Environmental

 

• General land use experience in affordable housing, brownfields, condemnation, critical habitats, development agreements, discharge permits, eminent domain, endangered species, exactions, federal and state environmental regulations, greenfields, land development, land valuation, landfill, planning, redevelopment subdivisions, use permits, vested rights, water quality, water supply, zoning.

 

• Maintains an environmental database and documents the results of environmental due diligence.

 

• Legal support for the procurement and management of environmental insurance lines and classes, such as asbestos, chemical risks, commercial general liability, contractors environmental liability, environmental impairment liability (EIL), environmental general liability exposures, employers liability, excess over primary, herbicides, package auto liability, pesticides, premises pollution, professional liability, pollution legal liability (PLL), storage tank and transmission liability, toxic tort.

 

• Reviews environmental due diligence, including Phase I and Phase II, to identify cases of non-compliance with ASTM E1527-13 and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) (a/k/a "Superfund") regulations and non-conformance for existing and proposed facilities.

 

• Compliance with the innocent landowner defense under CERCLA.

 

• Legal support for identification and proper handling and disposal of hazardous materials, such as asbestos, contaminated groundwater, lead, mold, soil, for compliance with waste regulations such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and worker health and safety.

 

• Ensured that appropriate environmental due diligence documentation was posted to the web library and database.

 

• Compliance with local, state and federal wetland regulations.

 

• Legal support for obtaining and maintaining environmental permits and certificates.

 

• Assists in the development, implementation and review of materials management plans (MMPs) and health and safety plans.

 

• Compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA) Lead standard – 1910.1025 and Asbestos standard – 1910.1001.

 

• Worked with outside counsel to have Phase II reports ordered and then ensured that the appropriate actions were taken to reduce the environmental liability.

 

• Maintains open communications with outside counsel, SMEs, regions and government.

 

• Conducts environmental training sessions, regulatory experience in preparing and filing government reports.

 

• Maintains and tracks the processes for the environmental impact statement (EIS) for domestic projects, and the environmental effectiveness statement (EES) for international projects.

 

• Compliance with audit criteria, catastrophe management and underwriting authority delegation, in collaboration with internal actuarial, claims, compliance and risk control teams.

 

• Provided legal support for the development of environmental underwriting and training tools.

 

• Compliance with both internal governance policies and applicable federal and state laws and regulations, including United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), New York City Business Integrity Commission (NYCBIC), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PDEP), Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT).

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• Compliance with the New Jersey Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA), depending on the particular Industry Code Number (ICN) of the activity at the site, requiring remediation of certain environmental site issues at the cessation of business operations on the site prior to the sale of the site, including the ISRA N.J.A.C. 7:26B rules, the establishment of a RemediationFunding Source (RFS) by owners or operations of the site, the Remediation Trust Fund Agreement (RTFA), Line Of Credit Agreement (LOCA), Letter Of Credit (LOC), Remediation Funding Source Guarantee (RFSG), and ancilary issues such as the Landlord/Tenant Petition requesting the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to compel a party to comply with the ISRA.

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• Compliance with the Federal Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA), 16 U.S.C. ch. 33 § 1451 , and the New Jersey Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA), N.J.S.A. 13:19-1 , Coastal Zone Management Rules, N.J.A.C. 7:7, Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act, N.J.S.A. 13:9B-1 , Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act Rules, N.J.A.C. 7:7A, Hackensack Meadowlands Reclamation and Development Act, N.J.S.A. 13:17, Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems Rules, N.J.A.C. 7:14A, Stormwater Management Rules, N.J.A.C. 7:8, Waterfront Development Law, N.J.S.A. 12:5-3, Wetlands Act of 1970, N.J.S.A. 13:9A-1 , and various other Federal and state environmental laws related to wetlands protection and reclamation.

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• Legal support for International Standards Organization (ISO) 14001 environmental management system certification.

 

• Research, testing, use, recommendation, specification and procurement of various environmental management system (EMS) software platforms, such as Accuvio Sustainability, AssessNET, Borealis Application, Chemical Safety EMS, Cority Environmental Management Software, CSRware Environmental Sustainability, EHS Insight Environmental Software, EMACTpro, EMEX EHS Solution, ENFOS, Enviro Data, Enviro.BLR.com, ERA EHSQ Software, ETQ Environmental Software, Fabriq OS, Flowfinity, Form.com,  Gensuite, HSEQ Compliance Software, HOMER Energy, ISNetworld, ITRAK 365, Libryo, Mapistry, Locus EIM, MyEasyISO, QNOPY, ProActivity Suite, Scannell QEHS Software, Schlumberger Hydro GeoAnalyst, SmartData Solutions, Sphera Environmental Software, Sustainability Performance Management, Turnkey Group, Virtual Task Manager, Waterloo Hydro GeoAnalyst, Wastebits, Weather Defender, Wildnote, ZYGHT HSEQ Technology.

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    Last updated 200901_1210