Deborah Dalton

Ms. Dalton is a Senior Conflict Management Specialist with the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As such, she advises EPA program office and regional office management on the selection and implementation of various public involvement, consultation, consensus-building and dispute resolution procedures for use in developing rules, implementing policy and prosecuting enforcement actions. She is co-author/co-editor of the primary reference book on regulatory negotiation "Sourcebook on Negotiated Rulemaking" published by the Administrative Conference of the United States in 1995. Ms. Dalton is the Project Officer for the only contract in the Federal Government providing access to a full range of dispute resolution services (facilitators, mediators, arbitrators) for both regulatory and enforcement dispute resolution. Ms. Dalton has taught negotiation and dispute resolution with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice Legal Education Institute, and the Office of Personnel Management Western Executive Seminar Center. She has a BS from the College of William and Mary in Psychology, an MS from the University of Virginia in Biology and PhD level coursework in environmental toxicology at the University of Maryland. Ms. Dalton was trained as a mediator in the Washington D.C. Superior Court Multi-door Courthouse program. She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (formerly Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution) and the International Association for Public Participation. As a member of SPIDR she worked on the "Best Practices for Government Agencies - Guidelines for Using Collaborative Agreement-Seeking Processes" and associated briefing and training materials.