Gary Cohen has been practicing law for over forty years. After law school, Mr. Cohen worked at EPA Headquarters, Office of Water Enforcement and Permits and Office of General Counsel involved in EPA implementation and enforcement issues under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, CERCLA, and the UIC program under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Since then, Mr. Cohen has been primarily representing municipalities on NPDES permitting, pretreatment implementation and enforcement, defense of EPA, State and/or citizen suit enforcement actions, and related issues. In addition, Mr. Cohen, as the WEF representative, used to co-teach the three day EPA-WEF NPDES Permitting Course. Mr. Cohen has been working with the City of Memphis for many years including defending the City in the EPA/TDEC enforcement action, negotiating their consent decree, as well as providing counsel on programmatic maters, such as reuse issues.