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KELLY D. MORAN, PH.D.
environmental
Dr. Moran is President of TDC Environmental. She specializes in environmental
regulatory compliance and technical studies, with a focus on translating complex
technical information into plain language. A chemist with more than 15 years of
experience as an environmental professional, Dr. Moran has detailed knowledge of
California and Federal water quality, pesticide, and environmental impact review laws
and regulations.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
President, TDC Environmental. Environmental Consultant. Water quality technical
studies, regulatory interpretation, pollution prevention program development,
environmental impact analysis, and environmental problem solving for public
clients. Project activities include:
 Founder and Technical Consultant, Urban Pesticides Pollution Prevention
Project. Designed and provide technical and regulatory support for a program
to encourage and support cooperative California water quality agency efforts to
prevent surface water toxicity from urban pesticide use, which comprises about
half of California’s pesticide use. Project considers a wide variety of pesticides,
including marine antifouling paint, antimicrobials, and insecticides.
 Technical Consultant, San Francisco Estuary Project, San Francisco Bay
Regional Water Quality Control Board, and California Department of Pesticide
Regulation. Investigated sources of insecticide-related surface water toxicity
and used environmental risk assessment methods to examine the implications of
a transition to alternative urban insecticides.
 Technical Consultant, San Francisco Bay Area Clean Estuary Partnership.
Advised partnership of wastewater treatment plants, stormwater management
agencies, industrial plants, and waster quality regulatory agencies regarding
pesticides in surface water; identified sources of copper in urban runoff and
cost-effective strategies for minimizing copper releases.
 Technical Consultant, California State Stormwater Quality Task Force and San
Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. Identified state and
Federal agency pesticide regulatory activities that may have implications for
urban surface water quality, evaluate environmental risk assessments for
pollutants, and provided technical support for the assembly of information for
pesticide regulatory agency consideration.
 Technical Advisor, San Francisco Bay Area Dioxins Project. Identified dioxins
pollution prevention options suitable for municipalities.
 Founder and Steering Committee Member, Brake Pad Partnership. Represents
local governments on the Brake Pad Partnership Steering Committee. The Brake
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Pad Partnership is a national work group including all major vehicle brake
manufacturers, government agencies, and environmental groups that seeks to
eliminate vehicle brake-related surface water copper problems and to prevent
future environmental problems from brakes.
Manager of Environmental Control Programs, Palo Alto Regional Water Quality
Control Plant. Managed environmental compliance and pollution prevention
programs for a 24 million gallon per day wastewater treatment plant.
 Planned and implemented about 25 focused pollution prevention programs to
reduce water pollution from more than 100 major industries, 1,000
commercial businesses, and 80,000 residences. Between 1993 and 1999 the
program reduced levels of 5 key metals in the plant’s wastewater by 30 to 80%
and eliminated problems with arsenic, lead, nickel, selenium, silver, and
tributyltin. Major personal accomplishments include:
 Led successful legislative and regulatory effort to regulate copper-based root
control products and tributyltin-containing pesticides to protect San Francisco
Bay (regulation was not opposed by manufacturers and was supported by
discharging businesses).
 Directed development of nation-leading source identification studies and
pollution prevention plans for dioxins, mercury, PCBs, and organochlorine
pesticides (new pollutants of concern for San Francisco Bay), and copper.
In 1998, program was named the Nation’s Most Valuable Pollution Prevention
Program by the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable.
Project Manager and Hazardous Materials Group Supervisor, Environmental
Science Associates. Performed environmental impact assessments, health risk
assessments, accident analyses, environmental site assessments, and environmental
compliance analysis.
 Management and Marketing. Responsible for all aspects of project
performance, including technical quality, client relations, internal
coordination, and budget performance. Successfully managed jobs from
$3,500 to $500,000 and staff from 2 to 33 people with performance periods
from 3 weeks to 2 years. Responsible for acquisition of almost $1 million in
contracts in 1992.
 Technical Analysis. Performed environmental impact assessments, health risk
assessments, accident analyses, and environmental compliance analyses.
Principal author of more than a dozen environmental review documents and
co-author of more than 100 additional reports.
Instructor. Teaching assistant for courses in analytical, physical, and organic
chemistry. Provided environmental regulatory training to public interest groups.
Conducted safety training for wastewater treatment plant staff and chemistry
teaching assistants.
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Research Chemist, U.C. Berkeley. Conducted thesis research in electrochemistry.
Research involved significant use of mercury due its special electrochemical
properties.
Chemical Process Engineer, IBM. Performed engineering research to investigate
improvement of disc manufacturing process.
Research Chemist, SRI International. Participated in developing a protocol to
determine the rate of photochemical degradation of pollutants in rivers and lakes.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Chemistry, U. C. Berkeley, 1987. Thesis: Electrode Films of Porous
Agarose: The Effect of Physical Structure on Electron Transport Processes.
Bachelor of Science with Honors, Chemistry, Stanford University, 1982
HONORS AND AWARDS:
U.S. EPA Region 9 Environmental Achievement Award, 2004
Pollution Prevention Advocate of the Year, Western Regional Pollution Prevention
Network, 2002
Letter of commendation from San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control
Board for work done at the City of Palo Alto
Environmental Science Associates Merit Awards: Outstanding Product,
Exceptional Technical Work, Outstanding Project Management, Outstanding
Deadline Performance, Outstanding Performance Under Stress, Outstanding
Financial Performance
Other: Awards won by the Palo Alto Water Pollution Prevention Program while
under Dr. Moran’s management include: Nation’s Most Valuable Pollution
Prevention Program (MVP2 Award), National Pollution Prevention Roundtable,
1998, Award for Community Environmental Protection, Peninsula Conservation
Center, 1996, Suzanne Wilson Environmental Achievement Award, Santa Clara
County, 1995
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Chair (1999-2003) and member (1999-present), California Source Reduction
Advisory Committee
Chair (2002-2003) and Member (1999-present), City of San Mateo Public
Works Commission
Member, San Mateo County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (1998-2005)
Member, California Peer Review Project Technical Advisory Committee (19971998)
Judge, Peninsula Conservation Center Business Environmental Awards (19951999)
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Chair, San Francisco Estuary Project Water Quality Task Force, South Bay
(1995-1996)
Saratoga Creek Lawsuit Settlement Oversight Committee (oversaw
implementation of urban creek assessment project dealing with water pollution
in Saratoga Creek, 1996-1998)
AB 3789 Technical Advisory Committee (California EPA Technical Panel on
Cementitious Waste, 1992-1994)
California Department of Toxic Substances Control 90-Day External Program
Review Committee (1991)
American Chemical Society
California Stormwater Quality Association
California Water Environment Association
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Western Regional Pollution Prevention Network
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Moran, K.D., Pesticides in Urban Surface Water: Urban Pesticides Use Trends Annual
Report 2005, prepared for the San Francisco Estuary Project, March 2005.
Moran, K.D., Pesticides in Urban Surface Water: Annual Research and Monitoring
Update 2005, prepared for the San Francisco Estuary Project, March 2005.
Moran, K.D., Improving Urban Pesticide Regulatory Activities to Protect Water Quality:
Annual Update 2004, prepared for the San Francisco Estuary Project, December 2004.
Moran, K.D., Copper Sources in Urban Runoff and Shoreline Activities, prepared for the
Clean Estuary Partnership (San Francisco Bay), November 2004.
Moran, K.D., Household Pharmaceutical Waste: Regulatory and Management Issues,
prepared for the San Francisco Department of the Environment, August 2004.
TDC Environmental & Larry Walker Associates, Bay Area Dioxins Project Final Report,
prepared for the Association of Bay Area Governments, February 2004.
Moran, K.D., “Insecticide Market Trends and Potential Water Quality Implications,” 6th
Biennial State of the Estuary Conference (San Francisco Estuary Project). poster
session, October 2003.
Moran, K. D., Insecticide Market Trends and Potential Water Quality Implications,
prepared for the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and the
San Francisco Estuary Project, April 2003.
Moran, K. D., Investigation of Phytoremediation Potential for Treating Highway Runoff,
prepared for the California Department of Transportation and the San Francisco
Estuary Project, December 2001.
Moran, K. D., J. W. Mountin, and D. Gilpin, Guide to Phytoremediation of Highway
Runoff, prepared for internal use by the California Department of Transportation,
November 2001.
Moran, K. D., Screening Evaluation of Dioxins Pollution Prevention Options, prepared
for the San Francisco Bay Area Dioxins Project managed by the Association of Bay
Area Governments, September 5, 2001.
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Moran, K. D., Diazinon & Chlorpyrifos Products: Screening for Water Quality
Implications, prepared for the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and the
San Francisco Estuary Project, May 15, 2001.
Moran, K. D., Clean Bay Plan, annual pollution prevention report and program plan for
the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant and the Palo Alto Stormwater
Pollution Prevention Program, 1994-1999.
Moran, K. D., and Bill Johnson, “Sources of Mercury Discharges to the Palo Alto
Regional Water Quality Control Plant” State of the Estuary Conference (San
Francisco), poster session, February 1999.
Moran, K. D., “Solving the Copper Problem: The Brake Pad Partnership”, California
Water Environment Association Bulletin, Summer 1997.
Cooper, A., and K. D. Moran, “Diazinon in Urban Areas,” State of the Estuary
Conference (San Francisco), poster session, October 1996.
Moran, K. D., “Preventing Pollution from Consumer Products,” Proceedings of the
National Pollution Prevention Round Table Conference (Washington DC), April
1996.
Moran, K. D., Electrode Films of Porous Agarose: The Effect of Physical Structure on
Electron Transport Processes, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley,
1987.
Moran, K. D., and M. Majda, “Electrode Films of Porous Agarose Impregnated with
Nafion. Structural Heterogeneity and its Effects on Electron Transport,” Journal of
Electroanalytical Chemistry, V. 207, p. 73, 1986.
Winterle, J., K. D. Moran, T. Milne, etal., Design and Validation of Screening and
Detailed Methods for Environmental Processes, reports to the Environmental
Protection Agency on contract 68-01-6325, 1981-1982.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:
Pesticides, Water, and You: How the Pesticides We Use Affect Water Quality, Second
Annual Regional IPM Conference, June 2005.
Background on Pyrethroids: Urban Uses and Upcoming Regulatory Agency Actions,
Northern California Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry, May 2005.
Pesticides News: Potential Wastewater and Stormwater Problems, California Water
Environment Association Pretreatment, Pollution Prevention, and Storm Water
Conference, February 2005.
Designing An Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention Program For Copper: How An Hour In
The Library Can Save You A Week In The Lab, Western Regional Pollution
Prevention Network, October 2004.
Are Cars Causing Your Water Pollution Problems? California Water Environment
Association Pretreatment, Pollution Prevention, and Storm Water Conference,
February 2004.
Rethinking Regulated Medical Waste Management, Western Regional Pollution
Prevention Network, October 2003.
Insecticide Market Trends and Potential Water Quality Implications, Association of Bay
Area Governments Executive Board, September 2003.
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Insecticide Market Trends and Water Quality Implications, Northern California Chapter
of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, May 2003.
What Pesticides are Likely to Become Future Problems? California Water Environment
Association Industrial & Hazardous Waste Conference, February 2003.
Translating PBTs into P2, Western Regional Pollution Prevention Network, October
2002.
Evaluation of California’s 1998 P2 Legislation, National Pollution Prevention
Roundtable, April 2002.
The Brake Pad Partnership: Moving Mid-Sized Manufacturers into Sustainable Product
Design, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, April 2002.
Diazinon & Chlorpyrifos Products: Screening for Water Quality Implications, Western
Regional Pollution Prevention Network, October 2001.
Dioxins P2: Practical Options for Local Governments, Western Regional Pollution
Prevention Network, October 2000.
PBT P2: Real-Life Examples from Local Governments, National Pollution Prevention
Roundtable, April 2000.
“Mercury Source Control,” California Water Environment Association Industrial &
Hazardous Waste Conference, February 2000.
Sources of the New “Uncontrollable” Pollutants,” California Water Environment
Association Pollution Prevention Symposium, October 1999.
Making it Work: Local Programs Can Reduce PBTs, Western Regional Pollution
Prevention Network, October 1999.
Pollution Prevention and the Public, Pollution Prevention: Survival Strategies (Woods
Hole Conference), June 1999.
Consumer Product Issues, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, April 1999.
Low Cost Program Effectiveness Measurement, Water Environment Research Foundation
Pollution Prevention Program Effectiveness Measurement Workshop, April 1999.
The Need for National and International Scale Pollution Prevention Programs to Address
Mercury and Dioxins Sources, Pollution Prevention: The Business of Sustainability
(Woods Hole Conference), June 1998.
Mercury, Dioxins, PCBs and Organochlorine Pesticides: Sources & Pollution
Prevention, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, April 1998.
Incorporating Pollution Prevention into Consumer Products: The Issues, Western
Regional Pollution Prevention Network, November, 1997.
Using Facility Planning Methods to Prevent Pollution from a Regional Wastewater
Treatment Plant, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, April 1997.
The Brake Pad Partnership, Society of Automotive Engineers, Brake Colloquium,
October 1996.
Metrics for Measuring Wastewater and Storm Water Pollution Prevention P2, National
Pollution Prevention Roundtable, April 1996.
A Legislative Approach to Pollution Prevention: AB 3394, a Case Study, Annual
Pollution Prevention Conference for California Local Government Agencies, October
1995.
Integration of Specific Water Pollution Prevention Measures into Wastewater Permit
Requirements: A Case Study, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, April 1995.
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