Mr. Fossa has diverse experience in all aspects of air quality management from performing facility inspections and compliance assessments as both a regulatory and environmental consultant to managing the third largest air quality regulatory program in the nation. He has been at the forefront of evaluating air quality impacts from chemical process and heavy manufacturing industries. Mr. Fossa has anticipated the increased complexity of Clean Air Act requirements and has focused upon education and mentoring to assure successful compliance efforts are undertaken by clients. In addition, he has had extensive hands-on and management experience in air quality specialties such as stack testing, quantitative health risk assessment, site perimeter ambient air monitoring, landfill gas assessments, air quality impacts associated with hazardous waste site remediations, hazardous waste and municipal waste incinerator permitting and multi-media environmental site assessments, particularly for the chemical process industry. Mr. Fossa has been instrumental in the development of rational methods of regulating air toxic emissions from a diverse array of facilities ranging from dioxin emissions from municipal waste incinerators to perchloroethylene from dry cleaners. Special Project Experience: Oversaw adoption of operating permit rule (TitleV), the enhanced inspection and maintenance program in Metro New York City severe ozone non-attainment area. Emissions Reduction Credit registry created and an Interstate ERC trading agreement reached with Pennsylvania. Prepared VOC and NOx RACT plans for chemical manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey. Co-authored the Title V operating permit regulation for Puerto Rico. Department coordinator of more than 100 simultaneous RCRA and on and off-site clean-up activities at Eastman Kodak Park in Rochester, New York. Member of the Committee Internationale de Expert to the Province de Quebec for the Sainte Basille-la-Grand PCB warehouse fire outside Montreal in 1989 (3600 people evacuated from 1600 homes for more than a week), prepared the site study and remediation plan and reoccupancy plan. Co-Author of Air Guide 1 entitled Guidelines for the Control of Toxic Ambient Air Contaminants Principal regulator of the chemical process industry in the Niagara Frontier, which includes cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls: Member of a 4 man Regional Hazardous Incident Response team. Managed the first multi-facility air toxic impact assessment in the state for gaseous chlorine emissions from three heavy chemical manufacturing plants in Niagara Falls. Instructor of Air Quality Engineering and Air Quality Management Courses at SUNY at Brockport. Adjunct professor at RPI presenting Atmospheric Pollution Courses, 2000-present Project Manager of Fresh Kills Landfill gas recovery of treatment system involving NNSR & PSD issues in metro NYC Principal reviewer evaluating local air quality impacts for county, city and town clients associated with 8 Article X power plant siting projects in NYS. Project Manager for NYS cement manufacturing plant expansion involving NNSR and PSD issues. Professional Affiliations: Past President and Vice President of Albany Chapter of the Air and Waste Management Association; Technical Program Chairman of the first Annual Air Toxics Workshop sponsored by the Niagara Frontier Chapter of the Air Pollution Control Association. Selected Publications: "You have your Air Permit - Now what? - Monitoring recordkeeping and reporting requirements to show continuous compliance with CAAA90 Requirements, Mohawk Valley Environmental Information Exchange, October, 2001. "Incinerator Monitoring: How It's Done Today - A Governmental Perspective", presented at the MIT-sponsored Incinerator Monitoring Conference, June, 1990. Principal author of Dioxin Emissions Chapter of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement relating to the revised 6NYCRR Part 219 Regulation entitled, "Incinerators", NYSDEC, April, 1988. |