Bartley W. Conroy
Vice-President
Experience and Qualifications Summary
Mr. Conroy has more than forty years experience in various phases of chemistry, including process chemistry, analytical chemistry, radiochemistry, laboratory and metallurgical process evaluation. Seventeen years of Mr. Conroy’s experience has been in the processing of plutonium and plutonium-uranium fuels. He has extensive experience in hazardous and radioactive waste, wastewater treatment including conventional, membrane and biological processes, and has been involved in waste characterization, as per RCRA requirements packaging, transportation, and disposal. He also has many years experience in dealing with regulatory agencies and has been directly involved in obtaining various licenses and permits such as RCRA Part B permits and Mixed Waste Disposal permits in the states of Colorado, Texas, Wyoming, Utah and Alaska. His experience and background in the uranium industry also includes functioning as the Radiation Safety Officer for a number of uranium in-situ operations and for the decommissioning of several uranium sites. He also has extensive experience in the operations of wastewater treatment facilities and is a certified Class "A" Industrial Treatment Plant Operator. Mr. Conroy is also RTG’s Corporate Quality Assurance Manager and Health and Safety Manager.
Relevant Professional Experience
Vice President involved in all Resource Technologies Group, Inc. (RTG) process design and development projects including development and implementation of laboratory and pilot testing programs, engineering evaluations to select preferred treatment processes, development of facility process flow sheets, and detailed design of facility process systems.
Responsible for client regulatory and governmental interface activities. In this capacity, Mr. Conroy has been intimately involved with the RCRA Program, TSCA Programs, CERCLA Program and the licensing of Radioactive Materials at a number of uranium operations. Responsible for laboratory evaluations of chemical processes for the removal of heavy metals, inorganic species such as nitrate and ammonia and radionuclides from wastewater. Responsible for licensing and technical support to various uranium operations and, in this capacity, has functioned as a Radiation Safety Officer and has had responsibility for several groundwater restoration projects.
Responsible for the technical content of all RTG training programs including training of operations personnel for RTG designed treatment as well as regulatory, environmental, RCRA and OSHA training. Mr. Conroy was part of a team that provided training to more than 600 Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site employees for OSHA required 24-hour and 40-hour courses. Also responsible for OSHA 40-hour training, 8-hour refresher training and the development of course outlines and training manuals, as well as regulatory materials for several industrial clients.
Additional major responsibility is in supervision of wastewater treatment facility operations including development of facility operations and maintenance manuals, training of facility operators, preparation of permit applications, evaluation of RCRA compliance, and supervision of facility operations. Other activities include troubleshooting of operations problems, identification of maintenance problems, modification of existing facilities to handle changes in facility influent characteristics or effluent requirements, and preparation of routine operations reports.
Manager for licensing, environmental programs, radiation protection, occupational safety and regulating agency coordination. Preparation of Uranium Mill and Mine license applications for Colorado, Texas, Utah Wyoming and Florida. Corporate interface on all uranium mines with the NRC.
Vice President responsible for all uranium mining activities including licensing, metallurgical evaluation, mine development, cost estimating, flowsheet development and production planning. Prepared comprehensive mine plan for in-situ project including plant design, waste management program and groundwater clean-up operations.
Manager/Process Engineer responsible for technical direction of uranium mining process engineering group. Principal responsibility for flowsheet development for all chemical and metallurgical process operations necessary for uranium recovery and groundwater restoration at all mining operations. Provided technical support for licensing activities.
Responsible for biological projects including the biological denitrification of ammonia bearing wastewater; biological leaching of uranium ores using ferroxidans and the effect of microbially induced permeability loss on injection well performance during in-situ mining of uranium.
Manager of lab operations responsible for Central Radiochemical laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Laboratory carrier out analytical and metallurgical testing for Wyoming Mineral Corporation. Coordinated activities in area of analytical and process chemistry at all uranium mine sites. Provided technical support for licensing activities of uranium processing and mining facilities.
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