Jim Hutchens has over 25 years of environmental project management experience. His responsibilities have included budgeting, scheduling and technical quality assurance/quality control for subsurface investigations, site characterizations, feasibility studies and remediation system designs. Media of concern include sediment, groundwater, surface water and soil. Contaminants of concern include PCBs, dioxin, petroleum contaminants and chlorinated solvents. He has also been involved with regulatory agency negotiations for investigation and closure requirements on hundreds of contaminated sites. Jim has developed regulatory and permitting strategies and assisted in negotiations between government agencies and industry regarding compliance, investigation and remediation requirements. Jim has been active in brownfield redevelopment projects, including providing assistance with grant applications, conducting initial site assessments, identifying redevelopment opportunities and negotiating site-specific closures based on future site use.