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Daniel S. Miller

Executive Committee | Outreach Committee Co-Chair | Fellow since 2019
Mr. Miller retired from his position as a Senior Assistant Attorney General at the Colorado Department of Law in January 2023. He had worked there since 1987. He received his B.A. from the University of Colorado in 1978, and a J.D. and Masters degree in City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. Mr. Miller has extensive experience in hazardous waste regulation and cleanup, particularly in the area of state regulation of federal facilities. He served on various national committees addressing the cleanup of federal facilities, including the National Governors’ Association-Department of Energy Federal Facilities Task Force and the Federal Facility Environmental Restoration Dialogue Committee. Mr. Miller is also a student of institutional controls — legal and administrative mechanisms used to restrict land or water use in connection with cleanups of contaminated sites. He is the chief drafter of Colorado’s institutional control legislation, and also served as an observeradvisor to the Uniform Environmental Covenant Act Drafting Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

Degrees

JD, Masters of City Planning

Admissions

  • Colorado

Court Admissions

Colorado state and federal courts

Professional Societies and Organizations

ACOEL

Other Environmental Career Experience

NA

Representative Publications (not including ACOEL Blogs)

Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth -- Federal Agency Opposition to State Institutional Control Law. Environmental Law Institute News and Analysis, 9-2002.

Illustrative Projects

  • Cleanup of Rocky Flats Nuclear weapons site
  • Primary drafter Colorado's environmental covenant statute

Citations of Major Published Cases

NA
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