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Cynthia
V. Bailey is an environmental, safety, and health
lawyer who provides legal and consulting services,
primarily to businesses, in all aspects of ESH
compliance. She has 22 years experience in EHS law
as a government lawyer, state agency head and
attorney for a large paper company.
Bailey
represents clients in administrative proceedings
and negotiations involving air, water, waste,
toxic substances, hazardous materials, product
safety, and occupational safety and health before
the United States Environmental Protection Agency,
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
other federal agencies, and analogous state and
local agencies.
A
past chairman of the Virginia State Bar
Environmental Law section, she currently serves as
chairman of the Corporate Counsel Section of the
Richmond Bar Association.
In addition to a law degree, she holds an
undergraduate and graduate degree in chemistry.
Bailey
writes about
subjects in her field of expertise and, from time
to time other topics in which she has little
expertise but strong opinions.
Employment
Georgia-Pacific
Corporation
Principal
Environmental Counsel
January-November
2001
Represented
the company in environmental matters and assured a
smooth transition of responsibilities after
Georgia-Pacific Corp.’s acquisition of Fort
James Corp.
Fort
James Corporation
Vice
President, Associate General Counsel-Regulatory,
1998-2001
Associate
General Counsel-Regulatory, 1995-1998
Senior
Environmental Counsel, 1991-1995
Counsel
to Fort James Corporation (formerly James River
Corp.), a manufacturer and marketer of consumer
products, food and consumer packaging and
communication papers, in environmental, safety,
and health matters.
Represented
the company in administrative proceedings and
negotiations involving air, water, waste, toxic
substances, hazardous materials, product safety,
and occupational safety and health before the
United States Environmental Protection Agency, the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
other federal agencies, and analogous state and
local agencies.
Managed
outside counsel representing the company in
regulatory matters. Worked with trade
associations and company coalitions in common
responses to administrative actions including
comments to proposed regulations and litigation of
or amicus curiae participation in challenging or
defending final regulations.
Counsel
to Fort James Corp.'s Corporate Compliance
Committee, the senior management committee
responsible for assuring the company’s
compliance with federal, state, and international
laws, including antitrust laws, securities
regulation, environmental, safety, and health
laws, interaction with government officials, and
adherence to company policies related to
employment, records retention, conflicts of
interest, and use of company funds. Monitored
activities of the United States Sentencing
Commission and the development of case law
regarding organizational crime and sentencing.
Followed
development of state and federal legislation and
case law regarding regulatory matters of concern
to the company and advise corporate management and
manufacturing facility staff.
Department
of Waste Management
Commonwealth
of Virginia, 1986-1999
Director
(gubernatorial appointment)
Director of the state agency responsible for the
regulation of solid, hazardous, and radioactive
waste management, the regulation of hazardous
materials transportation, recycling, and the
promotion of litter control programs.
Ultimate supervision of an agency staff of
approximately 125 engineers, geologists, chemists,
and support staff.
Advanced
legislative agenda of administration by lobbying
members of the Virginia General Assembly and
participating in legislative studies.
Attorney
General's Office
Commonwealth
of Virginia, 1982-1986
Assistant
Attorney General
Counsel
to the Virginia Department of Health in
environmental and public health matters.
Primary
responsibilities involved regulatory programs in
toxic substances, wastewater disposal, drinking
water, solid and hazardous waste management,
epidemiology, radioactive waste disposal, and
general sanitation.
Secondary
responsibilities included representing the agency
in health care matters, employment matters, and
compliance with governmental requirements in
procurement, freedom of information,
administrative process, and conflicts of interest.
Virginia
Commonwealth University
Adjunct
Faculty, 1988-1993
Gubernatorial
Appointments
Commissioner,
Southeast Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management
Compact Commission, 1987-1991, Vice-Chairman,
1990-1991.
Member:
Virginia Council on the Environment, Virginia
Emergency Response Council,
Virginia Safety & Health Codes Board,
1989-1991.
Publications
Co-Author,
Regulation of Hazardous and Solid Wastes,
Virginia Administrative Law and Practice Handbook.
Memberships
Virginia
State Bar, Admitted 1982
Environmental
Law Section, Virginia State Bar, Chairman
1991-1992
American
Bar Association, Section of Natural Resources,
Energy, and Environmental Law
Richmond
Bar Association, Corporate Counsel Section,
Chairman 2002-2003
Chesapeake
Bay Foundation
Virginia
Institute of Marine Science Council
Columns
February
3: Fewer
Resolutions,
More Resolve. A
deluge
of silly bills is costing taxpayers money and making
the General Assembly less effective.
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2002 -
December
9: Making
Chicken Salad. You
really can convert nasty brownfields into delectable
urban development. It just takes regulators willing
to bend and entrepreneurs willing to take a chance.
Sept.
3: Loosening
the Choke Hold. Virginia's
environmental regulators are giving businesses more
flexibility. Will the idea work, or will it be
doomed to total-quality, cheese-moving, big-fish-eating
history?
August
5: Our
Trash Stinks, Too.
Virginians
hate other peoples' garbage. But we ship hazardous
and nuclear waste to other states. Let's stop
tampering with interstate commerce.
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