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What Are the Alliance's Goals?
• Work collaboratively to identify technically
practicable, cost-effective solutions to petroleum
hydrocarbon contamination problems at ground-
water and soil sites.
• Create and test an improved decision-making
framework or strategy, built on scientific prin-
ciples and the utilization of cost-effective and
appropriate technologies for achieving specific
cleanup goals acceptable to regulatory agencies
and the public interest.
• Develop an approach for cleaning up and closing
large NAPL sites.
• Develop a better understanding of the cost and
effectiveness of .existing, aggressive NAPL
removal technologies.
• Encourage cooperation among its members
through sharing technical information and lessons
learned in the field.
• Develop technical training on NAPL character-
ization, mobility, and removal.
What Is the Role of Alliance
Members?
The 15 public and private organizations who make
up the "core team" of the NAPL Cleanup Alliance
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in
2001 to indicate their commitment to the mission and
goals of the Alliance. Under the MOU, "core team"
members provide joint management and coordination
of Alliance activities and projects. On aproject-by-
project basis, "core team" members also contribute
project sites for use in testing specific alternatives,
expertise and experience unique to their respective
organizations, personnel, equipment, laboratory
facilities, and funding needed to achieve Alliance
goals.
What Has the NAPL Cleanup
Alliance Accomplished?
1. The Alliance launched a World Wide Web sitein2001
that is accessible to the public through the RTDF site at
tvtw.rtdf.org. The web site describes the Alliance,
names the Alliance member-organizations, provides
contactinformationfbr Alliance co-chairs, provides
electronic links to other useful Internet sites, and
provides access to summaries of conference calls and
meetings of Alliance members, includmghistorical
information fromthe Alliance's forniativemeetings in
2000.
2. Acritical component of the Alliance's activities will
involve the evaluation of innovative technologies that
can contribute significantly to improving remediation
of large-scaleNAPL contamination. It is anticipated
that at least one or two pilots will be developed for
each of the petroleum companies that are signatories
to the MOU. Presently, the Alliance is working on
two pilotprojects within EPARegjon 8: Conoco/
Ultramar DiamondShatnrockRefineries inDenver,
CO, and the former Texaco Refinery in Casper, WY.
Both of these RTDF NAPL Alliance pilots have been
selected as National RCRA Showcase PilotProjects.
The firstpilot atthe Denver refineries involves
employingawaterflood for removal of free-phase
hydrocarbons in a shallow unconsolidated aquifer.
The second pilot at the Capser site .includes a
hydrocarbonmobility study employing innovative field
screening techniques, such as the U.S. Navy Site
Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System
(SCAPS).Themobility study willbefoUowedby
selection and deploymentofone or more innovative
remediation systems.
3. TheAllianceformedanotherWorkingGrouplatein
2001 to develop a decision-making framework that
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Would You Like More Information?
For more information about the NAPL
Cleanup Alliance, please contact the
Alliance Co-chairs:
Randall Breeden
U.S Environmental Protection Agency
Region 8
999 18th Street, Suite 500
Denver, CO 80202
Tel: 303-321-6522
Fax: 303-312-6064
ail: breeden.randy@epa.gov
MarkLyverse.
JronTexaco Energy Research
(Technology Company
:hmond,CA 94802-0627
Tel: 510-242-1080
'ax: 510-242-5577
Email: ml;(V(5}ChevronTexaco.com
For more information on the RTDF or other
Action Teams, please visit the RTDF World
Wide Web Site at www.rtdf.org or contact:
Robert Olexs'ey
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
26 West Martin Luther King Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Tel: 513-569-7861
E-mail: olexsey.bob@epa.gov •
Walter W. Kovalick, ;Jr., P!
U.S. Environmental Protectioi
401 M Street, SW (5102G)
Washington, DC 20460
E-mail: kovalick.walter@cp
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