RICHARD FORTUNA

Management Consulting in the Fields of Industrial Wastewater, Solid, Hazardous and Radioactive Waste... The President of SEA is Richard C. Fortuna. For the past 32 years, Mr. Fortuna has been one of the principal architects of the nation's preventive hazardous waste management policies. Mr. Fortuna is best known for his work in developing key provisions of the 1984 RCRA Amendments (i.e. the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments-HSWA), including the land disposal restriction, corrective action and "hammer" provisions, while serving on the House Energy and Commerce Committee under Congressman James Florio. In addition, Mr. Fortuna participated in the enactment of the original Superfund Act (i.e. CERCLA) in 1980, while a member of Congressman John J. Dingell's personal legislative staff, and contributed to the 1986 Superfund Reauthorization (SARA). Based on these and other legislative successes, a recent Brookings study identified "reducing exposure to hazardous waste" as one of the..

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