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Committee to Evaluate the Science, Engineering, and
Health Basis of the Department of Energy's
Environmental Management Program

Synthesis Subcommittee

JOHN F. AHEARNE, Lecturer in Public Policy, Duke University
ANDREW P. CAPUTO, Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council
EDWIN H. CLARK II, President, Clean Sites, Inc.

DON CLAY, President, Don Clay Associates, Inc.

DOUGLAS M. COSTLE, Chairman and Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Communities

JAMES R. CURTISS, Attorney, Winston & Strawn

FRANK L. PARKER, Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Vanderbilt University

VICTORIA J. TSCHINKEL, Senior Consultant on Environmental Issues, Landers & Parsons

JOHN T. WHETTEN, Senior Applications Consultant, Motorola

Staff

Paul Gilman, Project Director

Deborah Stine, Project Coordinator

Patrick Sevcik, Project Assistant

Subcommittee on the Evaluation of Regulatory Measures

DON CLAY (Chair), President, Don Clay Associates, Inc.

ANDREW P. CAPUTO, Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

JAMES R. CURTISS, Attorney, Winston & Strawn

MARSHALL E. DRUMMOND, President, Eastern Washington University DANIEL S. MILLER, First Assistant Attorney General, Colorado

Department of Law

BERNARD J. REILLY, Corporate Council, DuPont Legal

MARY RIVELAND, Director, Washington State Department of Ecology

Staff

Ray Wassel, Senior Program Officer

Ruth Danoff, Project Assistant

Subcommittee on Priority-Setting, Timing, and Staging

EDWIN H. CLARK II (Chair), President, Clean Sites, Inc.

HUGH J. CAMPBELL, JR., Environmental Manager, DuPont
MARY R. ENGLISH, Associate Director, Energy, Environment, and
Resources Center, University of Tennessee

DONALD R. GIBSON, Department Manager, Systems Analysis, TRW
Environmental Safety Systems

ROBERT E. HAZEN, Chief, Bureau of Risk Assessment, New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection

THOMAS LESCHINE, Associate Professor, School of Marine Affairs,
University of Washington

ROBERT H. NEILL, Director, Environmental Evaluation Group, New
Mexico

LYNNE M. PRESLO, Senior Vice President, Technical Programs, Earth
Tech

ANNE E. SMITH, Principal and Vice President, Decision Focus, Inc. MERVYN L. TANO, General Counsel, Council of Energy Resource Tribes

Staff

Robert Andrews, Senior Program Officer

Patricia Jones, Project Assistant

Subcommittee on Utilization of Science, Engineering, and Technology

FRANK L. PARKER (Chair), Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Vanderbilt University

JOHN F. AHEARNE, Lecturer in Public Policy, Duke University CHARLES B. ANDREWS, Vice President, S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc. EDGAR BERKEY, President, National Environmental Technology

Applications Center, University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center HAROLD K. FORSEN, Senior Vice President (retired), Bechtel Hanford, Inc. WALTER W. KOVALICK, Director, Technology Innovation Office, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

MICHAEL L. MASTRACCI, Director, Innovative Technology Programs,
TECHMATICS, Inc.

PHILIP A. PALMER, Senior Environmental Fellow, DuPont Specialty
Chemicals, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

REBECCA T. PARKIN, Director of Scientific, Professional, and Section
Affairs, American Public Health Administration

ALFRED SCHNEIDER, Professor of Nuclear Engineering (retired),
Georgia Institute of Technology

CHRISTINE A. SHOEMAKER, Professor, School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

C. HERB WARD, Foyt Family Chair of Engineering and Director, Energy and Environmental Systems Institute, Rice University

JOHN T. WHETTEN, Senior Applications Consultant, Motorola

RAYMOND G. WYMER, Consultant, Chemical Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Staff

Stephen Parker, Associate Executive Director, CGER

Karyanil Thomas, Senior Program Officer

Anita Hall, Administrative Assistant

Subcommittee on Integration of Science, Engineering, and
Health in Program Implementation

VICTORIA J. TSCHINKEL (Chair), Senior Consultant on Environmental Issues, Landers & Parsons

BETSY ANCKER-JOHNSON, Vice President of Environmental Activities (retired), General Motors Corporation

PHILIP H. BRODSKY, Director, Corporate Research and Environmental Technology, Monsanto Company

DAVID S.C. CHU, Director, Washington Research Department, RAND BENJAMIN COSGROVE, Senior Vice President (retired), Boeing

Commercial Airplane Group

BRIAN COSTNER, Director, Energy Research Foundation

ROBERT C. FORNEY, Executive Vice President (retired), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

JAMES H. JOHNSON, JR., Professor and Acting Dean, School of

Engineering, Howard University

MILDRED MCCLAIN, Executive Director, Citizens for Environmental Justice

BERNICE K. MCINTYRE, President, B.K.McIntyre & Associates, Inc. MAXINE L. SAVITZ, General Manager, Ceramic Components, Allied Signal Aerospace Company

Staff

Tamae Maeda Wong, Senior Program Officer

Oversight Commission for

the Evaluation of the Science, Engineering, and Health Basis of the Department of Energy's Environmental Management Program

GEORGE M. HORNBERGER, Chairman and Professor, Department of Environmental Science, University of Virginia

TREVOR O. JONES, Chairman of the Board, Libby-Owens-Ford Company DANIEL L. MCFADDEN, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley

EMIL A. PFITZER, President, Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, Inc.

CHRIS G. WHIPPLE, Vice President, ICF Kaiser

Staff

E. William Colglazier, Executive Officer