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news pfonline.com/news/list NASF Brings Big Guns to EPA Fight Group hires former EPA lawyer Roger Martella to defend plating industry. W ho did the National Association for Surface Finishing (NASF) hire to go after the U.S. EPA in its legal fight over the agency���s final chromium electroplating rules? The EPA���s former top lawyer, that���s who. The organization brought in attorney Roger Martella to battle the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), filing a legal challenge in late November with a petition for judicial review of the ruling in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and a request for reconsideration of the rule. Martella is with the Sidley Austin law firm in Washington, D.C., and one of the biggest hitters when it comes to environmental law. He served as the General Counsel to the EPA until 2008, concluding a 10-year career of litigating and handling complex environmental and natural resource matters at the U.S. Department of Justice and the EPA. As the agency���s General Counsel, Martella supervised 350 attorneys and staff in Washington and 10 regional offices. Now, he���s taking the EPA to court on behalf of the plating industry. ���This is an extremely important case, not only for platers but for the entire surface coating industry,��� says NASF Executive Vice President Christian Richter, who has known Martella for several years and enlisted him to speak at the NASF���s Washington Forum conference in 2012. ���This particular case happens to be a chromium rule, but it has implications for the broader finishing community. Everyone in the coating industry needs to sit up and take notice because it could happen next to other finishing processes that directly impact them.��� DoD Axes Hawaii Conference Roger Martella is handling the NASF fight against the EPA. NASF and Martella argue that EPA should reconsider the final NESHAP for chromium electroplating and anodizing facilities, because the decision is not supported by science and relies on bad and incomplete data. Military Brass: Cut wasteful spending. Military officials have cancelled the every other year and attracts almost U.S. Department of Defense���s Corrosion 700 people, including military personConference 2013, which was scheduled nel. The last one was held in 2011 in to be held in Hawaii in September. The Palm Springs, Calif. agency instead will host an online webinar ���The 2013 conference will be to discuss latest trends and research. conducted entirely online so we can The cancellation came after Frank Kendprovide access to as many attendees all, the DoD Under Secretary of Defense as possible worldwide, and to reduce for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, the costs of travel for all participatissued a memo directing agencies to reing service and industry experts,��� view their involvement in conferences that says Daniel Dunmire, director of the cost more than $100,000. Kendell���s memo DoD procurement chief Frank Kendall gets a Corrosion Policy and Oversight Office. cited a directive from the White House ���By inaugurating this format in 2013, feel for the corrosion faced by Tinker KC-135 Office of Management and Budget, which mechanics, outlined by Theresa Farris, director we expect to attract military program called on federal agencies to cut costs and of the 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. managers of weapons systems and reduce spending waste. facilities, as well as a wide range of (Air Force photo by Margo Wright.) The DoD���s Corrosion Policy and corrosion experts across the DoD Oversight Office quickly called off the five-day forum scheduled at the acquisition community.��� The 2015 conference currently is scheduled Sheraton Waikiki hotel in Honolulu. The conference normally occurs to be held in Pittsburgh, and 2017 is slated for Cleveland. 6 JANUARY 2013