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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 10 years of
experience as an environmental professional, Dr. Moran has detailed knowledge of
California and Federal water quality, pesticide, hazardous waste, and environmental
impact review laws and regulations.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
President, TDC Environmental. Environmental consultant providing environmental
regulatory compliance and permit assistance, environmental impact analysis and
environmental hazard assessment services for public agency, non-profit, and private
clients. Project areas include storm water runoff environmental compliance and
pollution prevention, wastewater environmental compliance and pollution
prevention, environmental impact analysis, and regulatory document review.
Recent project activities include:
 Dioxins pollution prevention for San Francisco Bay Area local governments
(ABAG/San Francisco Bay Area Dioxins Project)
 Diazinon and chlorpyrifos re-registration risk assessment review (California
Stormwater Quality Task Force)
 Investigation of the potential use of phytoremediation to reduce pollutant levels
in highway runoff (San Francisco Estuary Project/Caltrans)
 Representing local governments on the Brake Pad Partnership Steering
Committee (EOA/Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff Program)
 Pesticides and water quality training (Santa Clara County)
 Water quality environmental impact analysis for proposed new drinking water
treatment plant (EIP Associates/Zone 7 Water Agency)
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. Conducted
NPDES, sludge management, air quality, and other permit compliance activities.
Planned and implemented more than 25 focused pollution prevention programs to
reduce water pollution from more than 100 major industries, 1,000 commercial
businesses, and 80,000 residences. The program reduced levels of 5 key metals in
the plant’s wastewater by 40 to 90% and eliminated compliance problems with
arsenic, lead, nickel, selenium, silver, and tributyltin.
 Directed development of source identification studies and pollution prevention
plans for mercury, dioxins, PCBs, organochlorine pesticides and copper.
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Lead successful legislative and regulatory effort to eliminate use of copperbased root control products and tributyltin-containing pesticides to protect San
Francisco Bay.
Initiated development of the Brake Pad Partnership, a national work group
including all major brake manufacturers, government agencies, and
environmental groups that seeks to eliminate any brake-related surface water
copper problems and to prevent future environmental problems from brakes.
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. 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.
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:
Received letter of commendation from San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality
Control Board for work done at the City of Palo Alto
Awards won by the Palo Alto Water Pollution Prevention Program while under my
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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Environmental Science Associates Merit Awards: Outstanding Product,
Exceptional Technical Work, Outstanding Project Management, Outstanding
Deadline Performance, Outstanding Performance Under Stress, Outstanding
Financial Performance
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Chair, California Source Reduction Advisory Committee (1999-present)
Member, City of San Mateo Public Works Commission (1999-present)
Member, San Mateo County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (1998-present)
Member, California Peer Review Project Technical Advisory Committee (19971998)
Judge, Peninsula Conservation Center Business Environmental Awards (19951999)
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 Water Environment Association
Bay Area Water Pollution Prevention Group
Western Regional Pollution Prevention Network
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
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.
“Low cost program effectiveness measurement,” WERF Pollution Prevention Program
Effectiveness Measurement Workshop, April 1999.
“Sources of Mercury Discharges to the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant”
State of the Estuary Conference (San Francisco), poster session, February 1999
(with Bill Johnson, EIP Associates).
“Solving the Copper Problem: The Brake Pad Partnership”, California Water
Environment Association Bulletin, Summer 1997.
“Mercury, Dioxins, PCBs and Organochlorine Pesticides: Sources & Pollution
Prevention,” National Pollution Prevention Round Table Conference, April 1998
“Diazinon in Urban Areas,” State of the Estuary Conference (San Francisco), poster
session, October 1996 (with Ashli Cooper).
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“Preventing Pollution from Consumer Products,” Proceedings of the National Pollution
Prevention Round Table Conference (Washington DC), April 1996.
Moran, Kelly D., and Marcin 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, John, Kelly D. Moran, Theodore 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.
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