Michael C. Nines

Biography:

Michael Nines joined Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP in 2005 as an in-house technical consultant. Michael has over nine years of diverse environmental engineering experience gained through previous employment in the chemical manufacturing industry, environmental consulting, and with a specialty-batch chemical manufacturing trade association.

Michael's experiences have enabled him to become proficient in complex multi-media environmental issues through "real-world" experiences in the manufacturing and production sectors. He currently provides technical assistance to the firm's attorneys regarding complex manufacturing processes and multi-media pollution control. Specific project experiences have included the following:

• air quality permitting, applicability reviews, and compliance strategies for multiple source categories;
• environmental, health, safety, and security management systems implementation for continuous improvement and reduction of enterprise risk management;
• Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ("EPCRA") compliance reporting and management;
• National Pollution Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES") permitting, compliance strategies, and applicability determinations;
• Process Safety Management ("PSM") implementation and applicability determinations;
• site investigation and remedial selection strategies;
• environmental due diligence and corporate transactional risk strategies;
• hazardous waste management compliance, permitting, and minimization strategies;
• emergency planning and site-specific implementation, such as Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure ("SPCC") planning; and
• wastewater pre-treatment applicability and compliance.

Michael also has a wide range of experience and professional training with technical software packages such as the AERMOD/ISC3 air dispersion model, PHAST (Process Hazard Analysis Software Tool), RMP Comp (off-site consequence analysis tool), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Water 8 and Water 9 emission models, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection RADIUS air permitting and emission statement software, Quick Domenico fate and transport model, and PENTOX surface water model.

Education:

• Drexel University, B.S. (civil/environmental engineering), 1998

Memberships:

• Air & Waste Management Association
• Water Environment Federation
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers
• Auditing Roundtable