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KELLY D. MORAN, PH.D.
environmental
Dr. Moran is President of TDC Environmental. A chemist with more than 18 years of
experience as an environmental professional, Dr. Moran specializes in translating
complex scientific information into plain language. She completes water quality
technical studies, pesticide regulatory interpretation, pollution prevention program
development, pollutant source identification, environmental impact analysis, and
environmental problem solving for public clients.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
President, TDC Environmental. Examples of project experience:
 Technical Consultant, Urban Pesticides Pollution Prevention Project. Provide
technical and regulatory support for a cooperative California water quality
agency program to prevent surface water toxicity from urban pesticide use.
Project considers a wide variety of pesticides, including marine antifouling
paint, antimicrobials, and insecticides.
 Technical Consultant, San Francisco Department of the Environment. Provide
on-call technical assistance to Toxics Reduction program on diverse topics,
including pharmaceutical waste management and pesticides.
 Technical Consultant, San Francisco Estuary Project, San Francisco Bay
Regional Water Quality Control Board, California State Stormwater Quality
Task Force, 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. Identified state and Federal agency pesticide regulatory
activities that may have implications for urban surface water quality, evaluated
environmental risk assessments for pollutants, and provided technical support
for the assembly of information for pesticide regulatory agency consideration.
 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
sources of copper in urban runoff, pesticides in surface water, and cost-effective
strategies for minimizing copper and PCBs releases into urban runoff.
 Technical Advisor, San Francisco Bay Area Dioxins Project. Identified dioxins
pollution prevention options suitable for municipalities.
 Steering Committee Member, Brake Pad Partnership. Represents local
governments on the Brake Pad Partnership Steering Committee. The Brake 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.
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KELLY D. MORAN, PH.D.
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Manager of Environmental Control Programs, Palo Alto Regional Water Quality
Control Plant.
 Planned and implemented about 25 pollution prevention programs to reduce
water pollution from more than 100 major industries, 1,000 commercial
businesses, and 80,000 residences. From 1993-1999 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.
 Led successful legislative and regulatory effort to regulate copper-based root
killers and tributyltin-containing pesticides to protect San Francisco Bay.
 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.
 Management. 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.
 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.
EDUCATION:
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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:
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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
OTHER:
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City of San Mateo Planning Commission, 1/06-present
City of San Mateo Public Works Commission, 8/99-1/06 (Chair 7/02-6/03 and
7/05-1/06)
California Source Reduction Advisory Committee, 1999-present (Chair 19992003)
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