- You need advice on an
environmental project to determine the best way to approach some of
your stakeholders, such as a foreign environmental agency, citizens
group, investors, or any interested party. You need someone with
years experience to review the information you have, interpret it,
evaluate it, suggest alternative positions and advise you on actions
you could take to determine the best way to proceed.
- You wish to train staff
or management on the intricacies of a particular field of environmental
protection in a foreign country. This training needs to be at a
high level and tailored for the particular situation which is causing
you concern.
- You are a consulting company with a contract (or bidding on a contract) to supply technical
or policy expertise to a foreign nation, foreign company or domestic company with facilities in a foreign country
regarding environmental or homeland security matters. You need assistance to complete this assignment.
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Summary of experience in
this area:
Utilized detailed
and
extensive knowledge of EPA programs to provide assistance to foreign
governments in the development of their environmental remediation,
chemical
emergency preparedness, homeland security and
brownfields programs. This assistance
started in 1986 and has continued to the
present. Consultations consisted of a combination of invitations
to
appear at workshops and symposia, as well a detailed and complex,
technical
consultations for specific projects in host countries.Countries assisted include
Italy, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, India, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, South Africa, Norway, Morocco and China.
Examples of achievements:
- In 1988, was requested to
work directly for the Director General of Environmental Reclamation in
the Italian Ministry of the Environment in
Rome
to develop a program in
Italy
for reclamation of
abandoned chemical sites. Developed a
program based upon a very simplified form of the
US
Superfund system, which focused on emergency response, site assessment
and a very limited remedial cleanup program. This
program was accepted and was transformed into a Ministerial Decree and
one of the bases for the current program in
Italy.
Subsequent to 1988 and up until the present
time, consulted with the Ministry, ANPA, APAT, ARPA-Liguria and
ARPA-Emilia-Romagna to update the progress of the Italian program and
recommend fine-tuning based upon developments in the US and Europe.
- In 1995, was requested to
assist the
CzechRepublic
in the assessment and remedy
selection for the Karolina site, a severely contaminated area adjacent
to the town center
of the city of
Ostrava. Was the recognized international expert who
had sufficient stature to be believed by all parties in a deep
controversy regarding the proper cleanup levels for the site. Led a two person team of a risk assessor and a
cleanup project manager and guided the information development,
performed the risk assessment and developed an alternatives analysis
which provided a range of cleanup alternatives from which the Czech
government accepted a remedy to which all the parties agreed. The site has now been cleaned up and is being
developed.
- In 1991 and 1992, was
requested by the Hungarian government to perform an environmental
assessment of the need for remediation at the BVK Chemical complex, a
mercury cell caustic-chlorine facility in Karzincbarcika, Hungary
and an assessment of a
municipal environmental program in the small city of
Békéscsaba. Both projects provided the Hungarian
government with expertise with which to make intelligent environmental decisions. In 1999 was
requested by the South African government to perform an environmental
assessment of mercury contamination at the Thor Chemical facility in
Cato Ridge, South Africa. This assessment also provided the government
with information from which to develop a proper course of action.
- In addition to numerous
papers given at symposia and workshops regarding environmental
hazardous substance remediation and brownfields in Europe and Asia,
have given papers on the anthrax cleanup on Capitol Hill to audiences
in Belgium and Norway.
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