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WILLIAM
EDWARD McCRACKEN, Ph.D., P.E., CHMM, CSP
Dr. McCracken has over thirty years of experience in
the environmental remediation and emergency response field including:
program management of remediation activities; review, modification and
approval of remedial designs; implementation of remedial designs;
development and implementation of operations and maintenance plans for
remedial facilities; management of emergency response remedial
activities; preparation of remediation work plans and quality
assurance/control plans. He
has specific, relevant accomplishments that include:
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Program
Manager for a Region 2, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), Emergency Response Cleanup Service (ERCS) $9 Million
Contract (31 delivery orders from October, 1988 to December, 1991). |
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Managed
emergency response including remedial design implementation at NPL
sites in EPA Regions 2 and 3. |
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Founded
and developed S&D Environmental Services, Inc. into a $7
million a year hazardous waste site remediation and environmental
emergency response company. |
Selected
Experience
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S&D
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC.,
East Brunswick
,
New Jersey
, President and Founder. With
S&D, Dr. McCracken: Had on-site responsibility for managing
hazardous waste site remediation and emergency response to more
than 20 sites in EPA Region 11 and III including NPL sites
(including KinBuc, GEMS, Tyson and Harvey Knott sites).
Was
the Program Manager for the EPA Region 11, Emergency Response
Cleanup Services (ERCS) Contract (capped at $9 million, indefinite
delivery/indefinite quantity type contract) from October 1988 to
December 1991 with 31 delivery orders ranging in size up to $1.5
million.
He
has trained, equipped, and managed Project Managers who have in
turn managed and implemented remedial activities at hundreds of
sites throughout the EPA Region 11 area, mostly on an emergency
response basis without an OSHA recordable incident related to
chemical exposure.
Dr.
McCracken, over a 20-year period, has either personally directed
or overviewed projects that deal with the entire spectrum of
hazardous waste/material problems.
A listing of these include: training for RCRA
compliance, PCB-transformer inspections for spill risk
assessment, HW management plans, spill control plans, National
Priority Listed HW dumpsite cleanups; Kin-Buc, Picillo, Tyson,
Hayes Park, GEMS Landfill and Harvey Knott, and off-shore
incineration engineering design and environmental planning.
Projects include technical project management of a Subdrain
Trench Test Installation
for the collection of PCB-contaminated oil in
Elizabeth
,
N.J.
and overall project management for four remedial investigation
hazard assessments in
Newark
,
N.J.
He has been a Peer
Reviewer for the USEPA, MERL on "New Techniques for On-Site
Destruction and Disposal of Residuals of Hazardous Substances from
Spills or Waste Sites" and was a member of the Lone Pine
(NPL Site) Technical Review Committee.
He was a session chairman of two HW Conferences (1983).
He has instructed more than 1000 trainees on Hazardous
Waste Cleanup and emergency responses.
He was President of the Institute of Hazardous Material
Managers of New Jersey for four years.
As
the EPA Region 11 ERCS Program Manager (PM) for projects at more
than 30 hazardous waste sites; many of which were Superfund sites.
He assisted with preparing the Work Plans (WP) and Health
and Safety Plans (HASP) for many of these sites.
He has trained and developed Response Managers (RM's) for
ERCS work and generally over-seen all work under the delivery
orders to make sure that projects were conducted per the EPA
On-Scene Coordinator's (OSC) specifications and requests, and
according to the WPs and HASPs.
He also oversaw all cost controls, RCMS (EPA's computerized
cost control software package) usage, invoicing, budgets, and
schedules. He was also
the designated RM on several delivery orders including on-site RM
at Synkote Paints site for several hundred drums and containers of
HW repackaging, labeling, staging, and loading for transportation
and disposal. |
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ENGINEERING-SCIENCE,
1979 - 1980
McLean
,
Virginia
. Manager, Hazardous
Waste Management, Eastern Regional Office.
Responsible for projects for Federal, State and Local
governments and industry aimed at solving air and water quality
problems resulting from oil and hazardous materials pollution;
handling, treatment and disposal of toxic wastes and hazardous
waste management. Evaluation
of site pollution problems at various coal-oil mixture fired power
plants for the U.S. DOE. |
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PRINCETON
AQUA SCIENCE, INC., 1978 - 1979 New Brunswick, N.J. Vice
President, Hazardous Waste Management programs.
Assignments included development of hazardous waste management plans for
various chemical manufacturing plants in NJ; preliminary
development and design of
PAS's Environmental Park Project (Industrial Hazardous Waste
Treatment Facility), including physical, biological, and chemical
treatment of industrial hazardous waste with an incinerator and
landfill; assisting the Oceanographic Institute of Washington in a
study of Oil Spill Prevention and Control in the Columbia River
Basin area for the U.S. Coast Guard; assisting the Oceanographic
Institute of Washington in a study of Oil Spill Prevention and
Contingency Plans applied to the Northern Tier pipeline project
for the Bureau of Land Management; and development of SPCC plans
for various industrial clients.
Assisted in the design and overview of an in-situ
biological treatment system at Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. in
Waldwick
,
N.J.
Special consultant to
Middlesex
County
's Solid Waste Management Division to conduct site evaluations and
application reviews for T/S/D HW facility permits. |
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SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS, INC., 1977 - 1978 N.J. and
McLean
,
VA.
Senior Project
Manager. Responsible
for hazardous waste management programs, including development of
oil and brine pollution and spill disaster contingency plans at
Regional and site-specific levels for the Department of Energy
(DOE) Strategic Petroleum Reserve Operation (SPRO) in the Gulf
coast area; development of Spill Prevention Control and
Countermeasure (SPCC) plans for each DOE/SPRO storage site;
consultant for nationwide EPA funded study of small petroleum
facilities with problems complying with EPA's SPCC regulations (40
CFR 112); consultant for nationwide study of pipeline leaks and
leak detection problems for USEPA; assisting National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in their response to an
environmental assessment of major oil spill disasters (Argo
Merchant Spill, 1977); consulting with the NJDEP on spill risk
analysis and chemical vaporation/diffusion modeling for air
pollution and carcinogenic effects; feasibility study of
biological decontamination of PCB infested soil in NJ for Geraghty
and Miller; preparation of SPCC plans for several commercial
petroleum facilities in NJ; planning and scoping a waste acid
recovery facility for a commercial client in NJ; Oil Spill
Prevention and Response Plans including response equipment
specification and training program for DOE/PERC, Pittsburgh. |
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MASON
& HANGER‑SILAS MASON CO., INC., (May) 1974 - (Feb) 1977
Leonardo
,
N.J.
at NWS Earle Facility Manager (Transfer within the Company).
Responsible for all test projects, R/D projects and
engineering technology at the EPA test facility, OHMSETT, where
Mason & Hanger‑Silas Mason Co., Inc. was the operating
contractor (GOCO operation). Projects
included: full scale testing of commercial and developmental
devices for the control and removal of oil and hazardous chemicals
under conditions similar to actual field use environments (waves,
waterways, currents, etc.) and associated R/D projects designed to
advance the State-of-the-Art in equipment design and performance,
understanding the polluting substance and testing techniques.
His work in that capacity included personnel evaluation,
budget planning, test planning and implementation, preparing the
facility SPCC plan, representing EPA at ASTM, developing on-site
hydrodynamic turbulence and wave measuring capabilities,
developing statistical testing methods, managing the production of
two professional motion pictures of OHMSETT testing and the on-site
development of under-water video taping capabilities for flow
characterization studies. Wrote
all test plans and wrote and/or edited all technical reports and
papers (approximately 20). |
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MASON
& HANGER‑SILAS MASON CO., INC., (April) 1972 - (May)
1974
Lexington
,
Kentucky
(Corporate Headquarters). Consulting
Staff Engineer/Assistant Project Coordinator.
Design Office where his consulting experience in the fields
of pollution control and chemical processes included DOD
Ammunition Plant acid and fume recovery systems (first of their
kind in the USA), production of 63% nitric acid with only 200 ppm
NOx (no abatement system necessary), preliminary design of a coal
gasification process and plant, using existing technology and
applicable to utilization of Kentucky coal, and a DOD facility
metal plating gaseous emissions and liquid effluent pretreatment
system. The acid and fume recovery plants (AFRs) were each
designed to recover/produce 163,000 ton/yr 100% H2SO,
and 25,000 ton/yr 100% HN03 at JAAP and VAAP.
They included a John Zink incinerator system, designed to
maintain NOx and SOx emissions below 200 ppm, with a Waste Heat
Recovery system producing 46,8000 lb/hr of 180 psig.
saturated steam. He
also developed a computer program (Wang; Fortran) to model the
counterflow nitric acid fume/water adsorption system incorporated
in the AFRs. |
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E.I.
DuPONT deNEMOURS & COMPANY, 1969 - 1972
Chattanooga
, TN. Research Engineer: responsible for the development and
improvement of new and existing (textile) fiber products and
processes at the technical research level.
This included semi-works phase development to determine
feasibility and commercial phase development, if feasible.
Computer programs were used for modeling the heat transfer
effects and for statistical design of pilot tests and analysis of
the results. |
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HERRICK
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL LABORATORY 1966 - 1969 at
Purdue
University
. Graduate Assistant
in Industrial Research. Developed
a computer modeling methodology and a unique numerical analysis
technique for the simultaneous solution of the coupled, nonlinear
heat energy and mass transfer equations at more the 2,000 nodes.
A rather sophisticated computer program was developed for
the calculations. This
was successfully applied to a state of the art thermoproperties
measuring instrument to help improve the state-of-the-art in
measurement accuracy. |
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WENNER-GREN
BIOMECHANICAL LABORATORY 1965-1966 at the
University
of
Kentucky
. Research Assistant.
Designed and conducted NASA sponsored biomechanical
vibrational tests. Statistical
methods were used for test repeatability. |
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HIGHWAY
RESEARCH LABORATORY, 1964 - 1965
University
of
Kentucky
. Engineering Aide
analyzing soils and highway materials for the State Highway
Department. Conducted
laboratory analyses of various soils and aggregates.
Assisted with field investigations of interstate highway
base-soil stability problems. |
PROFESSIONAL
REGISTRATIONS/AFFILIATIONS
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OPA
90 Qualified Individual -
Massachusetts
Maritime Academy,
February 19, 1999
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USCG
Captain's License - Serial Number 999095,
March 8, 1999
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Registered
Professional Engineer (NJ No. 21804, Pennsylvania No. 35049E, NY |
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No.
63036-1, Kentucky, Tennessee, Puerto Rico and Virginia |
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Certified
Safety Professional ID #8716 |
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Certified
Hazardous Materials Manager (Master's Level) |
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
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Peer
Review Report on: "New Techniques for On-site Destruction and
Disposal of Residuals of Hazardous Substances from Spills on Waste
Sites - Phase 1 ", for EPA MERL, Edison, NJ, April, 1983,
Contract No. 68-03-3135. |
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Peer
Review Report on: "Field Application of Treatment
Technologies for Removal of Volatile Organics from Water",
for EPA HWERL, Edison, NJ, March, 1986. |
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Report
on the "Review of NIOSH CERCLA Comprehensive Guidance Manuals
for Activities on Haz/Waste Site (Superfund related).
NIOSH-CDC/Robert Taft Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, January,
1984. |
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"Wastewater
Treatment Control Technologies and Applications to Coal Conversion
Processes", DOE/PERC, 1978. |
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
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"A
study of Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC)
Practices at Small Petroleum Facilities", 1979 Oil Spill
Conference. |
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"Underground
Hazardous Chemical Spills from Industrial Subsurface Systems: A
case Study", 1979 Conference on Hazardous Material Risk
Assessment, Disposal and Management, Miami, FL (Biocraft Cleanup). |
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Toxic
Gas Collection and Treatment System at an Uncontrolled Superfund
Site, 1986 7th National SUPERFUND Conference & Exhibition. |
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Many
other publications and presentations as available upon request |
EDUCATION/TRAINING
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Ph.D./1969/Purdue
University/Mechanical Engineering |
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M.S./1967/University
of Kentucky/Mechanical Engineering |
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B.S./l965/University
of Kentucky/Mechanical Engineering |
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