Negotiation/Litigation Support

We believe in being strong negotiators and advocates for our customers.  We have developed and negotiated site-specific clean-up levels and proposed point of compliance for nearly all of our projects.  We are exceptional communicators and writers, and we have successfully represented clients at over 50 MTCA, RCRA, and CERCLA sites.  We have worked effectively with people from various agencies, including Ecology, EPA, Department of Health, Department of Fish and Wildlife, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife.

PIONEER was actively involved in the development of the MTCA Cleanup Regulation, as amended February 12, 2001, by providing written comments/suggestions on numerous “pre-release” draft versions of the rule, as well as the final public-review draft.  We also helped develop and lobby for responsible regulatory positions for ecological and human health risk assessment MTCA regulations for Washington State during the four-year PAC process.  This experience has provided us with a sophisticated understanding of the rule itself, as well as the ability to communicate the intent of the rule language.

A recent example of our ability to successfully negotiate on behalf of our customers was when we negotiated that the Maximum Beneficial Use of groundwater in shallow, intermediate, and deep aquifers at one of our sites was not drinking water, as is the default under MTCA.  This potentially saved our client millions of dollars.  We were also able to save our clients a significant amount of time and money by developing a site-specific approach for evaluating the groundwater to indoor-air pathway.