Endangered Species Act, Wetlands, and Stormwater Regulatory Compliance for Energy & Utilities

Kerrie Collison is the Director of Cultural Resources at Glenn Lukos Associates and is a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA 28731436). She earned her M.A. from California State University, Northridge, in Anthropology with a focus on Public Archaeology and has over 14 years of archaeological and project management experience, mainly throughout California and the Great Basin. She prepares cultural resources reports for various types of development and preservation projects, conducts Native American outreach, assists Lead Agencies with formal Native American consultation, and directs and participates in archaeological surveys and subsurface studies. She also prepares cultural resource evaluations per National Register of Historic Places criteria for Section 106 cultural resources studies. Kerrie specializes in lithic analysis and identifying the various stages of production of stone tools and meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards for Archaeology.

Thienan Pfeiffer is the President and CEO of Glenn Lukos Associates, a specialty environmental consulting firm with expertise in a small niche of environmental issues, including wetland and other water-related permitting, wetland delineation, habitat restoration design, mitigation implementation, mitigation monitoring, biological surveys, and endangered species coordination.  

Thienan is also the Director of Regulatory Services with extensive experience in natural resources regulatory permitting and compliance for complex residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use communities, as well as public works projects. She assists clients through every stage of development, from due diligence to compensatory mitigation implementation and has successfully negotiated permits and agreements from US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Army Corps of Engineers, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Regional Water Quality Control Boards/State Water Resources Control Board, and the California Coastal Commission. Thienan has performed numerous wetland delineations and functional assessments including the California Rapid Assessment Methodology (CRAM) throughout the arid southwest, with a focus on coastal wetland delineations. Her experience also includes processing of a federal coastal mitigation bank in Southern California and writing habitat mitigation and monitoring plans, long-term management plans, and related endowment documents. In addition to her executive role at GLA, Thienan is an Adjunct Professor at California State University, Fullerton, in the Master of Science Environmental Studies Program, teaching courses on federal and state-regulated wetlands. 

Tom Russo is an Energy and Environmental expert with unique FERC regulatory skills in siting hydropower, natural gas and liquefied natural gas infrastructure, NEPA environmental impact assessment and in how energy markets, prices and physical/cybersecurity affect infrastructure investments.

Prior to founding Russo on Energy LLC in May 2015, Mr. Russo worked for over 30 years as a Manager and Sr. Energy Industry Analyst at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). During that time, he amassed experience in hydropower licensing, NEPA environmental impact assessment of energy projects, business process reengineering, and natural gas and crude oil market oversight. Mr. Russo thoroughly understands the Natural Gas Act, Natural Gas Policy Act, Federal Power Act and Energy Policy Act as they apply to natural gas and hydroelectric projects. He is very active in hydropower and natural gas matters and writes an Energy and Environmental column for the Natural Gas and Electricity Journal. He also co-authored for the R Street Institute entitled “Ebbing the flow of hydropower red tape.”

Mr. Russo is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He earned a credential as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in 2010. He also graduated with an MBA in Finance from George Washington University and an MS in Biology from University of Alabama.