Carol M. Kielusiak
EDUCATION:    San Diego State University, 1974  San Diego, California  Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology)	Calif. State University, Sacramento, 1982  Sacramento, California  Master of Arts (Anthropology)

 
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

1997-present	Senior Environmental Planner, Morrison & Associates, Inc.    Environmental Analyst, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1992-1997	Program Manager for the National Environmental Policy Act/California Environmental Quality Act Planning Office, University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.
1992	National Environmental Policy Act Compliance Officer, Department of Energy/Oakland Operations Office, Oakland, Calif.
1989-1992	Deputy Division Manager, Science Applications International Corporation (Environmental Division), Pleasanton, Calif.
1982-1989	Project Manager, URS Consultants and URS-Berger (Architecture and Engineering Firm-Environmental Section), Sacramento and San Bernardino, Calif.
1980-1981	Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Olympia, Washington
1976-1980	University of Washington, Office of Public Archaeology, Seattle, Washington
1975-1978	Archaeological consultant for U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Parks and Recreation, Bureau of Land Management, and California State University

 

SCOPE OF EXPERIENCE:     Ms. Kielusiak has 20 years experience as an environmental scientist, specializing in the areas of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and National Historic Preservation Act planning and compliance. She has prepared environmental documents for Federal, state, and local agencies and private developments, including Environmental Impacts Statements (EIS), Environmental Impact Reports (EIR), Environmental Assessments, and Initial Studies. She has managed teams of up to 40 engineers and environmental specialists in the preparation of these documents principally for projects associated with water resources management and energy-related research and development. She has directed CEQA scoping meetings and public hearings for numerous projects, some of them controversial.  She developed and managed the NEPA and CEQA and cultural resource compliance programs for two Department of Energy national laboratories. As a professional archaeologist, Ms. Kielusiak has conducted field surveys and excavations in the western United States, including California, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, Nebraska, and Wyoming.      RECENT REPRESENTATIVE ASSIGNMENTS:    University of California.  Developed and managed the NEPA and CEQA compliance programs for two Department of Energy (DOE) facilities managed by the University of California. Prepared and oversaw the preparation of over 300 NEPA and CEQA documents, including EIRs, Initial Studies, EAs, and categorical exclusion and exemption documents.  Oversight of the Labs’ National Historic Preservation Act and Endangered Species Act compliance activities.  Modesto Irrigation District.  Project Manager for Modesto Irrigation District’s Water Treatment Plant Siting EIR.  Westlands Water District.  Environmental Compliance Manager for Westlands Water District Prototype Deep-Well Injection Program for Agricultural Drainage Water. Obtained federal, state, and county permits and approvals for deep well construction and operation, ensuring that all permit conditions were met, established and oversaw an environmental monitoring program that was designed to reduce the potential for bioaccumulation of selenium in water birds that use the San Luis Drain, and preparing an EIR for the project.    California Energy Commission.  Project Manager for California Energy Commission, Siting and Environmental Division, Certification of the Luz Engineering Corporation Solar Electric Generating Systems. Coordinated the efforts of experts from five separate offices and four subconsultant firms representing 23 environmental, health and safety issue areas, budget and schedule tracking, overseeing preparation and production of six separate environmental documents (two of them over 900 pages), attendance at numerous public hearings and meetings with the applicant and various state and local agencies.    U.S. Air Force.  Co-author of Peacekeeper in Minuteman Silos EIS and Environmental Planning Technical Report; author of 14 reports outlining the effects of project actions on cultural resources; worked with construction project managers at Norton AFB and F.E. Warren AFB in facilities siting and designing efforts to minimize or avoid impacts to cultural resources.    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  As part of the environmental assessment for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Defense Environmental Restoration Account, conducted archaeological surveys on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, and interviewed Eskimo residents to help identify archaeological site locations.  Recommended strategies to ensure that the sites were avoided or effects minimized to the extent possible by site environmental restoration/remediation activities.

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