EPA Final Rules to Reduce Lead Exposure: Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, Lead-Based Paint Dust Standards

Mr. Almanzar is an attorney in Holland & Knight's New York office and a member of the firm's Public Policy & Regulation Group. He is licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey. Mr. Almanzar is a knowledgeable environmental and regulatory attorney with prior professional experience as an environmental scientist. He represents clients on a wide range of environmental legal and policy matters across industry sectors, including real estate, transportation, manufacturing, technology and renewable energy. Mr. Almanzar's work includes supporting environmental due diligence for corporate and real estate transactions, regulatory compliance and permitting, enforcement defense, oil spill investigations and cleanups, federal Superfund allocation proceedings, cost-recovery and toxic tort litigation, and contaminated property/brownfields remediation. His work is centered on providing practical and efficient legal solutions to the range of environmental and regulatory challenges that can arise in the course of business. In addition, Mr. Almanzar counsels clients on issues arising under federal and state laws, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund), Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), New Jersey Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA), New York Oil Spill Act (Article 12 of the Navigation Law), challenges to administrative actions under Article 78 of New York's Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR), New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), and numerous local municipal laws, such as New York City's local laws.

 Mr. Nesteroff is a preeminent environmental lawyer with extensive experience representing clients in environmental litigation, agency negotiations, property acquisition and leasing issues, and counseling clients on risk and compliance. During his 31 years at Lane Powell, he has represented clients in litigation claims involving hazardous material investigations, cleanups and cost recovery at sites in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. He has obtained a several million-dollar cost recovery judgment on behalf of one client and a defense verdict in another cost recovery case. Mr. Nesteroff has also represented clients in litigation involving public records and obtained a favorable court of appeals ruling on a previously-untested exemption in the Washington Public Records Act. He regularly negotiates with agencies and private parties concerning stormwater permit and hazardous material reporting compliance issues, and advises clients on property transactions, including leasing, acquisition and redevelopment. Mr. Nesteroff is a frequent speaker on environmental due diligence, stormwater and real estate issues, and is an author of three chapters, and supplements, in the Washington Real Property Deskbook (4th ed.) on Energy Development, Waste, and Nuisance and Trespass in Land Use Cases; the Environmental Considerations chapter in the Washington Construction Law Deskbook; and annual supplements to Vol. 23 & 24 of Washington Practice: Environmental Law and Practice (2nd ed.).