KdE
Celebrates 5th Anniversary
By
Donald F. Butzen, Jr.
Staff Reporter Of The Kd Street Journal
Dear
Valued Clients, Associates, Contacts and Future
Clients,
Kd
Engineering feels a need to take this space, usually
reserved for
our feature articles, to personally thank everyone
responsible for making the last five years such a
success.
We
deny anyone to name another environmental consulting
firm that has gone further, faster, and with more
boundless potential than Kd Engineering. What are we
basing this bold statement on?
The fact that in a period of less than five
years KdE has:
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performed over 150 Phase I ESA's assisting
in the transfer of property worth over
$75,000,000. |
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been featured in articles in both the
Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times |
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doubled the number of projects and gross
revenue every year in business |
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been retained 15 times to acquire an
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's
"No Further Action" letter (agency
property signoff ) and was issued 15 letters |
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developed a client list
that has included various federal
agencies, numerous Fortune 500 companies and
most major Chicagoland developers, law firms and
commercial real estate brokers |
To
celebrate this unprecedented achievement, KdE is
planning to:
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affix the logo found at the head of this
letter to all out going correspondences |
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update the present web site,
kdengineering.com |
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hold a series of anniversary activities
including an open house following the move
into our new offices and a golf outing-The
Milestone Open.
A complete schedule will be issued in
early 2001 |
KdE
likes to believe our success over the last 5 years is
our commitment to valuing relationships.
Now onto the next five years.
Donald F. Butzen
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Chicagoland
News
Illinois
Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan's office filed suit against Amoco
Oil Co. last month, alleging that the company failed
to clean up 73 gasoline leaks from underground storage
tanks at 61 gas stations mostly in Cook County.
The complaint alleges that Amoco has been
late-sometimes years-in submitting reports and cleanup
plans to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
and other agencies.
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After
months of negotiations that finally resulted in a plan
to clean up Barrie Park in Oak Park disagreements have
resumed over the removal of contaminated dirt.
Talks between Commonwealth Edison and Oak
Park hit a snag as to whether all the material will be
moved by rail or any of the soil will be transported
by truck. Oak
Park wants all of the dirt removed by rail to lessen
the impact on local residents.
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Governor
George Ryan recently announced the formation of the
Environmental Regulatory Review Commission. The Commission is empowered to review the Illinois laws and
develop recommended changes to those laws The
commission will have responsibility for reviewing
their interaction with other Illinois statutory
provisions as well as with the federal environmental
system.
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Nationwide
News
A
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is launching a national
investigation into malformations in as much as 17.9
percent of the Midwest and Northeast frog population. A spokesman for the service warned that the phenomenon could
have serious implications for humans because of the
amphibians sensitivity to pollution and other
environmental hazard
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On
April 14, 2000, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit struck a major blow against the USEPA long
standing practice of creating new rules and stretching
the reach of existing ones.
The Court ruled that a guidance document on air
emissions issued
by USEPA significantly broadened a 1992 rule and that
this more expansive reading is not enforceable because
it was not approved through notice and comment, as
required under federal law
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A
recent federal study found that while private industry
is spending millions to meet a 1998 federal
deadline to upgrade leaking underground storage tanks
-- the nation's leading cause of groundwater -- state
and local government agencies continue to operate
thousands of antiquated tanks in danger of leaking
chemicals into water supplies.
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