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Nancy L. Hayes Of Counsel
Email: nhayes@mofo.com Phone: (415) 268-7245 Fax: (415) 268-7522 |
Nancy L. Hayes specializes in the practice of land use and environmental law. She represents clients from a wide range of industries, including major telecommunications, technology, energy, mining, petrochemical, development and financial companies. Her clients also include public entities such as airports, redevelopment agencies and educational institutions. Ms. Hayes has represented these clients in matters of federal, state and local law relating to land use, environmental review, natural resources, air, water, hazardous waste and materials, and environmental cleanup.
Ms. Hayes is experienced in major facility and project siting, permitting and closure matters. She also represents clients in cleanup, cost recovery and enforcement actions and rulemaking proceedings, and in transactions involving contaminated property or other potential environmental liabilities. She routinely advises clients on environmental compliance issues related to their business operations.
Ms. Hayes frequently lectures and writes on environmental issues. Before joining Morrison & Foerster LLP in 1988, she was an associate in the Environmental Law Group at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro.
Representative Matters
Representing a telecommunications company in the environmental review and permitting of the first undersea fiber-optic cable system designed to serve California’s major coastal cities.
Representing a major international airport in the NPDES and storm water permitting for its publicly-owned treatment works and municipal storm sewer system, as well as the Title V air permitting and the air quality aspects of a runway project.
Represented a major airport in obtaining a soil and groundwater cleanup to facilitate a multi-billion dollar expansion project which resulted in issuance of an order under California’s Containment Policy, now a model used at airports across the country.
Principal author of legislation, known as the Polanco bill, which provides redevelopment agencies with additional cleanup immunities and cost-recovery rights.






