Proven Experience
Ms. Mary Beth Burandt has thirty-five years of experience and technical expertise in environmental compliance, regulatory reporting, regulator interactions/negotiations, training, program, and project management within the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Defense (DOD). She has worked closely with the Federal Project Directors and the contractors to integrate cross-cutting items, coordinated the Hanford Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permit activities between the Office of River Protection (ORP), Richland Operations Office (RL), Department of Ecology, and the Tank Farm and Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) contractors. Mary Beth was responsible for writing the operating permit for the WTP facilities, submittal of the Land Disposal Restriction variance for glass, and the WTP Environmental Demonstration Performance test, and construction and operating permits for the Tank Side Cesium Removal system. Mary Beth was also the NEPA Document Manager for the Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement, and the Office of River Protection NEPA Compliance Officer. Mary Beth has experience in the TSCA regulations and drafted the Risk Based Disposal Approval for treatment of PCBs for Direct Feed Low Activity Waste (DFLAW). Mary Beth has been responsible for training new employees and recommending assignments to the Environmental Compliance Division Director on RCRA permitting responsibilities.
Ms. Burandt, in her current role as an Environment Regulatory Consultant, supports the Department of Energy (DOE), completing critical assessments of the contractor’s Air Operating and Dangerous Waste Programs, NEPA, TSCA, support and WTP integration, as required to start up and commission the Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility. Mary Beth provides strategic solutions to emerging project challenges such as the ongoing maturation of the contractor’s Air Operating and Dangerous Waste Programs and interfaces between Tank Farms (TF), WTP, and AMSE. She performs regulatory and programmatic reviews for adequacy and reliability; ensures compliance with established criteria and sound engineering principles; and identifies gaps or omissions, discrepancies, inadequacies, and nonconformance with approved criteria. Her focus is identifying areas related to DFLAW which require resolution or documentation of readiness in support of operations.
Ms. Burandt has a Master of Science in Engineering Management and Chemical Engineering as well as a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering.
Ms. Mary Beth Burandt has thirty-five years of experience and technical expertise in environmental compliance, regulatory reporting, regulator interactions/negotiations, training, program, and project management within the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Defense (DOD). She has worked closely with the Federal Project Directors and the contractors to integrate cross-cutting items, coordinated the Hanford Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permit activities between the Office of River Protection (ORP), Richland Operations Office (RL), Department of Ecology, and the Tank Farm and Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) contractors. Mary Beth was responsible for writing the operating permit for the WTP facilities, submittal of the Land Disposal Restriction variance for glass, and the WTP Environmental Demonstration Performance test, and construction and operating permits for the Tank Side Cesium Removal system. Mary Beth was also the NEPA Document Manager for the Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement, and the Office of River Protection NEPA Compliance Officer. Mary Beth has experience in the TSCA regulations and drafted the Risk Based Disposal Approval for treatment of PCBs for Direct Feed Low Activity Waste (DFLAW). Mary Beth has been responsible for training new employees and recommending assignments to the Environmental Compliance Division Director on RCRA permitting responsibilities.
Ms. Burandt, in her current role as an Environment Regulatory Consultant, supports the Department of Energy (DOE), completing critical assessments of the contractor’s Air Operating and Dangerous Waste Programs, NEPA, TSCA, support and WTP integration, as required to start up and commission the Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility. Mary Beth provides strategic solutions to emerging project challenges such as the ongoing maturation of the contractor’s Air Operating and Dangerous Waste Programs and interfaces between Tank Farms (TF), WTP, and AMSE. She performs regulatory and programmatic reviews for adequacy and reliability; ensures compliance with established criteria and sound engineering principles; and identifies gaps or omissions, discrepancies, inadequacies, and nonconformance with approved criteria. Her focus is identifying areas related to DFLAW which require resolution or documentation of readiness in support of operations.
Ms. Burandt has a Master of Science in Engineering Management and Chemical Engineering as well as a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering.