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Students from the City College of New York attend HAZWOPER training with the students is Angelo Lampousis (second row, right), Ph.D., U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration-authorized trainer, who teaches Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessment courses using ASTM standards.

Students from the City College of New York attend the Phase II environmental site assessment course offered by the college's earth and atmospheric sciences department. With the students are Christopher P. McCormack (front row, second from left), ASTM E1903 task group chair, and Angelo Lampousis (front row, right), Ph.D., who uses ASTM standards in his Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessment courses.

On Feb. 23, ASTM member Christopher P. McCormack, Pullman and Comley LLC, spoke to undergraduate and graduate students studying Phase II environmental site assessment at the City College of New York. McCormack is chairman of the ASTM task group that maintains E1903, Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase II Environmental Site Assessment Process. He has been visiting the Phase II class annually since 2012.

Angelo Lampousis, Ph.D., uses ASTM standards to teach Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessment courses at CCNY. In addition to McCormack, Julie Kilgore, chair of ASTM Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action, will speak at Lampousis' Phase I class during the Fall 2016 semester.

Lampousis notes that, starting in June, the 10- and 30-hour U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration Outreach Training Program for construction and general industry, as well as Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response training, will be offered to CCNY students. These training programs build on the environmental site assessment courses taught at CCNY.