In 2005 Robert retired from a 37 year career with Maricopa County Air Quality Department (MCAQD), including 13 years as Department Director. During his years with MCAQD Robert's experience was extensive. He worked in permitting, compliance, enforcement, air monitoring, and source testing. As Department Director, Robert served as a registered lobbyist at the Arizona State Legislature assisting in developing air quality laws that preserve Arizona resident's quality of life, protect the states environment, and promote economic development.

As a consultant, Robert has assisted numerous businesses and industries throughout Arizona comply with multi-disciplinary environmental regulatory provisions, including air, water, MSHA, mine reclamation, water rights, and floodplain mineral extraction.

Experience and Qualifications

Kathy has over 20 years of experience in the environmental engineering field.  She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan in 1986 and her Master of Science from Rutgers University in 1989.

Her experience includes preparation of Federal, State and Local water quality, hazardous waste and air quality compliance reports, plans and permit applications.  She also performs environmental compliance audits and site assessments.  Industries requiring these services include auto manufacturers, airline maintenance facilities, gasoline stations, aerospace, printing, textiles and construction materials.  She is also California Registered Environmental Assessor (REA-03516) and a Certified Professional in Storm Water Quality (CPSWQ - 0515) through Envirocert International Inc.

Prior to joining Justice & Associates, Kathy worked in the refining and aerospace electronics industries and ultimately became a consultant providing a wide range of regulatory services.

Since joining Justice & Associates in 2000 she has focused on environmental compliance audits, site assessments, and water quality control regulations.  Kathy has extensive experience in the construction materials and construction/demolition contractor arena.  She has been responsible for providing guidance and insight for leaking underground storage tanks, Phase I Site Assessments, Spill Plans, Waste Water and Storm Water Control Plans as well as preparation of periodic regulatory reports.

Kathy was lead consultant in applying for and obtaining the solid waste facility permit from the California Integrated Waste Management Board for the first biosolids processing facility in the United States.

Due to the sensitive biological areas at Santa Catalina Island, some Storm Water dischargers must obtain special permit exceptions.  Utilizing her background in the sciences in combination with her regulatory experience, Kathy is managing the permit exception process for stakeholders on Catalina Island.  She has performed extensive research, prepared sampling plans and protocols, coordinated sampling activities, prepared reports and performed as liaison to the regulatory agencies.

Experience and Qualifications

Susan Justice has extensive experience in bookkeeping, accounting and computer related business activities. She has a masters degree from Oakland University and has industry-related experience including construction contracting and estimating, long distance telephone service, consulting on starting and running small businesses, accounting and air dispersion modeling.

She is responsible for the financial health of the business, overseeing all banking, accounts payable and accounts receivable activities. Susan manages the health insurance, 401K pension and profit sharing programs as well as all other employee benefit programs. She also maintains a close working relationship with our bank manager and negotiates and controls all lines of credit and business accounts.

After learning the EPA Air Dispersion Model "inside out", she enrolled in several classes where she became proficient in running several other models. Models prepared by Susan have undergone extensive review and evaluation by meteorologists from the South Coast AQMD and Ventura APCD and in all cases have been approved as submitted.

This early venture into providing air dispersion modeling consulting became the seeds for forming the business activity known today as Justice & Associates.

Experience and Qualifications

Kimba Spencer, a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, has been with Justice & Associates since 1998.

She formerly headed up the Emission Credits Exchange where she evaluated consumption trends relating to future allocations.  During her stint as credit trader, she brokered the single largest trade ($7,000,000) in the RECLAIM market during the year 2000. Kimba was also in charge of our Third Party Transmitting service, electronically reporting emissions to the South Coast AQMD.  Kimba brokered well over a hundred ERC and RTC trades with dozens of companies. 

Kimba has been instrumental in the research, preparation, and follow-up of our off-road machinery repower and retrofit applications for Carl Moyer, SCAQMD AQIP, and SOON grant funds resulting in awards of over 100 million dollars for our clients.

She has participated in RECLAIM administration and electronic reporting since 1999.  Currently she conducts peer review of our third-party electronic transmitting and prepares the record-keeping for our ACEMS (Automated Continuous Emissions Monitoring Service) clients.

Kimba has become the company go-to person for AutoCAD projects including flow diagrams, site plans, and vicinity maps.  She has also become accomplished in AutoCAD add-on Civil 3D, using it to prepare detailed mine and reclamation plans for large scale projects that include proposed slope grading, cross sections, and volume calculations.

Kimba has been trained and certified as an ICC Certified Designated Operator for underground storage tanks.  She has also been certified as a portable analyzer operator under South Coast AQMD 1146 Regulation.

Kimba has successfully prepared air permit applications for operations in air districts throughout California for equipment including, but not limited to, aggregate plants, asphalt plants, boilers, spray booths, storage tanks, engines, and furnaces.  She also provides consulting and registration application preparation for the Statewide Portable Equipment Program (PERP) as well as notifications and emission calculations for off-shore PERP projects.

She has prepared Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans, Storm Water Annual Reports, Conditional Use Permit applications, Spill prevention, Control, and Countermeasure plans and Emission Inventory Reports.  She has also conducted fugitive dust analyses and reports.

Experience and Qualifications

An Engineering graduate from Cal Poly Pomona, Scott Taylor has over 13 years of experience in assisting companies in industries such as hot mix asphalt, aggregate crushing, sand drying, and cinder block manufacturing. His work in these industries has involved air districts throughout California, Arizona and New Mexico.

He has established himself as an expert in Southern California on the RECLAIM rules covering compliance of facilities located in the South Coast AQMD. He has participated in a team that has installed several Alternative Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (ACEMS) on Hot Mix Asphalt plants that are a part of the RECLAIM program. He is frequently called on to manage compliance audits for RECLAIM Facilities and is known for his ability to quickly sort out compliance issues.

Scott has received training and has performed air dispersion modeling for a variety of projects including showing compliance with NSR thresholds and to perform Health Risk Assessments for Toxics.

Facilities rely on him for coordinating and evaluating source tests at their facilities. Often these tests are looking to show initial compliance and or comply with permit conditions.

He has received the SCAQMD Certification as an Air Permitting Professional and has an open and friendly working relationship with many Air District personnel.