Suzanne C. Lacampagne

Representative Experience

• Environmental—Cleanup/Permitting Plus

  • Advised multinational pulp and paper, manufacturing, food processing, and investment companies on complex Clean Air Act issues, including global climate change, new source review requirements, new source performance standards, routine maintenance exemptions under the prevention of significant deterioration regulations, the national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants, determination of appropriate control technology, and odor-control regulation.

  • Advised food processing clients on compliance with National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting requirements; permit transfer and modifications; and defended clients before state and federal enforcement actions.

  • Represented company in dispute over investigation and cleanup costs for legacy contaminated site; advice included permitting issues in Oregon.

  • Represented company in nationwide EPA NSR/PSD air enforcement initiative, performed environmental due diligence for property transactions/M&As; advised on Clean Air Act (Title V and ACDPs) and water permitting issues; and advised on cleanup and remediation of contaminated sites.

  • Assisted client in successfully obtaining a No Further Action letter from Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for an uplands soil cleanup in 2007. Located within the Portland Harbor Superfund boundary, the industrial site was a former railcar repair and cleaning operation with PAH and arsenic contamination.

  • Advised clients, ranging from heavy equipment and metal manufacturers, pulp and paper, seafood processors, lumber, chemical, investment, fuel, and real estate companies, to financial institutions, tribes, and public entities, nonprofits, on the investigation and remediation of single-party, multiparty, and Superfund sites listed on the National Priority List. Represented clients in allocation process and enforcement actions to minimize environmental liability.

  • Obtained No Further Action determination from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for an industrial site adjacent to the Columbia Slough waterway, and resolved cleanup and Natural Resources Damages (NRD) liability for Slough sediments with favorable settlement with DEQ, largely funded by other parties.

  • Represented former shipyard at Commencement Bay Superfund Site in successfully settling Superfund cleanup and natural resource damages claims with release from liability and contribution protection. Natural Resources Damages (NRD) claims successfully settled through multi-party mediated allocation that allowed for sale of DSAY credits.

  • Represented several manufacturing clients at Portland Harbor Superfund Site in multi-party allocation of cleanup liability and resolution of natural resource damages claims, including litigation by trustee for natural resource damage claims.

• Environmental—Due Diligence Plus

  • Assist a variety of clients in the due diligence of buying, selling, and foreclosing on real property and businesses that involve contaminated property, including reviewing and revising Phase I and II and other environmental reports, and reviewing, drafting, and negotiating terms and conditions in contracts, leases, purchase and sale agreements, and access agreements to minimize clients' environmental liability as buyers and sellers of businesses and real property.

  • Conducted environmental due diligence for investor in a Portland area cleanup and construction of upscale shopping mall on a landfill.

  • Performed environmental due diligence and assisted developer with old rail yard site in downtown Portland that was cleaned up and redeveloped for low-income housing, commercial, and mixed-use properties.

• Environmental—Litigation Plus

  • Defended clients in numerous industries, including food processors, retailers, a feeding operation, waste management, manufacturing, chemical, energy, and real estate, in Clean Water Act actions brought by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and citizen groups.

  • Represented seller of vacant contaminated property in cleanup and in litigation, obtaining 100 percent recovery for cleanup costs of an old service station site. Site was redeveloped into new service station.

  • Defended clients in Clean Water Act citizen suit litigation.

• Toxic Tort Plus

  • Represented school districts in addressing potential claims for exposure to lead paint, lead in drinking water, radon, leaking PCB-containing fluorescent light ballasts, asbestos and mold; successfully resolved issues and prevented litigation.