Specialties
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Compliance and Auditing; Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Compliance and Reporting; Hazardous Waste Management; Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Planning; Industrial Stormwater and Wastewater Permitting and Compliance; Environmental Due Diligence; and Air Permitting and Compliance.
Practice Areas
Environmental Management; Water Management
Education
BS Engineering (Civil), Environmental Emphasis, University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, 1994
Registration
Professional Engineer: Wisconsin #33615-6, Illinois #062.054391, and Michigan #6201070650; Certified Hazardous Materials Manager #08882
Client Service
Ken listens to his clients’ challenges and creatively identifies best-value solutions that fit current practices and meet business objectives. He often works with manufacturers of metals, chemicals, industrial valves, optical lenses, agricultural tractors, electrical transformers, chemicals, pigments, paper coatings, semiconductors, display cases, doors, and consumer products, as well as with makers of iron, steel, and aluminum castings. His clients include hospitals, municipalities, airline maintenance hangars, logistics companies, beer malting facilities, and metal sintering operations.
Clients know Ken as a subject matter expert in Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) compliance and reporting. He offers deep experience in Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) compliance; EHS auditing and compliance; spill prevention, control, and countermeasure (SPCC) plan development; and professional engineer certification. He also advises on hazardous waste management for manufacturers and for treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs). Ken has substantial experience with air permitting, emissions, and compliance with industrial stormwater and wastewater management.
In addition to his consulting work, for three years Ken was the Technical Regulatory Services Manager for a nationwide chemical manufacturer and distributor. There, he was responsible for EPCRA, SPCC, risk-management-program, process-safety-management, Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Standard (CFATS), air, and leak detection and repair (LDAR) compliance for all 12 facilities. He also managed air, wastewater, and stormwater permit compliance for these facilities.
On behalf of manufacturers and other corporate clients, Ken makes complex projects concisely understandable and streamlines environmental management practices. For chemical manufacturing facilities, Ken has led responses to Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) notices of violations and findings of violations (NOVs and FOVs), working with internal and external legal counsel and negotiating settlement agreements with state and federal environmental agencies. Ken has handled TRI back-reporting, including eDisclosures under USEPA’s Audit Policy, for 45 diverse manufacturing facilities under one corporate umbrella. Ken also supports litigation on compliance topics including TRI, NOV response, and air-related NOVs.
To advance the state of the practice, Ken speaks to environmental practitioners seeking Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) certification at a three-day course on SPCC. In addition, he presents for the Wisconsin Federation of Environmental Technologists and speaks at the Midwest Environmental Compliance Conference on topics such as EPCRA/TRI, environmental reporting, risk management plans, and how to minimize the environmental footprint of facilities.
Contact Ken at KYass@Geosyntec.com, 1-414-918-7484, or 262-424-7136.
