These are documents for REGFORM’s Missouri Hazardous Waste Seminar, April 2, 2025
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Attorneys: MoBar has approved this seminar for 7.8 hours of CLE. The course ID for this program is 764880.
Presentation Slides
Wednesday, November 6
9:05 a.m. RCRA Corrective Action/Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program GREG PATTEN, Barr
10:15 a.m. Waste Management Program (WMP) Update CHARLENE FITCH, MDNR, Waste Management Program Director
10:45 a.m. Aerosol Cans. New Missouri Regs. New Options. APRIL BRENNAN, Environmental Works, Inc.
11:25 a.m. Making Sense of Change at the Federal Level and the Ripple Effects SARAH STRUBY, Stinson, ROGER WALKER, REGFORM
12:45 p.m. e-Manifest Developments and RCRA Reporting in Missouri ANDREA FARR, Farr Solutions
1:15 p.m. A Quick Reference Guide to What’s in the New Federal RCRA Rules adopted in Missouri LIANE HETHERINGTON WARD, BASF
1:55 p.m. EPA’s PFAS Risk Assessment for Biosolids DAVID CARANI, HDR
2:45 p.m. PFAS Current Status JIM PRICE, Spencer Fane (Invited)
3:20 p.m. Tips for QRG ANDY EWALD, Trinity Consultants
4:00 p.m. Tales from the Background: Arsenic and Old Lead CHRIS CADY, Ph.D., MDNR, ERP
Speaker Bios
Brittany Barrientos, Stinson
brittany.barrientos@stinson.com
Brittany’s deep understanding of environmental, health and safety laws across the regulatory, transactional and litigation spectrums allows her to find well-rounded and practical solutions to complex issues. She has significant experience assisting clients with environmental, health and safety regulatory requirements arising under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, solid and hazardous waste laws, Superfund, OSHA and PHMSA, as well as state and local environmental laws and regulations. Brittany’s broad experience gives her the ability to issue-spot across media and type of issue, in a way that provides both continuity and efficiency for her clients. She has worked extensively with municipalities and electric-generating utilities, mobile sources, and clients in the chemical, manufacturing and real estate industries. Her journalism background and endless curiosity also serve her well as she navigates FOIA issues, inspections and information requests, and investigations across sectors. Brittany is also a recent graduate of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s esteemed two-year Centurions Leadership Program, and she is excited to continue to “Learn. Serve. Lead.” in the Community.
April Brennan, Environmental Works, Inc.
abrennan@environmentalworks.com
April is a Senior Project Manager with 18 years’ experience in consulting and environmental, health, and safety, with a passion to help clients overcome their challenges. At EWI, April leads a team in strategic services, providing compliance, remediation, EHS, and auditing support for clients. April also conducts training services (e.g., HAZWOPER, SWPPP/SPCC, hazardous waste) and is responsible for continuous improvement and business development. April received a B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Biology from Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University).
Justin Buckler, MDNR
justin.buckler@dnr.mo.gov
Justin Buckler joined the Department of Natural Resources in 2012, and has served as the Environmental Remediation Program director since 2023. He has experience in environmental risk assessment, policy development, and strategic planning. Justin holds a Master’s degree in fisheries and wildlife, with an emphasis in environmental toxicology, and a Bachelor’s degree in biology, both from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Chris Cady, Ph.D, MDNR
Chris.Cady@dnr.mo.gov
Dr. Cady is an Environmental Scientist with Missouri DNR’s Voluntary Cleanup Section. He oversees risk-based cleanup of brownfield and voluntary cleanup sites, and develops policy and internal guidance for the program on a variety of topics. He is currently coordinating revision and updating of the Missouri Risk-Based Corrective Action Guidance for non-petroleum-storage-tank sites. He currently serves on a department-wide PFAS coordination group. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and Masters and Doctorate degrees in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Missouri – Columbia.
David Carani, HDR
David.Carani@hdrinc.com
David is a Water Quality lead with HDR. He leads the water quality and regulatory support team in Missouri and Kansas. Since the early 2000s, he has been involved in every significant water quality policy and regulation in Missouri. He has successfully partnered with municipal clients to address some of the most complicated and contentious Clean Water Act compliance-related issues in Region 7. These include a variety of wastewater and stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting issues.
With a background in stream ecology, limnology and public policy, David brings a diverse skill set that facilitates a holistic One Water understanding of the chemical, biological and socioeconomic impacts that new permit requirements and regulations could have on municipal systems and ratepayers.
He has recently helped implement proactive strategies for several Missouri and Kansas clients through the development of integrated management plans. These plans identify and prioritize long-term investment strategies that allow utilities to affordably meet regulatory requirements and make important wastewater and stormwater improvements.
Andy Ewald, Trinity Consultants
AEwald@trinityconsultants.com
Andy Ewald is a Senior Consultant and Business and Client Development Liaison out of Trinity’s West Des Moines, IA office. He has 12-years of Multimedia Environmental Consulting experience and currently serves the EPA Region VII States. Mr. Ewald provides a unique blend of air quality, water quality, and hazardous waste compliance expertise and is well versed in Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) program design, implementation, and execution. Mr. Ewald has been heavily focused in RCRA Hazardous Waste Compliance over the past 5-years and has executed various projects including Large Quantity Generator facility audits, development of Contingency Plans, Organic Air Emissions (Subpart AA/BB/CC/J) program applicability analyses and implementation, waste determinations and identification support, waste exemption analyses, episodic generation request assistance, annual reporting, EPA NOV resolutions, and custom training offerings. Mr. Ewald is excited to explore Missouri’s recent adoption of the Generator Improvements Rule with generators of waste in the State.
Andrea Farr, Farr Solutions
andy@farrweb.com
Andrea is past Chair and current commissioner for the Hazardous Waste Management Commission representing the waste generating industry. She is also past Vice-Chair and current member of the Northeast Missouri Local Emergency Planning District. She is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager. Andrea and her husband, Brad, have owned and operated Farr Solutions, L.L.C. for the past 6 years. Andrea has 36 years of experience in the hazardous waste industry. While in industry, she held the positions of Laboratory Director, ISO 14001 Lead Auditor, Alternative Liquid Fuels Manager, EH&S Senior Specialist, and EHS Director. She enjoys working with her clients and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. She has the utmost respect for all regulatory agencies and believes it is paramount to have a respectful collaborative working relationship to achieve a balance between the economic success of industry and what is most protective of human health and the environment. In her spare time, she enjoys DIY home projects, golf, and cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs as a season ticket member.
Charlene Fitch, MDNR
charlene.fitch@dnr.mo.gov
Charlene Fitch became director of the Waste Management Program, effective Aug. 1, 2023. Charlene has worked for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for more than three decades. She started her career as a permit writer in the Solid Waste Management Program. Most recently Charlene served as Chief of RCRA permitting in the Waste Management Program, overseeing both hazardous waste and solid waste permitting actions.
Charlene holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, with Masters’ work in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a licensed professional engineer, as well as a graduate of the department’s Leadership Ladder and Missouri’s Leadership Academy.
Art Goodin, MDNR
arthur.goodin@dnr.mo.gov,
Art Goodin was named as a Deputy Director for the department’s Division of Environmental Quality, in January of 2022. He oversees the Waste Management Program, Environmental Remediation Program, Water Protection Program, Central Field Operations Office, St. Louis Regional Office, and the Southeast Regional Office.
Art began his career with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in 2002, as an environmental specialist in the Southeast Regional Office. He worked in water pollution control, spending most of his time on stormwater and land disturbance permitting and inspections. In July 2007, Art joined the department’s Environmental Emergency Response section as an on-scene coordinator in southeast Missouri, working on hazardous materials emergencies, homeland security and emergency management issues. Art left the department in 2011, to work as an environmental manager in the private sector. Art rejoined the department in 2012, and resumed his emergency response duties. In 2014, Art became Chief of the regional office’s Water Pollution unit, where he led the unit’s efforts to improve operational efficiency and increase the impact of its compliance assistance activities. Most recently, Art served as Director of the department’s Southeast Regional Office, located in Poplar Bluff, since March 2019. He holds a bachelor’s degree in general studies and a master’s degree in Public Administration from Southeast Missouri State University.
Liane Hetherington-Ward, BASF
liane.hetherington-ward@basf.com
Liane Hetherington-Ward is Senior EHS Specialist II at the BASF Corporation Hannibal facility, an agricultural products manufacturing facility. She is responsible for day-to-day and long-term environmental compliance. Liane is the waste management subject matter expert for the site and serves on the BASF North America Environmental Expert Extended Team. Liane has 40 years of hazardous and solid waste experience, including TSDF, generator and transporter requirements, in-depth definition of solid waste interpretations and applications, RCRA corrective action, and RCRA compliance. Other experience includes environmental due diligence, environmental training, broad-based environmental compliance, and regulatory development. Liane received an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, as well as a B.S. in Engineering and Policy and a B.A. in Biology from Washington University in St. Louis.
Adam Nanney, Barr
ananney@barr.com
Adam has more than 12 years of experience in geological engineering, working primarily on environmental assessment and remediation projects. At Barr, he provides permitting assistance, design, construction oversight, and project management for the expansion of Subtitle C landfills and Superfund remediation sites. Adam assists with permitting, stormwater pollution prevention planning, and construction oversight for wastewater pipelines. He also conducts hydrology studies to design outlet structures for tailings dam raises and modifications, and provides construction assistance at crude-oil pipeline releases. In addition, Adam conducts Resource Conservation and Recovery Act characterization sampling at lead mine sites and pipeline terminal facilities.
Greg Patten, Barr
gpatten@barr.com
Greg is a senior environmental scientist with Barr. He has more than three decades of experience in the environmental field. During emergency spill-response and enforcement actions, clients look to Greg not only for regulatory guidance and support, but also for practical solutions and strategies for managing response actions. His regular work includes leading environmental audits, performing due-diligence reviews, preparing environmental plans and permits, developing environmental management systems, providing compliance training, and helping clients understand the application of regulations to specific operations and activities.
Before he joined Barr, Greg served as a 24-hour spill response, remediation, and disposal contractor. That practical experience, combined with a broad knowledge of state and federal environmental regulations, makes him a unique resource when resolving complex compliance issues and enforcement actions.
Kevin Perry, REGFORM
kperry@regform.org
Kevin is Assistant Director at REGFORM, a Missouri association focused entirely on State and Federal environmental regulations & policies. He is a registered lobbyist & holds a BS degree in biology. He has over 25 years of experience, including work as a biologist at US EPA Office of Water. He sings in the choir at church.
Brian Porter, Terracon
Brian.Porter@terracon.com
Brian Porter is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa. He has a Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, with an emphasis on environmental and hydrosystems engineering. He has been practicing environmental consulting since 1997 and currently provides senior leadership for Terracon’s environmental practice in the Kansas-Missouri-downstate Illinois region. His areas of expertise include environmental site investigations and risk-based corrective action. He has managed several successful brownfield redevelopment projects using state and federal funding, including several Phoenix Award winning projects, and assists communities with brownfield grant-writing. He has a wife and three children, which occupy most of his time away from work.
Jim Price, Spencer Fane
jprice@spencerfane.com
Jim Price is a partner and co-chair of the Environment and Energy practice group at the Kansas City, Missouri, office of Spencer Fane LLP, where his practice concentrates in environmental law, regulation, litigation, and business transactions. Jim represents clients in environmental compliance, environmental management, transactions, and disputes. He frequently writes and speaks on environmental law and has contributed to several books on environmental law. Jim has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for many years and has been named one of the Super Lawyers and Best of the Bar in Kansas City. Jim received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, and he graduated with honors from Harvard Law School.
Kurt U. Schaefer, MDNR
kurt.schaefer@dnr.mo.gov
Kurt U. Schaefer was named Director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in January 2025.
Kurt’s legal career has spanned three decades, including serving as a former state senator and assistant attorney general. He has worked with governmental entities at every level, including all branches of government, state agencies, numerous boards and citizen commissions and political organizations. Kurt served as general counsel and deputy director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources from 2005-2007. He oversaw the emergency response, environmental remediation and cleanup from the Taum Sauk Reservoir failure, and served as lead counsel in negotiating settlement for the damages and restoration, valued in excess of $170 million. Kurt also served as lead counsel in negotiating state and federally required sewer infrastructure capital improvements with the City of Kansas City and the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District, valued in excess of $3 billion and $4.2 billion, respectively.
Kurt earned a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Missouri, and a Juris Doctor and a Master Studies of Environmental Law from the Vermont Law School.
DeAndré Singletary
singletary.deandre@epa.gov
DeAndré Singletary is the Director of EPA Region 7’s Land, Chemical and Redevelopment Division (LCRD), overseeing the region’s hazardous waste, solid waste, pesticides, lead-based paint, underground storage tanks, brownfields, land revitalization, pollution prevention and sustainable materials management programs. He has been employed by the federal government and EPA for 26 years starting his career as an emergency responder in Superfund in 1998. DeAndré has also served acting roles in region 7 as acting director of the Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division, director of the Air and Radiation Division and Deputy Regional Administrator. He is an alumnus of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in biology.
Sarah Struby, Stinson
sarah.struby@stinson.com
Sarah’s practice covers all aspects of environmental law, including regulatory compliance, permitting, litigation, and corporate and real estate transactions. She has significant experience representing clients in administrative negotiations with the Environmental Protection Agency and state governmental agencies, particularly under CERCLA/Superfund, solid and hazardous waste laws, and the Clean Water Act, as well as navigating clients through complex site investigation and remediation projects. She also has experience litigating traditional environmental (cost-recovery) and environmental-adjacent (tort) claims.
Roger Walker, REGFORM
rwalker@regform.org
Roger has a private legal practice focusing on permitting, compliance, and enforcement, but spends most of his time managing REGFORM, a business association in MO that works on numerous regulatory matters. He has a JD from UMKC and LLM from Lewis & Clark School of Law.