Terrence
M.
Fay
Member
Terrence M. Fay is a Member with Frost Brown Todd LLC. He oversees the Firm's Environmental and Public Law practice in its Columbus, Ohio office. He has almost thirty years of experience in all aspects of environmental and public law. He is a former Assistant Attorney General of Ohio, former Chief Civil Attorney of the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, former Chief Counsel to the Ohio Board on Unreclaimed Strip-Mined Lands, and the former judicial clerk to the Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Ohio Power Siting Board. While in public service, he participated in some of the most important events in environmental and public law in Ohio during the last three decades, including the Erie Nuclear Power Station power siting proceedings, the filing of the first state cost recovery action under the federal Superfund Act, the extensive re-drafting of Ohio's strip-mining laws and regulations to conform them to the requirements of the federal Surfact Mining Control and Reclamation Act, the defense of the exclusive licensing provision of Ohio's hazardous waste laws, and the letting of millions of dollars in state contracts for the clean up of unreclaimed stirp-mined lands in Ohio
Since leaving public service for private practice, he has been involved in major civil and criminal environmental litigatoin on behalf of firm clients, and has counseled companies ranging in size from publicly traded Fortune 500 companies to small family businesses in the environmental aspects of the acquisition and divestiture of business units and real property. He has also counseled private companies in securing and defending public contracts and the legal restrictions on gifts made to federal and state public officials, and he has counseled debtors and creditors on the treatment of environmental liabilities under the federal Bankrupty Code.