David J. Allard

Chairman, TMI Unit-2 Community Advisory Panel at [Retired] Director, PA Department of Environment Protection, Bureau of Radiation Protection

Speaker

Mr. Allard is a Medical Health Physicist, certified by the American Board of Health Physics for comprehensive practice, Fellow of the Health Physics Society, and on February 1, 1999 was appointed Director of the Bureau of Radiation Protection (BRP) in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). During his DEP tenure he also served two stints as the Acting Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation & Remediation, but always requested he be returned to his BRP Director position. After over 23 years of service, he retired from the DEP in July 2022. Allard was responsible for: accelerator, X-ray, environmental surveillance, nuclear safety, radiological emergency response, radioactive materials, decommissioning/site clean-up, low-level radioactive waste and radon programs within the Commonwealth. He was also the technical lead on Oil & Gas industry radium and NORM/TENORM issues for DEP. BRP has about a $15M annual budget, with 100 technical and administrative staff in the DEP’s Central and Regional Offices.