EBC Connecticut Chapter Seminar
Managing PCBs in Caulking in Older Buildings
Wednesday June 23, 2010
University of Hartford
Konover Great Room
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117-1599
AGENDA
8:00 a.m.
Welcome
 Megan Curtis-Murphy
Environmental Business Council
Introduction - Program Chair and Moderator
 Peter King, Associate - Golder Associates Inc.
8:30 a.m.
EPA Guidelines, Regulatory Issues, Legal Implications
 Kirstin Etela – Robinson & Cole LLC
9:00 a.m.
PCB Chemistry & Analytical Considerations
 James Occhialini, Alpha Analytical
9:30 a.m.
PCB Disposal Issues and Options
 Pete Long – EQ Northeast, Inc.
10:00 a.m.
Networking Break
10:30 a.m.
Lessons Learned
 Sean Regan – Triumvirate Environmental
 Dave Sullivan and Malcolm Beeler - TRC
11:30 a.m.
Adjourn
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PROGRAM CHAIR
Peter King P.E., LSP, LEP
Senior Consultant and Associate
Golder Associates Inc
670 No. Commercial St. Suite 103
Manchester, NH 03101
603-668-0880
peter_king@golder.com
Mr. King is a Senior Consultant and Associate with Golder Associates Inc. in their Manchester,
New Hampshire location. He has over 25 years of environmental engineering and project
management experience. He is a registered professional engineer in five states, a Licensed
Site Professional in Massachusetts and a Licensed Environmental Professional in
Connecticut. His primary practice areas are remedial investigation and design, with an
emphasis on site reuse and environmental permitting for the manufacturing, power, and
transportation sectors. He is active with the New Hampshire Business and Industry
Association environmental and energy subcommittees and is president-elect of the New
Hampshire Society for Professional Engineers. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Maritime
Academy.
SPEAKERS
Kirstin Etela
Robinson & Cole LLP
1055 Washington Boulevard, Stamford, CT 06901-2249
203-462-7534
ketela@rc.com
Kirstin Etela is an attorney in Robinson & Cole's Environmental and Utilities Group,
where she focuses her practice on transactions, administrative enforcement, and
compliance counseling, particularly regarding RCRA corrective action, the Toxic
Substances Control Act, the community right-to-know law, climate change, and the
European Union's chemical registration REACH regulations. Prior to law school, Ms. Etela
worked for eight years in buying and merchandising, where she managed the finance,
planning, and merchandising aspects of multimillion-dollar product categories for two
national department store chains.
Jim Occhialini
Alpha Analytical, Inc
8 Walkup Drive, Westborough, MA 01581
508-898-9220
Jim Occhialini is a Vice President of Technical Sales at Alpha Analytical and he is very active
with a number of regulatory workgroups and industry associations. He has over 30 years of
environmental analytical and consulting experience working on a wide range of hazardous
waste characterization and remediation project applications. Jim holds a Bachelor’s of
Science degree in Environmental Science from the UMASS Amherst.
Jim Balcastro
EQ Northeast, Inc.
185 Industrial Road, Wrentham, MA 02093
508-384-6151
Ross Hartman, Corporate Service Director
Triumvirate Environmental
61 Innerbelt Road, Somerville, MA 02143
800-966-9282
rhartman@triumvirate.com
Mr. Hartman has over 15 years of experience in the environmental consulting, engineering,
and construction fields, having worked in a variety of field supervision, and project
management roles. Mr. Hartman provides enterprise level support for our field services
operations concerning remediation, decontaminations, and transformer disposal. Mr. Hartman
holds a BS in Geology and Earth Science.
Sean Reagan, Corporate Director of Higher Education
Triumvirate Environmental
61 Innerbelt Road, Somerville, MA 02143
800-966-9282
sreagan@triumvirate.com
David M. Sullivan, LSP, CHMM
TRC
Wannalancit Mills, 650 Suffolk Street
Lowell, Massachusetts 01854
978-656-3565
dsullivan@trcsolutions.com
David Sullivan has extensive experience with complex soil, groundwater, hazardous
building materials, and vapor intrusion sites. Mr. Sullivan serves as Licensed Site
Professional (LSP) under the several municipal and planning agency Brownfield
Programs. Mr. Sullivan served on the Blue Ribbon Panel selected to critical review of the
risk characterization and remedy for a newly-constructed $70 million school built on McCoy
Field Site on behalf of the Mayor of the City of New Bedford, and presently serves as the
LSP-of-Record for the Parker Street Waste Site in New Bedford. Mr. Sullivan recently
presented a case study on source investigation and remediation of PCBs in indoor air in a
public school building at the Dioxin 2008 science conference in Birmingham, England.
Malcolm Beeler
TRC
Windsor, CT
Mr. Beeler has over 16 years of experience in environmental and civil engineering
consulting. His qualifications include extensive hands-on planning, field investigation and
construction management, design, permitting, cost estimating, and project management.
Mr. Beeler’s background includes extensive service to public and private-sector clientele.
He currently serves in the capacity of Project Engineer for the Hazardous Materials
Services Division with responsibility for project design and implementation including all
quality, financial, and administrative operations. Mr. Beeler is a PCB remediation and
regulatory expert.