Jim Werner Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Provide technical and policy analysis support to help clients attains their goals. Focus on Extended Producer Responsibility Laws and assist clients in ensuring compliance with emerging EPR obligations. See https://www.eprgroupconsulting.com/

Washington, Dc

Provide technical and policy analysis to support clients' goals related to U.S. nuclear warhead production and other nuclear facilities, budgets and environmental consequences.

Washington, Dc

Manage, coordinate and oversee research of the Environmental Policy Section within CRS, which is part of the Library of Congress, including supervising staff of 12 analysts, and undertake research on a variety of issues for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, including nuclear materials management, air pollution, water pollution, hazardous waste, climate change, and cost impacts of regulations. Provide leadership and review to ensure research products are rigorously accurate, authoritative, non-partisan and clear. Collaborate with counterparts in foreign affairs, defense, agriculture and law sections to integrate analyses. No involvement in EEOIPCA issues (See SC&A below).The sole mission of the Congressional Research Service is to serve the United States Congress. The Congress established CRS to have a reliable resource for confidential, non-partisan and objective research and analysis on all legislative issues. Congress created the Legislative Reference Service in 1914. The 1946 Legislative Reorganization Act established the Legislative Reference Service as a separate department of the Library of Congress. In 1970 with the enactment of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (codified at 2 USC §166) Congress renamed the department to the Congressional Research Service (CRS). The 1946 and 1970 acts instruct CRS to support the Congress in its deliberations and legislative decisions.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Research proposal: "Long-term Stewardship of Nuclear Materials and Contaminated Sites"

Provide technical and policy analysis support to support clients’ sustainability goals.For SC&A, Inc., provide technical analysis of operations at nuclear weapons facilities related to Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) in support of NIOSH Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health.For the State of New Mexico Environment Department, Hazardous Waste Bureau: Prepared analysis and expert witness testimony for RCRA Permit hearing at Los Alamos National Laboratory.For an energy services contractor, develop town-wide program for residential energy audits.

Responsible for leading program reforms, including management streamlining in State Energy Office, development of Green Energy Fund regulations, tracking federal climate change and energy legislation. Developed and administered Building Performance Institute (BPI-BA) energy auditor training program. Supported reporting of federal ARRA “Recovery Act” spending, including Section 1512 requirements and Davis Bacon Act compliance.

Responsible for management of a variety of environmental programs, including air pollution control, Brownfields cleanup, solid and hazardous waste management, recycling, environmental emergency response and prevention, criminal enforcement, petroleum tanks, and boiler safety. Helped lead state participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative from interstate negotiation of MOU, promulgation of state RGGI regulations to initial auctions. Served as Vice Chair of the State Emergency Response Commission. Accountable to Cabinet Secretary and State General Assembly for policy, budget, program integration and performance. Led successful program integration initiatives for results-oriented performance and streamlined operations using Value Stream Mapping/Kaizen management methods. Led dramatic expansion of Brownfields cleanup program. Served as state lead on several high profile enforcement settlement agreement negotiations, including resolving complex air issues with large sour-crude oil refinery. Promulgated premier state multi-pollutant regulations, including resolution of legal challenges. Negotiated and lead multi-year effort to tighten landfill permits, including historic yard waste ban.

Jefferson City, Mo

Responsible for management of 450+person/$44 Million division, including five programs: air pollution control, hazardous waste management, solid waste management, land reclamation (mine regulation and reclamation), environmental (emergency and laboratory) services. Included accountability to Cabinet-level Director and State General Assembly for policy, budget, and program integration and performance. Led efforts to increase efficiency, accountability and responsiveness of programs, and reduce costs to regulated community while maintaining program effectiveness. Successfully led renewal of fees before state legislature, and chaired risk-based corrective action workgroup.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed office of 20 professional staff ($10 million/year) performing high visibility budget and policy analyses for $6 billion+/year program. Reduced office budget while dramatically increasing performance. Security clearances: Q3 and SCI. Performed budget analysis for annual Budget Requests.Conceived and directed several major long-term strategic analyses, leading to program reforms, including:Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom: Linking Legacies: Baseline Environmental Management Report (1995 & 1996) Buried Transuranic-Contaminated Waste InformationReport to Congress on Long-term Stewardship, Led DOE effort to establish program to return weapons-grade uranium from foreign countries, Led successful effort to negotiate lawsuit Settlement Agreement with NGO arms control and environmental organization plaintiffs Managed project in Estonia to facilitate removing Russian nuclear weapon-grade uranium from Paldiski naval nuclear reactor.

Dept of Energy Nuclear Weapons issues (budget analysis, enviromental contamination, fissile material management), sludge regulations

Conducted environmental audits of Dept. of Energy nuclear weapons material facilities. On-site inspections included inspection of waste accumulation points; current and former waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities; spill locations; and review of historical waste management and generation documentation. Prepared detailed sampling and analysis plans. Conducted environmental audits of private facilities for corporate clients. Performed underground storage tank (UST) investigations and removal operations. Performed case study of hazardous waste cleanup at Moffett Naval Air Station, Mountain View, California, for U.S. Navy, NavFacEngComWestDiv. Supervised cleanup of an oil spill in the basement of a residential home. Analyzed proposed RCRA waste oil listing and management regulations. Trained EPA and state RCRA permit writers on new RCRA/HSWA regulations. Performed and coordinated analyses of the cost of Superfund ("301(a)(1)(C) report") for EPA report to Congress.

Helper write Superfund Strategies (April 1985) and case study of the Sylvester Superfund Site on Gilson Road in Nashua, NH

Case studies of hazardous waste site cleanups. Cost analysis of remedial techncologies.

World Trade Center 1; 72 South; New York, Ny

Kopkowski West (Port Elizabeth, NJ) PCB waste site cleanup research. Current site of IKEA across NJTP from Newark airport

2300 Arch Street; Philadelphia, Pa

Wrote, edited and indexed abstracts of scientiic journal articles related to enviromentla toxicology for Biological Abstracts.

M.S., Environmental Engineering

Ba, Biology And Geography