Patty McGrath serves as the Senior Mining Advisor for EPA headquarters Office of Policy, within the Administrators Office, where she is responsible for advising on mining and critical minerals issues across EPAs regulatory and tribal programs.  Patty has 35 years of mining-related professional experience, including 25 years with the U.S. EPA. She has also worked as a mining NEPA and permitting consultant, as the permitting manager for a proposed gold mine in Alaska, and as a metallurgical engineer at an operating mine and in research and development. Patty holds an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University and a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.