Professional Experience
Daniel Muchow practices in the area of business and general corporate matters and in the area of environmental and natural resources. His experience includes:
- Representing airline jet fuel consortiums at various major airports in the United States.
- Negotiate and document lease agreements, easements and other documentation to provide use rights for fuel tank farms, hydrant systems and related facilities, both at on- and off-airport locations.
- Represent fuel hedging organization in connection with fuel hedging consortium consisting of group of international air carriers.
- Airline representation in connection with negotiations with domestic airport authorities for the construction of fuel delivery and storage facilities.
- Negotiate and document water rights acquisitions, sales and leases.
- Advice on assured water supply issues, project and golf course water acquisition and usage and water use and acquisition for real estate development projects.
- Counsel and advice on water injection and reuse projects, including permitting.
- Comments on proposed water regulations and policies, including conservation requirements and groundwater management plans.
- Advise clients on effluent use and reuse issues; negotiated major effluent storage and reuse consent decree with state environmental agency.
- Environmental due diligence issues in connection with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures involving industrial and commercial facilities.
- Counsel business and industrial clients on solid waste, hazardous waste, air and water quality, emergency planning and other environmental compliance issues.
- Environmental assessments and environmental impact statements for industrial and commercial entities.
- Obtained first major industrial groundwater quality protection permit after enactment of the Arizona Environmental Quality Act of 1986.
- Environmental compliance and assessment work on Superfund and groundwater quality issues.
- Defense of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency compliance requests and notices of violations under the Federal Clean Water Act and Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act.
- Representation in connection with asbestos abatement projects, underground storage tank removals and remediation projects, and removal and transportation of PCB equipment.
- State and Federal environmental permitting, including NPDES permits, air quality installation permits and groundwater quality and aquifer protection permits.
- Real property environmental assessments.
- Environmental and safety issues associated with the siting of new industrial facilities.
Education and Honors
- Washburn University School of Law (J.D., 1981)
Phi Kappa Phi. Washburn Law Journal (Executive Editor, 1980-1981).
- United States Military Academy at West Point (B.S., 1972)
Bar Admissions
Arizona,
1981
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1984
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1981
Professional Recognition
Martindale-Hubbell AV
® Peer Review Rated.
Listed in
The Best Lawyers in America® (2003-present: Environmental Law).
Selected for inclusion in the 2007-2010
Southwest Super Lawyers® lists (Environmental Law).
Listed in
Chambers USA® (2009-present: Environmental Law).
Professional and Civic Activities
Member: Maricopa County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Arizona (Member, Environmental and Natural Resources Section); Arizona Chamber of Commerce Environment Committee; Arizona Association of Industries (Environment Committee); ASTM Committee E-50 (Environmental Assessments).
Board of Directors and Corporate Secretary, Friends of West Valley Recreation Corridor; Board of Directors, Valley Forward, 1997-2005; Member, Phoenix Chapter, West Point Society; Governor’s Task Force, Environmental Impact Statements, 1990; Maricopa County Environmental Policy Advisor Selection Committee, 1992.
Corporate Directorships: Arizona Fueling Facilities Corp. (Secretary); LASfuel Corporation (Secretary); Reno Fueling Facilities Corporation (Secretary); Atlecon Fuel Corporation (Secretary).
Client representations in the Arizona Legislature and state and federal agencies and courts including the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Arizona Department of Real Estate, Arizona State Land Department, Arizona State Board of Land Appeals, Arizona Department of Water Resources, Arizona Game & Fish Department, Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona Water Quality Control Council, Arizona Corporation Commission, U.S. Department of Interior (Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Indian Affairs), U.S. Forest Service, Navajo Tribal Agencies, Phoenix City Council, City of Phoenix Wastewater Department, City of Phoenix Planning and Zoning Department, Chandler (Arizona), City Council, Chandler Planning and Zoning Commission, Tempe (Arizona) Wastewater Department, Kingman (Arizona) City Council, Mohave County Board of Supervisors, Mohave County Planning and Zoning Commission, Mexican Comision de Fomento Minero (Mexico City), Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Nevada Supreme Court. Captain, U.S. Army, 1972-1978.