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STATE OF LOUISIANA 4.0"14‘ DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE 'rQ�° LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS N,,, > P.O. BOX 4368 �41..4,, BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 °"en_ � (225)219-5600 FAX:(225)381-7271 1-800-842-6630 www.ethics.la.gov January 23,2017 Mr. Blake Bordelon 502 Wallace Road West Monroe,Louisiana 71291 Re: Louisiana Board of Ethics Docket No. 2016-1202 Dear Mr. Bordelon, The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its January 20, 2017,meeting, considered your request for an advisory opinion regarding the post-employment restrictions following your termination of employment with the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). In particular, you asked about your ability to perform future remediation and clean-up work involving gas sta- tion sites at which you were never assigned to work. You stated that you were employed by the DEQ as an Environmental Scientist in the Un- derground Storage Tank and Remediation Division. You stated you terminated your em- ployment in November of 2016. As part of your duties, you inspected approximately 20 to 25 gas station sites per year in the northeast region for compliance with applicable Louisiana Underground Storage Tank regulations. You also served as a team leader of individual reme- diation sites where you reviewed reports submitted by contractors for remediation work they performed on the site and conducted final monitoring inspections before the site was closed. You stated that you reported to a regional supervisor and did not supervise other DEQ em- ployees. The Board concluded, and instructed me to inform you, that generally, La. R.S. 42:1121B(1) of the Code of Governmental Ethics ("Code") provides: No former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the ter- mination of his public employment, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public em- ployment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following termination of his public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had ren- dered to the agency during the term of his public employment on a contractu- al basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER