Thursday, November 20, 2014
6:30 PM The Landing Mall – Second Floor
115E.Railroad Avenue Port Angeles WA
HOW DO OUR HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE CLEANUPS COMPARE?
Dr. Peter L. deFur will be in Port Angeles on Thursday, November 20 to give a presentation comparing cleanup sites on which he is working in USEPA Region 10 — Rayonier-Port Angeles Harbor, Seattle Duwamish River and Portland Harbor.
He will cover the contaminants at each site, compare cleanup options and plans for each site, cover alternative cleanup methods available to be used on particular contaminants, and compare agency support of the citizen groups at the different sites.
These cleanups are overseen by the WA State Department of Ecology and/or the USEPA. In WA State, these cleanups are part of the Puget Sound Partnership Cleanup Initiative. The Rayonier-Port Angeles Harbor and the Duwamish River are Ecology priority cleanup sites.
Dr. Peter L. deFur is president and owner of the consulting firm Environmental Stewardship Concepts, LLC, based in Henrico VA. and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Center for Environmental Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond VA. Dr. deFur has research and practical experience in the areas of ecological risk assessment, environmental regulations and policies, and toxicology.
Dr. deFur received his B.S. and M.A. degrees in Biology from the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Calgary, Alberta. He has held faculty positions at George Mason University and Southeastern Louisiana University before joining the staff of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in Washington, DC. In 1996, deFur formed an independent private consulting firm, Environmental Stewardship Concepts, LLC, and accepted a part-time position at VCU.
Dr. deFur has extensive experience in human health risk assessment and ecological risk assessment regulations, guidance and policy. He served on the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC )Risk Characterization Committee that prepared Understanding Risk, on several subsequent study committees and served on the NRC Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology from 1996 to 1999. He presently serves on the/NRC/NAS committee on Uranium Mining in Virginia. He served on a number of scientific reviews of EPA ecological and human health risk assessments, including the Framework for Cumulative Risk Assessment, the assessment for the WTI incinerator in Ohio and EPA’s Ecological Risk Assessment Guidelines. Dr. deFur was a member of each of the three federal advisory committees for EPA’s Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Program. Dr. deFur was chair of the peer review of EPA’s Dioxin Reassessment in 2000.
Contact:
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Darlene Schanfald
Project Coordinator
Rayonier – Port Angeles Harbor Hazardous Waste Cleanup Project
Olympic Environmental Council Coalition
PO Box 2664
Sequim WA 98382
360-681-7565
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