Jim Lieberman has been a Senior Regulatory and Nuclear Safety Consultant to Talisman since his retirement from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the spring of 2004. He has more than 30 years of experience in regulatory activities. He retired from the NRC as Special Counsel for Decommissioning and Fuel Cycle activities for which he was lead NRC counsel for license termination and decommissioning issues; high and low-level waste issues including mixed waste, GTCC waste, EPA ANPR on disposal of LLW at RCRA sites, and waste incidental to reprocessing; state agreement program matters including regulation reviews and jurisdictional issues between NRC and Agreement States; enrichment activities (LES, USEC including GDP's, lead cascade, and enrichment facilities); Fuel Cycle rulemaking, guidance, and licensing actions including mill tailings, source material (definition of source material, jurisdiction, and unimportant quantities) and 11e(2) issues; West Valley Demonstration Project (developing and implementing NRC Policy Statement on Decommissioning Criteria); clearance rulemaking; and NEPA.
He was also Director of the Office of Enforcement where he was responsible for managing the Commission's enforcement program and was accountable for the Commission's policy statements on enforcement, protection of allegers against retaliation, and safety-conscious work environments. He was directly responsible for rulemakings on Completeness and Accuracy of Information and Deliberate Misconduct and chaired agency-wide review teams on discrimination and enforcement, both of which resulted in significant changes to NRC programs and policies. He also advised Russia and Ukraine on regulatory and enforcement issues. His other assignments at the NRC included being the Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement and Regional Operations. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, a M.S. in Thermal Engineering from Cornell University and a J.D. from George Washington University.