Edward Repa Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC

• Managed membership committees including: landfill owners; consultants, waste-to energy operators; hazardous waste transportors; remediation contractors; air experts; and groundwater experts.
• Lobbied federal and state legislators and regulators; testified before legislative and regulatory committees; built coalitions; developed environmental and technical policy.
• Ensured reasonable and environmentally protective regulations were developed by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act for waste disposal.
• Developed a research plan and request for proposals for the recycling of discarded paper products; selected and monitored the contractor’s performance.
• Commented on federal legislation for shale gas development and advised members on the proper management of drilling fluids and cuttings.
• Ensured that EPA’s Clean Air Act and greenhouse gas regulations for landfills were accurruate, reasonable, and environmentally protective.

Alexandria, VA

• Responsible for establishing and managing the activities of the Research Council, including developing requests for proposals and selecting and awarding grants.
• Responsible for establishing and managing the activities of the Scholarship Committee, including soliciting, reviewing, selecting, and monitoring the activities of scholarship recipients.
• Raised Congressional and private industry funds to demonstrated the viability of bioreactor landfills for managing municipal solid waste.
• Raised EPA and private industry funds to study raw landfill gas and landfill gas combustion emissions that lead to an update of EPA’s AP-42 emission factors.
• Raised funds for the development of a lifecycle inventory for municipal solid waste landfills and accompanying computer model to evaluate the environmental and cost impacts that was incorporated into EPA’s Municipal.
• Raised funds from the private sources to measure the fugitive methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills using remote sensing methods.

Mclean, VA

• Directed and managed the efforts of 30 staff including assigning staff to projects, ensuring quality of staff work, performing salary and performance reviews; developing and implementing project and department budgets.
• Performed remedial investigations and feasibility studies at Air Force installations under the Installation Restoration Program.
• Installed monitoring wells and collected groundwater samples to evaluate the remedial action program at Lapari Landfill (i.e., formally the Number 1 Superfund site).
• Developed the handbook titled Leachate Plume Management for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development that contained groundbreaking information.
• Developed a leachate collection design manual for EPA that was incorporated into state regulations.

Alexandria, VA

• Responsible for the establishing, recruiting, and developing staff, and management of personnel in three offices: Alexandria, VA; Elkins, WV; and Charleston, WV.
• Built a new successful environmental business area.
• Preformed hydrologic analyses on more than 20 small coal mines in 4 states under the Small Operator Assistance Program.
• Developed and managed an in-house water quality laboratory.

Ph.D., Hydrology, 3.9

Master Of Science (M.S.), Hyrology, 3.7

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology, 3.1

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Pi Lab Assistant for Physics Lab Assistant for Chemistry