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Speakers - Dialogue Session on Advancing the Regulatory Development Profession, September 2008
Kim Fletcher
Abt Associates
Ms. Kim Fletcher is a master facilitator with Abt Associates Inc. She has served as a mediator and facilitator and supported public policy engagement and ADR programs across EPA and at other agencies for two decades. She actively served on the Board of Directors for the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) and is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR).
Ms. Fletcher has been the mediator for the Housatonic River PCB Contamination Peer Review Process. Continuously since 1997, she has conducted a series of large-scale policy dialogues for USACE, FEMA, and EPA to resolve issues related to shared responsibilities after disasters. She has extensive public participation and community involvement and outreach experience, serving as the lead for several projects in EPA Region 9, as well as in Mississippi and Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina.
Prior to joining Abt Associates, Ms. Fletcher held positions at Beck Disaster Recovery, SRA International, and Marasco Newton Group where she directed projects relating to conflict prevention and resolution and emergency management services. From 1989 to 1998, Ms. Fletcher worked at U.S. EPA in Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office (now the Office of Emergency Management) as a regional coordinator and planner and Superfund Program as a senior policy analyst. She led Agency’s effort to write the first Emergency Support Function # 10 – Hazardous Materials for the Federal Response Plan and supported rule making efforts for the National Contingency Plan, the Oil Pollution Act, the Clean Air Act (Section 112r), and the effort to create the Chemical Safety Board.
Ms. Fletcher holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Education from Regis University, a master’s degree in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown University, and a certificate in Environmental Public Policy Negotiation from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Jeffrey Lubbers
American University
Jeffrey S. Lubbers is a Fellow in Law and Government at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he teaches courses in Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Federal Legal Institutions, and ADR. He has an A.B. degree from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and is a member of the bars of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Prior to joining American University, he served in various positions with the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), the federal government’s “permanent” advisory agency on procedural improvements in federal programs until its closure in 1995. From 1982-1995 he was ACUS’ Research Director, and in this position he developed ideas for new studies, hired outside consultants to conduct the studies, reviewed reports, supervised staff attorneys and assisted ACUS committees in developing recommendations from the studies on a wide variety of administrative law subjects. He worked with Congressional committees and agencies to implement ACUS recommendations, and served as Team Leader for Vice President Gore’s National Performance Review team on Improving Regulatory Systems in 1993. He co-authored ACUS’ major 1992 study, The Federal Administrative Judiciary and was a contributing author of the first edition of the Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking. He authored an updated third edition of the latter Guide, published by the American Bar Association in 1998 and the fourth edition in 2006. He also co-authored the Administrative Procedure Sourcebook (3d. ed, 2000; 4th ed. 2007), and serves as the editor for the American Bar Association’s Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice (volumes from 1998-2007).
He has published numerous articles on the administrative process, participated frequently in training programs for government officials in the United States and overseas, and has won several prestigious honors for his work in administrative law including a Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive, the “Mary C. Lawton Award for Outstanding Government Service” from the American Bar Association, and the “Walter Gellhorn Award” from the Federal Bar Association.
Minh-Hai Tran-Lam
Program Analyst, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Ms. Tran-Lam is a program analyst in the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She leads the Regulatory Matters project that fosters collaboration between federal government agencies, through a series of workshops, in order to enhance the regulatory development profession and community. Additionally, Ms. Tran-Lam serves as a regulatory desk officer; she provides guidance and support for various EPA program offices on the Agency's rule making process. She also provides user support for EPA's electronic regulatory tracking system, RAPIDS.
During her initial years at the EPA, she was part of the EPA Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) transition team. This award-winning team was responsible for the Agency's transition from EDOCKET, EPA's first electronic docket system, to FDMS. Ms. Tran-Lam served as the lead for communications and training. As the communications lead, she created and implemented new strategies and tools to increase effective communication. Under her leadership, over twenty-seven marketing and communications tools were designed and distributed. As the training lead, she oversaw over eighty FDMS training sessions for approximately six-hundred fifty EPA employees.
She received her undergraduate degree in environmental science from the University of Virginia in 2003. She received her master's degree from the George Mason University School of Public Policy in 2005 with a concentration in science and technology.