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Section Four 50 30 <br /> Qualifications of Key Personnel <br /> Craig S. Coker <br /> Coker Composting & Consulting <br /> Mr. Coker has over 35 years of technical experience in the environmental science and <br /> API engineering fields associated with recycling food scraps and other organics through <br /> composting or anaerobic digestion. Mr. Coker has provided these consulting services to <br /> private companies, local governments and solid waste authorities since 2005. Mr. Coker <br /> has worked in municipal and state government developing organics recycling programs <br /> 7 and infrastructure. He has participated in numerous regulatory development activities <br /> and is widely recognized as an authority in the recycling of organic materials. <br /> His prior experience includes three years as an Environmental Engineer in County <br /> Government managing biosolids composting projects, three years' experience as the <br /> Organics Recycling Coordinator for North Carolina developing new organics diversion <br /> projects facilities, six years' experience operating aerated static pile composting facilities <br /> for private companies, and 25 years consulting engineering experience for municipal <br /> governments in biosolids and solid waste management. <br /> EDUCATION <br /> MS,Environmental Mr. Coker has worked on ten composting facility projects in Virginia since 2005, <br /> Engineering,George including air, solid waste and storm water permitting efforts. He has worked on ten <br /> Washington University, 1980 aerated static pile facility projects in his career, and five solid waste anaerobic digestion <br /> BS,Environmental Science, projects since 2011. <br /> University of Virginia, 1975 <br /> COMPOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT <br /> PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE <br /> LICENSES& <br /> CERTIFICATIONS <br /> Class 2 Waste Management "State of Composting in the U.S.".Institute for Local Self Reliance, Washington, DC <br /> Facility operator,Virginia Co-author of a comprehensive look at the state of composting of organic wastes in the <br /> Nutrient Management Planner, U.S. in 2014, which included an explanation of what composting is and why it is <br /> Virginia important; summarized model programs, technologies and systems; and provided a <br /> national and state-by-state snapshot of activities, infrastructure needed, and policy <br /> opportunities. It concluded with recommendations on how to grow composting in the <br /> INDUSTRY TENURE U.S. <br /> 35+Years <br /> Compost Regulations Working Group,Maryland Dept. of the Environment, Baltimore, <br /> MD <br /> Participated, from 2011 —2013, in a 30-person multi-stakeholder group assembled by the <br /> MD DOE to help them rewrite the regulations governing solid waste composting by <br /> C O K E R examining how other jurisdictions were regulating this industry and by adapting the <br /> Model Compost Rule of the U.S. Composting Council to Maryland. <br /> COMPOSTING AND CONSULTING <br /> Compost Regulations Working Group, South Carolina Dept. of Health and <br /> Environmental Control, Columbia, SC <br /> Participated, from 2008—2014, in a multiple person stakeholder group assembled by the <br /> SC DHEC to help them rewrite the regulations governing solid waste composting by <br /> examining how other jurisdictions were regulating this industry and by adapting the <br /> Model Compost Rule of the U.S. Composting Council to South Carolina. <br /> 1 <br />