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Appendix F Biographical Sketches of Committee Members Peter B. Lederman, Chair, recently retired as executive di- Institute of Chemical Engineers and is a member of the Na- rector, Hazardous Substance Management Research Center, tional Society of Black Engineers’ National Advisory Board. and executive director, Office of Intellectual Property, New He was recently elected as secretary of the American Institute Jersey Institute of Technology. He continues to teach envi- of Chemical Engineers. ronmental management, policy, and site remediation. He is active as a consultant and is the principal of Peter Lederman Charles Barton is currently a senior scientist at Xoma & Associates. He has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from (U.S.) LLC, Berkeley, California. In this capacity he oversees the University of Michigan. Dr. Lederman has over 50 years preclinical and clinical studies to determine toxicity/safety of broad experience in all facets of environmental manage- of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. Dr. Barton was previ- ment, control, and policy development; considerable experi- ously the Iowa state toxicologist at the Iowa Department ence in hazardous substance treatment and management as of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in toxicology from well as process design and development in the petrochemical the University of Louisiana. In addition to being a certified industry; and over 18 years of experience as an educator. He toxicologist, he is certified in conducting public health as- has industrial experience as a process designer and managed sessments, health education activities, and risk assessments; the development of new processes through full-scale plant in emergency response to terrorism and emergency response demonstrations. He is well known for his work as a profes- incident command; and in hazardous waste operations and sor in chemical process design. He led his company’s safety emergency response. In his position as the state toxicologist, program in the early 1980s. Dr. Lederman is a registered pro- Dr. Barton served as the statewide public health resource, fessional engineer, registered professional planner, certified providing health consultations and advice to other environ- hazardous material manager, and a diplomate in environmen- ment- and health-related agencies, to health-care providers, tal engineering. He has also worked at the federal (EPA) and and to business and industry representatives. state levels with particular emphasis on environmental policy. He is a national associate of the National Academies. Gary S. Groenewold is a staff scientist who has conducted research in surface chemistry, gas-phase chemistry, and Otis A. Shelton, Vice Chair, is associate director for safety secondary ion mass spectrometry at the Idaho National and environmental services compliance and operational as- Laboratory (INL) since 1991. His research has focused on sessments for Praxair, Inc., a position he has held since 1992. determining the speciation of absorbed radioactive and toxic In this position, Mr. Shelton is responsible for managing metals (U, Np, Pu, Am, Hg, Al, and Cu) and organic com- Praxair’s assessment program, which focuses on environ- pounds (e.g., VX, G agents, HD, organophosphates, amines, mental, operational safety, personnel safety, industrial hy- and sulfides). Before that, Dr. Groenewold served 3 years in giene, emergency planning, distribution, and medical gases line management at the INL and as the technical leader of programs. Previously, Mr. Shelton managed Union Carbide an environmental organic analysis group. Before joining the Corporation’s regional corporate health, safety, and envi- INL, Dr. Groenewold worked in anticancer drug discovery ronmental protection audit program. This program reviewed for Bristol-Myers, using mass spectrometry as an identifica- UCC’s health, safety, and environmental compliance in all tion tool. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University UCC’s operations, worldwide. He holds an M.S. in chemical of Nebraska, where he studied ion-molecule condensation engineering from the University of Houston. He is a fellow and elimination reactions in the gas phase. He has authored of and has served on the board of directors of the American 85 scientific publications on these subjects. 66

APPENDIX F 67 Rebecca A. Haffenden is an attorney and currently a tech- Leonard M. Siegel is director of the Mountain View, nical staff member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. California-based Center for Public Environmental Oversight Prior to joining Los Alamos, she served as a program at- (CPEO), a project of the Pacific Studies Center that facili- torney with the Argonne National Laboratory. Her recent tates public participation in the oversight of military environ- professional work has included serving as project manager mental programs, federal facilities cleanup, and brownfield for the Air Force Material Command (AFMC) Headquarters revitalization. He is one of the environmental movement’s Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management leading experts on military facility contamination, commu- Program (ECAMP); evaluating legislation and regulations nity oversight of cleanup, and the vapor intrusion pathway. associated with security vulnerabilities for the U.S. Depart- For his organization he runs three Internet newsgroups: the ment of Homeland Security; and providing legal expertise military environmental forum, the brownfields Internet fo- to programs involving federal facility site remediation and rum, and the installation reuse forum. Mr. Siegel also serves hazardous waste compliance and corrective actions (RCRA). on numerous advisory committees and is currently co-chair She also coauthored a working paper on the application of of California’s Brownfields Revitalization Advisory Group. federal and state hazardous waste regulatory programs to He is a member of the Interstate Technology and Regulatory waste chemical agents, in addition to being a coauthor of the Council’s work team on perchlorate, the Department of Toxic Environmental Impact Statement for the Assembled Chemi- Substances Control (California) External Advisory Group, cal Weapons Alternatives program. Ms. Haffenden received a and the Moffett Field (formerly Moffett Naval Air Station) B.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois and a J.D. Restoration Advisory Board. from Suffolk Law School, Boston, Massachusetts. Walter J. Weber, Jr. (NAE) has been the Gordon M. Fair William R. Rhyne is a retired risk and safety analysis con- and Earnest Boyce Distinguished University Professor of sultant to the nuclear, chemical, and transportation industries. Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan He has over 30 years’ experience associated with nuclear and since 1994. He is also founding director of ConsEnSus, the chemical processing facilities and with the transportation of College of Engineering’s academic program Concentrations hazardous materials. From 1984 to 1987, he was the project in Environmental Sustainability (2001 to present); founding manager and principal investigator for a probabilistic analy- director, The Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic Center for Haz- sis of transporting obsolete chemical munitions. From 1997 ardous Substance Research (1988-2002); founding director, to 2002, he was a member of the NRC Committee for the Institute for Environmental Sciences, Engineering and Tech- Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for De- nology (1997-2001); and founding director, National Center militarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons I and II. Dr. for Integrated Bioremediation Research and Development Rhyne has authored or coauthored numerous publications in (1993-1999). Dr. Weber has been recognized by the Inter- the nuclear and chemical safety and risk analysis areas and national Science Index as one of the most highly cited and is the author of the book Hazardous Materials Transporta- quoted scientists in the world. He has served on the National tion Risk Analysis: Quantitative Approaches for Truck and Academies Engineering Review Panel as well as its Board on Train. He is a current member of the NRC Transportation Environmental Studies and Toxicology. He received an Sc.B. Research Board Hazardous Materials Committee and a for- in chemical engineering from Brown University, an M.S.E. in mer member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the American civil engineering from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in wa- Nuclear Society, and the American Institute of Chemical ter resources engineering from Harvard University. He was Engineers. He received a B.S. in nuclear engineering from elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985. the University of Tennessee and M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Virginia.

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The U.S. Army Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PMACWA) is charged with disposing of chemical weapons as stored at two sites: Pueblo, Colorado, and Blue Grass, Kentucky. In accordance with congressional mandates, technologies other than incineration are to be used if they are as safe and as cost effective. The weapons are to be disposed of in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention. Although an element of the U.S. Army, the PMACWA is responsible to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions, Technology, and Logistics for completing this mission.

This book deals with the expected significant quantities of secondary wastes that will be generated during operations of the facilities and their closure. While there are only estimates for the waste quantities that will be generated, they provide a good basis for planning and developing alternatives for waste disposal while the plants are still in the design phase. Establishing efficient disposal options for the secondary wastes can enable more timely and cost-effective operation and closure of the facilities.

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