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2005 Cooperating Organizations

Northeast Recycling Council, Inc.
Northeast Waste Management Officials Association
Foundry Industry Recycling Starts Today
American Coal Ash Association
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials

2005 Byproducts Beneficial Use Summit - Speaker Bios

John Buck,
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

John Buck is a soil scientist and project manager with Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. For the past 21 years, John has applied his background in biology (BS, Lehigh Univ. 1980) and soil science (MS, Penn State, 1985) to revegetation of drastically disturbed land, often making soil out of whatever granular materials that were available on-site or nearby. Mr. Buck's manufactured soil projects include soils made with fly ash combined with coal refuse, steelmaking slag, soil, poultry manure, and/or biosolids, and direct (soil-less) revegetation of fly ash, FGD scrubber sludge, and slag. His work also includes phytoremediation of contaminated soils and aquifers, design of replacement wetlands and wetland treatment systems, and invasive plant management.

Andrew Carpenter,
Northern Tilth

Mr. Carpenter is a soil scientist and owner of Northern Tilth, an environmental consulting firm, specializing in providing technical services for organic waste recycling projects. He has been managing land application programs for biosolids, wood ash and short paper fiber since 1992. Carpenter received an MS in soil science from the Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine where his research focused on the biogeochemistry of topsoils manufactured from pulp and paper residuals. Carpenter is the past chair of both the NEBRA Research Committee and the Maine Wastewater Control Association's Residuals Management Committee. Carpenter is currently an adjunct professor of soil science at Unity College in Unity, Maine and a State of Maine Certified Nutrient Management Planning Specialist.

Dr. Rufus Chaney,
USDA Agricultural Research Service

Dr. Rufus L. Chaney works in the Animal Manure and By-Products Laboratory of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service at Beltsville, MD, where he conducts research on the fate, food-chain transfer, and potential effects of soil microelements. The research includes studies on 1) plant uptake of metals and translocation to edible plant tissues; considers plant-soil interactions in microelement phytoavailability; 2) speciation of metals in plants and bioavailability to animals; 3) development of hyperaccumulator crops to phytoextract and recycle metals in contaminated soils; 4) bioavailability of lead and other metals in soils, biosolids, and composts directly ingested by animals; 5) development of "Tailor-Made Composts and Biosolids" to remediate Pb, Zn, Cd, Ni and other element contaminated soils including urban gardens; and 6) potential methods to reduce food-chain transfer or toxicity of metals in these organic resources and potential regulatory approaches to protect food safety and soil fertility. Since beginning his career in 1969, Dr. Chaney has 389 papers and 207 published abstracts on these topics. He has cooperated with the US-Environmental Protection Agency, the US-Food and Drug Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, and many States in preparing advice and regulations for utilization of biosolids.

Marian Chertow, Director,
Industrial Environmental Management Program, Yale University Center for Industrial Ecology

Marian Chertow is Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program, at Yale University Center for Industrial Ecology. Chertow's research and teaching concern industrial environmental management and policy, specifically industrial ecology, environmental technology innovation, and business/environment issues. Current research interests are 1) the application of innovation theory to the development of environmental and energy technology and 2) the study of industrial symbiosis including geographically-based exchanges of wastes, materials, energy, and water within networks of businesses. She initiated a long-term study of industrial symbiosis in 2001 in business clusters of Puerto Rico and is examining eco-industrial development in China, several locations in the US, and advises on projects through a network of academics and professionals interested in the environmental potential of co-locating businesses.

Professor Chertow is the editor of Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy with Daniel Esty (Yale University Press, 1997), now in its second printing, and "Developing Industrial Ecosystems: Approaches, Cases and Tools," with M. Portlock for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Bulletin Series in 2002. Prior to Yale, Professor Chertow spent ten years in environmental business and state and local government. She is a frequent international lecturer and has testified on waste, recycling and other environmental issues before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. She is on the Editorial Board of BioCycle Magazine and the Journal of Industrial Ecology, the Board of the Eco-Industrial Development Council, as well as on the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, which is developing renewable energy projects to increase the availability of green energy in the state. She also serves on the faculty of the National University of Singapore where she teaches "Business and Environment."

Chertow degrees include: B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University; M.P.P.M., Ph.D., Yale University.

Bob Confer,
NJ Department of Environmental Protection

Mr. Confer has been employed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for nearly 20 years in the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste in programs related to permitting solid waste facilities. He is presently the Chief of the Bureau of Resource Recovery and Technical Programs which issues permits for incinerators, compost facilities, landfills, transfer stations and beneficial use projects.

Joe Croce,
Vice President for the Virginia Manufacturers Association

Joe started with the VMA in October 2002 and brings over 30 years of varied experience in manufacturing and non-manufacturing to his position. Prior to that he held the position of manager of new business development for the Virginia A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership, where he provided training and consulting in process improvement and quality practices. Prior experience included new business development and risk management for Alexander & Alexander and Marsh USA of Richmond. In his capacity with these organizations, Joe's duties included corporate environmental risk management and insurance programs. He also served as president of risk and insurance management for JARC Enterprises. In these positions Joe managed major corporate insurance and risk management programs.

Joe first entered the insurance & risk management industry as an engineer for the Factory Mutual Engineering Association. Joe also spent two years as an engineer with Ecko Products in Clayton, NJ. He holds a BS in Engineering from Tennessee Tech University and an Associate of Risk Management from Central Piedmont Community College.

Matthew Erbe,
ERM

Mr. Erbe is a Senior Hydrogeologist with Environmental Resources Management (ERM), located in Annapolis, Maryland. He holds a graduate degree from Syracuse University in Hydrogeology and is a registered Professional Geologist. For the past 20 years ERM has been a partner with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Power Plant Research Program (PPRP), and acts as an extension of its staff through the Environmental Engineering Integrator (EEI) contract. As the EEI, ERM has been providing PPRP with the requisite services to address the environmental challenges facing the electric utility industry in Maryland. Mr. Erbe is a Project Manager and Principal Investigator for the contract, providing hydrogeologic support for highway embankment studies, CCP leachate impact evaluations, and acid mine drainage mitigation projects.

Thomas Fidler,
Deputy Secretary, PA DEP

Mr. Fidler is the Deputy Secretary overseeing the Air Quality, Waste Management, and Radiation Protection Programs within the Department of Environmental Protection. Mr. Fidler has been employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's environmental agency for more than 20 years. During that time he has contributed to the development of the State's Coastal Management Plan, Rivers Conservation Program, and State Water Plan. Mr. Fidler has also worked at the executive level of the agency in coordinating field implementation of air quality, waste management, remediation, mining, oil and gas well permitting, and radiation protection programs. Mr. Fidler was the Director of the Land Recycling and Cleanup Program. In that capacity, he was responsible for the development of regulation and policies and procedures for implementing the Pennsylvania voluntary cleanup program, the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Program, CERCLA responses, and storage tank corrective action work. Prior to his executive appointment, Mr. Fidler was the Director of the Brownfields Action Team for the Commonwealth. In that capacity, he directed a statewide staff charged with responsibility for expediting the cleanup and permitting of land recycling projects. Mr. Fidler received a B.S. and M.S. from the Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Kevin Gardner,
Recycled Materials Research Center

Kevin Gardner is the Robert C. Davison Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of New Hampshire, where he also directs the University's Environmental Research Group and the Recycled Materials Resource Center (a partnership between UNH and the Federal Highway Administration). Dr. Gardner's areas of expertise include contaminant behavior in the environment and the leaching characteristics of recycled materials.

King W. Gee,
Associate Administrator for Infrastructure, Federal Highway Administration

Mr. King W. Gee was appointed to be the Associate Administrator for Infrastructure in the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in February 2001. Mr. Gee leads the Office of Infrastructure that is responsible for providing agency leadership on the administration of the Federal-aid highway program, on the core engineering disciplines dealing with roads and bridges, and on infrastructure asset management.

Prior to assuming his current assignment, Mr. Gee was the Director of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of International Programs. In this position, he was responsible for the direction and overall coordination of all international programs and activities of the agency. The primary focuses of such international efforts are technological exchange, technical assistance, and promotion of U.S. technology.

From January 2000 to January 2001, Mr. Gee also served as Acting Director of Policy. In this position, he was responsible for providing leadership for the four FHWA offices that provides policy support and assistance to the agency, the Department of Transportation, and the Congress on policy development and execution, policy information, and international programs related to highways and highway transportation.

From January 1994 to March 1996, Mr. Gee was the Deputy Regional Administrator for the Federal Highway Administration's mid-Atlantic region (formerly Region 3) that included overseeing the Federal-aid highway program offices in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

Before going to the Mid-Atlantic regional office, Mr. Gee was the Special Assistant to the Executive Director in the Office of the Federal Highway Administrator. During his time there, he worked in a number of crosscutting areas, including particularly the rapidly expanding research, development, and technology programs of the agency. Earlier, Mr. Gee's career with the FHWA was focused on technology transfer - encouraging the highway community, domestically and internationally, to understand and adopt new technologies for improving the methods and materials for planning, designing, constructing and managing highway transportation systems.

A native of New York City, Mr. Gee is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) where he received a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Engineering degree, both in Civil Engineering (Transportation).

Mr. Gee has received a number of performance and honor awards including the FHWA Administrator's Award for Superior Achievement, and the Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award.

Mike Giuranna,
U.S. EPA Region 3

Mike is a Solid Waste Specialist with EPA's Region III Office in Philadelphia. He has worked with Solid Waste and Recycling with EPA for eight years and has been with EPA for over 22 years, also working in the Air pollution and the Superfund programs. Region III encompasses the States of Delaware , DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. He cooperatively works with these states through MACREDO a Regional Recycling Consortium dedicated to developing markets for recyclables ( see www.libertynet.org/macredo) His primary duties involve developing markets for Scrap Tires, used Electronics, Construction and Demolition Waste, Yard , Food, and Industrial waste and many other solid wastes. He works with several EPA Recycling programs including Jobs Through Recycling ( www.epa.gov/jtr), WasteWise ( www.epa.gov/wastewise) and Buy Recycled ( www.epa.gov/cpg) programs as well as the regulation of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills. The Region III Solid Waste web site is at http://www.epa.gov/reg3wcmd/solidwaste.htm and EPA's National information on Solid Waste is at http://www.epa.gov/msw

Brenda Grober,
Empire State Development

Economic Development Specialist Brenda (Oettinger) Grober has been with the Environmental Services Unit (formerly Office of Recycling Market Development) at Empire State Development since April, 1989. Throughout this period, she has provided technical assistance on marketing recyclables and identifying markets for recyclables, as well as helped develop, review and oversee projects eligible for financial assistance under the Environmental Investment Program. By Law, such projects must either create new recycling capacity or help a company achieve pollution prevention outcomes. Brenda is the office's expert on glass recycling and related economic development opportunities.

Brenda also serves as the Statewide Coordinator of the Buy-Recycled Alliance of New York, a program of the NYS Assoc. of Reuse, Reduction and Recycling aimed at encouraging the purchase of environmentally preferable products, and represents her office as a member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Recycling Council.

Prior to her position with the state's economic development agency, Brenda worked for the State University of New York at Albany from 4/82 through 3/89 as editor of New York Environmental News, a bimonthly, non-biased newsletter on energy and environmental policy in NYS. Brenda has a Bachelor of Science degree in Atmospheric Sciences from SUNYA. She did her Masters work in Public Affairs and Policy at SUNYA's Rockefeller College. Brenda is married, and has two daughters.

David C. Goss,
American Coal Ash Association

David C. Goss, Executive Director, began with ACAA August 2002. Previously he worked for Xcel Energy (formerly Public Service Company of Colorado) as the Coal Combustion Byproducts Coordinator, where he coordinated the ash management activities for nine coal-fired plants located in Colorado and Texas. Goss has also been very active in industry organizations. He has served on the Western Coal Council ash subcommittee and has been a representative to the Western Region Ash Group (WRAG) and the Texas Coal Ash Utilization Group (TCAUG). He is a former National Steering Committee Chair for the Combustion Byproducts Recycled Consortium, a past Western Region Chair of the Emission Controls Byproduct Consortium, and former Co-Chair of the WRAG. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the American Concrete Institute

Goss received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Denver and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma.

The ACAA is located in Aurora, Colorado. The mailing, e-mail address and phone numbers are 15200 E. Girard Avenue, Suite 3050, Aurora, CO 80014-3988, (720) 870-7897, fax (720) 870-7889, e-mail info@acaa-usa.org and web site: www.acaa-usa.org.

Thomas Jansen,
We Energies

Thomas Jansen oversees the utilization of coal combustion products (CCP) and landfills for We Energies. We Energies is the trade name of Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Wisconsin Gas Company, the principal utility subsidiaries of Wisconsin Energy Corporation. We Energies serves more than one million electric and gas customers in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He received a BS Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1984 and is a registered Professional Engineer. He is currently serving as Chairman of the American Coal Ash Association.

Trudy Johnston,
Material Matters

Trudy Johnson is Vice President of Material Matter, Inc. Her current responsibilities include water, wastewater, food processing, and industrial residuals management consultation. Also, WWTP operational consultation, regulatory permitting and various other tasks involved with water and wastewater treatment. This includes assisting clients with residuals recycling strategies and solutions, preparation of various Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) environmental permit applications, and assessing client regulatory compliance with DEP and EPA regulations. She plays a key role in providing wastewater plant processing reviews, residuals management options studies, preparation of DEP and EPA regulatory reports, residual site evaluation and qualifications, nutrient management planning, and other general consultation for recycling residuals. Johnson works on projects related to assessing and reducing the potential for odor generation, and blending various residuals with biosolids to create opportunities for successful land based recycling. She participates as a speaker and /or trainer at various professional organizational meetings regarding biosolids and residuals regulatory and management issues.

Johnson is currently participating in National Biosolids Partnership Environmental Management System (EMS) Auditing Program as a technical auditor and as a consultant in assisting agencies with EMS program development. She participated in Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) project, Developing Protocols for Measuring Biosolids Stability. Johnson also participated in the development of the National Manual of Good Practice for Biosolids as a member of the core team, as part of a WERF project. She authored two chapters in Biosolids Recycling in Pennsylvania - A Reference Manual (1999) for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on Soil Characteristics and on Site Selection and Evaluation.

Prior to joining Material Matters, Johnson was Project Manager at Gannett Fleming, Inc where she was responsible for managing municipal and private client projects. She was also their Biosolids Discipline Manager and provided assistance and training for wastewater treatment personnel. Johnson holds a BS degree in Earth Science from Pennsylvania State University. Her certifications include: PA Certified Sewage Treatment Plant Operator and PA Certified Water Treatment Plant Operator

Cecil Jones,
North Carolina DOT

Cecil Jones is the State Materials Engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. During the early part of his 32 years with NCDOT, Cecil was responsible for administering grading, paving and bridge construction projects in three different areas of the state. He has been in the materials area for the last 17 years and in his current role is responsible for the development of specifications and standards for materials and manufactured products that are incorporated into North Carolina's 78,000 miles of state maintained highway system. He was one of the founding members of the Recycling and Waste Utilization Task Force for NCDOT that has been instrumental in promoting and guiding the use of recycled materials in construction projects. North Carolina DOT specifications encourage, and offer financial incentives, for contractors to initiate, develop and utilize products and/or construction methods that incorporate the use of recycled or solid waste products into projects.

Throughout his career, Cecil has been involved in the use of recycled products since the early 1980's with North Carolina's first usage of RAP in Hot Mix Asphalt. A wide variety other products and ideas have been evaluated and implemented, ranging from the use of coal fly ash as a structural fill to the use of shingles in the production of Hot Mix Asphalt.

Cecil is an active member of the Transportation Research Board, where he serves on three project panels (one of which is includes the potential for using recycled materials in flowable fill); The American Concrete Institute, International; AASHTO Subcommittee on Materials where he is active on five technical sections, one of which he is the chair and has a NCHRP proposal pending for the use of recycled resins in the production of HDPE pipe. He has also been named as the chair of the AASHTO Subcommittee on Materials Recycling Task Force with the goal of promoting and incorporating national standards reflecting the use of recycled materials. Cecil is a graduate of North Carolina State University and a licensed professional engineer in the state of North Carolina.

Mark McClellan,
Evergreen Environmental

Mark M. McClellan is President of Evergreen Environmental, Inc. (EEI), an environmental service and consulting firm headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. EEI specializes in providing private sector and government clients with comprehensive environmental compliance, permitting, and regulatory services as well as providing project management on complex projects, regulatory approvals for new environmental technologies, air quality, waste management and water quality permit application preparation as well as operation and management services for environmental infrastructure facilities.

Prior to his association with EEI, Mr. McClellan was Vice President for Corporate Development for the EMAS Group, an integrated waste management company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. EMAS owned or operated six landfills in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes Regions, and also provided a broad spectrum of related waste services including recycling, collection/transportation, waste brokerage, and remediation.

Prior to accepting his position with EMAS, Mr. McClellan served from 1987-1991 as the Deputy Secretary for Environmental Protection of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (DER). Mr. McClellan was appointed to this position by Governor Robert P. Casey and in this capacity was responsible for directing all of the Commonwealth's principal environmental regulatory programs and federally delegated programs concerning waste management, air quality, water quality, drinking water, mining and oil and gas development, public health programs and radiation protection. .

During Mr. McClellan's tenure as Deputy Secretary, all of the major elements of Pennsylvania's successful municipal and residual waste regulatory program were put in place. Under his direction, the Commonwealth's municipal waste regulations were developed and implemented to close all substandard landfills and replace them with the current system of double-lined, environmentally safe landfills. The Commonwealth's residual waste regulations were proposed under his tenure including the current state program for the beneficial use of these waste materials. He was also responsible for the development and successful implementation of the Commonwealth's nationally recognized mandatory curb-side recycling program, hazardous waste cleanup program and solid waste planning process.

For over 20 years Mr. McClellan has played a major role in shaping Pennsylvania's environmental programs. He was instrumental in the drafting of many of Pennsylvania's environmental statutes and regulations pertaining to such issues as: solid waste management; hazardous waste cleanup; water and air quality; oil and gas; recycling; environmental facility siting; radioactive waste; mining; and pesticide control.

Prior to his appointment by the Governor, Mr. McClellan was a founding partner of Associated Resources Consultants, providing highly specialized consulting services in the environmental and energy fields. Earlier, as Executive Director of the Citizens' Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources from 1978-1986, Mr. McClellan acted as the state environmental advocate, responsible for monitoring the activities of the department, reviewing all environmental laws and legislation, and advising the Governor and General Assembly on environmental affairs.

Mr. McClellan received a BA from Ohio University in 1972 and completed graduate studies in public administration at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh in 1976.

Susan Mooney,
U.S. EPA Region 5

Susan Mooney is an Environmental Scientist with the U.S. EPA Region 5. Region 5 encompasses the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. During her 18 years with the EPA, she has worked on a variety of solid waste management issues and projects. Her current responsibilities include facilitating beneficial use of industrial byproducts, responding to waste disposal issues in Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and investigating the use of composted materials as a best management practice for controlling erosion and run-off.

Susan holds a Bachelors' degree from Franklin and Marshall College and a Masters of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Elizabeth Olenbush,
Foundry Industry Recycling Starts Today

Elizabeth Olenbush is the president of EO Associates, Inc., a small consulting practice focused on recycling market development. She also serves as the executive director of Foundry Industry Recycling Stats today (FIRST). Elizabeth stared her recycling career when she was hired as the Director of Marketing when the Steel Recycling Institute was created in 1989. In 1995, she was retained by the Wisconsin Recycling Market Development Board to develop the statewide plan for high volume industrial byproducts, which in Wisconsin are defined as coal combustion products, pulp and paper residuals, and foundry process residuals. Elizabeth has been active in local, state and national recycling organizations for more than 15 years. She continues to serve as a board member of the Buy Recycled Alliance of New York. She resides in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Elizabeth is a graduate of Duke University.

Brenda Robinson,
Virginia Byproduct Group

Brenda Robinson has over 15 years experience in a Fortune 500 company and more than 15 years experience with technology-based small businesses, including Environmental solutions Inc. which she co-founded with her husband Phil Robinson. Brenda is the immediate past president and co-founder of the Virginia Environmental Business Council, Inc. and received the Infineon Innovation Technology Stars Award presented by the Greater Richmond Technology Council. Brenda serves on the Advisory Board of the Virginia Math and Science Coalition, Board of directors for Cera Tech, Inc. a technology spin off of ESI. She is also on the Board of Clean Air Technologies, Inc., a small Virginia based emerging technology company. Brenda has also spoken at environmental conferences, authored technical papers, and represented industry at governmental events.

Jeff Schmitt,
NY Department of Environmental Conservation

Mark Stillwagon,
Lehigh Cement Company

Mark Stillwagon is the manager of purchasing and materials for Lehigh North division. Stillwagon has 19 years experience working in every aspect of waste management from treatment of hazardous wastes to project management of large municipal recycling programs. He entered the cement industry in 1993 to promote the recycling of non-hazardous industrial by-products in the cement manufacturing process.

He has 12 years experience in the cement Industry initially establishing the recycling efforts at the Evansville cement plant near Reading PA. Stillwagon was promoted to region level to head up efforts for seven cement plants in North America in 1999. Responsibilities include all raw material purchases, alternative material recycling programs, energy purchases and capital projects for the Lehigh North Region.

Stillwagon is current chairman of the PCA (Portland Cement Association) energy sub-committee. He is a graduate of Penn State University.

Bill Thacker,
NCASI

Bill Thacker is a Senior Research Engineer with the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), a non-profit technical organization that focuses on environmental topics of interest to the forest products industry. Bill's principal responsibilities at NCASI are to conduct research on environmental issues pertinent to the paper industry and provide requested information to paper companies on environmental matters. His research projects tend to address either the beneficial use of by-product solids or questions related to wastewater treatment and surface-water quality.

Prior experience includes 10 years holding environmental positions at two paper companies. Bill is a member of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) and the Great Lakes By-products Management Association (GLBMA). He has served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT), a research consortium at Michigan Technological University. Bill received a B.S. degree in Paper Technology from Miami University of Ohio and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Bill assisted Paul Ruesch of U.S. EPA Region 5 and others in organizing and hosting the first Industrial By-Products Beneficial Use Summit held in Chicago in August 2002.

Maria Vickers,
EPA's Deputy Director for the Office of Solid Waste

Maria Vickers presently serves as EPA's Deputy Director for the Office of Solid Waste, with material responsibility for the Hazardous and Solid Waste Programs under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Ms. Vickers came to this position following fourteen years of Regional experience managing the RCRA Programs, Pesticides, Asbestos and Toxics Programs in EPA's Mid-Atlantic Region, where she had previously served as Senior Assistant Regional Counsel for the Superfund and RCRA Programs.

Ms. Vickers' work at EPA follows a rewarding 17-year career with Pennsylvania's Office of Attorney General where she litigated complex constitutional law matters, arguing many cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and three cases in the United States Supreme Court. Upon her retirement from state service, Ms. Vickers held the position of Chief Deputy Attorney General and Director of Pennsylvania's Eastern Regional Office.

In June 2005, Ms. Vickers was sworn into office by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as President of Executive Women in Government - an organization dedicated to mentoring and networking among federal women executives.

Ms. Vickers has a J.D. from Temple University School of Law where she served on the Law-Review Editorial Board.

Anne Weir,
Executive Director, The Association of Canadian Industries Recycling Coal Ash

Anne Weir is Executive Director of CIRCA, the Association of Canadian Industries Recycling Coal Ash. CIRCA is a Canadian, non-profit corporation dedicated to increasing the responsible use of coal combustion products in Canada. Ms. Weir has been actively involved in CIRCA since its inception, to which she brings 20 years' experience in managerial and administrative positions in private, semi-private and public sectors. She holds a Masters' Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario, and resides in Montréal, Québec. A passionate Recycler herself, Ms. Weir is an enthusiastic supporter of the potential CCPs bring to a more sustainable and better built environment.

Paul J. Yuran,
Universal Aggregates, LLC

Paul J. Yuran currently serves Universal Aggregates, LLC as Manager of Marketing and Product Development. Mr. Yuran has twenty - three years of experience within heavy highway construction, including: materials testing, field inspection and quality assurance, construction management, estimating and project management. Paul previously served as General Manager of SynAggs, Inc. and as Assistant Manager of Pavement Maintenance Systems for Trumbull Corporation. Paul has extensive experience in bituminous pavement recycling, and beneficial utilization of coal combustion by - products in construction. Paul has extensive experience in permitting associated with air and water compliance at asphalt plants and materials handling facilities for Trumbull Corporation and Allegheny Asphalt Manufacturing, Inc. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Resource Management from The Pennsylvania State University with an emphasis in Environmental Impact Assessment. He is a Nicet Certified Engineering Technician in Highway Construction and Transportation Engineering and is also a Certified Radiation Safety Officer. Paul is a Senior member of The American Society of Highway Engineers, Pittsburgh section.