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Lynn L. Bergeson, Principal.  Education:  Michigan State University (B.A., magna cum laude); Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America (J.D.).  Ms. Bergeson has practiced chemicals regulation and occupational safety and health law for over two decades.  She assists individual companies and a wide range of trade groups or ad hoc consortia on chemical-specific legislative and regulatory matters.  Ms. Bergeson’s practice areas include Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) compliance and litigation matters, and Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation.  Ms. Bergeson is widely published and lectures frequently on regulatory and policy issues affecting chemicals under federal, state, and international regulatory programs.

Lisa M. Campbell, Principal.  Education:  University of Arizona (B.S.); Stanford Law School (J.D.). Ms. Campbell has practiced chemicals regulation and compliance matters under TSCA, FIFRA, RCRA, OSHA, and assists corporations and trade groups on a wide variety of matters in these areas. Ms. Campbell writes frequently on chemical regulatory issues.

James V. Aidala, Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs.  Education:  undergraduate and graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brown University; and Harvard University.  Former Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) (now the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP)) (2000-2001); former Associate Assistant Administrator for OPPTS (1993-2000); Senior Professional Staff member of the Government Operations Committee, Subcommittee on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was in charge of oversight of EPA’s implementation of FIFRA and TSCA (1991-1993); Director of Policy Development at the Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture (1990-1991); policy expert on FIFRA and TSCA at the Congressional Research Service (1983-1990), which is part of the U.S. Library of Congress; Professional Staff member for the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Energy (1981-1983).

Christopher R. Bryant. Education: University of Maryland (B.S. in Animal Science). Mr. Bryant has over 20 years of experience in environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance and legislative, regulatory and policy issues. Previously, he was the Managing Director of the Chemical Products and Technology Division at the American Chemistry Council where he directed strategic efforts on improving support to the chemical industry. He managed a broad array of issues, including federal and state legislative activities, product de-selection, and advocacy with EPA and state environmental agencies. Prior to his tenure at the American Chemistry Council, Mr. Bryant consulted General Electric (GE) on EHS matters. He assisted in the implementation of GE’s EHS management system across all GE business units. He conducted EHS management system training sessions for GE business leaders, which led to significant improvement in GE’s EHS performance. He also conducted audits, operating reviews, and management system reviews at GE facilities. Additionally, he provided regulatory consulting on hazardous waste, hazardous materials transportation, clean air, and OSHA regulatory programs. Mr. Bryant was formerly President of The Technical Group, LLC, which specialized in hazardous substance and OSHA matters. He was the Director of EPA’s RCRA/Superfund Industrial Assistance Hotline and a field chemist with GSX Services, Inc.

Lisa Rothenberg Burchi.  Education:  Tufts University (B.A., cum laude, 1990); The National Law Center, George Washington University (J.D., with honors, 1995).  Ms. Burchi has over 10 years of experience in domestic and international chemical and pesticide regulation.  Ms. Burchi also assists corporations in conducting corporate-wide TSCA and FIFRA compliance audits and manages various consortia on chemical-specific legislative and regulatory matters.  Ms. Burchi is a co-author of “The TSCA Basic Practice Book," ABA (2000) and “TSCA and the Future of Chemical Regulation" (2000). 

Sheryl Lindros Dolan.  Education:  Cornell University (B.A. in Chemistry); The National Law Center, George Washington University (J.D.).  Ms. Dolan has significant experience in chemical regulation and pesticide registration matters.  She has assisted both domestic and international clients in obtaining pesticide registrations through EPA.  Ms. Dolan worked previously for The Shaw Group and Stone & Webster-JSC Management Consultants, Inc. (formerly Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly, Inc.).  Ms. Dolan regularly manages corporate-wide TSCA and FIFRA compliance audits, prepares and obtains TSCA premanufacture notifications (PMN) and related TSCA submissions, and is heavily engaged in developing compliance strategies involving TSCA’s new Inventory Update Rule requirements.  Ms. Dolan also has particular expertise in federal environmentally preferable and bio-based product procurement programs and in assisting clients in leveraging product attributes into sales opportunities.

Henry M. Jacoby.  Education:  St. Norbert College (B.S. in Chemistry); Frostburg State University (M.S. in Management).  Mr. Jacoby has over 34 years of experience in assisting pesticide, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, antimicrobial, wood preservation, and antifouling paint manufacturers and formulators in the area of environmental science and applications for federal and state pesticide registrations and tolerance petitions.  Twenty-five years of his experience were gained at EPA, where he worked in the Office of Pesticide Programs as a Chemist, Product Manager, Senior Staff Member, and Branch Chief.  Upon retiring from EPA, Mr. Jacoby joined the consultant firm of Charles, Conn & van Gemert, LLC as Director of Environmental Affairs.  In 2001, Mr. Jacoby established his own regulatory consultant business.

Leslie S. MacDougall.  Education:  Old Dominion University (B.S., 1988); The University of Maryland (post-graduate education in Toxicology, 1990); John Hopkins University (post-graduate education in Risk Assessment, 1992).  Ms. MacDougall has extensive experience in chemical-related matters.  Previously, she was the Programs Manager for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Screening Information Data Set (SIDS) Program and the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) Initiative for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) (1997-2006).  During her tenure at EPA, Ms. MacDougall functioned as a liaison for EPA, industry representatives, OECD, and OECD member country governments.  Also, Ms. MacDougall served as the U.S. representative on technical REACH-related issues; reviewed OECD and ICCA programmatic directives to formulate the U.S. position; performed peer review of assessments for test plans, dossier/robust summaries, and SIDS Initial Assessment Reports for individual chemical and categories; and functioned as an advisor to the High Production Volume Chemicals Branch Chief and Risk Assessment Division Director.  Ms. MacDougall performed health and environmental effects screening level assessments of existing chemicals in support of other office programs, which included:  the High Production Volume Challenge Program (HPV Challenge Program), TSCA Sections 4 and 8(e), the Risk Management 1 (RM1) process, and data evaluations on FYI submissions.  After leaving EPA, Ms. MacDougall established her own regulatory consultant business, M8, Inc., where she consulted with clients on international developments in chemical management, direct industry submissions under the OECD SIDS Program, TSCA Section 4 matters, and REACH-related issues.

R. David Peveler, Ph.D., born Savannah, Georgia. Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S. in Chemistry, 1969); Rutgers University (M.B.A., 1984); Northwestern University (Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, 1975; University of Maine (post-doctoral Fellowship). Dr. Peveler’s many areas of expertise include domestic and Canadian product regulatory compliance, FFDCA food contact and packaging matters, FIFRA product registration and labeling matters, DOT classification and labeling issues, and product safety (OSHA and WHMIS compliant MSDSs and labels). Dr. Peveler is familiar with the Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) enterprise resource planning software for the EHS module and the role it can play in support of regulatory compliance. Most recently, Dr. Peveler served as a consultant to Evonik Degussa Corporation and managed a variety of product regulatory compliance matters under TSCA, FFDCA, and related chemical product laws and regulatory programs with special emphasis on FDA regulations around bulk Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, including Drug Master Files, Drug Establishment Registrations, Drug Product Listings, labeling and import requirements. Prior to his work with Evonik Degussa, Dr. Peveler was a Senior Regulatory Scientist with Chemtura Corporation, where he managed TSCA and Canadian Domestic Substance List (DSL) issues and chemistries, ranging from mineral oils to complex reaction products, a wide variety of FFDCA direct and indirect food contact matters, and DOT classification and training issues. Previously, Dr. Peveler was Chemtura’s predecessor in interest, Witco Corporation, R&D Group Leader where he directed a group of researchers in a variety of areas involving polymer additives including PVC heat stabilizers and polymeric plasticizers, and antioxidants for polyolefins.

Joseph E. Plamondon, Ph.D.  Education:  Loras College (B.S. in Chemistry); University of California at Berkeley (M.S. in Bio-organic Chemistry); University of California at Davis (Ph.D.).  Dr. Plamondon brings a wealth of experience in the regulatory arena and is well known in the industrial chemical community.  He has spent over 25 years working on TSCA matters and more recently on REACH.  Dr. Plamondon has extensive experience working within the regulated community in positions with the Rohm and Haas Company and Akzo Nobel, and has published a book based on his 25 years of experience entitled The Underlying Foundation of Science Used in the Regulation of Industrial Chemicals.  The book addresses chemical identity and nomenclature issues, along with risk assessment and toxicology, under both TSCA and REACH.  In addition to his work within the chemical industry, Dr. Plamondon has spent over ten years consulting with chemical companies on a broad range of TSCA issues.  Projects have included providing strategic preparation and submission of PMNs designed to avoid TSCA Section 5(e) consent orders and other adverse regulations, as well as offering guidance to companies in the determination of whether certain health and safety information is reportable under TSCA Section 8(e).  Dr. Plamondon has presented at many conferences and professional meetings, e.g., the American Chemistry Council’s Global Chemical Regulations Conference (Living with TSCA), among others, and has spoken at major global REACH conferences sponsored by the Rapra group in Boston in April 2008, Houston in January 2009, and Amsterdam in June 2009, and a conference sponsored by Fresenius in Cologne in December 2009.  Dr. Plamondon had written extensively on chemical regulatory matters prior to the book publication.  Recent publications include TSCA and Engineered Nanoscale Substances, Nanotechnology Law and Business (2007) (co-author) and The DuPont TSCA Enforcement Action:  Implications for the Chemical Industry, Environmental Quality Management (2006).

Kathleen M. Roberts.  Education:  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (B.S., 1986).  Ms. Roberts has over 17 years of experience in domestic and international science and policy program management.  She was a Senior Director with Regulatory and Technical Affairs at the American Chemistry Council where she directed strategic efforts on improving the current chemical management system, including creation of legislative proposals, communication documents, and educational materials.  Under the American Chemistry Council’s product stewardship programs, she developed guidance materials and performance measures, advocated Council policies, and provided managerial support to several action groups engaged in regulatory advocacy and public outreach activities.  Ms. Roberts has served as a spokesperson for industry at national and international conferences, including the Association of International Chemical Manufacturers, ChemCon Americas, Responsible Care® Conference, and GlobalChem Conference.  As part of the American Chemistry Council’s CHEMSTAR team (now Chemical Products and Technology Division), Ms. Roberts managed multiple chemical-specific groups, with individualized membership, budgets, and strategy plans, which included advocacy, research, communication, education, and litigation activities. 

Susan Hunter Youngren, Ph.D.  Education:  Michigan State University (B.S. in Microbiology and Public Health); Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (M.S. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering); and George Mason University (Ph.D. in Environmental Biology and Public Policy).  Dr. Youngren has significant experience in the field of risk assessment, with particular emphasis on exposure assessment.  Dr. Youngren has served as the project manager/senior scientist for a diverse range of risk assessments required under FIFRA, including residential, dietary, and microbial exposure assessments, under Proposition 65, including Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL) and No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) development, and under RCRA, including Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)/RCRA hazardous waste site assessment.  Dr. Youngren is well-versed in the preparation of individual, aggregate, and cumulative residential and consumer product exposure assessments using deterministic and Monte Carlo techniques.  Dr. Youngren has managed and conducted many residential and occupational exposure assessments on behalf of corporate clients and trade associations to assess dermal, inhalation, and oral exposures to humans from pesticide products, such as termiticides; flea and tick products for pets, carpets, and turf; fungicides for turf and home gardens; indoor and outdoor insecticide fogger products; and a wide range of non-pesticide consumer and personal care products.  Dr. Youngren has held positions with environmental science consulting firms involving the conduct of exposure assessments to support human health risk assessments responding to a wide range of regulatory requirements.  She is a member of the Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) and the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA), and is a Counselor for the ISEA.  At the SRA, Dr. Youngren served on the Editorial Board of the SRA Residential Exposure Assessment Project and as post-Chair of the SRA Exposure Assessment Specialty Group.

Allison MacDougall Davidson, Business Manager.  Education:  Bentley College (A.S. Degree in Paralegal Studies).  Ms. MacDougall Davidson has practiced as an environmental professional since 1991.