alspielman@hhlaw.com
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Andrew
L.
Spielman
Partner, Denver, Washington, D.C.
Andy Spielman combines more than 20 years of federal, state, and local government experience with land use, Western public lands, and natural resource law to assist renewable energy developers, ski areas, water suppliers, ranchers, tribes, and others with obtaining regulatory approvals and permits from governments across the western United States.
Andy currently serves as Chairman of Colorado’s Regional Air Quality Council and served as Staff Director for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter's natural resources transition team. Following completion of graduate work in government administration, he served as a Presidential Management Fellow and in senior positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., including acting Associate Director of the Office of Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities in the EPA's Policy Office. Andy's government experience also includes service in staff positions at the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget; and the U.S. Senate.
Andy is a frequent lecturer on public lands law and policy and speaks annually on the subject of state and local permitting of wind energy facilities at a nationally attended conference. He has co-authored numerous EPA publications involving municipal environmental compliance, community-based environmental protection, and international environmental policy. He lectures on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); natural resource, environmental, and land use law; and wind energy development at universities and professional associations across the country. He has also taught environmental law and policy in Central and Eastern Europe on behalf of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Secured all land use approvals (including State Land Board leases) for 725-megawatts of wind energy development and its 80-mile private transmission facilities in Eastern Colorado.
Represented seven national, state, and West Slope environmental and conservation groups as parties to the successful mediation and settlement of the 30-year long Black Canyon of the Gunnison water rights litigation.
Assists with siting of interstate renewable energy transmission facilities serving solar and wind resource projects.
Represents numerous West Slope ranchers before local governments and state agencies, including the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Mined Land Reclamation Board.
Represents a public utility before the U.S. Forest Service with regards to bark beetle issues and the Healthy Forest Restoration Act.
Served as water counsel to objectors and proponents of water supply projects throughout Colorado and its seven water divisions.
Successfully represented the National Parks Conservation Association in recent federal litigation involving endangered species and NEPA.
Successfully defended a Forest Service permittee's lands approval before the
United States Supreme Court.
On a pro bono basis, assisted in drafting State legislation, now enacted, providing public access to Colorado's Fourteeners, with liability protection for landowners.
Represents a major Colorado-based fertilizer producer before the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Represents Wolf Creek Ski Area, Breckenridge, Keystone, Silverton Mountain, Eclipse Snowpark, Telluride, Purgatory, and other ski areas as public lands, NEPA, and land use counsel.
Represents several Tribes in federal recognition, lands, and development issues.
Published Works
01.22.2010
"New Energy Economy Requires New Uses of Our Public Lands." Denver Business Journal
November 2009
"Skiers Want More...Less...and a Change." Winter Sports Technology International
07.01.2009
"Stimulus Cash: Winter resorts can tap into hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and loans." Ski Area Management, Beardsley Publishing Corporation
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