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Response Activity Review Panel: vacancies

Response Activity Review Panel: vacancies

The Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Remediation and Redevelopment Division (RRD) is seeking applicants to fill up to three (3) vacancies to serve on the Response Activity Review Panel as of August 26, 2025.

The Response Activity Review Panel advises EGLE’s Director on technical or scientific disputes, including disputes regarding assessment of risk, response activity plans, no further action reports, certificates of completion, and documentations of due care compliance under Part 201.  In addition, persons who submit initial assessment reports, final assessment reports, closure reports, and documentations of due care compliance under Part 213 may also appeal a scientific or technical decision made by the RRD to the Response Activity Review Panel.

How to apply

Please submit the following materials that demonstrate the necessary qualifications to Erica Bays via email at BaysE@Michigan.gov no later than September 12, 2025: 

  • a resume
  • curriculum vitae
  • cover letter, and
  • statement that the applicant does not meet any of the ineligible criteria

Submit application

For questions, you may also contact Erica Bays at 269-350-0080.

Qualifications

Interested applicants must demonstrate that they meet one or more of the following qualifications:

  1. Hold a current professional engineer's or professional geologist's license or registration from a state, tribe, United States territory, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and have the equivalent of six (6) years of full-time relevant experience.
  2. Have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a discipline of engineering or science and the equivalent of ten (10) years of full-time relevant experience.
  3. Have a master's degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a discipline of engineering or science and the equivalent of eight (8) years of full-time relevant experience.

In addition, any chosen panel member must also remain current in his or her field through participation in continuing education or other activities.

Eligiblity

An individual is not eligible to be a member of the panel if any one of the following is true:

  1. The individual is a current employee of any office, department, or agency of this state.
  2. The individual is a party to one or more contracts with the department and the compensation paid under those contracts represented more than 5% of the individual's annual gross revenue in any of the preceding three (3) years.
  3. The individual is employed by an entity that is a party to one or more contracts with the department and the compensation paid to the individual's employer under these contracts represented more than 5% of the employer's annual gross revenue in any of the preceding three years.
  4. The individual was employed by the department within the preceding three years.

Any previous panel member who served two consecutive terms that ended at least two years ago is eligible to apply and be appointed to the panel again.  

Term

An individual appointed to the Response Activity Review Panel will serve for a term of three years, beginning on September 26, 2025 for this round of applicants.

Compensation

Individuals appointed to the panel serve without compensation. 

However, members of the panel may be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties as members of the panel.