Message #100: June 2005

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Special Announcements

DoD Broad Agency Announcement. The U.S. Army Environmental
Quality Technology (EQT) Program has issued a Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) in support of EQT User Requirement A (1.6.a)
UXO Screening, Detection, and Discrimination. The BAA is
requesting private industry, academia, and government
organizations that have technologies that can detect and or
discriminate UXO on the surface or under water to apply for funding
to demonstrate their technology. Four sites are available for
demonstration purposes. Descriptions of all four sites are available

on the web at http://www.uxotestsites.org/. The BAA is posted at
http://aec.armv.mil/usaec/technoloav/baa0411 .pdf. To discuss this opportunity please

contact Mr. Larry Overbay at iarrv.overhav@atc.armv.mii for ground based
systems and Mr. Gary Rowe at aarv.rowe@atc.armv.mil for water based
systems.

Upcoming Internet Seminars

ITRC Triad Approach: A New Paradigm for Environmental
Project Management - June 7. This seminar introduces the Triad
concept and highlights how this process can increase the
effectiveness and quality of environmental investigations. This
training explains the relationship of the Triad to previous regulatory

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guidance, and offers a discussion of issues that may affect
stakeholders. The ITRC guidance document, Technical and
Regulatory Guidance for the Triad Approach: A New Paradigm for
Environmental Project Management (SCM-1, 2003), serves as the
basis for this training course. To register, see http://www.itrcweb.ora Of

http://clu-in.ora/studio .

ITRC Guidance for Characterization, Design Construction and
Monitoring of Mitigation Wetlands - June 14. This seminar is the
second is a series of wetland trainings beginning with the ITRC
Technical and Regulatory Guidance Document for Constructed
Treatment Wetlands (December 2003, WTLND-1). To improve the
success of wetland mitigation projects, this training presents
comprehensive guidance for regulators, environmental
professionals, or owners to use to understand, characterize, design,
construct, and monitor mitigation wetlands. To register, see

http://www.itrcweb.org OT http://clu-in.org/studio .

Environmental Management Planning on Active Small Arms
Firing Ranges - June 28. The training uses a logic diagram to
describe the appropriate steps an environmental professional or
range manager should use to establish an operational understanding
of a range and the impact it can have on the environment if left
unattended. It assists the user to define the environmental
characteristics at a range that, left unattended, could potentially
impact the environment and lists the appropriate questions that
range operators should ask when evaluating the potential for
environmental impact. The training briefly describes a variety of new
and conventional echnologies and techniques (i.e., 'best
management practices') available to prevent environmental impact
on the range. For more information and to register, see http://www.itrcweb.org

Of http://clu-in.org/studio .

New Documents and Online Resources

Monitored Natural Attenuation of MTBE as a Risk Management
Option at Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites (EPA
600-R-04-179). This report reviews the current state of knowledge
on the transport and fate of MTBE in ground water, with emphasis on
the natural processes that can be used to manage the risk
associated with MTBE in ground water or that contribute to natural
attenuation of MTBE as a remedy. It provides recommendations on
the site characterization data necessary to manage risk or to
evaluate monitored natural attenuation (MNA) of MTBE, and it
illustrates procedures that can be used to work up data to evaluate
risk or assess MNA at a specific site. The information is intended to

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allow state regulators to determine whether they have adequate
information to evaluate MNA of fuel oxygenates at a site and to allow
the regulators to separate sites where MNA of fuel oxygenates may
be an appropriate risk management alternative from sites where
MNA is not appropriate (January 2005, 89 pages). View or download

at http://vwwv.epa.aov/ada/download/reports/600R04179/600R04179.pdf .

The Impact of Ground-Water/Surface-Water Interactions on
Contaminant Transport with Application to an Arsenic
Contaminated Site (EPA 600-S-05-002). This document provides a
brief overview of the dynamics of chemical processes that govern
contaminant transport and speciation during water exchange across
the ground-water/surface-water transition zone and presents results
from a field study examining the fate of arsenic during ground-water
discharge into a shallow lake at a contaminated site (January 2005,

22 pages). View or download at http://www.epa.aov/ada/download/briefs/epa 600 s05 002.pdf .

SITE Reports on Monitoring and Measurement Technologies for
Dioxin and Dioxin-Like Compounds. Five innovative technology
verification reports (ITVRs) were published by the SITE Monitoring
and Measurement Technologies Program. The reports describe the
assessment of five screening technologies for dioxin and dioxin-like
compounds which include immunoassay techniques and aryl
hydrocarbon receptor based assays. The five specific reports are:

•	Xenobiotic Detection Systems, Inc., CALUX® by XDS,
EPA/540/R-05/001 (March 2005, 62 pages)

•	Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd., Dioxin ELISA Kit,
EPA/540/R-05/002 (March 2005, 61 pages)

•	Abraxis LLC, Coplanar PCB ELISA Kit, EPA/540/R-05/003
(March 2005, 60 pages)

•	CAPE Technologies LLC, DF1 Dioxin/Furan Immunoassay Kit
and PCB TEQ Immunoassay Kit, EPA/540/R-05/004 (March
2005, 65 pages)

•	Hybrizyme Corporation, AhRC PCR™ Kit, EPA/540/R-05/005
(March 2005, 58 pages)

View or download these reports at http://www.epa.aov/ORD/SITE/.

Demonstration of Aquafix and SAPS Passive Mine Water
Treatment technologies at the Summittville Mine Site (EPA
600-R-04-501). The report details the Superfund Innovative
Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program evaluation of passive water
treatments (PWT) technologies for metals removal from acid mine
drainage at the Summitville Mine Superfund Site in Southern
Colorado. Two technologies were evaluated: the Successive
Alkalinity Producing System (SAPS) and the Aquafix technology.

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The results of the PWT technology evaluation demonstrated that the
treatment systems removed metals from AMD. Removal efficiencies
ranged from 11 to 97 percent for SAPS and as much as 97 to 99
percent for the Aquafix system. The cost for both systems is $0,005
per gallon for the 25 gpm systems (June 2004, 59 pages). View or

download at http://www.epa.aov/QRD/NRMRL/pubs/540r04501/540r04501 .pdf .

Characterization, Design, Construction, and Monitoring of
Mitigation Wetlands (WTLND-2). This report was published by the
Interstate technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC). Topromote the
long-term sustainability of mitigation wetlands, this guidance
provides developers,consultants, regulators, and communities with
example checklists for evaluating and documenting habitat health
and measuring other performance criteria of mitigation wetlands.

This guidance is intended to identify and simplify the technical
elements of sound characterizations, design, construction, and
monitoring of wetlands mitigation projects (February 2005, 197

pages). View or download at http://www.itrcweb.ora/Documents/WTLND-2.pdf . To receive

a hard-copy ITRC document in the mail, e-mail your request to
itrc@wpi.biz.

Institutional Controls: A Citizen's Guide to Understanding
Institutional Controls at Superfund, Brownfields, Federal
Facilities, Underground Storage Tank, and Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act Cleanups (EPA 540-R-04-004).

This guide was published by the EPA Office of Superfund
Remediation and Technology Innovation. It provides community
members with general information about the role of institutional
controls (ICs) in Superfund, Brownfields, Federal Facilities,
Underground Storage Tanks (UST) and Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA) cleanups occurring in their neighborhoods. It
also discusses the community's role in providing input for the
selection of ICs and helping to monitor them to ensure that human
health and the environment remain protected in the future (February

2005, 6 pages). View or download at http://www.epa.aov/superfund/action/ic/auide/citauide.pdf .

Technology News and Trends-current issue (EPA 542-N-05-003).

Technology News and Trends is published by the EPA Office of
Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation. This issue
highlights innovative approaches for addressing issues arising at
sites with contaminated sediment. An estimated 12-25% of all
National Priorities List sites contain contaminated sediment due to
inadequate treatment and inappropriate discharge of industrial and
municipal wastewaters in the past. Particular problems are posed by
heavy metals and hydrophobic organic chemicals that have settled in
bottom sediment (May 2005, 6 pages). View or download at

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http://clu-in.ora/download/newsltrs/tnandt0505.pdf . For hard copies, contact (800)

490-9198 or (513) 489-8190 or fax to (513) 489-8695.

Conferences and Symposia

EPA 2005 Community Involvement and Training Conference,
Buffalo, July 12-15. This annual conference is designed for EPA
and its federal, state, local and tribal partners who plan and
implement EPA's community involvement, partnership, outreach and
education programs. Conference speakers, representing a wide
variety of stakeholders, will share how they are involving
communities in the protection of our air, water, and land. For agenda

and registration information, see http://www.epancic.ora/2005/information.cfm .

MTBE & TBA: - Comprehensive Site Assessment and
Successful Groundwater Remediation, San Francisco, August
10-12. This comprehensive two-day ITRC course introduces
students to a variety of MTBE and TBA contaminated groundwater
topics including: chemical, physical and biological characteristics;
characterization; site assessment; remediation technologies; and
case studies. The MTBE team has assembled a top-notch group of
instructors offering both theoretical and practical information about
MTBE and TBA in groundwater. Students can expect to increase
their understanding of groundwater related site characterization and
remediation issues, especially as it relates to regulator acceptance
and successful application of innovative technology. To register, see

https://weborcl8.wpi.biz/itrc/mtbe200508/reaform.htm.

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