EBC 7th Annual Ocean Resource Management Conference
Update on Dredging In New England
Friday, November 1, 2013
University of Massachusetts – Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
AGENDA
8:00 a.m.
Welcome: Daniel K. Moon, President EBC
Introduction: Payson R. Whitney, III, PE, Program Chair and Moderator
Vice President, ESS Group, Inc.
8:20 a.m.
Overview of New England Dredging Issues
 Harlan M. Doliner, Counsel, Head of Maritime Group, Verrill Dana LLP
8:40 a.m.
Overview of the Dredging Process in New England
 Edward G. O’Donnell, Chief, Navigation Program
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District
9:00 a.m.
Energy Facility Siting Relative to Federal Navigation Projects
 Payson R. Whitney, III, PE, Vice President, ESS Group, Inc.
9:20 a.m.
Successful Sediment Remediation Strategies at Contaminated Sites
Across the Commonwealth
 Millie Garcia-Serrano, Deputy Regional Director, MassDEP
9:40 a.m.
Integrated Regional Sediment Management – A National Global
Perspective
 Eric Stern, Research Leader - Sediment Management, Battelle
10:00 a.m.
Networking Break
10:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion
Panel Moderator: Stephanie Wilson, ESS Group, Inc.
 Harlan Doliner, Verrill Dana LLP
 Payson Whitney, ESS Group, Inc.
 Edward G. O’Donnell, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
 Millie Garcia-Serrano, MassDEP
 Eric Stern, Battelle
11:30 a.m.
Adjourn
PROGRAM CHAIR
Payson R. Whitney, III, P.E., Vice President
ESS Group, Inc.
100 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, MA 02451
(781) 419-7750 // pwhitney@essgroup.com
Mr. Whitney is a Vice President at ESS and leads the ESS Water and Coastal Engineering business
unit. He has over 18 years experience as a civil/coastal engineer and project manager. Mr. Whitney
specializes in planning, routing, surveying and installing High Voltage AC and DC submarine electric
transmission cable systems, landfall transitions, and interconnections with local grid substations. He
has conducted submarine cable routing, constructability, and installation assessments along the
eastern seaboard for some of the largest submarine cable system projects developed in the last 15
years, including projects located within and adjacent to highly used Federal Navigation Projects. He is
considered to be among the foremost submarine cable system planners in the industry with several
successful projects under his leadership. Mr. Whitney is a registered Professional Engineer in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
SPEAKERS
Harlan Doliner, Counsel, Head of Maritime Group
Verrill Dana, LLP
One Boston Place, Suite 1600, Boston, MA 02108
(617) 309-2600 // hdoliner@verrilldana.com
Harlan Doliner has been on EBC’s Board of Directors since 1994. He serves as Counsel at Verrill
Dana, a Portland, Maine based law firm with offices in Boston, Stamford and Washington, D.C. Mr.
Doliner chairs the firm’s Maritime Group and also practices in the Environmental and Energy Groups.
He has more than 35 years of experience in these areas of law, including over 15 years as a lead
counsel in the matters dealing with the cleanup of Boston Harbor. In addition to his law practice,
Harlan is an adjunct professor for the Law Schools at Boston College and at Roger Williams
University, and serves as a marine safety and environmental protection officer in the U.S. Coast
Guard Auxiliary. Harlan’s writings include all editions of the Fisheries and Wildlife Law chapter in
MCLE’s Massachusetts Environmental Law treatise. In 2012, University of Maine published Maritime
Cabotage Laws and Wind Power Installations in the Gulf of Maine, a chapter co-authored by Mr.
Doliner. Harlan earned his law degree from Boston College Law School and Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
Edward G. O'Donnell, Chief, Navigation Section
USACE, New England District
696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742
(978) 318-8375 // Edward.G.Odonnell@usace.army.mil
Mr. O’Donnell has over 30 years experience in dredging and navigation related projects with the
Corps of Engineers in New England. Since 2001, Mr. O’Donnell has been the chief of the New
England District’s Navigation Section where he leads a team of Engineers and project managers in
executing the district’s navigation program. The New England District’s program has over 170
authorized Federal navigation projects that need regular maintenance that covers an area from the
NY border in the south up to the Canadian border in the north. Currently there are about 80 projects in
various stages of planning for maintenance work. Ed is a 1981 graduate from Northeastern University
in Boston with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.
Millie Garcia-Serrano, MPH, Deputy Regional Director
Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
20 Riverside Drive, Lakeville, MA 02347
(508) 946-2727 // millie.garcia-serrano@state.ma.us
Millie Garcia-Serrano is a Deputy Regional Director at MassDEP, responsible for the management of
Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup operations spanning 84 cities and towns, including the Cape and
Islands. With over 26 years of combined private and public sector environmental protection
experience, her areas of expertise include emergency response & extreme weather preparedness,
hazardous waste site assessment and cleanup, risk assessment, brownfields redevelopment,
regulatory / policy development and enforcement, natural resources damages and workforce
succession planning. Millie has coordinated innovative and sustainable MCP site assessments and
closure strategies for sites with contaminated soil, groundwater and sediment, facilitated complex
federal, state & local regulatory compliance and permitting; and advocated for the promotion of
sustainable remediation and renewable energy components at State c.21E and EPA Superfund sites.
Millie is a Scientific Advisory Board member of the AEHS/UMass Annual International Conference on
Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy, Team Leader for three Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Brownfields Support Team initiatives, and the Commonwealth’s Trustee Representative for the
Buzzards Bay B-120 Bouchard Oil Spill NRD case. She has chaired the national Association of State
and Territorial Solid Waste Managers Officials’ (ASTSWMO) Federal Facilities Subcommittee and the
Policy & Technology Focus. In June 2012, Millie accepted the prestigious New England
Environmental Business Council Nicholas Humber Environmental – Energy Award for Outstanding
Collaboration on behalf of MassDEP. Millie has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University
of South Alabama in Mobile, AL and a Master of Public Health from Boston University in Boston, MA.
Eric A. Stern, Research Leader – Sediment Management
Battelle
Montclair State University, Mallory Hall 116, 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043
(973) 655-6893 // Cell: (201) 247-3281 // sterne@battelle.org
Eric is a Research Leader in Sediment Management for Battelle Memorial Institute (Energy and
Environment Business Global Business Unit/Environmental Solutions Services). Eric leads
development and implementation of their Integrated Sediment Management (ISM) Practice and
growth strategy with a focus on sustainable innovative cross-program applications. Eric was the CoChair of the Battelle 7th International Conference on the Remediation of Contaminated - February 4-7,
2013 / Dallas, Texas USA.
Prior to Battelle, Eric spent 24 years in US Government both with the US Army Corps of Engineers,
NY District (USACE) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He was an Environmental
Scientist/Oceanographer with EPA Region 2 New York, Division of Environmental Protection and
Planning – Dredging, Sediments and Ocean’s Team. His specialization is in contaminated sediments
and dredged material assessment/management, integrated sediment decontamination innovative
technology (treatment train) development, beneficial use of sediments, and Regional (Urban)
Sediment Management as it applies to sustainable practices in complex watershed systems and
applications to regional sediment processing facilities. Eric is an active member of the European
Union Sediment Network Research (SedNet) and was a participant/contributor to the SedNet
Treatment/Remediation Workgroup. He is a keynote and invited speaker on a global venue in the
subject area of sediment treatment/sustainability and Integrated Sediment Management. Eric has a
faculty appointment at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey as a Research Associate
Professor in the Graduate Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, and the Doctoral Program
in Environmental Management.
Stephanie Wilson, Senior Project Scientist
ESS Group, Inc.
100 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, MA 02451
(781) 419-7710 // swilson@essgroup.com
Ms. Wilson is a senior marine scientist at ESS Group with over 16 years of experience in the
management of marine environmental projects. She has extensive experience in preparing impact
assessment documents for both public and private sector clients, particularly involving environmental
issues associated with activities in coastal and ocean waters. She has prepared multiple documents
associated with the planning, licensing, permitting, and leasing needs of multiple Liquefied Natural
Gas (LNG) and other offshore energy development projects, including Environmental Impacts
Statements, Operations Plans, Mitigation Plans, and Deep Water Port Applications. She is also very
familiar with the requirements of and compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and
guidelines for projects related to offshore energy development including National/State Environmental
Policy Acts (EA/EIS), Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, Clean Water Act (including
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System), Coastal Zone Management Act, Water Resources
Development Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson-Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the
Oil Pollution Act. Ms. Wilson has also served as contract manager and technical lead in support of
the USACE’s Dredged Material Management (DAMOS) Program, which is responsible for monitoring
and assessment of aquatic dredged material disposal sites in New England. She has managed
complex field programs including sediment, surface water, and tissue sampling, as well as
oceanographic monitoring surveys; conducted statistical analyses to evaluate population- and
community-level impacts; and prepared multiple reports addressing environmental concerns for
clients, including federal, state and local governments, as well as for major offshore energy
development projects along the Atlantic coast of the United States, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean.
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Nov 20: Evening Program with David Cash, Commissioner of MassDPU
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Dec 12: Government Matchmaking
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