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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Roster and Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25721.
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Attachment A

Roster and Biographical Information

ROSTER OF THE COMMITTEE ON INITIAL CLOSURE PLANNING FOR THE BLUE GRASS AND PUEBLO CHEMICAL AGENT DESTRUCTION PILOT PLANTS

TIMOTHY J. SHEPODD, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, Chair

ROBIN COYNE, Spike Occupational Health & Safety, LLC, St. Charles, Illinois

AARON H. GOLDBERG, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, D.C.

GARY S. GROENEWOLD, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls

DEBORAH L. GRUBBE, Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

DAVID S. KOSSON, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

MURRAY GLENN LORD, The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, Texas

STYRON N. POWERS, EHS-Process Safety Management (PSM) Risk Services, Palatine, Illinois

STANLEY I. SANDLER, NAE,72 University of Delaware, Newark

Staff

JAMES C. LANCASTER, Director, National Materials and Manufacturing Board

JAMES C. MYSKA, Program Officer, Study Director

AMISHA JINANDRA, Research Associate

JOSEPH PALMER, Senior Project Assistant

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

TIMOTHY J. SHEPODD, Chair, is the deputy director of the Mission Engineering Sciences organization at Sandia National Laboratories, in Livermore, California. Dr, Shepodd manages a line of approximately 50 scientists, engineers, software developers, and operations personnel in three groups, supporting numerous government sponsors. His group develops and deploys tools for national security. Previously, Dr. Shepodd managed chemistry and security-focused teams studying fundamental chemistry and materials science issues that supported high-rigor hardware for national security missions including the nuclear stockpile, chemical weapon demilitarization, solar energy materials, explosives chemistry, and corrosion in extreme environments. Dr. Shepodd has participated on the National Academies standing Committee on Chemical Demilitarization since 2013, as chair since 2018. In this role, he has witnessed the construction, containment philosophy, and operational evolution of the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) and Blue Grass BGCAPP Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (sites). He also served on the Committee on Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant from 2012-2013. Dr. Shepodd is a co-inventor and lead chemist for the Explosives Destruction System, the mobile destruction system used to batch-neutralize thousands of explosively configured chemical munitions both inside and outside the continental United States. He developed procedures, recipes, and analytical protocols with host sites to confirm the destruction of many chemical warfare agents. Dr. Shepodd also developed a prototype reactor for the batch- supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) of explosively configured chemical munitions and designed

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72 Member, National Academy of Engineering.

Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Roster and Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25721.
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and qualified air filters for the system’s interface to the outside world. Dr. Sheppod received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.

ROBIN COYNE is the principal of Spike Occupational Health & Safety, LLC, where she offers industrial hygiene and safety consulting services and training. Prior to Spike, Ms. Coyne was the director of health, safety, and environment for Central Garden & Pet, an innovator, marketer, and producer of quality branded products for consumer and professional use in the lawn and garden and pet supplies markets. She led a team of seven environmental health and safety (EHS) professionals that served as the primary EHS resource for over 50 Central Garden & Pet manufacturing and distribution facilities. Significant engineering projects spearheaded included addressing hazards associated with combustible dust operations and pesticide manufacture, resulting in mitigation of explosion hazards while doubling production capacity and nondetectable employee exposures to the active pesticide ingredient. Ms. Coyne also managed health and safety programs for RR Donnelley, Senior Flexonics. and G.D. Searle. Of note while managing the Searle industrial hygiene program, Ms. Coyne led hazard assessments of new products, processes, and capital projects, including establishment of exposure limits, sampling and analytic methods, and investigation of physical and environmental hazards, resulting in the proactive implementation of controls to mitigate hazards. Ms. Coyne is a certified industrial hygienist and a registered occupational hygienist (Canada). She earned a B.S. in biomedical engineering in 1977 from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in 1987 from Roosevelt University.

AARON H. GOLDBERG is a principal of the law firm Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., where he focuses on U.S. and international regulatory requirements for managing hazardous wastes, transporting hazardous materials and dangerous goods, and ensuring that industrial chemicals are not diverted to use in making illicit drugs or chemical weapons. Mr. Goldberg’s work includes helping companies determine whether they require hazardous waste facility permits under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, apply for such permits, appeal permit conditions, and comply with the terms of their permits. Mr. Goldberg previously worked as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and as a legal analyst in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He earned a bachelor’s of science in chemistry, with high honors, from Yale University, as well as a master’s of science in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Goldberg received his juris doctor degree from Stanford Law School.

GARY S. GROENEWOLD is a senior scientist in the Energy and Environment Directorate at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where he has conducted research in surface chemistry, gas-phase chemistry, and analytical measurement since 1991. Dr. Groenewold’s research has focused on determining speciation and reactivity of radioactive and toxic metals (U, Np, Pu, Hg), and of toxic organic compounds (including VX, mustard, and sarin). He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Nebraska in 1983, where he studied ion molecule condensation and elimination reactions under the direction of Dr. Michael Gross. Dr. Groenewold has authored more than 130 research articles in these areas, has served on or chaired seven ad hoc committees on chemical demilitarization, and has both served on and chaired the standing Committee on Chemical Demilitarization. Dr. Groenewold has been appointed a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

DEBORAH L. GRUBBE is the owner and president of Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC. Previously, Ms. Grubbe was vice president of Safety Change Management at BP, where she was accountable to establish overall safety leadership and cultural improvement for five U.S. refineries. Prior to that, Ms. Grubbe was the vice president of Group Safety at BP in London, where she assessed, developed, and executed the group safety strategy. Ms. Grubbe graduated with a bachelor’s of science in chemical engineering with highest distinction from Purdue University. She received a Winston Churchill Fellowship to attend Cambridge University in England, where she received a certificate of postgraduate

Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Roster and Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25721.
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study in chemical engineering. She is a registered professional engineer in Delaware. Ms. Grubbe has been a member of several National Academies committees related to the demilitarization of chemical weapons, including work on the 2002 report, Closure and Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System Report.

DAVID S. KOSSON is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, where he also has joint appointments as professor of chemical engineering and professor of earth and environmental sciences. Dr. Kosson earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in chemical and biochemical engineering and his B.S. in chemical engineering from Rutgers University. He also is principal investigator of the multiuniversity Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP). Dr. Kosson’s research focuses on management of nuclear and chemical wastes, including process development and contaminant mass transfer applied to groundwater, soil, sediment, and waste systems. His research also includes durability and performance assessment of cement and concrete systems in long-term environmental settings for nuclear and nonnuclear applications. Dr. Kosson’s research in collaboration with the Energy Research Centre of The Netherlands on leaching of contaminants from wastes and construction materials and development of the leaching environmental assessment framework (LEAF) is currently providing the foundation for environmental regulation of these materials at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Netherlands Ministry of Environment, and the European Union’s Directorate General for the Environment. Dr. Kosson has served on and chaired committees of the National Academies focused on chemical weapons demilitarization for more than 20 years, including the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program. Dr. Kosson has participated in or led many external technical reviews on nuclear waste processing for the Department of Energy (DOE) including for tank wastes and a range of technology approaches at Hanford, Savannah River, and Idaho sites.

MURRAY GLENN LORD is an associate global technology director in the Environmental Technology Center at Dow Chemical Company. Mr. Lord is responsible for technology development and technical support for Dow’s Global Environmental Operations, which includes project areas in process optimization, technology development, and capital project execution. Mr. Lord has experience in project areas across multiple business and technology areas and has experience in starting up and operating industrial processes. He has served on four past chemical demilitarization committees, most recently on the Committee on Metrics for Successful Supercritical Water Oxidation System Operation at BGCAPP. Mr. Lord was also a member of the standing Committee on Chemical Demilitarization.

STYRON N. POWERS is a health, safety, security, and the environment (HSSE) senior consultant for EHS-Process Safety Management (PSM) Risk Services. Before that, Mr. Powers was vice president for environmental health safety and logistics security at US Foodservice. Prior to that, he was the director for HSSE at BP Refining and Marketing, Global Fuels Value Chain, and held senior HSSE positions at Invensys, RR Donnelly, and Lockheed Martin. He is a member of the board of directors of the Virginia Tech Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Mr. Powers was educated at Harvard’s Advanced Management Program (2002); he holds an M.B.A. from Rutgers University and B.S. degrees in chemical engineering and biological life sciences from North Carolina State University. Mr. Powers is a certified safety engineer and certified hazardous materials manager.

STANLEY I. SANDLER is the Henry B. du Pont Chair Emeritus of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He is also professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Dr. Sandler is the former director for the Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry. His current research interests include applied thermodynamics and phase equilibrium, environmental engineering (the fate of chemicals in the environment, safety), computational quantum chemistry, computer-assisted engineering education, separations and purification (including of pharmaceuticals and proteins), computer-aided process design,

Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Roster and Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25721.
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and statistical mechanics. Dr. Sandler has served on three prior ad hoc committees addressing the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. He is the author of more than 400 refereed technical papers and is the author of 7 chemical engineering textbooks. Dr. Sandler earned his B.Ch.E. from the City College of New York and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Roster and Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25721.
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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Roster and Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25721.
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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Roster and Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25721.
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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Roster and Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25721.
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The Committee on Initial Closure Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants was tasked to review documents related to the closure of legacy chemical demilitarization plants and use their expert judgment to identify key areas and issues that should be considered when planning for closing Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (BGCAPP and PCAPP). This letter report presents those key issues in the following three broad categories: decontamination and hazardous waste; worker safety and industrial hygiene; and environmental safety, regulations, and permitting.

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