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SEPA cleanupnews
Spring 2002
EPA 300-N-02-006
Issue #10
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National Notable
Achievement Awards 2
In the Courts: 5
McColl Superfund
Site
Casmalia Superfund
Site
OSWER News 6
News and Notes 7
Calendar 8
CleanupNewS ts a quarterly
hazardous waste cleanup
eases, policies, settlements,
and technologies.
EPA Administrator Praises
Notable Achievements in
Awards Ceremony
The 2002 National Notable Achieve-
ment Awards Ceremony was held in
Crystal City, Virginia on April 16th,
2002. Each year outstanding achievements
in the Superfund, Superfund Enforce-
ment, RCRA Corrective Action, and
Regional Science programs are recog-
nized at this ceremony. This year addi-
tional components — Federal Facilities
and Chemical Emergency Preparedness
and Prevention — were included in the
awards. Also for the first time, a RCRA
award was given for State Corrective
Action efforts to a state team. In 2002,
there were 128 nominations submitted for
the 24 awards presented for the six award
components. Recipients were recognized
with plaques and monetary awards.
EPA Administrator Christie Whitman
began the ceremony by recalling EPA's
"quick and professional" response to the
September llth events. She praised EPA
staff for their dedication and efforts to
reassure the American public during that
period. Ms. Whitman noted, "We will
never again do business as usual, but we
will still do our usual business — we are
still the same dedicated team committed
to making this place better for our chil-
dren. You help families stay healthy,
neighborhoods stay safe, and protect from
threats seen and unseen." Plaques were
presented to representatives of each
region to recognize the outstanding
efforts throughout the entire Agency dur-
ing the September llth response and the
events that followed.
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New Leadership Named
to Key Positions
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EPA's Office of Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance (OECA).
The President has nominated John Peter
(J.P.) Suarez as Assistant Administrator
for OECA A 1991 graduate of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Law School, Suarez is
a former federal prosecutor in the U.S.
Attorney's Office, assigned to the Orga-
nized Crime Drug Enforcement Task
Force. Mr. Suarez also has a strong
enforcement background in investigating
and prosecuting white collar crimes. In
1999, Mr. Suarez was honored by the New
Jersey State Bar Association with its Pro-
fessional Lawyer of the Year Award.
Mr. Suarez has held several positions with
the State of New Jersey, including with the
Division of Criminal Justice, as Assistant
Counsel to the Governor, and as Director
of New Jersey's Division of Gaming
Enforcement.
Steven J. Shimberg, named to the
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National Notable Achievement Awards
AWARD RECIPIENTS
SUPERFUND
Remedial Project Manager:
Randall Chaffins, Region 4
On-Scene Coordinator:
Paul Peronard, Region 8
Community Involvement
Coordinator:
Briana Bill, Region 5
Site Assessment Manager:
Jerelean Johnson, Region 9
Leader/Mentor:
Susan D. Webster, Region 6
Outstanding Achievement:
Mary Jane Nearman, Region 10
Teams of the Year:
Dan Ryan Emergency Response
Team - Region 5, City of
Chicago, Illinois EPA
Martin County Coal Corporation
Removal Team and Regions 3 and
4, Environmental Response Team
REGIONAL SCIENCE
Regional Scientist:
Judy A. Facey, Region 7
Regional Science Team:
Geophysical Applications for
Hazardous Wastes Team,
Region 5
RCRA
Outstanding Stakeholder
Involvement:
Khai Dao, Region 3
Outstanding Use of
Environmental Indicators:
Robert O'Meara, Region 1
Faster, Focused, More Flexible
Cleanup:
Kenneth S. Bardo, Region 5
Outstanding Stakeholder
Involvement Team:
HoltraChem Site Team - Region 1,
Maine Department of Environ-
mental Protection
Outstanding Use of
Environmental Indicators Team:
Federal Facilities Management
Alliance Team - Region 4, Florida
Department of Environmental
Protection
Faster, Focused, More Flexible
Cleanup Team:
Genicom Team, Region 3
State Corrective Action Reform
Award:
Wyoming Refinery Team
Chemical Emergency
Preparedness and Prevention
National Leadership Award:
Alan Brown, Region 3
Facilities Team:
Adak Project Team, Region 10
Federal Facility Response
Outstanding Achievement:
Mark Stephens, Region 3
SUPERFUND ENFORCEMENT
Legal Enforcer:
Joshua Wirtschafter, Region 9
Technical Enforcer:
Patrice Miller, Region 6
Financial Management Team:
John Anderson and David Piet,
Region 7
Enforcement Team:
Operating Industries, Inc. Team,
Region 9
New Leadership
Named to Key
Positions
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post of Associate Assistant Administra-
tor of OECA, brings many years of
experience with environmental law
and policy. Most recently, Mr. Shim-
berg served as the National Wildlife
Federation's Vice President for Fed-
eral and International Affairs; earlier
he was the Staff Director and Chief
Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee
on Environment and Public Works.
Closely associated with the late Sena-
tor John H. Chafee (R-RI), Shimberg
was involved with virtually all of the
environmental legislation that was
enacted during his sixteen year
tenure in the Senate, including major
revisions to laws such as the Endan-
gered Species Act, RCRA, Superfund,
the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air
Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Other personnel changes: Phyllis
Harris will be joining OECA as a sec-
ond Deputy Assistant Administrator,
leaving her position as the Regional
Counsel in Region 4. Walker Smith
will be moving from the Justice
Department's enforcement section
where she was Assistant Section
Chief, to Director of OECA's Office of
Regulatory Enforcement. And long-
time EPA official Mike Cook will
become Director of EPA's Office of
Emergency and Remedial Response in
OSWER. Mr. Cook joined EPA in
1973, and over the years has had
responsibility for EPA's multi-billion
dollar construction grants program,
the Agency's emergency response
program, and early implementation of
the Superfund legislation. He has
served as Deputy Director of the
Office of Solid Waste and Director of
the Office of Drinking Water, and is
currently the Director of the Office of
Wastewater Management.
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Award Winners Go the Extra Mile
Supertund Enforcement Awards
Technical Enforcer of
the Year Award:
Patrice Miller, Region 6
Patrice Miller was awarded Technical
Enforcer of the Year for her ability to
"think outside the box" as exemplified
by her cost recovery work in the Sikes
site. Sikes is an uncontrolled commer-
cial hazardous waste disposal facility
that accepted waste from the Houston,
Texas, area for more than ten years.
Because of poor record keeping, early
reviews failed to identify potentially
responsible parties. The threats posed
by the site demanded immediate atten-
tion, so nearly $135 million in Haz-
ardous Substance Trust Fund monies
were spent to clean up the site from
1990 to 1994. When Sikes was
assigned to Miller in 1990, she was
told it was a hopeless cost recovery
case; no one saw any potential for case
development, and she was to review
the file and prepare the expected $100
million write-off document. Instead,
Miller began an intensive and exhaus-
tive process of seeking out PRPs for
the site and documenting their
involvement.
No disposal manifests or other
records of wastes disposed at the Sikes
site could be found, so in an attempt to
shed light on waste handling practices
of area waste generators and trans-
porters, Miller reviewed information
about PRPs at nearby sites; records of
known waste haulers from the period;
a Congressional survey of hazardous
waste generators conducted in the
early 1970s; and Chemical Producers
directories from the 1960s and other
sources. To identify others with knowl-
edge of the site, Miller and the other
team members developed a series of
public service announcements that ran
on local television stations, asking any-
one with knowledge of the site to call a
toll-free number.
This approach led to the identifica-
tion of a number of truck drivers who
had delivered waste to the site from
hazardous waste generators, and
resulted in ten of these drivers giving
deposition testimony. This information
was the catalyst in a mediation process
that resulted in one of the largest cost
recovery settlements in EPA history —
$120 million dollars, or 93% recovery of
federal and state clean up costs — and
the establishment of a special account
for use on future work at the site.
Legal Enforcer of the Year
Award:
Joshua Wirtschafter, Region 9
Joshua Wirtschafter's
exemplary contributions
to enforcement include
two of Region 9's most
environmentally signifi-
cant enforcement accom-
plishments this past year.
In the first, Wirtschafter
successfully concluded a
major multi-media settle-
ment against Brewer
Environmental Indus-
tries, Hawaii's largest
chemical distributor. The
settlement included a penalty of
$98,796 and supplemental environ-
mental projects (SEPs) valued at
$137,000 that will provide a much
needed supplement to Hawaii's emer-
gency response capabilities at the local
level. In addition, transaction costs for
all parties were reduced by avoiding a
formal administrative penalty action.
In his second major accomplish-
ment, as lead EPA counsel,
Wirtschafter orchestrated a major dis-
pute resolving agreement with ARCO
at the Leviathan site, located in Cali-
fornia's Sierra Mountains. He success-
fully concluded the implementation of
a unique conservation project which
protects important habitat and directly
benefits the Washoe Tribe of Califor-
nia and Nevada whose fisheries have
been damaged by acid mine drainage
from the site, as well as avoiding trans-
action costs. The innovative agree-
ment between EPA, ARCO, the
Washoe Tribe, and the Nature Con-
servancy will protect 480 acres of pris-
tine private land located in the Bald
Mountain Range in Sierra County, Cal-
ifornia, surrounded on all sides by the
Tahoe and Toiyabe National Forests.
ARCO purchased the property for
$720,000, the Washoe Tribe took title
Award winner Joshua Wirtschafter, flanked by OSRE
Director Barry Breen and OSWER Assistant
Administrator Marianne Horinko.
to the property, and the Nature Con-
servancy took a Conservation Ease-
ment which enables it to ensure that
the land will be protected in perpetuity.
ARCO also contributed over $40,000
to a Nature Conservancy fund for the
costs of administering the Conserva-
tion Easement.
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Achievement Awards
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RCRA Awards
State Corrective Action
Reform Award:
Wyoming Refinery Team (Region 8)
The Wyoming Team is this year's first
ever recipient of the State Corrective
Action Reform Award for its use of a
collaborative process (CP) to reach
final cleanup decisions at the former
British Petroleum (BP) refinery in
Casper, Wyoming. Team members
include Vickie Meredith, Carl Ander-
create an environment of trust and
mutual respect among the participants.
Congratulations to the team for its
rapid resolution of the hundreds of
issues that arose during development
of site remedies.
CEPP National
Leadership Award:
Alan Brown, Region 3
Alan Brown was awarded the first
CEPP National Leadership Award for
outstanding leadership, professional
skills, and infectious enthusiasm,
bringing credibility to the Chemical
Pictured with EPA Administrator Christie Whitman (in white) are regional representa-
tives accepting awards for EPA's September llth response, I to r: Mary Jane Nearman
(RIO), Max Dodson (R8), Matt Hoagland (Rl), Doug Lair (R4), Myron Knudson (R6),
Abe Ferdas (R3), Nat Scurry (R7), Jane Diamond (R9), and OSWER Deputy Assistant
Administrator Mike Shapiro.
son, and Craig Toal from the Wyoming
Department of Environmental Quality
(DEQ), and Maxine Weaver of the
Wyoming Office of the Attorney Gen-
eral.
To counteract a decade of mistrust
among the parties, the CP emphasized
early and continuing discussions with
the regulated party as corrective action
requirements were established; secur-
ing the involvement of local govern-
ment and the public throughout;
obtaining consensus with local govern-
ment about any land use restrictions;
and establishing remedial objectives
early in the process. Over a three-year
period, the CP members were able to
Emergency Preparedness and Preven-
tion (CEPP) program at both regional
and national levels.
Brown has tirelessly traveled
throughout the region promoting
EPA's vision of preparedness and
chemical safety. He has spent count-
less hours meeting and working with
State Emergency Response Commit-
tees and Local Emergency Response
Committees to foster increased coop-
eration and to build trustworthy rela-
tionships, leading to better communi-
cation and coordination with EPA and
overall improved preparedness and
response.
Brown was vigilant in getting
CEPP staff involved in national orga-
nizations and conferences. With his
planning, the 2001 CEPP conference
was the most successful in confer-
ence history, and one of the nation's
largest gathering of emergency
responders since the September
llth terrorist attacks. Over 1,800
individuals from 46 states and 5 for-
eign countries registered for the con-
ference, with 109 exhibits and over
100 workshops including presenta-
tions dealing with hazardous mater-
ial releases in public transportation
systems, safety and security prepara-
tions for the 2002 Olympics, and the
latest version of Computer Aided
Management of Emergency Opera-
tions software. Attendance at this
conference almost doubled from pre-
vious years.
Superfund Awards
Superfund Team of the Year:
Martin County Coal Corporation
Removal Team, Regions 3 and 4
The Martin County Coal Site emer-
gency response represents the single
largest release of a contaminant in any
spill in Region 4 history. An impound-
ment holding an estimated one billion
gallons of wastewater from a crushed
ore processing facility lost 250 million
gallons of coal slurry as a result of a
catastrophic failure of an impound-
ment bottom. The impoundment is
located over abandoned tunneled coal
mine works and the release exited
through the old mine works into two
separate tributaries to Tug Fork River
on the Kentucky/West Virginia bor-
der. The emergency action that
ensued involved numerous state and
federal regulatory and industry enti-
ties spanning several EPA regions.
The response required the coordi-
nation of more than 600 personnel on
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Ninth Circuit Decision
in McColl Case Holds
Oil Companies 100%
Liable
On February 11, 2002, Judge
William A. Fletcher of the
United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision
in United States v. Shell Oil Company
(B.C. No. CV 91-00589-RJK) that: (1)
upheld the holding of the district court
that CERCLA §9620 (a) (1) waives the
sovereign immunity of the United
States; (2) reversed the holding of the
district court that the United States is
liable for the "non-benzol" waste
cleanup costs as an "arranger" under
§9607 (a) (3); and (3) affirmed the hold-
ing of the district court that the oil
companies in the case are not exempt
from liability under the "act of war"
provision of §9607(b) (2).
The McColl Superfund Site in
Fullerton, California was contami-
nated with hazardous wastes associ-
ated with the production of aviation
fuel during World War II. The defen-
dants in this case — Shell Oil Co.,
Union Oil Co. of California, Atlantic
Richfield Co., and Texaco, Inc. —
operated aviation fuel refineries in the
Los Angeles area during the war and
dumped their wastes at the McColl
site. The United States and the State of
California brought suit against these
oil companies under CERCLA to
recover cleanup costs incurred at the
site. The oil companies counter-
claimed under the same statute, con-
tending that the United States was
liable for cleanup costs. The district
court held that 100% of the cleanup
costs for the non-benzol waste should
be allocated to the United States, and
0% to the oil companies.
Before the Court of Appeals, the
United States argued that although the
government had the authority to
require production of goods at refiner-
ies owned by the oil companies, and
even to seize refineries if necessary, in
fact the government had relied almost
exclusively on contractual agreements
to ensure aviation fuel production. The
United States purported that the gov-
ernment never specifically ordered or
approved the dumping of spent acid
and acid sludge by the oil companies,
and there is no evidence that the
United States was aware of the dis-
posal contracts between the oil compa-
nies and McColl. Therefore, the Court
of Appeals held that the United States
was not an arranger under CERCLA
§9607 (a) (3), even under a broad the-
ory of arranger liability.
For more information, contact
Helena Healy, EPA/RSD, at 202-564-
5124, or Thanne Cox, EPA Region 9, at
415-972-3908.
U.S. Proposes $6.95
Million Settlement on
Casmalia Site
On February 14, 2002, the Justice
Department and EPA announced a
proposed settlement totaling nearly $7
million to be used in cleaning up the
Casmalia Resources Superfund Site in
Central California. The agreement
resolves the liability of the Estate of
Kenneth H. Hunter, Jr., Casmalia
Resources, Hunter Resources, and
other parties.
Under the proposed settlement, the
defendants will pay $6.957 million and
waive any claim to the Casmalia Clo-
sure/Post-Closure Trust Fund, cur-
rently valued in excess of $13 million.
The parties to the settlement will also
waive all past and future cleanup
claims against the United States. "This
settlement represents our continuing
efforts to ensure that those responsi-
ble for contamination share in the
costs of the cleanup," said Tom San-
sonetti, Assistant Attorney General of
the Justice Department's Environment
and Natural Resources Division. "Our
efforts will remain focused on the
remaining liable parties at the Cas-
malia site who have not settled, to
make certain that EPA has all the nec-
essary resources to assure that this
site is cleaned up in a timely and pro-
tective manner."
Jane Diamond, Acting Director,
EPA Regional Superfund Division,
noted, "We owe it to those who live and
work in the area to bring all our
resources to bear in addressing this
complex and challenging site."
The Casmalia Resources Site,
located 10 miles from Santa Maria, Cal-
ifornia, was an active hazardous waste
treatment, storage, and disposal facil-
ity from 1973 to 1989. The site
accepted approximately 5.5 billion
pounds of waste from about 10,000
contributors, placing it in 92 waste
management facilities that included
landfills, ponds, shallow wells, and
treatment units.
In 1991, the site owner/operator
abandoned active efforts to clean up
and close the facility, claiming financial
difficulties. In 1992, EPA took action to
control the site and address immediate
health threats. The site, which is cont-
aminated with a variety of metals, pes-
ticides, and other toxic materials, con-
tinues to undergo investigation and
cleanup work by the Casmalia Steer-
ing Committee with oversight by EPA
and the state.
In 1997, the United States filed suit
against Kenneth H. Hunter, Casmalia
Resources, and Hunter Resources,
alleging that the defendants owned
and/or operated the site, and seeking
to recover cleanup costs.
The announcement in February 2002
is part of EPA's effort to secure funding
for the cleanup of the 252-acre landfill,
which was designated as a federal Super-
fund site in September 2001. For more
information, contact Marie Rongone,
EPA Region 9, at 415-972-3891.
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Land Revitalization
on the Front Burner
by Steve Luftig
Land revitalization is a top priority
for Marianne Lamont Horinko,
Assistant Administrator in EPA's
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency
Response (OSWER). When Horinko
speaks about this priority, she empha-
sizes two key messages:
1. Cleanup and reuse are mutually
supportive goals; and
2. Property reuse should be an inte-
gral part of the way we do busi-
ness, both at EPA Headquarters
and in the Regions.
An emphasis on reuse does not
mean that EPA will lower cleanup stan-
dards. The Agency's role in protecting
human health and the environment is
firmly established, and EPA is com-
mitted to this responsibility. At the
same time, site cleanup must be
achieved within a larger context, one
that looks to the future needs of the
community where the cleanup occurs.
In other words, the actions we take
must be informed both by the contam-
ination problem at hand and the future
economic, recreational, or ecological
possibilities the property offers. It is
not just a question of economic devel-
opment: reclaiming previously conta-
minated properties can help reinvigo-
rate neighborhoods, preserve green
space, and prevent the spread of
sprawl.
Marianne Horinko often points to
several notable successes to illustrate
these ideas and challenge EPA staff to
go further. For example, the notorious
Time Beach Superfund site has been
cleaned up and is now "Route 66 State
Park," where horse and bike trails
make it the busiest state park in East-
ern Missouri. An area of the equally
notorious Love Canal Superfund site
has been put back into safe, productive
use and renamed "Black Creek Vil-
lage" by a cadre of homeowners in
northwestern New York State.
Actual land use decisions are a local
responsibility, but federal waste
cleanup programs can make reuse
possible by fully considering a com-
munity's desired future land use for a
property in the course of making
cleanup decisions. As EPA's successful
Brownfields program has shown, a
great deal already has been done, but
a lot more is needed to make property
revitalization an important part of our
mission at EPA across all cleanup pro-
grams. OSWER is developing tools in
four areas for EPA managers and staff
to use in working closely with public
and private stakeholders in facilitating
property revitalization:
• Implementation of the new Brown-
fields law;
• Integration of land reuse principles
into EPA cleanup programs;
• Development of partnerships that
further land reuse in cleanup; and
• Instilling a culture of land reuse in
our organizations.
When you make reuse considera-
tions a part of your job, you recognize
that a contaminated property is far
more than a waste cleanup problem; it
is a living representation of future
opportunities and a better life for the
people in that community.
Steve Luftig is the Senior Advisor to
the Assistant Administrator on Land
Reuse in EPA's Office of Solid Waste and
Emergency Response.
Achievement Awards
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24 hours a day/7 days a week opera-
tion, which included more than 500
cleanup contractor personnel and
more than 100 personnel from EPA
Regions 3 and 4, federal agencies
associated with the mining industry,
the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and
the State of West Virginia. The OSC
also enlisted the services of U.S. Coast
Strike Team, U.S. Coast Guard PIAT,
and the START contractor from both
Regions 3 and 4.
In a spill incident of this magnitude,
individual conventional management
approaches can have only limited suc-
cess. Organizing a response to a 250-
million gallon spill affecting 100
stream miles is a massive undertaking
that requires a well-coordinated team
effort. The incident involved non-tradi-
tional wastes and federal and state
mining agencies unfamiliar with emer-
gency response operations. Of neces-
sity, operations were directed by a
team led by an On-Scene Coordinator
because no other entity had the requi-
site skill and experience to address
spills of this magnitude. The MCCC
Team was able to bring an extremely
disjointed group together through
implementation of the organizational
elements of the National Response Sys-
tem. As a result of the team's efforts,
the site operations were organized and
all federal and state agencies were
coordinated through an Incident Com-
mand System/Unified Command and
the spill was then addressed in a safe
and efficient manner. Congratulations
to Fred Stroud, Art Smith, and Wilda
Cobb of Region 4; to Jack Downie and
Bob Kelly of Region 3; and to Environ-
mental Response Team members John
Gilbert, Royal Nadeau, Harry Allen,
and Greg Powell.
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MTBE Treatment
Profiles Website
EPA's Technology Innovation
Office has opened a new web-
site at www.clu-in.org/prod-
ucts/mtbe that contains a searchable
database of 250 methyl tert-butyl ether
(MTBE) treatment profiles. The pro-
files include both completed and ongo-
ing treatment technologies — both in
situ and ex situ — for MTBE in drink-
ing water, ground water, and soil. The
profiles provide a summary of relevant
site information, contaminants and
media treated, technology design and
operation, cost and performance
results, points of contact, and refer-
ences. The profiles currently link to
eighteen more detailed case studies.
To date, the technologies presented in
the profiles include: air sparging, biore-
mediation, drinking water treatment,
chemical oxidation, multi-phase extrac-
tion, phytoremediation, product recov-
ery, pump-and-treat, and soil vapor
extraction. The website also allows
users to update current profiles and
add new applications. EPA plans to
continually add profiles to the system.
Brownfields Program
Partnership with
Habitat for Humanity
On February 13, 2002, EPA Adminis-
trator Christie Whitman signed a
memorandum of understanding with
Habitat for Humanity International
launching a partnership to build
energy efficient housing on former
brownfields properties. "EPA is proud
to be joining Habitat as partners in the
effort to make the dream of home own-
ership come true for families across
the country," said Christie Whitman.
"We have already started this work
together on sites in Missouri and Min-
nesota and now we will extend our
efforts to five additional urban loca-
tions where abandoned brownfields
can be turned into affordable homes.
We also hope that through this agree-
ment we can encourage the use of
energy efficient products to not only
save money but the environment as
well."
EPA has worked cooperatively with
Habitat for Humanity International's
affiliates in the cities of Wellston, MO
and Minneapolis, MN to construct
homes on former brownfields proper-
ties. After EPA and Habitat identify five
new cities, EPA will use brownfields
dollars to perform environmental
assessments at community-identified
brownfields properties so that Habitat
can locate safe, affordable building lots.
Using its new authority in the recently
passed brownfields legislation, EPA
may offer grants to non-profits such as
Habitat to provide cleanup if the prop-
erties are found to be contaminated.
Brownfields are abandoned, lightly
contaminated properties often found in
economically distressed areas that are
returned to economically thriving, com-
Notable Achievement
in Awards Ceremony
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Since Superfund National Notable
Achievement Awards were first estab-
lished in the late 1980s, the program
has expanded to recognize the grow-
ing emphasis on teamwork, changes in
the Superfund program, and the con-
tributions of the entire hazardous
waste management family. All 10 EPA
Regions participate in the Awards pro-
gram. In his closing remarks, Walt
Kovalick, Director of the Technology
Innovation Office, presented a Quar-
terly Customer Service Award to Ann
Eleanor for her hard work and many
years of coordinating the awards cere-
mony.
munity hubs. Since 1993, EPA has taken
significant steps to clean up brownfields
and return them to productive use,
awarding over $157 million in grants to
cities, counties, tribes, states, non-prof-
its and educational institutions nation-
wide. A recent study found that for
every acre of brownfields reused, 4.5
acres of greenspace are saved.
For more information about EPA's
brownfields program, go to www.epa.
gov/brownfields.
Brownfields 2002
Call for Presentations
K you are interested in submitting a pre-
sentation for the Brownfields 2002 Con-
ference (November 13-15,2002 in Char-
lotte, NC), visit the conference website
at www.brownfields 2002.org. Abstracts
are due May 15. The website includes
full conference information, as well as
submittal forms and tips on effective
presentations.
2002 National EPA
Community
Involvement
Conference
The 2002 Conference is shaping up to
be one of the best yet! With more than
300 participants expected, the confer-
ence planning committee has be work-
ing since last October to make this an
event to remember. The agenda fea-
tures three outstanding keynote pre-
senters, three field trips, 42 concur-
rent sessions, and six training
sessions! There's something for every-
one, with sessions such as "Launching
Community Involvement at the Port-
land Harbor Superfund Site," and
"What I Wish My Attorney and Project
Manager Knew About Public Partici-
pation." To register, go to www.epan-
cic.org or for additional information,
please contact Helen DuTeau at 703-
603-8761 or at duteau.helen@epa.gov.
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