Sam Cudney

Salley Trefethen | Amelia Klauser
Cale Swanson
| Jane Cudney
Wendy Alexander

Sam Cudney Program Manager
B.S., Atmospheric Science
32 yrs.
Contact:
sam@enservice.com

ABOUT SAM

Education and Affiliations
  • B.S. Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, 1972
  • Qualified Environmental Professional, QEP11930047
  • Member Air & Waste Management Association, New Mexico Chapter
  • Member, Air & Waste Management Association, New Mexico Chapter Member
  • American Meteorological Society
  • Chairman, Air Quality Subcommitte, New Mexico Oil and Gas Association
Special Expertise
  • Air dispersion modeling, permitting and compliance for sources including power plants, industrial facilities, petroleum processing facilities, mines, and remediation sites
  • Environmental project management including air quality permitting, air quality monitoring programs, and compliance studies
  • Expert Witness Testimony
  • Emissions and ambient monitoring
  • Environmental site assessments and regulatory compliance audits
  • Design and implementation of environmental compliance programs, including hazardous waste, SARA, underground storage tanks, air emissions, and emergency response programs

Capabilities and Accomplishments

Responsible for:

  • Cost, schedule, and overall performance of environmental projects
Responsibilities include:
  • Proposal and budget preparation; assembling and managing project teams composed of scientific and technical specialists; providing guidance, regulatory, and technical expertise; and communicating with clients and regulatory agencies
Recent projects managed and participated in include:
  • Expert witness testimony on air quality issues for three mines and a foundry
  • Regulatory and compliance negotiation for industrial, mining, manufacturing, and petroleum clients
  • Participation in industry-agency negotiation of air quality permit program structure
  • Clean Air Act, SARA, RCRA, CERCLA, and UST consulting and documentation including permitting, inventorying, auditing, and compliance documentation
  • Compliance audits for petroleum, mining, and manufacturing facilities
  • Experienced air dispersion modeler with 28 years experience in the southwestern United States
  • Managed, conducted, or participated in hundreds of air quality permitting activities, including Title V, PSD, minor source, streamlined, modeling studies, and remediation site permitting
  • Participated in model development and validation studies. Fully familiar with technical and regulatory aspects of air pollution
  • Performed on-site management of ambient air quality monitoring programs, including PSD monitoring programs, compliance monitoring, and model validation studies
  • Designed monitoring installations, including custom-design of monitoring equipment, data logging and telemetry systems, and data handling procedures
  • Provided complete turn key integrated permitting service for natural gas facilities, including air emissions permits, OCD discharge plans, SWPP plans, SARA and TSCA reporting, etc.
  • Monitored non-traditional air pollutants, including background noise levels; volatile organic compounds and light hydrocarbons; condensation nuclei concentrations; plume opacity; and plume dispersion and chemical aging studies
  • Developed and published new gas chromatographic technique for rapid concentration and separation of very low levels of light hydrocarbons in air
Expertise in a wide range of other environmental regulations:
  • Performed environmental site assessments for property transfers of complete gas gathering and processing systems
  • Developed comprehensive spill and emergency response plans and environmental procedures manuals
  • Conducted preliminary Superfund site assessment
  • Managed UST and SARA compliance for a large utility

Sam Cudney

This is what Sam would like you
to think he looks like.
Salley Trefethen | Amelia Klauser
Cale Swanson
| Jane Cudney
Wendy Alexander

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