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The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
(FRTR) promotes interagency cooperation to
advance the use of innovative technologies for
the remediation of hazardous waste sites. One
of the FRTR's priorities is the documentation and
distribution of cost and performance information
for completed and ongoing remediation projects.
Primary members of the FRTR include the U.S.
Department of Defense (DoD), Department of
Energy (DOE), Department of Interior (DO1),
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
The remediation case studies and general
technology assessment reports published by the
FRTR are available at www.frtr.gov. These reports
provide site-specific information about actual
technology applications based on information
provided by federal and state agencies. Site
managers, regulators, technology vendors,
contractors, and the public can benefit from these
experiences to improve technology selection and
operation. This fact sheet describes the status of
cost and performance activities, including recent
additions of completed case studies and reports.
For 2004, the FRTR has announced the release
of 118 new remediation case study reports and
technology assessments in four focus areas.
These include 19 cost and performance case
study reports describing the use of remediation
technologies; 24 reports describing the use of site
characterization and monitoring technologies; 73
case studies describing long-term monitoring/
optimization of remediation technologies; and 2
reports describing the assessments of remediation
technologies at hazardous waste sites.
The four focus areas for remediation case studies
and technology assessments represent a wide
spectrum of technology deployment in the field,
ranging from large-scale demonstrations to full-scale
applications at single sites and at multiple sites, and
long-term technology optimization.
EXHIBIT 1; SOIL REMEDIATION CASE STUDIES BY TECHNOLOGY
Ex Situ Soil Treatment In Situ Soil Treatment
Thermal Desorption (28) -
Incineration (14)
Physical/Chemical Treatment (16)
Physical Separation/ Segmented Gate
System (8)
Solvent Extraction (2)
Vitrification (3)
Solidification/Stabilization (1)
Acid Leaching (1}
Soil Washing (1)
Bioremediation (16)
Land Treatment (7)
Composting (6)
Slurry-Phase Bioremediation (3)
Soil Vapor Extraction (46)
Thermal Treatment (15)
Bioventing (9)
Electrokinetics (5)
Other (19)
Phyla-remediation (4)
Chemical Oxidation/Reduction (4)
Vitrification (2)
Fracturing (3)
Solidification/Stabilization (3)
Lasagna™(2)
Drilling (1)
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EXHIBIT 2: GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION CASE STUDIES BY TECHNOLOGY
Ex Situ Groundwater Treatment
In Situ Groundwater Treatment
Pump and Treat (56)
-Other (29)
In-Well Air Stripping (9)
Monitored Natural Attenuation (9)
Flushing (6)
Phytoremediation (5)
Bioremediation (45)
Multi-Phase Extraction (16)
Air Sparging (16)
Permeable Reactive Barrier (14)
Chemical Oxidation/Reduction (16)
Thermal Treatment (11)
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The FRTR has added 19 new remediation case studies fora
total of 361. These remediation technology cost and
performance case studies cover a wide range of technology
types and contaminants. Each report (about 10-40 pages in
length) provides information about site background and
hydrogeology, a description of the technology design and
operation, data about cost and performance, information about
lessons learned from the project, and points of contact.
The remediation case studies include more than 30 different
technologies fortreating soil and groundwatercontamination,
with 168 reports addressing soil cleanup and 203 reports
concerning groundwater. Exhibits 1 and 2 show the specific
soil and groundwater technologies covered by the site
remediation reports, along with the number of reports for each
technology.
Abstracts (2 pages in length) are provided for each of the
case studies summarizing key information about the site-
specific technology application. Abstracts for the new
reports are available in the eighth volume of Abstracts of
Remediation Case Studies (542-R-04-012, June 2004). The
361 reports and associated abstracts, along with additional
related FRTR resources, are available on-line at
www.frfr.goi/and on CD-ROM (542-C-04-004, June 2004).
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The FRTR has added 24 new site characterization reports,
including Triad/field-based site characterization, contaminant
analyses, and geophysical techniques. (The Triad is an
innovative approach to site assessment that consists of
systematic planning, dynamic work plans, and on-site
analytical tools. See www.triadcentrai.org for additional
information about the Triad.) The 145 reports cover the full
range of site characterization and monitoring techniques
with many focused on technologies used in the investigation
stage of site cleanup.
The FRTR recently began compiling case studies prepared
by federal agencies about long-term monitoring and/or
optimization of remediation technologies. Reports include
activities at single sites and at multiple sites. A total of 73
new FRTR case studies are now available in the optimization
section of the FRTR web site. These reports describe long-
term management/optimization efforts that have been either
implemented or evaluated, and cover techniques such as
groundwater monitoring program evaluation, plume capture
evaluation, and hydraulic optimization.
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The FRTR is compiling general technology assessment
reports prepared by federal agencies and the Interstate
Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC). As technologies
mature, federal agencies and states are moving beyond
documenting individual projects to providing more
comprehensive analyses about technologies that have been
used at multiple sites. These reports provide a summary of
findings about the use of a technology based on practical
field experience across multiple sites, including lessons
learned. Some of these reports contain information about
the design, implementation, and selection of a technology.
Currently, there are 54 FRTR remediation technology
assessment reports covering 16 technology types and 3
contaminant/site-type focus areas, including arsenic, Dense
Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPLs), and Underground
Storage Tank (UST) sites/fuel-contaminated sites.
EXHIBIT 3: REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT REPORTS
Other (15)
Flushing (2)
In Situ Chemical Oxidation (2)
In-Well Air Stripping (2)
Multi-Phase Extraction (2)
Soil Vapor Extraction (2)
Soil Washing (2)
Solidification/Stabilization (1)
Incineration (on-site) (1)
Containment - Caps (1)
Bioremediation (8)
Air Sparging (3)
Containment - Barrier Walls (3)
Phytoremediation (4)
Thermal Desorption (4)
Monitored Natural Attenuation (6)
Permeable Reactive Barriers (6)
The following FRTR documents are available free-of-charge from the U.S. EPA/National Service Center for Environmental
Publications (NSCEP), while supplies last. To order, mail a request to:
U.S. EPA/National Service Center for Environmental Publications
P.O. Box42419
Cincinnati, OH 45242
or FAX to (513) 489-8695. Also, telephone orders may be placed at (800) 490-9198 or (513) 489-8190.
Q FRTR Cost and Performance Remediation Case Studies and Related Information CD-ROM, Fifth Edition, June
2004 (EPA-542-C-04-004)
Q Abstracts of Remediation Case Studies, Volume 8, June 2004 (EPA-542-R-04-012)
Q Guide to Documenting and Managing Cost and Performance Information for Remediation Projects, Revised Version,
October 1998 (EPA-542-B-98-007).
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