ENFORCE26917

• Permit No: M1988112
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Date: 8/17/1992
• Doc Name: SERVICES & QUALIFICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS SCIENCE & POLICY
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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^ Jcel Smith, Senior Associate. Mr. Smith es an expert on global climate change impacts and
adaptation. Prior to joining RCG/Hagler, Bailly, Mr. Smith worked for the EPA for eight years ,
where he served most recently as the Deputy Director of the Climate Change Division. In this
capacity, Mr. Smith worked with EPA Regions, states, and private industry to examine cost-effective
repooses to climate change. He is coeditor of EPA's Report to Congress: The Potential Effects

of Global Climate Change on the United States. published in 1990, and of a forthcoming book, to '
be: publshed by Cambridge University Press, on international impacts of climate change that covers
a range of topics including agriculture, sea level rise, water resources, forests, biodiversity, human '
health, fisheries and electricity demand. He has made numerous presentations on water resources
and climate change to international and domestic audiences including the National Conferena~ of
State Legislatures, the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences, and the American

Fisheries Society. Mr. Smith also bas expertise in the areas of ocean dumping of municipal wastes, ,
ocean incineration of hazardous wastes, and sewage treatment. Smith received his M.P.P in public
policy From the University of Michigan and his B.A. in poetical science from Williams College. ,
^ Doug Beltman, Associate. Mr. Hellman is an ecologist with special expertise in the areas of
terrestrial ecology, risk assessment, and hazardous waste site ecological assessment. Prior to joining

RCG/Hagler, Bailly, Mr. Hellman was an ecologist with the Office of Superfund in Region V of the '
EPA. In this capacity, he was responsible for reviewing project design and field sampling plans and
providing technical recommendations on Superfundand RCRA ecological assessments. Mr. Hellman

also conducted wetlands deeneations and functional assessments for numerous hazardous waste sites '
to aid in remedial decision making. He served as a principle contact between the regional Superfund
program and natural resource trustees and provided technical assistance in legal negotiations with
potentially responsible parties. Mr. Hellman holds an M.S. in ecology from the University of ,
Wisconsin and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Rochester.
^ Katherine D. Ix Jeune, Associate. Ms. Le Jeune is an environmental scientist specializing 1
in forest ecology and community and landscape ecology. She is currently conducting research on the
impacts of hazardous substances at Superfund sites on soils, plant communities, and wildlife '
populations. Ms. Le Jeune has modeled growth patterns in forests to identify the mechanisms and
influences controlling forest development, and she has collaborated with NASA to establish
permanent study plots for remote monitoring of forest response to climate change in the boreal wne. '
Ms. Le Jeune bolds M.S. and B.A. degrees in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia.
^ Eloise Trabka, Associate. Ms. Trabka is an economist with expertise in regional economics, '
econometric modelling and forecasting. She is currently conducting benefitcost analyses for the U.S.
Endvonmental Protection Agency related to water quality improvements from the control of point ,
and nonpoint sources of water pollution. Ms. Trabka is also involved in work assessing the equity
impecations of changes to the funding mechanism for municipal wastewater treatment facilities, and
providing litigation support for a case concerning DBCP contamination of groundwater. Her '
previous experience includes forecasting revenues for the State of Colorado, and regional economic
modeling work for research underway at the University of Colorado. Ms. Trabka holds a M.A. in
Economics From the University of Colorado-Boulder and a B.A. in Ewnomics from the University '
of Rochester.
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