Regulatory management : a guide to conducting environmental affairs and minimizing liability

250 Pages·1991·4.25 MB·English

by  James T. Egan

Regulatory
Management
A Guide to
Conducting
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Environmenta 1
Affairs and
Minimizing
Liability
James T. Egan
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Egan, James T.
Regulatory management : a guide to conducting environmental affairs and
minimizing liability / by James T. Egan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87371-455-5
1. Environmental policy. 2. Environmental law. I. Title.
HC79.E5E34 1991
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Preface
Regulatory Management: A Guide to Conducting Environmental Affairs and
Minimizing Liability is a blend of information, technique, and philosophy. Its
purpose is to heighten awareness, to stimulate thought, to help set in motion the
processes that will develop real solutions to environmental/regulatory challenges,
and to assist in developing and instilling an active and proactive management style
that focuses on results while it minimizes liability.
This book is not a cookbook. Nor is it a book of precise instructions. Indeed,
it is meant to generate approaches that overcome rote application of monosolutions.
It does not provide all the answers. Rather, it underscores the resource needs,
offers techniques, shares approach philosophies, and seeks to initiate the commit-
ment and processes that will derive the answers appropriate to each specific
situation. It provides a structure with which to respond to and manage environ-
mental/regulatory issues and impacts.
Regulatory management calls for the establishment of partnerships between all
parties, including the natural environment. And it challenges those partnerships to
combine assets and efforts in a positive and productive manner, utilizing common
sense, to attain the environmental goals we have set for ourselves.
James T. Egan

Acknowledgments
My sincerest recognition to my colleagues in the City of Colorado Springs,
Department of Utilities, particularly my associates in the Wastewater Division,
whose creativity, commitment, and integrity have produced a corporate style
unique in its excellence and dedication to purpose. Special acknowledgment is
due the following people: Gene Michael, Max Grimes, and Tad Foster for review
of content, and Karen Geary for grammatical quality control.
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Author's Note
This book was written by James T. Egan, P.E., in his private capacity; he is
solely responsible for its content.
James T. Egan received a bachelor's degree in Civil
Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-
Platteville, and a master's degree in Civil Engineering
from Loyola University of Los Angeles. He is a regis-
tered Professional Engineer in Colorado and Califor-
nia and holds wastewater and water treatment plant
operator licenses in both states. He is currently the
Wastewater Division Superintendent, Department of
Utilities, City of Colorado Springs. Prior to taking this
position, Mr. Egan held positions with the City of Los
Angeles Bureaus of Engineering and Sanitation. He is
also President of Regulatory Management, Inc.
Mr. Egan's career encompasses 21 years of diversified and progressive respon-
sibility in public-sector engineering, management, and administration. He has
spent the last 14 years "living on the bull's-eye" managing municipal wastewater
utilities. His experience covers the full spectrum of responsibilities from planning
and design to project and operations management to personnel and contract
administration. He has also developed and implemented practical techniques for
meeting and managing environmental and regulatory challenges and has been
involved in numerous efforts to draft, modify, influence, and implement environ-
mental legislation and regulation at the local, state, and federal level.
Mr. Egan is a member of the Water Pollution Control Federation and was a
member of a Pollution Control Delegation to the People's Republic of China. He
is also a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.