Massachusetts Licensed Site Professional Services

All releases of oil and hazardous materials which occur within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are subject to the provisions of the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP) 310 Code of Massachusetts Regulation (CMR) 40.0000.  Massachusetts and the Board of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals have licensed select individuals through demonstrated experience and examination to administer the provisions of the MCP during spill response activities and the cleanup of contaminated real estate.  The owner of contaminated real estate located within Massachusetts must retain the services of a Massachusetts Licensed Site Professional (LSP) to provide various opinions and submit the necessary transmittal forms and appropriate supporting materials/documents to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).  Lingenfelter Environmental Consulting, LLC (LINEC) provides LSP services in association with site assessment, disposal site remediation and regulatory compliance.  Professional judgment and experience provided by the LSP determines what scope of assessment and/or remediation is appropriate on a site-specific basis.

George LingenfelterLINEC‘s Manager and Principal Hydrogeologist George G. Lingenfelter, has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and is a Massachusetts Licensed Site Professional (LSP; license #6173) and Professional Geologist (PG; New Hampshire license #00701 and Illinois license #196-000700) with over twenty (20) years of professional experience in all phases of environmental site assessment and remediation.

George regularly attends the monthly meetings of the Massachusetts License Site Professional Association (LSPA).  Each LSPA meeting includes a presentation associated with a topic of current interest associated with the LSP practice such as regulatory changes or information likely to be beneficial to clients utilizing LSP services.  Following an LSPA meeting or continuing education seminar which George may have attended, new/current information which may be of interest to LINEC clients is distributed as appropriate.  For example, the main topic/presentation at the March 13, 2012 LSPA meeting was a regulatory overview of MCP Remediation Waste Management (regulations and practical applications).  The main presentation at the January 11, 2011 LSPA meeting was a discussion of new draft regulations to address vapor intrusion into buildings at disposal sites previously closed but at which new construction changed site conditions.  The main presentation at the November 10, 2009 LSPA meeting was a summary of available Brownfields Funding Resources and the main presentation at the June 10, 2010 LSPA meeting was an update on the key aspects for underground storage tank (UST) maintenance/operation at gasoline service stations as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

LINEC provides LSP services in all phases of the MCP process involving, but not necessarily limited to, the following:

  • Spill response oversight
  • Imminent hazard evaluations
  • Historical contamination assessment and remediation
  • Petroleum contamination assessment and remediation
  • Chlorinated solvent contamination assessment and remediation
  • Heavy metal contamination assessment and remediation
  • Urban fill materials
  • Aboveground storage tank removal
  • Underground storage tank removal
  • In-situ soil treatment
  • Installation and operation of groundwater remediation systems
  • Contaminated soil excavation oversight
  • Permitting and compliance
  • Risk Characterization
  • Public Involvement Sites
  • Release Notification Form (RNF) preparation
  • Immediate Response Action (IRA) Plan preparation
  • Release Abatement Measure (RAM) Plan preparation
  • Bill-of-lading (BOL) preparation (associated with the transportation of remediation waste)
  • Phase I Initial Site Investigation (implementation and report preparation)
  • Tier I and Tier II Classification/Numerical Ranking Scoresheet preparation
  • Tier II Extension preparation
  • Phase II Comprehensive Site Assessment (implementation and report preparation)
  • Phase III Remedial Action Plan (RAP) preparation
  • Remedy Operation Status (ROS) implementation
  • Termination of Remediation System Operation under ROS
  • Phase IV Remedy Implementation Plan preparation
  • Phase IV Completion Statement preparation
  • Status Report preparation (various IRA, RAM, ROS, Phase IV, and Class C RAO, etc.)
  • Activity and Use Limitation (AUL) preparation
  • Downgradient Property Status (DPS) Submittal preparation
  • Class A, B and C Response Action Outcome (RAO) Statement preparation