toward the evaluation of dredged
material for aquatic disposal, it might
be useful in other areas of dredged
material assessment and management
as well (e.g., disposal site monitoring
or evaluation of alternative disposal
options). The audience for this docu-
ment is federal and state agency
personnel and other persons with an
interest in the evaluation and manage-
ment of dredged material. The
workgroup that developed this na-
tional guidance was composed of
Individuals from headquarters, field
offices, and research laboratories of
EPA and the Corps with experience
related to dredged material discharge
activities.
Requests for copies of this document
(EPA 823-B-95-001) should be sent to
U.S. EPA, National Center for Environ-
mental Publications and Information,
11029 Kenwood Road, Building 5,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45242. For further
information, contact Mike Kravitz, EPA
Office of Science and Technology, at
202-260-8085.
Regional Activities
Region 2
De-Con Project Launched
EPA Region 2 and the New York
District Army Corps of Engineers are
working together to review, assess,
and conduct limited bench- and pilot-
scale testing of decontamination
technologies for New York/New
Jersey Harbor sediments. This effort
is being conducted under the aus-
pices of section 405 of WRDA 1992.
A "regional" partnership has been
formed between the federal agencies
and the academic community. It is
led by DOE Brookhaven National
Laboratory and its team of Rennselaer
Polytechnic Institute, New Jersey
Institute of Technology, Steven's
Institute, and Rutgers University.
NATIONAL SEDIMENT BIO ACCUMULATION
CONFERENCE SCHEDULED
EPA's Office of Science and Technology and
Office of Research and Development are
cosponsoring a national conference on
bioaccumulative sediment contaminants.
The conference will be held in Crystal City,
Virginia (within the Washington, DC,
metropolitan area) November 29 -
December 1, 1995.. The conference will
focus on assessment of bioaccumulative
sediment contaminants and on integration
of the assessment results into regulatory
decision making. The agenda will include
panel presentations on measuring and modeling
bioaccumulation, interpretation of bioaccumulation
data, and use of bioaccumulation data in risk assessment.
It will also include case studies of different approaches for determining
remediation goals.
The conference will bring together scientific and technical experts and regula-
tory personnel who must understand and respond to the impacts of contami-
nated sediments. Call Charlie MacPherson of Tetra Tech, Inc., at (703) 385-
6000 to obtain a meeting announcement, which contains a preregistration form,
a preliminary agenda, and information regarding logistics. For more information
on the conference, contact Leanne Stahl of EPA's Office of Science and
Technology at (202) 260-7055.
Because of the wide variety of con-
taminants found in NY/NJ Harbor
(dioxins, PCBs, PAHs, heavy metals,
etc.), one goal of the project is to put
together a complete "treatment train"
approach. Disposal and beneficial
uses of post-treated material will also
be pursued. Other components of this
project are pilot-scale siting issues,
preliminary risk assessments, sediment
toxicity identification evaluations
(TIEs) conducted by EPA-Narragansett,
public outreach, and nonproprietary
bench-scale testing to be conducted
by the Waterways Experiment Station.
Dredging and disposal of sediments
from the New York/New Jersey
Harbor are conducted on a regular
basis to ensure that shipping channels
and private commercial berthing area
depths are maintained for safe naviga-
tion. Recently, the testing criteria
used to determine the suitability of
dredged material for ocean disposal
have become more stringent. There-
fore, as more dredged material is
deemed unsuitable for ocean disposal,
it will be necessary to develop new
strategies for managing the dredging
and disposal of large volumes of
contaminated sediment.
Historically, most decontamination
technologies have been developed for
treating contaminated soils or waste-
water, with very few tested on sedi-
ments. The Great Lakes National
Program Office has developed several
treatment technologies that were
tested primarily on freshwater sedi-
ments as opposed to marine and
estuarine sediments like those found
in the NY/NJ Harbor.
Decontamination technologies are
advantageous in that they reduce
contaminant concentrations, contami-
nant mobility, and/or toxicity of the
sediments. Sediments that are success-
fully decontaminated may be accept-
able for ocean disposal, upland
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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Water
(4305)
EPA-823-N-95-004
Number 14
July 1995
&EPA Contaminated
Sediments News1
New Document Available on QA/QC
For Dredged Material Evaluations
The USEPA document QA/QC
Guidance for Sampling and Analysis
of Sediments, Water, and Tissues for
Dredged Material Evaluations:
Chemical Evaluations, developed
jointly by EPA and the Corps of
Engineers, is now available. This .
quality assurance/quality control (QA/
SERA QA/QC Guidance for Sampling
[?B?| and Analysis of Sediments,
JjJsJl* Water, and Tissues for Dredged
"""" Material Evaluations
Chemical Evaluations
QC) guidance serves as a companion
document to the EPA and Army
Corps of Engineers Inland Testing
manuals for evaluating the potential
for contaminant-related impacts
associated with the discharge of
dredged material into inland and
ocean waters, respectively. The
purposes of the QA document
are as follows: (1) to provide
national guidance on the
development of quality
assurance project plans for
ensuring the reliability of data
gathered to evaluate dredged
material proposed for dis-
charge under the Clean Water
Act or the Marine Protection
Research and Sanctuaries Act;
(2) to outline procedures that
should be followed when
sampling and analyzing
sediments, water, and tissues;
and (3) to provide recom-
mended target detection
limits for chemicals of
concern. This document
pertains largely to physical
and chemical evaluations.
Though it is directed primarily
Inside this issue...
Regional Activities 2
Focus: Public Comments on
Sediment Management
Strategy. 4
Great Lakes National
Program Off ice 8
Creature Feature 9
ASTM Update 10
Announcements 11
Contaminated Sediment
Activities Timeline
September 18 -22 ,1995.
Multi-Regional Meeting on
Water Quality Standards and
Related Programs. San
Antonio, TX. For more
information, contact Liz
Hiett, Tetra Tech, Inc., at
(703) 385-6000.
November 5-9,1995.
Second SETAC World
Congress, Vancouver, B.C.,
Canada. The theme of this
meeting is Global Environ-
mental Protection: Science,
Politics, and Common
Sense. Abstracts are due by
May 1,1995. For more
information, call Peter
Chapman, program chair, at
(604) 986-4331 or Rod
Parrish, executive director,
at (904) 469-1500. For
information regarding
exhibits, call Karsten Liber at
(715)394-8158.
November 29 - December
1,1995. National Sediment
Bioaccumulation Confer-
ence. Crystal City, Virginia.
(see announcement on page
2). For more information,
contact Leanne Stahl, U.S.
EPA Headquarters, at
(202)260-7055.
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Public Comments on
the Contaminated
Sediment Strategy
Background
Information
The proposed Contaminated Sediment
Management Strategy was announced
for public comment in the August 30,
1994, Federal Register. The comment
period was extended from October
31,1994, to November 30, 1994, as
announced in the October 28, 1994,
Federal Register.
Comments were received from a wide
variety of organizations and incorpo-
rated into the Office of Water docket.
For information on the comments, call
(202)260-3027. The commenters
include state, municipal, and federal
agencies; industry; environmental
groups; public interest groups; and
others such as the National Research
Council and Tennessee Valley
Authority.
Comments
Comments from 24 state, tribal,
county, and district Agencies con-
cluded that:
The Strategy presents a useful,
comprehensive plan to coordinate
sediment issues and contains many
of the elements necessary to
address contaminated sediment
issues.
Research is needed to (1) study
links between the contaminated
sediments and point or nonpoint
sources of contamination and (2)
document and develop appropriate
solutions at individual contami-
nated sites (natural recovery may
or may not be a reasonable
remediation option).
There is general approval of EPA's
tiered testing approach to assessing
contaminated sediments.
Coastal states are concerned about
the applicability of hazardous
waste regulations to sediment
quality standards.
States are interested in promulgat-
ing their own sediment quality
c*->ndards.
The comments of federal agencies'
(COE, DOE, FWS, USCS) include:
• Agencies were concerned about
how the Sediment Quality Criteria
(SQC) will be implemented for the
dredged material program.
• The Strategy should promote a
working relationship among
involved federal agencies and a
merging of related data found in
several federal databases (such as
databases maintained by USCS,
FWS, EPA).
• The relationship between clean-up
levels under RCRA/CERCLA and
ocean disposal of dredged mate-
rial was a concern.
• The Strategy should include the
Endangered Species Act as a
statute that affects the manage-
ment of dredged material.
Comments from approxi-
mately 36 industries or
groups representing
industry generally
support the goals of
the Strategy. Other
industry comments
include:
Questions were raised about the
costs of sediment-quality based
NPDES permits;
Comments stressed the impor-
tance of acknowledging that some
sediment contamination may be
historic, due to past unregulated
point and nonpoint source
discharges;
Comments stressed the impor-
tance of developing standards
which account for site specificity
of contamination;
Questions were raised about the
use of the sediment quality criteria
to set effluent limits;
Comments stressed the impor-
tance of providing high quality
data for EPA's National Sediment
Inventory;
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Questions were raised about the
process that EPA program offices
would use to implement some of the
proposed actions discussed in the
Responses
EPA is developing responses to the
comments on the Strategy; many of
and the resulting permit limits can be
derived from the SQC. Site and
chemical-specific variables will be
disposal, and/or a variety of beneficial
uses.
The objective of the project is to
identify, test, evaluate, and select
technologies for treating the contami-
nated sediments from NY/NJ Harbor.
The project is aimed at fast-track
investigations of decontamination
technologies that can be scaled up to
treat 500,000 cubic yards/year of
Harbor sediment. The project is
expected to be completed in December
1996.
Various technologies at bench-scale
and pilot-scale levels will be evaluated
to determine their suitability and
potential application for use in treat-
ment of dredged materials from the
Harbor. Bench-scale testing will be
conducted using laboratory-based
equipment to treat small quantities of
sediment (several liters). Pilot-scale
testing will be conducted in the field to
treat 25 cubic yards of sediment for
each pilot demonstration, using pro-
cesses and equipment that are scaled
down but essentially similar to those
used in full-scale operation. Project
results will be used in the formulation
of the overall long-term approach to the
dredging needs and environmental
remediation of the Harbor.
The Port Authority of New York/New
Jersey has offered space at its Port
Newark Marine Terminal Facility as a
staging area for the pilot-scale demon-
stration.
For more information, contact Eric
Stern, EPA Region 2, at (212) 637-3806.
Region 5
I TV Steel Sediment Dredging Project
Recommences
Pursuant to Water Consent Decree No.
H92-1 85, the LTV Steel, East Chicago,
Indiana, plant initiated a Sediment
Remediation and Disposal Project
(SRDP) last year. The SRDP required
LTV Steel to remove, treat, and dispose
of all of the sediments (approximately
150,000 cubic yards) in the plant's No.
2 Intake. Due to weather and mechani-
cal problems, the SRDP was tempo-
rarily stopped. To expedite the
removal of the sediments, the SRDP
employs the simultaneous use of two
diver-assisted vacuum dredging teams
and a hydraulic
dredging rig. All of
the sediments are
pumped to a wastewater
treatment plant for solids
concentration, oil re-
moval, and water
treatment. Concen-
trated solids are
landfilled in an
approved special
waste landfill;
recovered oils
are recycled
back to the
plant's
waste fuel
oil recovery system; and water
discharges are discharged after
coagulation/flocculation/filtration
treatment through an NPDES permit-
ted outfall.
Great Lakes Contaminated
Sediment Strategy Workshop
Held inChicago
A 2-day Great Lakes Contaminated
Sediment Strategy workshop was
recently held
in Chicago
to bring to-
gether various
stakeholders in the
Great Lakes Basin
and develop
recommendations to expedite the
process for remediating contaminated
sediments in the Great Lakes. The
workshop was sponsored by USEPA
Region 5 and the Great Lakes Na-
tional Program Office.
More than 75 participants represent-
ing federal, state, industry, municipal,
environmental, port authority, and
local government interests attended
the workshop. Attendees participated
in two of eight total breakout sessions
to address specific questions on
contaminated sediments. The
breakout sessions included Garnering
Local Support, CDFs and Dredged
Material Management, Economics,
Regulatory Approaches and Barriers,
Public/Private Partnerships,
Remediation Technologies, Clean-up
Goals and Objectives, and What's
Missing (a "catch-all category".
A proceedings of the
workshop will be
available in the near
future. For more
information on the
workshop or to receive the
proceedings, contact Linda
Hoist, EPA Region 5, at (3 12)
886-6758, or Marc Tuchman,
GLNPO,at(312)353-1369.
Region 10
Sediment Management Annual
Review Meeting (SMARM)
The seventh annual review meeting
for the Puget Sound Dredged
Disposal Analysis (PSDDA) Program
was jointly held with the State of
Washington's Sediment Manage-
ment Standards (SMS) first Triennial
Review process on May 3-4, 1995,
in Tacoma, Washington. About
1 30 persons attended the two-day
meeting. The PSDAA Program and
SMS group presented to the public
a number of issues and manage-
ment clarifications under consider-
ation for implementation. Three
issue papers were presented by
members of the public and will also
be considered. During the course
of the meeting, the public raised 19
technical and policy issues to
which PSDDA or the SMS group
will respond. An annual review
summary package was prepared
and distributed in late March.
Minutes of the meeting are being
prepared and are expected to be
distributed in July to those who
attended or who received the
March mailing. To receive the
minutes or a copy of the summary
package, please write to: Dredged
Material Management Office, Corps
of Engineers, PO Box 3755, Seattle,
WA 981 24-2255. For more infor-
mation, contact the Region 1 0
Sediment Management Program
(John Malek, (206)553-1 286; Justine
Barton, (206)553-4974).
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However, EPA examines a variety of
data including discharge, monitoring,
and nonpoint source assessments prior
to recommending remediation or
other actions. This work has been
completed for some studies.
From past and ongoing research, EPA
has found:
• The bioaccumulative chemicals of
concern discharged today are the
same as those in the Great Lakes;
• The same contaminants occurring in
fish at 50% or more sites in the
1993 National Chemical Residue
Report are the same as those being
discharged today; and
• The same contaminants that trigger
fish advisories nationwide (1994
National Fish Consumption Advi-
sory Database) are the same con-
taminants dishcharged today.
A modeling study funded by the
Office of Water shows that up to 50
percent of the large discharging
NPDES-permitted facilities and 30
percent of small dischargers (design
flow < 1 MCD) currently regulated by
water-quality based permits would
exceed sediment quality criteria,
especially for bioaccumulative
organic chemicals (1992 EPA Office
of Wastewater Management Study).
Additionally, comparison of contami-
nated site and current point source
releases shows the same problem
watersheds and chemicals of concern
(1994 National Sediment Inventory:
Preliminary Evaluation). For more
information contact jane Marshall
Farris, EPA OST, at (202) 260-8897.
Schedule for Developing the Final Strategy
and Supporting Tools
Document/Activity
Milestone
Contaminated Sediment
Management Strategy Response
to Comments
Summary responses printed
in Federal Register
^
Expected Time Frame
Early fall 1995; complete
document available on
request
Final Contaminated Sediment
Management Strategy
Announced in Federal Register Early fall 1995
EPA User's Guide for Sediment
Quality Criteria Implementation
Two volumes in process
Drafts will be developed
in winter (FY 96)
National Sediment Inventory
National Sediment Contaminant
Point Source Inventory
The final National Sediment
Inventory Report to Congress
The Nonpoint Source Inventory
Report
Will soon be available
Early 1996
In progress
Standardized Test Methods
Standard acute test methods for
assessing the toxicity of sediment-
associated contaminants with
freshwater invertebrates and
estuarine and marine amphipods
Chronic test methods research
Available (USEPAJune! 994)
Ongoing
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(Region 10 continued)
Coordinated Sediment Management
Program
How can agencies facilitate sedi-
ment cleanup under the existing
legal framework?
an environmental and economic
concern in Puget Sound since the
1970s. As more information became
available about sediment contamina-
tion, agencies and the general public
became
concerned
about how to
dispose of such
sediments
dredged for
navigation,
cleanup,
aquatic restora-
tion, and
waterfront
development.
The Puget
Sound Dredged
Disposal
Analysis
(PSDDA)
Program,
implemented in
1989, led to establishment of open-
water disposal sites for relatively
uncontaminated sediment. Following
completion of PSDDA, attention
turned to the handling of sediments
that are not suitable for unconfined,
open-water disposal. In May 1994'an
Interagency governmental Agreement
(IAC) was signed by two federal and
three state agencies (Region 10, EPA-
Seattle District, Corps of Engineers; '
and Washington State Departments of
Ecology and Natural Resources and
Puget Sound Water Quality Authority)
to address sediment issues more
comprehensively and cooperatively
Three tasks (Sediment Cleanup Work
Group, Beneficial Uses Work Croup
and Multi-User Dispoal Site) were
identified as requiring immediate
attention by the five agencies.
The Sediment Cleanup Work Group
was convened in July 1994. Com-
posed of representatives from ports
industries, tribes, environmental
groups, local governments, and
federal and state agencies, the Work
Croup was asked to address three
questions:
urban waterfront sediment clean-
ups?
What are some possibilities for
changing the legal scheme for
cleanup of
contaminated
sediments?
Establishing sites for
the disposal of con-
taminated sediments
is an essential compo-
nent of the Puget
Sound Water Quality
Management Plan
The Work Croup
developed seven
consensus recom-
mendations
addressing the first
question, and a
number of pos-
sible solutions
were identified
relative to the
funding question.
The five agencies
have been consid-
ering the Work
Croup's recom-
mendations and have provided
descriptions of ongoing and new
initiatives as they relate to the recom-
mendations. In addition, the agencies
are discussing development of an
interagency program (1) to produce
consensus technical guidelines
regarding sediment cleanups and
related actions and (2) to undertake a
demonstration cleanup project
focused through a baywide planning
approach. (Contacts: Rachel
Friedman-Thomas, Ecology, (360)407-
6909; John Malek, Region 10
(206)553-1286)
The Beneficial Uses Work Croup was
convened in January 1995. The Work
Croup is composed of representatives
from ports, tribes, local governments,
and federal and state agencies. Its
charge is to compile and examine
existing policies and procedures
affecting beneficial uses of dredged
material. The Work Croup will
identify conflicts and limitations and
make recommendations to the Agency
Directors for resolution. An attempt
will be made to facilitate beneficial
uses in the context of existing agency
authorities and programs, including
PSDDA. The Work Croup has met
twice to date. (Contacts: Justine
Barton, Region 10, (206)553-4974;
Stephanie Sterling, Corps, (206)764-
6945)
The Multi-User Disposal Site (MUDS)
task received a significant boost
through the efforts of Ecology, the
PSWQA, and Senator Slade Gorton
Fiscal year 1995 funds were appropri-
ated by Congress to the Corps to
conduct a Reconnaissance Study. A
study management MUDS Work
Croup has been established to
coordinate preparation of the Corps's
reconnaissance report and action plan
for establishment of one of more
multi-user sites for disposal of con-
taminated sediments. Six agencies are
involved in the effort: Corps, EPA
Ecology, DNR, PSWQA, and Wash-
ington Public Ports Association
(WPPA).
The time line for the MUDS effort is as
follows:
• October 1995 - Reconnaissance
Report to Corps Headquarters for
review.
• December 1995 - Study Plan and
Study Cost Sharing Agreement to
agencies and Corps Headquarters
for approval.
•Spring 1996-Corps and study
sponsors sign Cost Sharing Agree-
ment and initiate multi-user sedi-
ment disposal site program develop-
ment (feasibility) study.
Establishing sites for the disposal of
contaminated sediments is an essen-
tial component of the Puget Sound
Water Quality Management Plan,
which was approved by EPA in 1991
as the Federal Comprehensive Conser-
vation and Management Plan for
Puget Sound under the Clean Water
Act National Estuary Program. The
Reconnaissance Report and associated
documentation will serve as the basis
for decisions at the federal and state
level on how to proceed with detailed
planning, design, and mechanisms for
future siting, construction and man-
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agement, and potential funding sources.
(Contacts: Steven Babcock, Corps,
(206)764-3651; John Malek, Region 1 0,
(206)553-1286)
Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay
Dredged Material Management Study
In 1991, the Seattle District, Corps of
Engineers; Region 10, EPA; and Wash-
ington Departments of Ecology and
Natural Resources agreed on the need
to ensure adequate
controls and
public account-
ability for disposal
of sediments at
designated estua-
rine and ocean
dredged material
disposal sites at
Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay, Wash-
ington. An interagency study was
initiated to develop comprehensive
dredged material evaluation procedures
and to formulate disposal site manage-
ment plans for both estuaries.
The goal of the study was to establish a
cooperative program, modeled after the
PSDDA program in Puget Sound, that
would provide the basis for publicly
acceptable guidelines governing the
environmentally safe disposal of
dredged material. This would improve
consistency and predictability in
dredged material permitting and
management. The Corps and EPA will
"identify" existing estuarine sites in
both agencies using the 230.80 ad-
vanced identification process; current
ocean sites have been formally desig-
nated by EPA.
A draft manual was released for public
review in late summer 1994, and
revisions pursuant to comments from
the public were completed in February
1995. The manual just completed final
review and has been submitted to the
directors of the agencies for final
approval. The agencies expect to
formally implement the program this
summer.
For more information, contact the
Region 10 Sediment Management
Program (John Malek, (206)553-1286;
Justine Barton, (206)553-4974).
Great Lakes National
Program Office
The Assessment and Remediation
of Contaminated Sediments (ARCS)
Program, authorized in the 1987
amendments to the Clean'water
Act, completed its 6-year study and
demonstration projects in Decem-
ber 1993. Since then many reports
summarizing the results of the work
conducted under the ARCS pro-
gram have been published. The
ARCS Final Summary Report, the
ARCS Assessment Guidance
Document, the ARCS Risk Assess-
ment and Modeling Overview
Document, and the ARCS
Remediation Guidance Document
are intended as guidance for the
Great Lakes states and local Area of
Concern (AOC) stakeholders.
However, the tools and methodolo-
gies developed during the ARCS
Program and described in these
guidance documents will have
applicability on a national level as
well. A short summary of the key
guidance documents is provided
below, and a full list of documents
listed is provided in the table on
page 9.
The ARCS Final Summary Report is
the ARCS Report to Congress. It
includes an overview of all of the
ARCS Program activities and was
transmitted from the EPA Adminis-
trator to the Congress on October
24, 1994.
The ARCS Assessment Guidance
Document describes the integrated
sediment assessment approach
used during the ARCS Program.
The document has chapters de-
scribing QA/QC, sediment sample
collection, chemical analyses,
biological analyses (including a
recommended suite of toxicity
tests, benthic community surveys,
and tumor/abnormality surveys),
and data interpretation (including
mapping, ranking, and comparison
to sediment quality values).
The ARCS Risk Assessment and
Modeling Overview Document
provides the framework for conduct-
ing risk assessments and mass
balance modeling activities that
provide estimates of potential
changes in exposure and risk that
might occur either under a no-action
alternative or following the imple-
mentation of various remedial
alternatives for contaminated
sediments (e.g., dredging treatment,
etc.).
The ARCS Remediation Guidance
Document provides a process for
developing a remedial alternative
(including a decision-making
strategy, defining project objectives,
screening technologies, preliminary
designs, selecting a preferred
alternative, and final design and
implementation). The document
provides descriptions of available
technologies, cost information, and
predictions of contaminant losses
during implementation of the
remedial alternative.
For information about the ARCS
Program, contact Marc Tuchman at
(312)353-1369. To receive copies of
any document, contact Susan Dykes,
LAI contractor, at (31 2)886-6049 or
sdykes@gesl.rO5.epa.gov.
CS News is produced by EPA OST to
exchange information on contaminated
sediments and to increase communication
among interested parties. To obtain copies
of this report or to contribute information,
contact Jane Marshall Farris, EPA OST, mail
code 4305, at (202) 260-8897.
To be added to the mailing list or to make
changes to your address, please fax your
request to Melissa Bowen, Tetra Tech, at
(703) 385-6007.
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ASTM Update
ASTM Subcommittee E47.03 Develops New and
Revised Standards for Evaluating Sediment Toxicity
The status of several ASTM standards for evaluating the toxicity and bioaccumulation of
sediment-associated contaminants was discussed at the meeting of ASTM Subcommittee
E47 03 on Sediment Toxicology in Denver, Colorado, on April 4, 1995. New and revised
standards to be published in the ASTM 1995 Annual Book of Standards, Volume 11.05,
include the following guides or test methods:
1 E1391 -94 Standard Guide for Collection, Storage, Characterization, and Manipulation
of Sediment for Toxicological Testing. Task Group Chair: Allen Burton, Wright State
University, Dayton, OH, 513/873-2201, e-mail: aburton@desire.wnght.edu.
2 E1525-94a Standard Guide for Designing Biological Tests with Sediment: Annex 3 on
Reference Toxicant Testing. Task Group: Janet Lamberson, USEPA, Newport, OR,
503/867-4043 and Jim Dwyer; NBS, Columbia, MO, 314/875-5399, e-mail:
dwyerj @ mail.fws.gov.
3 E1611 -94 Standard Guide for Conducting Sediment Toxicity Tests with Marine and
Estuarine Polychaetous Annelids. Task Group Chair: Don Reish, California State
University-Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 310/985-4846.
4 E1676-95 Standard Guide for Conducting Soil Toxicity Tests with Earthworms. Task
Group Chair: Dave Wilborn, Mantech, Corvallis, OR, 503/754-4600.
5 E1688-95 Standard Guide for Determination of the Bioaccumulation of Sediment-
associated Contaminants by Benthic Invertebrates. Task Group Chair: Peter
Landrum, GLERL, NOAA, Ann Arbor, Ml, 313/741-2235, e-mail: landrum@glerl.noaa.
gov.
6 E1706-95a Standard Test Methods for Measuring the Toxicity of Sediment-associated
Contaminants with Freshwater Invertebrates. Task Group Chair: Chris Ingersoll,
NBS, Columbia, MO, 314/875-5399, e-mail: ingersollc@mail.fws.gov.
The Subcommittee also discussed the status of several additional documents including:
(1) a revision to E1367-92 on marine and estuarine sediment toxicity testing with amphi-
pods, (2) bioaccumulation testing with fish, (3) toxicity testing with luminescent bacteria,
and (4) toxicity testing with echinoderms and mollusks.
The next Subcommittee meeting will be held before the 2nd SETAC World Conference,
Saturday November 4, 1995 at the Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Future directions for the Subcommittee to be discussed at this upcoming Subcommittee
meeting will include developing standards on chronic toxicity testing and sediment toxicity
identification evaluation (TIE) procedures. Please contact Susan Canning with ASTM at
(215)299-5490 or Chris Ingersoll at (314)875-5399 if you would like more information
concerning the Subcommittee meeting or if you would like more information on activities of
the Subcommittee. Please contact the Task Group Chairs listed above if you would like a
copy of the most recent draft of the documents or if you would like to participate in a Task
Group. We hope to see you in Vancouver.
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SAB Review on the Sediment
Metals Approach
On June 15, EPA received the first Draft Consensus
Report from the SAB on the review of the Sediment
Metals Approach. The Executive Board is meeting
m July and will review the draft report at that time.
It is expected to be approved and a final report will
promptly follow. Details of the findings will appear
in the next issue of CS News.
National Listing of Fish
Consumption Advisories
One of the functions of the USEPA's Fish Contamination
Program is to serve as a clearing house for information related
to fish contamination issues. This includes the development
and management of a national database for fish advisory
information, provided to the USEPA by the states This
database, called the National Listing of Fish Consumption
Advisories (NLFCA), has recently been updated to reflect all
active 1994 advisories. Users will be able to query the database
for information such as type of advisory (restricted consump-
tion, ban, etc), species of fish included in the advisory
chemical included in the advisory, population affected'
geographic description (landmarks, river miles, and lat-long
coordinate points), dates of issue, state contact name and phone
number, and much more. The NLFCA software is also capable
of generating maps at the national, regional, state state
quadrant, or individual advisory level. The NLFCA is PC based
and will be distributed on four 3.5" diskettes in early July 1995
Those who have previously requested copies of the guidance
document titled Guidance For Assessing Chemical Contaminant
Data For Use in Fish Advisories will automatically receive a
copy of the NLFCA. Future annual updates will be provided to
all who receive the NFLCA. If you have not previously
™eiVp6? ^ of thls Suld<™e, you may request the NLFCA
(USEPA publication 823-C-95-001) by fax or telephone. Please
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F»h Contamination Software
An environmental education software program titled Chemical
Contamination in Fish is now available. This overview
program covers such topics as bioaccumulation, information on
specific contaminants and fish consumption advisories, risk
reduction, fish species and collection methods, survey ap-
proaches, etc. Purdue University developed this program and
numerous others as part of a cooperative effort funded by EPA
to produce software for environmental awareness.
There are several ways to obtain the EPA/Purdue software
program, including:
• Via FTP from the GLNPO Gopher:
The Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) Gopher/
World Wide Web site now carries all of the software listed
above. The files are in compressed form and can be
uncompressed using PKUNZIP version 2.04c or later Anony
mous FTP is not yet available at this site, so point your gopher
at host glnpogis2.r05.epa.gov or use URL=gopher//
8lnpogis2.r05.epa.gov:7070/ll%2Fedu. Follow the menus to
Educational Resources in the Great Lakes and Software for
Environmental Awareness. The GLNPO gopher is also listed
under the Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN) gopher and
under U.S. Government Gophers, including EPA Public Access
Gopher (earthl.epa.gov). For help via GLIN, call (313) 665-
9135 or send electronic mail to glin-help@great-lakes.net
For help via GLNPO, send electronic mail to
reshkin@epamail.epa.gov or njalli@glnpogis5.r05.epa Kov for
technical questions.
• On diskette from US EPA Region 5:
Send two (2) formatted 3.5" HIGH DENSITY diskettes for each
software program order; DO NOT SEND MONEY.
Mail the request to: Karen Reshkm, USEPA Region 5 77 W
Jackson, S-14J, Chicago, Illinois 60604-6353.[tel. (312) 353-
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