Ms. Bauer has over ten years of experience with all aspects of Clean Air Act permitting and compliance. She has assisted a wide variety of industries including petroleum refining, chemical manufacturing, surface coating, fiberglass products manufacturing, metal products manufacturing, wood products manufacturing, mining and mineral processing for their initial permitting task, recordkeeping and supporting report.

Her duties range in performing air emission inventories, preparing applications for new source review permits and PSD permits, and determining regulatory applicability of NESHAP and NSPS, and evaluating emission control technology. She also has extensive experience with air dispersion modeling and has conducted numerous modeling evaluations including NAAQS analysis, PSD increment evaluations, multisource impact analysis, and PSD Class I area impact assessments.

In addition, Ms. Bauer is familiar with the Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion, and has worked on multiple risk assessment projects. In these projects, she performed hazards identification, air dispersion and deposition modeling with site-specific and chemical property-specific parameters, exposure assessment, toxicity assessment, risk characterization, ecological risk assessment and uncertainty analysis.

Ms. Bauer previously worked on project Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, as well as soil and groundwater bioremediation. With her bilingual skills, she has also conducted technical translations to assist Japanese clients.

Akemi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She traveled to the US with only two large suitcases and started her Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering where she met her husband, Michael. They moved to Arkansas for his PhD program and that is how she landed at ECCI. She now has four children; 3 girls and 1 boy and two dogs. She is now approaching having lived in the US longer than she did Japan. She worries she won’t be considered a Tokyo Girl anymore!

Education

• Nihon University in Japan, BS Applied Biology

• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, MS Environmental Engineering

Registrations

• Registered Professional Environmental Engineer (New Mexico, Texas)