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Michael Barbara is an independent consultant with over 35 years of experience providing strategic environmental consulting services for a wide spectrum of clients across all business and industry sectors. Since 1980, Mr. Barbara has had a specialized practice in CERCLA compliance and has worked on over 150 Superfund sites. He has served as technical consultant to dozens of PRP Committees, with an emphasis on regulatory negotiations and expert representation. His regulatory agency experience encompasses USEPA Regions I, II, III, V, and VII, and has made many presentations to state agencies in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, Michigan, Delaware and Pennsylvania.As one of the pioneers of multi-party site CERCLA compliance, Mr. Barbara has had experience in all aspects of Superfund Site management including ROD modification, compliance with federal and state Orders, remedy implementation, mixed funding, expert representation on consistency with the NCP, natural resource damages, and insurance litigation.Mr. Barbara’s project management experience ranges from on-site supervision of multi-million dollar remediation projects, wastewater treatment plant design and operation, solid waste management, and solid and hazardous waste permitting. He has managed the preparation of over 20 RCRA Part B permits for a variety of facilities. He has also provided training courses in hazardous waste management and CERCLA compliance, and is a frequent speaker on the topics of remedy modification and regulatory negotiation.Mr. Barbara had served as the Chairman of three PRP Committees in Delaware, responsible for the general operations, oversight, and monitoring of the Remedial Actions currently underway at these sites. He had also been retained to provide strategic and technical consulting to a group of private parties currently undertaking a multi-year RI/FS on a highly urbanized river system in the eastern United States.Specialties: Site investigation, selection of remedial technologies, regulatory negotiations, legacy site management, probabalistic cost analysis.

Listed skills include Regulatory Negotiations, Environmental Consulting, Negotiation, Risk Management, and 27 others.