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EQS Expert Witness Statement Of Qualifications
Objective:
Provide expert witness testimony in cases involving hazardous materials, hazardous waste, and chemical risk assessment.
EQS Expert Witness Statement Of Qualifications
EQS provides expert witness testimony in cases involving hazardous materials,
hazardous waste, risk assessment and management, and loss prevention. EQS has
supplied expert witness services to clients facing multiple felony counts and
represented clients facing hundreds of thousand of dollars in fines and
penalties. Our expert witness experience includes providing expert witness
opinion on complex environmental law. See: http://eqsinc.com/Witness/Expert
Witness.htm for detailed Curriculum
Vitae.
Expert Witness Experience
Provided expert witness testimony in the trial for what Terrance Hallinan,
District Attorney of San Francisco County called the “worst environmental
crime” in the history of San Francisco. In the preliminary hearing EQS
personnel testified as an expert witness for the defense for one hour of direct
examination and four hours of cross-examination.
In the People of the State of California vs. L. D. Hillman, the defendant,
the owner of a manufacturing facility, was charged with five felonies of
hazardous waste and hazardous substance law. The defendant faced up to 15 years
in prison for these violations. The violations were as follows: H&S 25189.5
improper storage, transportation, and disposal of hazardous waste;
H&S25189.5(b) abandonment of hazardous waste; H&S 25189.5(c) labeling,
placarding, or manifesting requirements of hazardous waste; H&S 25189.5(d)
improper storage; H&S 25189.6 reckless handling and storage of a hazardous
waste; and PC 374.8 deposit of a hazardous substance on a highway.
Administrative Hearings
Represented semiconductor manufacture at administrative hearings of the
California Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC), negotiating monetary
fines and penalties down to mitigating measures and compliance schedule and
program implementation. Reviewed laboratory analytical and geological data,
preformed site inspection and completed Phase I as required for compliance.
Negotiated disputed hazardous waste tax liabilities for the generation of
hazardous waste with the DTSC Senior Counsel and the State Board of Equalization
(BOE) reducing liabilities from $64,000 to $16,000 in one case, and resulting in
the removal of a $250,000 lien in another.
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