Environmental Progress - Fall 2001

Employees of the Month

Editor's Note: Each month the Illinois EPA recognizes outstanding employees for making quality part of every job they do. Three recent honorees are listed below.

Dawn Hollis was the EOM for June 2001. Dawn works as an environmental legal investigator in the Division of Legal Counsel.

She was deeply involved in the compliance follow-up for a massive Amoco enforcement project. Under a very tight deadline, the Division of Legal Counsel received multiple Environmental Land Use Controls from Amoco under a remediation consent order. Dawn analyzed the ELUCs and produced a final analysis in a timely manner.

For violations involving leaking underground storage tanks, Dawn initiated a document search by the Office of the State Fire Marshal, organized databases for each site, then prepared graphics detailing the information for enforcement consideration.

Charlene Ann Falco was the EOM for July. Charlene works for the Bureau of Land, federal sites remediation section. Her work in achieving a timely 100 percent property transfer milestone for the Glenview Naval Air Station and Libertyville Naval Training Base closure sites is considered a national benchmark. She is project manager for another closure site, the Savanna Army Depot, the second site in the nation to establish a SMART team to deal with unexploded ordnance contamination. Charlene is part of a team developing ecological risk assessment regulations for a Bureau of Land initiative, leads a subgroup compiling Tier I objectives and is a member of the National Ecological Soil Screening Levels Workshop.

Karl Kaiser was the EOM for August. Karl works for the Bureau of Land, Leaking Underground Storage Tank Section. He was recognized for all-round professionalism and his work as a mentor for new employees in the LUST section. He works as a liaison between the section and the Office of the State Fire Marshal, coordinating requests for information, maintaining a OSFM facility listing log and updating Agency staff on OSFM issues. He coordinated efforts involving the Agency and the Office of the Illinois Attorney General to secure remediation of MTBE contamination of a public water supply well in East Alton.