to investigation and cleanup, water quality and quantity, water rights, and storm water throughout the West during his professional career. Tom is a Registered Geologist in Oregon, Washington, and California and a Certified Water Rights Examiner in Oregon. |
| | Rochelle Cardinale, Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Wallace Building
502 East Ninth Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0034
Tel: 515-242-6488
Email: rochelle.cardinale@dnr.iowa.gov
Ms. Cardinale graduated from Iowa State University in geology with an emphasis in hydrogeology and a minor in archaeology and anthropology. She completed graduate studies at Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology (now, University of Montana, Butte Campus) in hydrogeology. She worked in environmental consulting from 1991 until 1999 in the Pacific Northwest, the South, and the Midwest. In 1999, she transferred into a regulatory role with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Underground Storage Tank Section. Much of her work experience has involved the impact of leaking UST sites on water supplies. This experience includes private and public water supply wells impacted by contaminants ranging from BTEX, TBA, MTBE, TCE, nutrients, as well naturally-occurring compounds. Her experience also demonstrates general water quality can be impacted by contaminants through indirect mechanisms. She has seen water supply impacts from the perspective of the environmental consultant, the regulatory side, and from the public side through her experience with town hall community meetings and interactions with water supply operators. |
| | William R. Chapman, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
13901 Crown Court
Woodbridge, Virginia 22193
Tel: 703-583-3816
Email: wrchapman@deq.virginia.gov
Mr. Chapman is a graduate of Clemson University. He began his career in 1990 at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC). In 1993, he was hired by the Remediation Program in the Northern Virginia Regional Office of the Virginia DEQ. Since 1990, the regional office has had approximately 5500 confirmed petroleum release cases reported and at any one time, regional case managers may handle close to a hundred investigations, corrective actions, as well as the associated reimbursement. In addition to petroleum investigations, Mr. Chapman has reviewed and consulted on many Voluntary Remediation Program applications and Brownfields Redevelopment projects in the Northern Virginia area.
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| | Nicole Clarke, SRA International
18 S. Johnson Rd.
Houston, Pennsylvania 15342
Tel: (724) 746-3924
Email: Nicole_Clarke@sra.com
Ms. Clarke has more than seven years of experience in environmental communications. During her four years at SRA, Ms. Clarke has supported projects in various OSWER cleanup programs. She helped the State of Delaware remotely collect and analyze data on post-remedial LUST site use and she supported the development of EPA Region 3's Land Revitalization Land Use Inventory. Ms. Clarke provided direct community outreach and technical support to Hazleton, Pennsylvania and site specific redevelopment planning support to Weirton, West Virginia and facilitated or supported more than 25 outreach workshops and conferences.
Prior to working at SRA, Ms. Clarke worked as a Project Assistant at Bowne DecisionQuest (BDQ) supporting Fortune 100 companies building clients and community relations through emergency response planning and outreach efforts. Ms. Clarke graduated from Allegheny College with a B.S. (cum laude) in Environmental Science.
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| | Paul Connor, NALGEP
1333 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Second Floor
Washington , District of Columbia 20036
Tel: 202) 879-4018
Email: paul.connor@spiegelmcd.com
Paul Connor is an attorney with the law firm of Spiegel and McDiarmid in Washington, D.C., and the executive director of the National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals. He specializes in environmental law and provides day-to-day management services for NALGEP, a national nonprofit organization that serves local government environmental professionals.
Before joining NALGEP, Paul worked for nearly 20 years at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, where he led a division of 35 professional staff members in all aspects of EPA's five site remediation enforcement programs: Brownfields, the Oil Pollution Act, RCRA Corrective Action, Superfund, and Underground Storage Tanks.Paul holds a law degree from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College and a Bachelor of Sciences from Western Washington University.
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| | Carol A. Couch, Ph.D., Environmental Protection Division, GA DNR
2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive
Suite 1152, East Tower
Atlanta, GA 30334
Tel: 404/656-4713
Email: yolanda.fanning@dnr.state.ga.us
Appointed by Governor Perdue and the Board of Natural Resources in October 2003, Dr. Couch is the first woman to lead EPD in its 35year history. As Director, she is responsible for an 850 person agency that implements and enforces 26 state and four federal laws designed to protect, conserve and restore Georgia's environmental resources.
Dr. Couch chairs the Water Council, a coordinating committee charged with
overseeing the development of a comprehensive statewide water plan. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Clean Air Campaign and is on the Board of Trustees of the Livable Communities Coalition.
Before joining EPD, Dr. Couch was a member of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), leading nationally distributed, multidisciplinary
teams of engineers,hydrologists, chemists and biologists in the design, conduct and reporting of water resource investigations. She also served as Southeastern Regional Biologist in the Southeastern Region, and as Hydrologist in the Georgia District of the USGS Water Resources Division.
Dr. Couch has her Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia, as well as
Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the University of South Carolina and the Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively. Her graduate studies focused on the ecology of coastal rivers and estuaries.
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| | Timothy Danzer, Free Flow Technology
9918 North Alpine Road
Machesney, IL
Tel: 815-636-0166
Email: tdanzer@freeflowtech.com
Mr. Danzer is a Senior Environmental Project Manager with over 19 years of experience in hazardous waste investigations, remediation and environmental permitting and auditing. He has been responsible for project budgets, scheduling accountability for technical aspects of projects and coordination with clients. He has additional responsibilities that include conducting site investigations, managing field activities, preparing environmental permits and reports, also providing remediation and contractor over sight, preparing hazardous waste management plans and procedures, and negotiating with state agencies. Mr. Danzer has professional affiliations with the Federations of Environmental Technologist, Inc. and the Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers. Mr. Danzer is currently a Senior Project Manager of Free Flow Technology and has been with Free Flow since the start of the company in 1998. |
| | Robin Davis, Utah Department of Environmental Quality
168 North 1950 West
Salt Lake City, Utah 84116
Tel: 801-536-4177
Email: rvdavis@utah.gov
Robin holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology. Since 1976, she has worked for the states of California, Arizona and Utah in hydrologic investigations and petroleum remediation. She has helped develop state guidance for risk-based corrective action, monitored natural attenuation and site investigations. Robin’s most recent work includes optimizing site investigations for studying the vapor intrusion pathway, and the study of subsurface petroleum hydrocarbon vapor occurrence and attenuation at sites in the United States and Canada. |
| | Carol Eighmey, Missouri Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund
PO Box 836
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Tel: 573-522-2352
Email: pstif@sprintmail.com
Carol Eighmey has served as Executive Director of Missouri's Tank Fund for 10 years and has been doing "tanks work" for 14 years. She has served on several EPA workgroups, is a member of the State Fund Administrators' Task Force, and serves on the Board of Directors for NatLUST, a non-profit corporation providing liquidity to state tank funds. Her background includes previous work for the state environmental regulatory agency and private sector experience in banking, insurance and association work. She has a B.S. in Applied Physics and a Master's Degree in Engineering Management. |
| | Edward English, Fuel Quality Services, Inc
P.O. Box 1380
Flowery Branch, GA 30542
Tel: 770.967.9790
Email: eenglish@fqsinc.com
Mr. English is Vice President & Technical Director for Fuel Quality Services, Inc., and oversees all aspects directly related to research, development, and deployment of chemicals for use by clients in the production of petroleum and biomass fuels from production to end user.
Mr. English is recognized nationally for his knowledge in the area of materials compatibility and alternative fuels and is often a guest speaker for agencies the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Petroleum Equipment Industry (PEI), and various trade associations.
Before joining Fuel Quality Services, Inc., Mr. English worked in the nuclear power industry. The focus of his work was the design and implementation of corrosion control programs for pressurized water reactors (PWR).
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| | Virginia Esmond, Oregan Department of Environmental Quality
750 Front Street
Suite 120
Salem, Oregon 97301
Tel: 503-378-5046
Email: esmond.virginia@deq.state.or.us
Virginia is an Environmental Specialist III with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ). During her 18 years with ODEQ, she has worked primarily in the Land Quality programs as a cleanup site project manager. During the early years of the Underground Storage Tank Program, Virginia helped write and develop guidance and policies for the Underground Storage Tank Program. During her 18years with ODEQ, she has served on work groups that have helped to develop the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Program. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Public Health and completed graduate courses in Environmental Engineering and Applied Mathematics. |
| | Michael Ezell, Washoe County District Health Department
P. O. Box 11130
Reno, Nevada 89520-0027
Tel: 775-328-6159
Email: mezell@washoecounty.us
Michael L. Ezell, M.A., R.E.H.S., Senior Environmental Health Specialist, Washoe County District Health Department, has fourteen years of experience in various environmental health disciplines. He has been the UST/LUST program manager in Washoe County for the last five years. He has worked cooperatively with the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, EPA Region IX and the State of Nevada to facilitate inter-agency training opportunities in the areas of UST inspector certification training, advanced training for automatic tank gauges, LUST remediation training and upcoming in April 2008, cathodic system testing. He has also participated in numerous joint inspection exercises with Federal, State, Local and Tribal governments to normalize and refine UST inspection and documentation protocols. |
| | Laura Fisher-Chaddock, California State Water Resources Control Board
PO Box 2231
Sacramento, CA 95812
Tel: 916-341-5870
Email: lchaddock@waterboards.ca.gov
Laura Fisher-Chaddock is Chief of the UST Leak Prevention Unit at the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). Ms. Fisher-Chaddock has been involved in the implementation and development of California's UST Program for the past 13 years; 5 years as a lead local agency field inspector, 5 years for the UST Leak Prevention Unit, and the last 3 years as Chief of the UST Leak Prevention Unit. Ms. Fisher-Chaddock currently serves on a number of technical committees including Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 971, 58, 1316, 1746 and Petroleum Equipment Institute RP 900.
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