Air Law Workshop: An overview of what it takes to implement the Clean Air Act from the perspective of a Regional U. S. EPA office by Steve Rothblatt Director, Air and Radiation Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5

Mr. Rothblatt is responsible for implementing the overall air quality management program including enforcement and compliance assurance, regulation development, permitting, grants and air quality monitoring, in U.S. EPA’s six state Great Lakes Region. He also directs certain radiation and indoor air quality programs administered by U.S. EPA. Mr. Rothblatt has been an advisor to the Governments of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and India related to air quality management programs. He served as advisor to the Republic of Korea, leading a team of air quality experts twice to Seoul where they developed a strategy to deal with the reduced visibility/fine particulate problem of the Seoul-Inchon metropolitan area. Mr. Rothblatt has served as Chairman of the Lake Michigan States Section of the Air and Waste Management Association. During 1989, he was detailed to U.S. EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation in Washington, DC to work with the team developing what became the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. Mr. Rothblatt earned his Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the Juris Doctorate degree from DePaul University’s College of Law.