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Nick Albergo is the CEO of HSA Engineers & Scientists. The firm has 200 employees and six offices. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil, environmental, and chemical engineering, and is Board certified. He has provided expert testimony in many complicated litigation matters in the United States and abroad. He assisted in drafting the Florida Dry Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Program Statutes and Rules, and was a primary author of the ASTM Phase I All Appropriate Inquiry Standard (AAI). He has chaired several scientific conferences, and has over 150 technical publications to his credit. Currently, he serves on both the ASTM and National Groundwater Association Brownfields Task Forces assisting EPA in the negotiated rulemaking process for AAI, and teaches the ASTM Standards, on behalf of ASTM, throughout the country.

David L. Metzger, Esq., is a founder of Metzger & Richters, LLP, located in Hartford, Connecticut. His firm represents and counsels management in labor and employment matters and related litigation. Prior to opening his own firm, Mr. Metzger practiced at the national labor and employment defense firm of Jackson Lewis Schnitzler and Krupman, and was a partner with Siegel, O'Connor, Schiff & Zangari, P.C., a Connecticut firm concentrating on labor and employment defense. Mr. Metzger has served as Chief of Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement, for the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. He served on the Task Force on the CHRO Hearing Process and was a member of the Americans with Disabilities Act Drafting Committee to the Connecticut Law Revision Commission. He is a member of the Hartford County Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. He received his law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he also obtained his bachelor of arts degree.

Gregor I. McGregor, Esq., is the founding partner of the Boston environmental law firm of McGregor & Associates, P.C., established in 1975. McGregor & Associates specializes in all aspects of environmental law, real estate, and related litigation in federal and state courts and before government agencies. Prior to 1975, McGregor was an assistant attorney general and the first chief of the Division of Environmental Protection in Massachusetts. McGregor's cases in court over the past 30 years have broken new legal ground in the fields of wetlands protection, environmental impact statements, hazardous waste liability, home rule powers of municipalities, and the doctrine of regulatory "takings." As a member of government task forces and advisory groups, McGregor has assisted in drafting or implementing environmental statutes and regulations on hazardous waste cleanups, toxic tort liability, emergency management, underground tanks, agency enforcement, environmental review procedures, tidelands and waterways, wetlands protection, and wildlife preservation. McGregor has written and spoken widely on environmental subjects.

Jim Harris is the founder of Harris, DeVille & Associates (HDA), a full-service communications firm specializing in issues management. Harris has more than 30 years of experience working in all facets of governmental and public affairs. Prior to establishing HDA, he served as a working member of the media, press secretary to a Louisiana governor, and he held key management positions in several state agencies, including those managing transportation, health, economic development, and environmental quality. In addition, Harris specializes in political and media consultation and has served as a campaign coordinator in several statewide elections.

Norman S. Wei is the principal and founder of Environmental Management and Training, LLC., a consulting firm in Union, Washington. He offers public and in-house seminars on environmental regulations throughout the country. He has over 28 years of experience as an environmental manager in the manufacturing industry and as a consultant. From 1989 to 1998, he was the senior corporate environmental manager at a Fortune 500 company where he was responsible for environmental compliance programs at 15 facilities worldwide, including hazardous wastes management.

Richard L. Fisk, most recently served as senior vice president of the Brady Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with which he was associated for 25 years, and as president of the Brady Direct Marketing Group a business-to-business, direct marketing arm of the publicly traded Brady Corporation (NYSE BRC). Mr. Fisk successfully started direct marketing and fulfillment operations in Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and a number of locations in Europe as well as the United States. Prior to his Brady affiliation, Mr. Fisk served as vice president of Marketing for Kleer-Vu Industries and as general manager of Watts Business Forms. He currently also serves as director of several organizations: Myron Manufacturing of Maywood, New Jersey; The Wisconsin Cheeseman of Sun Prairie; Wall Family Enterprise of Madison, Wisconsin; and American Hotel Register Company of Chicago. He formerly served as a director of Medical Arts Press of Minneapolis, Minnesota, National Business Furniture Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has been chairman of the National Business Direct (Marketing) Group. He received his master degree in business administration from Georgia State University and a B.A. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as well as serving in the U.S. Army ranked as a first lieutenant.