Mr. Steven Richardson

Council Member Biography

Steven Richardson is Partner at Van Ness Feldman in Washington, DC, where he focuses on administrative law and litigation with an emphasis in the fields of land, water, hydroelectric, energy, and environmental law. He is active in helping energy companies site electric transmission lines in fast-growing urban areas and environmentally-sensitive locations. He also represents clients throughout the development, planning, consultation, siting, permitting, and defending of rights-of-way and transmission routing on federal and private lands. In his water practice, Mr. Richardson represents electric utilities in hydroelectric licensing and irrigation districts in compliance and enforcement actions. Previously, he served as the Chief of Staff for the Bureau of Reclamation at the U.S. Department of Interior and Deputy Director of the Bureau of Land Management. Mr. Richardson was a principal policy advisor to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and, among other things, he directed the interdisciplinary teams of lawyers, scientists and administrators that completed the only two nation-wide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statements ever attempted under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). He also served on the Subcommittee on Environment, Energy & Natural Resources, Committee on Government Operations and was a Staff Director & Counsel, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2000 - Unspecified

Partner, VAN NESS FELDMAN, PC

1995 - 2000

Chief of Staff, Bureau of Reclamation, UNITED STATES DEPT OF INTERIOR

1993 - 1995

Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, UNITED STATES DEPT OF INTERIOR