| Mohsen Nazemi is the Assistant
Deputy Executive Officer for the office of Engineering and Compliance, which
is responsible for all permitting and compliance programs for stationary
sources. This responsibility includes RECLAIM, Title V and other large,
medium and small facilities operating equipment which emit air pollution
within AQMD’s four-county jurisdiction.
He also serves as the Permit Streamlining Ombudsman for AQMD, overseeing
AQMD’s Permit Streamlining Office, which is working to make the permit
process more efficient and customer-service oriented. In addition, Mohsen is
responsible for the AQMD’s Economic Development and Business Retention
Program, which helps businesses while ensuring that they achieve regional
clean air standards.
For almost 30 years Mohsen has held several different positions within
AQMD. Among them, he served as Senior Manager in charge of the
Refinery/Energy & Outer Continental Shelf section in the Office of
Stationary Source Compliance. In this position Mohsen was responsible for
rule development, permitting and compliance of all refineries, oil and gas
production and transfer facilities and all public and private power
producing facilities. Before this, he headed AQMD’s Air Toxics and Global
Climate Changes Strategies group. He also was responsible for policy
development and coordination of state and federal programs, as well as
permitting of all liquid and solid waste management facilities.
Before joining AQMD, Mohsen worked for the private sector developing
various catalytic processes used for NOx reduction and for Hydro
Desulfurization (HDS) and Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC) operations.
Nazemi holds a M.S. degree in chemical engineering from University of
California at Los Angeles and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from
California State University at Long Beach. He also earned his Professional
Engineer certification in chemical engineering from the State of California
as well as his Certified Hazardous Materials Manager credentials from the
National Academy of Hazardous Materials Management in Rockville, Maryland,
and from the University of California at Irvine. Nazemi has also taught
several environmental courses at University of California at Irvine.
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