Project Manager Management

JEFFREY A. KOGUT, P.G.

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An accomplished Geologist and Environmental Manager with track record of managing projects to ensure compliance and minimize liabilities. Licensed Professional Geologist with expertise in site investigation and assessment, soil and groundwater remediation, remediation system operations and maintenance,site audits, technical report writing and reviewing and State and Federal Agency interaction and negotiations. Functional strengths:

• Project and Program Management

• State and Federal Agency Negotiations

• Regulatory and Permit Compliance

• Technical Presentations

• Consultant Management and Oversight

• Technical Oversight & Strategy

• Safety Statistics & Metrics

• Budgeting and Cash Flow Management

• Team Building& Mentoring

• Site Audits

• Scope of Work Determination

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

• Clean Water Act (CWA)

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

• Resource Conservation and Reclamation Act (RCRA)

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

• Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know (EPCRA)

• Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)

• Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Planning (RMP)

• Environmental Reserve Estimation in Accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

Professional Experience

GLENN SPRINGS HOLDINGS, INC. (Subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum) 2008 - Present

Environmental Project Manager

Manage strategy, technical plans, budgets and consultants to bring historical environmental liabilities at portfolio of legacy sites throughout United States to closure. Responsible for Federal, State and Local environmental regulations and permits. Consult with upper management and internal compliance auditors, and manage outside relationships with consultants, regulators, local communities and other interests.

• Estimate environmental reserves in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) for 12 to 15 sites for 18-years out

• Provide quarterly updates on environmental budgets and reserves, reasonablepossible exposure and cash flow

• Manage environmental consultants and project portfolio of 12 to 15 active sites with environmental reserves of $23.0MM

Concurrent projects and accomplishments:

Project Manager, Chlorinated Solvent Impacted Site, Belle, West Virginia

This site is a former chemical plant with operations dating back to early 1900’s with a significant source area of dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) and impacted groundwater adjacent to a large river.

• Demonstrated ineffectiveness of existinginterim corrective measures and convinced EPA to re-open consideration of alternative final measures

• Gained technical impracticability (TI) for restoration of groundwater to drinking water standards

• Presented and won approvalin Final Site-Wide CMS for final remedy consisting of containment around DNAPL source area with vegetative uptake and monitored natural attenuation (MNA) for peripheral areas

• Participated and supported local community awareness group

• Reduced long-term environmental reserve by 40%

Project Manager, Mercury and Chlorinated Solvent Assessment and Remediation, Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Former Chlor-Alkali Plant with wide-spread subsurface impact from elemental mercury and carbon tetrachloride.

• Demonstrated by treatability study that single stream treatment technology was appropriate to address multiple contaminants

• Worked with State agency to adopt existing ICMs to Final Measures under RCRA and thus avoid the time and cost associated with a Corrective Measures Study (CMS)

• Negotiated reduced scope of work by revising RCRA Hazardous Waste Permit

• Managed consultant preparation of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Renewal

• Won agency approval for placement of 25 acre soil cover over former process areas to close 14 solid waste management units (SWMUs), and ensure generation of clean storm water flow

Project Manager, Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) Remediation under CERCLA, Hicksville, New York

Former manufacturing plant (NPL listed) that historically discharged process waters impacted with VCM through dry wells in heavily urban area of Long Island that depends on municipal wells for drinking water.

• Managed O&M, reporting, EPA interaction and participation in the local Technical Advisory Council

• Won approval from EPAfor use of permeable diffusion bag samplers in lieu of low-flow sampling that provided annual savings of $175M in labor on groundwater sampling

• Managed $3.0MM expansion of treatment system

SESTECH ENVIRONMENTAL 2003 - 2008

Senior Geologist

Develop and manage strategy for completion of complex investigations, provide oversight of junior professional staff and ensure quality and timeliness of project delivery.

Concurrent projects and accomplishments:

Project Manager, Chlorinated Solvent Assessment and Remediation, Southington, Connecticut

Former aircraft manufacturing plant with over 75 solid waste management units (SWMUs) and areas of concern (AOCs) in a redeveloping residential area served by municipal wells. Completed complicated and phased site assessment and redevelopment plan that involved the:

• Revision of existing consent order;

• Design and installation of multiple well clusters;

• Computer modeling of groundwater to demonstrate effect of long-term pumping of nearby production wells;

• Three-dimensional data depiction of plume geometry;

• Designation of environmental land use restrictions to prevent future owners from disturbing remaining secondary sources of chlorinated solvents; and

• Presentations to stake holders to provide comfort level needed for sale and redevelopment

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Geology, University of South Florida

Master of Science in Geology Course Work, Mississippi State University

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Technical Writing - 2002

HAZWOPER Instructor (20 CFR 1910.1) - 2001

OSHA 8 Hour Supervisor Training - 2001

Fractured Bedrock Geology - 2000

Introduction to Computer Modeling - 1999

Aquifer Pump Test Design - 1998

8-hour Annual OSHA Refresher - 1986 to Present

OSHA 40-Hour - 1985

CERTIFICATIONS, REGISTRATIONS AND LICENSES

Licensed Professional Geologist - North Carolina (by examination)

Licensed Professional Geologist - South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas (reciprocity)

AFFILIATIONS

Texas Groundwater Professionals & Dallas Paleontological Society

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