February 3, 2012 - The New Connecticut Brownfields Program: A Unique Opportunity for Increased Economic Development and Cleanup

Presenters:

Beth Barton, Day Pitney LLP
Beth Barton is a Partner at Day Pitney LLP, a law firm with 9 East Coast offices, extending from Boston to New York City to Washington, DC. Resident in the Hartford, Connecticut office, Beth has over 20 years of experience in environmental and land use consultation, permitting and litigation at the federal, state and local levels. She served on Governor Malloy's Environmental Policy Transition Team. She was also a member of Governor Rell's Permitting Task Force, the legislatively created Connecticut Task Force on Streamlining Environmental Permitting, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's External Advisory Committee on revisions to Connecticut's Remediation Standard Regulations. Beth is a member of the National Brownfields Association's Brownfields Ad vocacy Network, the Board of Directors of the New England Council, the Environmental Policies Council of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, and the New England Women in Energy and the Environment. On behalf of property owners, developers, lenders, and investors, Beth has worked closely with governmental authorities at all levels on innovative development projects, including large sustainable developments both within and outside New England and smaller urban/suburban initiatives including the Learning Corridor in Hartford, Connecticut and Blue Back Square in West Hartford, Connecticut. She is a frequent author and speaker on environmental issues and a graduate of Tufts University and the University of Connecticut School of Law.

David Hurley, Fuss & O'Neill, Inc.
David F. Hurley, LEP, PG is a vice president with Fuss & O'Neill, Inc. of Manchester, Connecticut, multi-disciplinary engineering firm with offices throughout the east coast. Mr. Hurley is Director of Brownfield Services for Fuss & O'Neill and in that capacity serves as a project director for private developers, state and regional agencies, and municipal clients. His projects typically involve public private partnerships, regulatory strategies, and integration of remediation and redevelopment or adaptive reuse of sites. David has been with Fuss & O'Neill for over 20 years and has more than 25 years of diversified environmental project experience. He is a Connecticut Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP). He received a B.S. in Geology from the State University of New York at Albany and has conducted post-graduate studies at the University of Tennessee. Dave is a member of the Connecticut General Assembly Brownfields Working Group.

Robert Bell, CT DEEP
Since 2006, Robert Bell has worked at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as an Assistant Director of the Remediation Division. There he leads a team of professionals overseeing cleanup of contaminated sites throughout the state, including state and federal superfund sites, RCRA Corrective Action sites, brownfield redevelopment sites, other industrial/commercial sites, and projects to provide clean drinking water for individuals and communities where releases contaminated drinking water wells. Robert leads the LEAN process and quality improvement actions of the Division. Previously, Robert worked in Massachusetts as an attorney on Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, wetlands, solid and hazardous waste, land use, cleanup and cost recovery cases, where he prosecuted enforcement cases, defended permit appeals and advised the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection in Boston and as Chief Regional Counsel in Springfield.