Nicole Sotak is a senior environmental planner with the Department of Toxic Substances Control within the California Environmental Protection Agency. She supervises the Environmental Analysis and Regulations unit, which manages California Environmental Quality Act projects and provides technical support to the programs on environmental analysis and planning. Nicole has managed or assisted in the preparation of environmental analyses for a variety of unexploded ordnance remediation projects throughout California. Nicole has participated in the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council for two years and has been the sub-team leader for the development of the technology/regulatory document on Munitions Response Historical Records Research. Nicole received her bachelor's of science from the University of California at Davis in Genetics and completed graduate coursework on environmental policy at the Ohio State University.