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Wanda Chin Monahan is a member of the law firm of McManimon & Scotland and manages the firm’s Environmental Law Department. Ms. Monahan specializes in the practice of environmental law and brownfields redevelopment representing counties, municipalities, redevelopment entities, authorities, and boards of education as well as private clients and developers. Ms. Monahan has extensive experience in matters involving site remediation and redevelopment, real estate transactions, environmental liability, enforcement, regulatory compliance, cost recovery, natural resource damages, environmental insurance, solid waste, permitting, insurance coverage, preparation of grant applications and military base remediation and reuse. She also has extensive litigation experience in state, federal and administrative proceedings in matters involving the Spill Compensation and Control Act, Brownfield and Contaminated Site Remediation Act, Industrial Site Recovery Act, Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Act, Underground Storage Tank Act, Water Pollution Control Act and the Local Redevelopment and Housing Act. Ms. Monahan also has developed an expertise in the transfer of former military installations under the Base Realignment and Closure Act, having represented a local redevelopment authority on the Army’s first Early Transfer/Environmental Services Cooperative Agreement for a 600+ acre property, and is special legal counsel to the State Redevelopment Authority for the Fort Monmouth 1,125-acre installation. Ms. Monahan has been practicing environmental law exclusively since 1992, specializing in site remediation and reuse and brownfields redevelopment. The addition of Ms. Monahan’s environmental practice group complements McManimon & Scotland’s existing redevelopment practice and also allows the firm to assist clients in a broader scope of environmental matters. Prior to joining McManimon & Scotland, Ms. Monahan was a Deputy Attorney General with the State of New Jersey representing the Department of Environmental Protection and a partner with the law firm of Schwartz, Tobia, Stanziale, Sedita & Campisano in charge of the firm’s Brownfields Redevelopment and Site Remediation Practice Group. Ms. Monahan received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College of Rutgers University in 1985 and her Juris Doctoris degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1988. Ms. Monahan is an active member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the National Brownfields Association, the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Women Environmental Professionals and the Passaic County Brownfields Commission. Education
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