SAME ECOI: Post NEPA Environmental Management and Compliance: Soil and Water

Brian P. Kennedy, AICP is an Associate Vice President and Senior Project Manager with AECOM providing 39 years of experience in environmental impact assessment, permitting and public engagement for a wide range of project types, public agencies, and private sector project applicants. His work spans the programming, planning, design, construction, and operational phases of projects. Brian’s diverse experience, in depth interdisciplinary technical understandings and innovative contributions to public engagement combine to offer clients timely, technically accurate and understandable communications, documentation, and compliance processes.

Clayton has 12 years of experience in developing and implementing policies, plans and procedures for environmental protection, remedial work, and environmental management systems in both the public and private sectors. He has an undergraduate in water resource science and master’s degree in environmental engineering. He is also an active Professional Geoscientist in Ontario, Envision Sustainability Professional, and holds several other environmental related certifications. His experience is unique as it is binational in nature, allowing for a strong understanding of the similarities and differences in Canadian and United States environmental regulations. In the last 5 years, he has focused on environmental protection and permitting for P3 infrastructure projects.

Justin is a senior manager with more than 20 years of experience managing industry and client relations, health and safety, project negotiations, project scheduling and budgeting. He has an undergraduate degree in environmental engineering. He offers a wide range of industries experience, including infrastructure, automotive manufacturing, coatings, plastics, oil & gas, energy, waste disposal, railroads, chemical manufacturing, federal, provincial and municipal government, and brownfields in jurisdictions around the globe. Justin’s diverse technical specialties includes facility decommissioning; emerging contaminants; site re-development; air permitting; contaminated sites; design; construction management; regulatory negotiations; sustainability; greening government operations; management systems; environmental compliance; water treatment; waste minimization; resource minimization; and infrastructure. Justin was a co-Founder for the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SuRF) Canada.

Jennifer Warf serves as AECOM’s National DoD NEPA leader and also serves as the NEPA steering committee member for the SAME Environmental Community of Interest. Jennifer has 20 years of experience in managing wide-ranging Federal contracts/programs, overseeing large-scale NEPA and multi-disciplinary task orders, and leading coordination and consultation with regulatory agencies, stakeholders, and the public to advance projects through the NEPA process. Recently published, twice, in the SAME The Military Engineer publication. She continues to be an active thought-leader in NEPA streamlining and virtual tool development, including the first-ever Digital EIS.