CEA: Corporate Environmental Advisors: Specialized Services: LSP and LEP

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LSP and LEP Services

In 1993, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts created the Licensed Site Professional (LSP) program. The Commonwealth established the LSP program to place greater responsibility for cleaning up sites on the private sector. The licensing program ensures that LSP's who oversee or perform assessments or cleanups of sites meet high professional standards, and that the private clients who hire the LSP's will have the ability to assess and clean up all but the most serious sites without waiting for government oversight.

An LSP is an experienced professional in the field of hazardous waste site assessment, cleanup and removal. An LSP must have at least 5 years experience conducting and overseeing assessments, removals or cleanups of sites (7 years without an appropriate degree), suitable technical background and good moral character.

The Board of Registration is required by law to license only individuals who are appropriately qualified by their education, training and experience. The Board disciplines any LSP whom it finds in violation of professional standards. DEP audits sites to ensure that opinions comply with environmental laws and regulations.

CEA currently has six LSP's on staff and has several more in the process of obtaining licensure. CEA's LSP's have significant experience and most have held licenses from the beginning of the LSP program.

In 1996, Connecticut followed Massachusetts's lead and created its own version of the LSP, called the LEP or Licensed Environmental Professional.

In Connecticut, the licensing program is administered by an 11 Member State Board of Examiners of Environmental Professionals. The state agency supporting the Board is the Department of Environmental Protection. Only those professionals wishing to engage in the business of certifying clean-ups are required to obtain a license.

The State Commissioner has discretion to allow licensed environmental professionals to investigate and remediate contaminated sites. The Commissioner may approve the use of a licensed environmental professional to verify that a parcel has been investigated in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines and remediated in accordance with the remediation standard regulations.

CEA currently has two LEP's on staff who work regularly with the State of Connecticut program.