| JACK BAILS
Jack Bails is the Vice President and Senior Consultant for Natural Resources Public
Sector Consultants, Inc., where he has been providing consulting services in the area of
environmental regulation, natural resource management and related public policy issues, to
public agencies and private sector organizations since 1992. He has also served as Manager
of the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, a private trust fund, since 1996. In addition to his
experience with private trust funds, Mr. Bails was directly involved in establishing a
State Environmental Trust Fund, the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund, which was
created in 1976 as mitigation for oil and gas development on state land.
Prior to his appointment at the Natural Resources Public Sector Consultants, Inc., Mr.
Bails worked for twenty-eight years with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources,
where he held a variety of positions in policy, management and research including Deputy
Director of Region III (Southern Michigan), Deputy Director of Resource Management, and
Chief of both the Environmental Enforcement Division and the Office of Program Review.
Mr. Bails holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan
State University, where his graduate studies focused on environmental sciences, limnology,
aquatic biology, and statistics. He has also attended Wayne State University, George
Washington University, and U.S.D.A. Graduate School where he has done work in
environmental law, resource development, economics, and systems modeling.
PERRY BEIDER
Perry Beider is a Principle Analyst in the Congressional Budget Office. Currently, he
is studying the needs and opportunities for funding wastewater and drinking water
infrastructure. Dr. Beider has work extensively on the Superfund program. His examinations
of Superfund data have yielded two CBO publications and four testimonies before the
Congress.
Dr. Beider has a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University, where
he wrote or coauthored papers on models of the world market, comparable worth, and sex
differentials in insurance pricing. He also spent two years as a research assistant at the
World Bank, where he helped develop and use two general equilibrium models of national
economies.
KATHLEEN BLAHA
Kathleen Blaha is Senior Vice President for National Programs for the Trust for Public
Land (TPL) and Director of TPL's Green Cities Initiative, a systematic effort to
strengthen urban and suburban park and open space programs around the country. In support
of TPL staff working in over thirty cities across the country, Ms. Blaha is managing
fieldwork and research on park creation and financing, including restoration of
brownfields for parks and greenspace. In 1998, she managed TPL's partnership with the
Urban Land Institute (ULI) to produce the book, Urban Parks and Open Space. She also
directed efforts for the newest TPL and ULI book, Inside City Parks.
Ms. Blaha has been with TPL since 1983, working on conservation real estate and
services, first in the southeast as Associate Regional Manager, then as Acting Regional
Manager for the Midwest Office, relocating to Washington, D.C. in 1992 to work in National
Programs to develop a metropolitan parks initiative for TPL. Before coming to TPL, Ms.
Blaha worked first as a water resource planner for the regional Council of Governments in
Raleigh, North Carolina, and later helped to create the Triangle Land Conservancy, a
private land trust in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.
Ms. Blaha has a B.A. in Geography from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and an M.R.P.
in Regional Land Use Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She
currently sits on the Boards of the Severn River Land Trust in Annapolis, Maryland, and
the Washington Area Bicycling Association.
CYNTHIA N. BROOKS
Cynthia Brooks is the President of the Greenfield Environmental Trust Group (GETG), a
woman-owned small business based in Cambridge, MA, and President of Resources for
Responsible Site Management, Inc., Trustee for the Industri-plex Superfund Site Custodial
Trust. Before assuming her role at GETG, Ms. Brooks was Managing Director of Greenfield
International, LLC, a sister company of GETG. Prior to joining Greenfield International,
Ms. Brooks was Founder and President of The Environmental Trust Group, Inc. Having
redeveloped contaminated properties for over a decade, Ms. Brooks is widely regarded as
one of our nation's leading experts in brownfields.
As Trustee for the Custodial Trust, she has led the redevelopment of the Industri-plex
Superfund Site, Woburn, MA., since 1989. She was appointed Third-Party Trustee for the
Production Plated Plastics (PPP) RCRA site in Richland by the Chief Judge of the Federal
District Court (WD-MI). Most recently, she negotiated removal of an EPA lien encumbering
an abandoned manufacturing plant in Indiana, paving the way for its conversion to a light
manufacturing/ distribution center. Ms. Brooks also launched the redevelopment of Woolfolk
Superfund Site in Fort Valley, Georgia. She is currently heading the redevelopment of
brownfield sites in Illinois, West Virginia, Arkansas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
Ms. Brooks' prior experience includes almost a decade in the oil industry, as well as
brief assignments at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and at the Marine Physical
Laboratory of Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in
Civil Engineering from Duke University and a Master's in Business Administration from the
Harvard Business School.
GRANT COPE
Grant Cope is a Staff Attorney for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG).
He develops policies, researches and drafts reports, and advocates for the environmentally
sound implementation of laws regarding the cleaning up of toxic waste sites, oversight of
federal agencies, and safety of drinking water.
Mr. Cope received a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1992, and a Juris Doctor from the Northwestern School of Law of
Lewis & Clark College in 1998. While attending law school, Mr. Cope served as
Executive Director for the Northwest Environmental Defense Center and as an advocate for
Oregon Natural Resources Council, two regional organizations that safeguard public lands
and environmental quality through public education, litigation and administrative appeals.
J. CLARENCE (TERRY) DAVIES
Terry Davies is a Senior Fellow and former director of the Center for Risk Management
at Resources for the Future. His previous positions have included Assistant Professor of
Public Policy at Princeton University, Executive Vice President of the Conservation
Foundation, Assistant Administrator for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, and Executive Director of the National Commission on the Environment.
Dr. Davies is a political scientist who, over the past 30 years, has written several
books and numerous articles about environmental policy. Recent publications include
Pollution Control in the United States: Evaluating the System and Comparing Environmental
Risks. Dr. Davies chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Decision Making
for Regulating Chemicals in the Environment and, while serving as a consultant to the
President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization, co-authored the reorganization
plan that created the Environmental Protection Agency. Among his many current activities
he is Chairman of the Board of RESOLVE Inc. Dr. Davies is a graduate of Dartmouth College
and has a Ph.D. in American Government from Columbia University.
SALLY FAIRFAX
Sally Fairfax has taught natural resource law and policy at the University of
California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources for over 20 years. She specializes in
land conservation and management and has published extensively on legal aspects of
administration and related federalism issues. Professor Fairfax began her career focusing
on federal resource management agencies and is co-author of Forest and Range Policy and
The Federal Lands. She is also a student of state lands and land management and co-author
of State Trust Lands. She is presently focused on changing institutions of land
conservation and management, the dispersion and devolution of federal authority, and is
co-author of Conservation Trusts, forthcoming from University Press of Kansas.
Professor Fairfax is a member of the National Academy of Sciences committee on Federal
Land Acquisition for Conservation. In addition, she serves as a Board Member of the
Western Political Science Association, the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program and is on
the editorial board of the Western Political Quarterly. She has an undergraduate degree in
Political Philosophy from New York University, as well as a Master's in Forestry and a
Ph.D. in Public Administration from Duke University.
AIMÉE R. HOUGHTON
Aimée Houghton is the Associate Director of the Center for Public Environmental
Oversight (CPEO), where she heads up the organization's Washington, D.C. office. During
the six years she has been at CPEO, Ms. Houghton has coordinated all public participation
and stakeholder involvement research concerning the environmental cleanup of federal
facilities within the U.S. and its territories. She has worked extensively with community
groups and local citizens affected by cleanup in their neighborhoods as well as with
military, the U.S. Department of Defense, and regulatory agencies both at the local and
national levels to foster better communications and partnering relationships in working
towards faster, safer, better and less costly cleanups. In addition, Ms. Houghton has been
involved in CPEO Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) training workshops on subjects including
risk perception, technical aspects of hazardous waste cleanup, environmental cleanup
policy, federal, state, tribal, and local regulatory issues, as well as environmental
justice. She contributes to the Citizen's Report on the Military and the Environment and
has consulted individually with RAB and community members on federal facility and
Brownfields related issues.
Ms. Houghton has sat on various public policy dialogues including the Federal
Facilities Environmental Restoration Committee and the National Dialogue on Military
Munitions. She also serves on the Interstate Technology Regulatory Cooperation Board of
Directors.
SETH D. KIRSHENBERG
Seth Kirshenberg is the Executive Director of Energy Communities Alliance, the
membership organization of local governments that are adjacent to or impacted by
Department of Energy (DOE) activities. Mr. Kirshenberg is also a Partner in the
environmental, national security, and real estate groups of the law firm Kutak Rock LLP
which focuses on, among other issues, the acquisition, redevelopment and financing of
Federal facilities and brownfields.
Previously, Mr. Kirshenberg served as the Director of Economic Development for the
International City/County Management Association and has co-authored several books on base
reuse and brownfields including ICMA Base Reuse Handbook: A Navigational Guide for Local
Governments and Brownfields Development: A Guide for Local Governments. He is currently
writing books on economic development and long-term stewardship at DOE sites and
facilities. Mr. Kirshenberg served on the Aspen Institute's Environment in the 21st
Century Board, Defense Environmental Restoration Task Force, Future Land Use Workgroup,
the Federal Facilities Restoration Dialogue Committee and several DOE Environmental
Management Advisory Board committees. He holds a J.D. degree from the Washington College
of Law at the American University and a B.S. in Business Administration from the
University of Florida. He is a member of the Florida and the District of Columbia Bar,
American Bar Association Real Estate and Environment and Natural Resource Sections,
American Society of Association Executives, National Brownfields Association and
Environmental Law Institute.
KATHERINE N. PROBST
Kate Probst is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future's (RFF) Center for Risk
Management. Over the past 18 years, Ms. Probst has conducted a wide range of analyses of
federal environmental programs, focusing primarily on the implementation of hazardous
waste programs under Superfund and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Her work
has addressed ways to improve the remedy selection process for Superfund sites, the pros
and cons of alternative liability and financing schemes for Superfund cleanups, and the
effects of hazardous waste sites on poor rural counties. Ms. Probst was a member of the
Superfund Evaluation Committee convened by Administrator Browner in June 1993 to recommend
improvements to the national Superfund law. Recently, Ms. Probst has expanded her research
to include the question of how to improve regulatory approaches to the cleanup of sites in
the nuclear weapons complex. She is co-author (with Carolyn A. Pilling and Karen Turner
Dunn) of a paper recommending a more holistic legislative framework for regulating DOE's
environmental management activities - Cleaning Up the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Exploring
New Approaches.
Ms. Probst's book on the financial impact of alternative Superfund financing schemes,
Footing the Bill for Superfund Cleanups: Who Pays and How?, co-authored by Paul R.
Portney, Don Fullerton and Robert E. Litan, was released in January 1995. Ms. Probst has
testified before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate
regarding the implications of changing Superfund's liability and financing mechanisms. She
has an undergraduate degree in Government and American Studies from Wesleyan University,
and a master's degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University.
LARRY G. REED
Larry Reed is the Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency & Remedial Response
(OERR), where he is responsible for national program strategy, technical policies,
regulations and guidelines for the Superfund and oil spill response programs. In addition,
he provides direction, guidance and oversight for contaminated sediments, risk
assessments, contracts, and other Federal agencies. Before his appointment to OERR in
1995, Mr. Reed served as Director of the Hazardous Site Evaluation Division for six years
where he listed sites on the Superfund National Priorities List and managed the national
Contract Laboratory Program.
Previously, Mr. Reed has served as Chief of the Compliance Information & Evaluation
Branch of the Office of Water Enforcement & Permits, Deputy Director of EPA Region 5's
Management Division, Chief of the Toxic Integration Branch in the Office of Pesticides
& Toxic Substances, Senior Program Analyst in the Office of Planning & Evaluation,
and Management Intern at the U.S. EPA. Mr. Reed has an undergraduate degree from
Youngstown State University and a Master's in Public Administration from the JFK School of
Government at Harvard University.
BRUCE-SEAN RESHEN
Bruce-Sean Reshen is President and Chief Executive Officer of MGP Environmental
Partners LLC, a firm that specializes in providing advisory and investment services for
companies and governments that want to deal effectively with their contaminated sites. His
most recent prior position was Chief Executive Officer of Starrett Corporation, owner of
HRH Construction, Levitt Housing and Grenadier Management. In addition, Mr. Reshen has
served as President of Dames & Moore/Brookhill LLC, a leading developer of brownfields
properties. Previously, Mr. Reshen was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
of Soros Real Estate Advisors, which managed one of the nation's largest and best known
real estate opportunity funds, the Quantum Realty Fund. At Quantum, Mr. Reshen managed the
successful acquisition and development of a multi-billion dollar portfolio of distressed
properties. He also served as a tenured professor of Statistics and Management at the City
University of New York.
Mr. Reshen is a certified public accountant who holds a Bachelor of Science degree in
mathematics and economics, a Masters of Arts degree in statistical economics and an MBA
degree in accounting and management.
STEVEN R. STOUT
Steven Stout currently serves as an Assistant General Counsel for the Tennessee
Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). He has over eight years of experience
in the areas of administrative and environmental law. A significant part of his work is
handling matters involving the DOE Oversight Division (DOE-O) of TDEC. In giving legal
support to DOE-O, he has gained experience with a range of environmental issues relating
to the U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was involved in
the negotiation and the drafting of documents related to securing commitment by DOE to
provide for $14 million of payments into a statutory perpetual care trust fund to provide
for the long-term maintenance and monitoring of the Environmental Management Waste
Management Facility (EMWMF). This central facility is designed to contain the hazardous
substances and contaminated media generated in CERCLA remedial actions done over many
other parts of the Oak Ridge Reservation. Mr. Stout is a graduate of East Tennessee State
University and the University of Tennessee College of Law.
JIM WERNER
Jim Werner is the Director of the Office of Long-Term Stewardship for the Environmental
Management Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In this position, Mr. Werner is
responsible for program management and analysis, policy development, and research and
development for long-term stewardship for sites and portions of sites after stabilization,
cleanup and disposal are complete.
Previously, Mr. Werner helped develop and defend DOE's Environmental Management Budget
before Congress and responded to hundreds of Congressional inquiries annually. He produced
several studies including the 1995 and 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Reports, the
1997 "Linking Legacies" report to Congress, and "Closing the Circle on the
Splitting of the Atom." His office also produced the Future Use report to Congress,
Materials in Inventory issues and compliance with the Government Performance and Results
Act.
Prior to joining DOE in 1993, Mr. Werner served as a Senior Environmental Engineer with
the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) from 1989-1993. While at NRDC, Mr. Werner was
appointed by DOE to its "External Review Group" to review its priority-setting
system. In addition, he was a member of the multi-agency (DOE, DOD, EPA, States, Indian
Tribes) Federal Facilities Environmental Restoration Dialogue Committee ("Keystone
group"), the National Advisory Committee on Policy and Technology WIPP Subcommittee,
the Office of Technology Assessment's (OTA) Advisory Board on "Managing Materials
from Weapons: Nuclear Weapons Dismantlement and its Aftermath," and served as a
consultant to the EPA Science Advisory Board Radiation Subcommittee. Previously, Mr.
Werner served as an engineer at ICF Technology, Inc., from 1985-1989 as a consultant to
DOE performing hazardous waste field investigations at DOE facilities throughout the
United States and assisted DOE in developing a system for establishing environmental
priorities.
Mr. Werner also provided environmental consulting services to the U.S. EPA, the
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (assisting in "Superfund
Strategies," April 1985), the Department of Defense, and a variety of private
corporations through the 1980's. He published numerous technical and policy articles on
the cost and technologies of hazardous waste cleanup, and testified regularly at
Congressional hearings. Mr. Werner has a masters degree in environmental engineering from
The Johns Hopkins University.
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