ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

CCCHSD would like to thank the following individuals for participating in and contributing to the development of the Contra Costa County CalARP Program Guidance Document. The development of the guidance document required each participant to devote a significant amount of personal time.  It also required the participants to be willing to listen to and accept concerns and points of view that were very different from their own.  The following committee and subcommittee members comprised the core group of individuals responsible for the development of the guidance document.

 

Steering Committee 
Howard Adams (Crockett Improvement Association/Tosco Rodeo)
Scott Etzel (Dow Chemical Co.)
Marj Leeds (Martinez Refining Co.)
Ralph Sattler (Citizens for a Safe Environment)
Billie Blanchard (Chevron Refinery Community Advisory Panel)

Communications Subcommittee
Marielle Boortz (Chevron Products Co.) 
Sabiha Gokcen (Tosco Refining Co.)
Howard Adams (Crockett Improvement Association/Tosco Rodeo Community Advisory Panel)
Bill Cullen (Contra Costa County Fire Protection District)
Ken Lopez (Kemwater)
June McCrea (BayArea Air Quality Management District)
Scott Etzel (Dow Chemical Co.)
Henry Clark (West County Toxics Coalition/Chevron Refinery Community Advisory Panel)
Valerie Gray (General Chemical)

Richard Stover (Levine-Frick Recon)
Tom Schaeberger (Rhodia)
Stewart Schultz (Hazardous Materials Commission)

Technical Subcommittee  Curtis Tong (Dow Chemical Co.)
Laura Brown (Martinez Refining Co.)
Steve Bruce (Tosco Refining Co.)
Ken Koop (Johns-Manville)
Dave Fontaine (Chevron Research and Technology Co.)
Gary Amideneau (Rhodia)
Al McNabney* (Audobon Society)
Rich Budler (Tosco Refining Co.)

Guidance Subcommittee Paul Borenstein (Tosco Refining Co.)
Eric Brink (Shell Chemical Co.)
Valerie Gray (General Chemical )
Jim Payne (Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers)
Ralph Sattler (Citizens for a Safe Environment)
Rob Wester

The following individuals also contributed to the development of the guidelines either through attendance of meetings or by reviewing the document and submitting comments.

Diane Spencer (Parsons Engineering Science Inc.)
Tom Lindemuth
Tim Storrs (Chevron Products Co.) 
Ken Axe (RRS Engineering)
Caryn DiLelio (General Chemical)
Chris Youngerman (Acutech)
Chris Blanchard (Acutech)
David Moore (Acutech)Mark Hughes (Martinez Refining Company)
Rod Satre (ATI Engineering)
Wilma Dreessen (Brown and Caldwell)
Jeff Creston (Comp, Dresser and McKee)
Gayle Johnson (EQE International Inc.) 
Leo Bragagnolo (EQE International Inc.)
Tim Scheckler (Federal Emergency Management Administration)
David Azarraga (John Swett School District)
Tim Kelly (Landa and Associates)

 

We would like to thank Tomi Van de Brooke of the PBN Company for the excellent job she did facilitating the Steering Committee meetings and a special joint subcommittee meeting.  We would also like to thank the members of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union for allowing us to use their facilities for conducting many of the steering committee and subcommittee meetings.

We wish to acknowledge the significant contribution of the USEPA.  A draft of the USEPA guidance document, General Guidance on Risk Management Programs, is the basis for this guidance document.  Much of the federal document language and intent was not changed; however, some sections were revised to reflect CalARP regulatory requirements and the guidance developed by the above committees for Contra Costa County.

*A special word of thanks is passed along for Al McNabney’s contributions, not only to the Technical Subcommittee, but also for his community efforts throughout the county.  Our best wishes are passed along to his family and friends