Mr. Dlugos, a Project Manager with CEC, has over 18 years of experience in the environmental industry. He has managed a diverse range of projects including site investigation/remediation, solid waste landfill characterization/permitting, Phase I and II environmental site assessments, and environmental compliance reviews. Mr. Dlugos has provided comprehensive environmental services to the waste industry including permitting, environmental compliance, alternative contaminant source demonstrations, and special waste handling plans. He has also managed numerous Phase I/II environmental assessments at a variety of commercial and industrial sites, including mining, steel making/recycling, automobile shredding and recycling, commercial shopping centers, and dry cleaners. He has completed projects under a variety of state and federal regulatory programs, including RCRA, CERCLA, UST, NPDES, and US EPA Brownfields.

Vice President Bruce Dumdei, Ph.D., serves as the head of CEC’s Environmental Training Courses (ETC) program and the corporate leader of CEC’s Air Quality practice. He has more than 30 years of experience specializing in air permitting (state, NSR/Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), and Title V), compliance assistance, strategy development, regulatory negotiations, enforcement support, and professional training for industrial facilities. Dr. Dumdei provides expertise in the areas of major and minor permitting programs and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) regulations, including emission reporting and control methods. He is a national expert for the federal New Source Review (NSR) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) regulations. He also has expertise in the development of emissions inventories, including emissions calculation method development for criteria pollutants, air toxics, and greenhouse gas (GHG) pollutants, as well as the development of GHG compliance programs, and source and ambient air measurement programs.

Ms. Betts is a Professional Engineer with seven years of experience in environmental consulting. Ms. Betts manages and executes projects associated with remedial actions, Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), permitting, voluntary cleanups, and other environmental/engineering scopes of work. Ms. Betts has performed projects at an active steel mill, active gas stations, residential housing complexes, plating facilities, dry cleaning facilities, restaurants, affordable housing complexes, luxury townhomes, freight terminals, a development of single family homes, automobile repair facilities, and other various industrial and commercial facilities. Ms. Betts has extensive field experience and oversees the execution of field work performed by others. Some of Ms. Betts' field experience includes oversight of underground storage tank removals, engineered barrier installation, soil boring and monitoring well installation, and soil gas sampling; and performance of groundwater sampling and surface and subsurface soil sampling. Ms. Betts' responsibilities include client correspondence, correspondence with regulators and governing agencies, budget management, management of field activities, data evaluation, report preparation, conducting environmental risk assessments pursuant to state regulations, securing client reimbursement from state funds, and designing, planning and implementing various remediation strategies (e.g., excavation and disposal of both hazardous waste and non-hazardous/special waste soil, in-situ hazardous metal treatment, and engineered barrier installations). Ms. Betts has personally managed over 100 Phase II ESAs, 12 Leaking Underground Storage Tank closure projects, and 23 voluntary Site Remediation Program closure projects. She has obtained 28 No Further Remediation (NFR) letters from the Illinois EPA.