UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460 JUI 28 2005 OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE OSWER Directive #9272.0-19 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT FROM: TO: Pre-Remedial Summary Guides for Federal Facilities Michael B. Cook, Direct Office of Superfund Office of Solid Waste, aru^Emergency Response . WooIfoi'Q, Director ederal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Resonse David J, Kling, Directoi| Federal Facilities Enforcement Office Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Director, Office of Site Remediation and Restoration, Region 1 Director, Emergency and Remedial Response Division, Region 2 Director, Hazardous Site Cleanup Division, Region 3 Director, Waste Management Division, Region 4 Director, Superfttnd Division, Regions 5, 6, 7, 9 Director, Office of Ecosystems Protection and Remediation, Region 8 Director, Office of Environmental Cleanup, Region 10 This memorandum transmits the final Federal Facilities Remedial Preliminary Assessment (PA) Summary Guide (PA Summary Guide) and the final Federal Facilities Remedial Site Investigation (SI) Summary Guide (SI Summary Guide). EPA has produced these Guides to aid its Regions and help other Federal Agencies improve the quality of PAs and Sis. Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) requires EPA to establish the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket (Docket), The Docket contains certain information about facilities that are owned and/or operated by the federal government and that manage hazardous waste or from Internet Address (URL)« http://www.epa.gov Hscvcleci/Hecyclable * Printed with Vegetable Oil Based Inks on Recycled Paper (Minimum 25% Pesteonsumer) ------- which hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants have been, or may be, released. CERCLA goes on to require that a PA, and as necessary, a SI, must be conducted for each facility listed on the Docket by the responsible federal agency. Information from the PA and/oi SI is then documented in a report that is reviewed by EPA Regions. These reports provide information for EPA to consider when evaluating the facility for potential listing on the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). In the past, EPA Regions have sometimes received incomplete or poor quality Federal facility PA and SI reports, thereby hindering EPA's evaluation. Federal Agencies have indicated that EPA's existing PA and SI Guidance documents are too voluminous and confusing, causing significant delays and sometime inadequate reports. hi order to help the Regions and improve the overall quality of Federal Agency-lead PAs and Sis, a workgroup of EPA regional and headquarters staff, led by Helen Shannon (Region 2), developed the attached Summary Guides. We greatly appreciate their work on both of the subject guides. The Remedial PA Guide summarizes the information needed to conduct a PA. It also refers the user to places to obtain needed information. We hope that the Remedial PA Guide will help other Federal agencies improve their PAs by clearly explaining what information is needed and indicating how to obtain or collect that information. Likewise, the Remedial SI Guide summarizes the information needed to conduct a SI. These Guides extract key information from the existing Guidance for Performing Preliminary Assessments under CERCLA, 1991 and Guidance for Performing Site Inspections Under CERCLA, 1992, These Federal Facility Guides do not supersede these existing guidances. These Guides will be distributed to other Federal Agencies. EPA staff are requested to also provide these guides to their Federal Agency counterparts to assist in conducting sufficient PAs and Sis. If you have any questions about the Guides, please contact your EPA Regional Docket Coordinator (see attached list). For questions related to data quality or quality assurance please contact Mike Carter in FFRRO at 703-603-0046 or carter.mike@epa.gov. Attachments cc: EPA Regional Docket Coordinators Renee Wynn, FFRRO Joshua Barber, FFRRO Joan Fisk, OSRTI Elizabeth Southerland, OSRTI Greg Snyder, FFEO Federal Facilities Leadership Council ------- FEDERAL AGENCY HAZARDOUS WASTE COMPLIANCE DOCKET REGIONAL COORDINATORS Gerardo Millan-Ramos (HBS) US EPA Region 1 #1 Congress St., Suite 1100 Boston, MA 02114-2023 (617)918-1377 Fax (617) 918-1291 Helen Shannon (ERRD) US EPA Region 2 290 Broadway, 18th Floor New York, NY 10007-1866 (212) 637-4260 Fax (212) 637-3256 Alida Karas (ERRD) US EPA Region 2 290 Broadway New York, NY 10007-1866 (212) 637-4276 Fax (212) 637-3256 Cesar Lee (3HS50) US EPA Region 3 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215)814-3205 Fax (215) 814-3205 Gena Townsend (4WD-FFB) US EPA Region 4 61 Forsyth St., SW Atlanta, GA 30303 (404) 562-8538 Fax (404) 562-8518 Laura Ripley (SE-5 J) US EPA Region 5 77 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 (312)886-6040 Fax (312) 886-6741 Philip Ofosu (6SF-RA) US EPA Region 6 1445 Ross Avenue Dallas, TX 75202-2733 (214)665-3178 Fax (214) 665-7447 D. KarlaAsberry(FFSC) US EPA Region 7 901 N. 5th Street Kansas City, KS 66101 (913)551-7595 Fax (913) 551-7145 Stan Zawistowski (EPR-F) US EPA Region 8 999 18th Street, Suite 500 Denver, CO 80202-2466 (303)312-6255 Fax (303) 312-6067 Philip Armstrong (SFD-9-1) US EPA Region 9 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 972-3098 Fax (415) 947-3520 KenMarcy(ECL-115) US EPA Region 10 1200 Sixth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 (206)553-2782 Fax (206) 553-0124 Monica Lindeman (ECL-115) US EPA Region 10 1200 Sixth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 (206)553-5113 Fax (206) 553-0124 ------- |