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APPENDIX A
<br />QUALIFICATIONS
<br />Joseph Scott Klingensmith, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.
<br />Dr. Klingensmith received a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Environmental Toxicology in 1982
<br />from the University Of Mississippi Medical Center. In 1982, he was awarded a National Institute
<br />of Environmental Health Sciences postdoctoral fellowship in environmental toxicology at
<br />Oregon State University. Dr. Klingensmith is aboard-certified toxicologist with over 20 years of
<br />experience in environmental toxicology and risk assessment. He is a full member of the
<br />Society of Toxicology, American College of Toxicology, and the Society for Risk Assessment.
<br />Dr. Klingensmith has published the results of his toxicology and risk assessment research in a
<br />number of peer-reviewed journals, served on expert panels for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and
<br />the State of Washington, and has held principal toxicologist positions in private industry, the
<br />Washington Department of Health, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For the
<br />past 14 years, Dr. Klingensmith has been an environmental toxicology consultant based in
<br />Boulder, CO, with local, national, and international clients. He is currently President and
<br />Principal Toxicologist of his own environmental toxicology consulting firm, Flatirons Toxicology,
<br />Inc. of Boulder, CO.
<br />Dr. Klingensmith's professional expertise is in the areas of general toxicology, risk assessment,
<br />and risk communication. He has broad experience in the derivation of human health criteria,
<br />implementation of innovative risk assessment methods for human health and ecological risks,
<br />negotiation of regulatory compliance requirements, and development of effective public
<br />outreach, medical monitoring, and risk communication programs. He has pertormed risk
<br />assessments in soil, food, water, air, and wildlife for hazardous waste sites, nuclear facilities,
<br />industrial plants, mining operations, landfills, incinerators, abandoned sewage treatment sites,
<br />sludge farms, chemical weapon releases and demilitarization activities, pesticide applications,
<br />manufacturing and accidental releases, as well as a number of worker, food and consumer
<br />product safety issues.
<br />Over the past decade, Dr. Klingensmith has been actively involved in both indoor and outdoor
<br />air risk issues. He has negotiated acute and chronic human health air criteria for a number of
<br />different exposure scenarios with federal, state, and local regulatory agencies, prepared and
<br />supervised air monitoring programs, identified air pollution control strategies for remediation
<br />programs, pertormed risk assessments for airborne exposure to ground water contaminants,
<br />participated in a major medical monitoring program related to airborne contaminants at a major
<br />Superfund site, and has made numerous air risk assessment presentations to citizen groups.
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