GEORGE WEBER: RESUME

1275 Chambers Drive | Boulder, Colorado 80305 | 303/494-8572

EXPERTISE

• Analyzing and facilitating stakeholders to support collaborative action on environmental problems.
• Source Water and Wellhead Assessment and Protection.
• Environmental policy analysis, evaluation, and implementation.
• Regional and land use planning, and community development.
• Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessments and Emergency Response Plans.

EDUCATION

• M.P.A., Public Administration, University of Colorado.
• M.A., Geography, University of Colorado.
• B.A., Geography, University of Chicago.
• Trained and certified to apply RAM-W, developed by Sandia National Laboratories.
• Trained and granted continuing education credits in the computerized VSAT method for developing vulnerability assessments and emergency response plans for drinking and wastewater systems.
• OSHA 40-Hour Hazardous Materials Health and Safety Training Course.
• Continuing education in geographic information systems (GIS) and community economic development.

PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

• Authored, co-authored, or directed development of more than 60 publications and reports.

PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND CONFERENCES CONDUCTED

• Planned, developed, conducted, and/or facilitated 19 presentations, workshops, and conferences.

PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES

• Appointed to Colorado Source Water Assessment and Protection Program Design Team.
• Appointed to Colorado Source Water Assessment and Protection Technical Advisory Team.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Renew America's 'Certificate of Excellence for Environmental Sustainability Award' (1997).
• Colorado Governor's 1996 Smart Growth Award for Pollution Prevention.
• Colorado Chapter, American Planning Association 1996 Best Student Project Award.
• Pi Alpha Alpha, Public Administration Honor Society (National and Colorado Chapters).
• Listed in 1987-88 'Who's Who in Colleges and Universities'.
• University of Chicago Merit Scholar.
• Illinois State Scholar.

GEORGE WEBER EXPERIENCE: NARRATIVE SUMMARY

George Weber is a consultant with more than 30 years of experience specializing in environmental policy analysis, planning, and implementation; stakeholder involvement and training; natural resource management; and community development and regional planning. He has managed or participated in more than 50 projects supporting federal, Tribal, state, and local government agencies, and business and special interest group clients. He has authored, coauthored, or directed development of more than 60 reports and publications, and has planned and conducted, presented, or facilitated at 19 conferences, workshops, panels, or significant meetings.

Currently, his practice is organized as a Sub-Chapter S corporation. Prior to this, he served as Director of Environmental Policy Analysis and Management Programs at the Center for Community Development and Design, University of Colorado (CCDD), and as Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office, ICF Incorporated. He has been responsible for developing projects, fundraising, managing projects, administering contracts, and guiding the work of interdisciplinary professional and lay staff. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) appointed Weber to the state's Source Water Assessment and Protection 'Design' and 'Technical Advisory' teams.

Much of Weber's work during the past twenty years has supported local, state, Tribal, and federal Safe Drinking Water, Ground Water, and Clean Water programs. His recent work has expanded into supporting Superfund Site clean-up, National Environmental Policy Act implementation, and Homeland Security and emergency response planning. He has particular expertise in public participation and stakeholder involvement. A unique aspect of the latter is that he has developed and applied an approach for researching, analyzing, and facilitating development of collaborating networks of stakeholders to address shared problems, particularly relating to carrying out environmental policies and projects.

Currently, Weber is supporting development of an Environmental Assessment (EA) for a planned new FBI facility in Denver, Colorado under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Weber's responsibilities include the scoping, community relations, and socioeconomic assessment portions of the effort. Of note, the candidate site for the FBI facility is located within the decommissioned Stapleton International Airport, a Brownfield redevelopment of national prominence, being the largest urban infill and the first urban airport redevelopment in the United States.

In addition, Weber is supporting development of a Feasibility Study and Record of Decision for the Vasquez Boulevard/I-70 Superfund Site (VB-I70) Operable Unit 3 Argo Smelter (Denver, CO) under the Superfund Program. Weber's responsibilities include conducting the community relations portion of the project -- primarily identifying community leaders and other stakeholders in the site, contacting them regarding site issues and clean-up alternatives, and planning and facilitating the required public meeting. This work continues and builds on Weber's previous projects in the VB-I70 Superfund Site.

Recent work that Weber has completed is primarily in the areas of stakeholder assessment and mobilization, infrastructure security and emergency response, and source water protection.

For brief descriptions of the wide variety of projects on which Weber has worked earlier in his career, please go to Projects.

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