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> Request for Proposals
Funding Available for 2015 Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Grants. These
brownfields grants may be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and
hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances
co-mingled with petroleum). Opportunities for funding are as follows: Brownfields
Assessment Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years; Assessment
Coalitions are funded up to $600,000 over three years) and Brownfields Cleanup
Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years). Please note that applicants
who received an Assessment grant from EPA in Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) are eligible to
apply under this competition. If the applicant was a member of a coalition that was
awarded a grant in FY14, that applicant is also eligible to apply under this assessment
competition. The proposal submission deadline is December 19, 2014. EPA will
provide one guideline outreach webinaron November 5, 2014 at 2:00PM EST (19:00
GMT). The purpose of this training webinar is to assist applicants with understanding
the Assessment and Cleanup Grant Guidelines and in applying for the grants. Join the
webinar at httEsv/eEajConnectsoiutjonsjCom/tj^isbi-ownfjekte and/or via conference call:
1-866-299-3188, access code: 2025661817#. For more information and to view the
grant guidelines, see htt^V/wwWjeEaj^ov/brawnfields/aEElicayitni.
> Upcoming Live Internet Seminars
ERT Presents Development of Ecological Preliminary Remediation Goals -
November 3, 2014,1:00PM-3:00PM EST (18:00-20:00 GMT). This seminar provides
an overview of Ecological Preliminary Remediation Goals (PRGs) for common
terrestrial and aquatic receptors. The seminar begins with a general discussion and
background information about ecological PRGs. Topics included in the presentation
include description of performance measures, criteria with which PRGs must comply,
how PRGs are derived and used, and how background is incorporated into the PRG
process. In addition, there will be a brief discussion pertaining to how risk management
in considered in the PRG process. For more information and to register, see
http://clu-in.org/live.
ITRC Soil Sampling and Decision Making Using Incremental Sampling
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Methodology Parts 1 and 2 - November 4 and 6, 2014. This 2-part training course
along with ITRC's Web-based Incremental Sampling Methodology Technical and
Regulatory Guidance Document (ISM-1, 2012) is intended to assist regulators and
practitioners with understanding the fundamental concepts of soil/contaminant
heterogeneity, representative sampling, sampling/laboratory error and how ISM
addresses these concepts. Through this training course you should learn: basic
principles to improve soil sampling results, systematic planning steps important to ISM,
how to determine ISM Decision Units (DU), the answers to common questions about
ISM sampling design and data analysis, methods to collect and analyze ISM soil
samples, the impact of laboratory processing on soil samples, and how to evaluate ISM
data and make decisions. In addition this ISM training and guidance provides insight on
when and how to apply ISM at a contaminated site, and will aid in developing or
reviewing project documents incorporating ISM (e.g., work plans, sampling plans,
reports). For more information and to register, see http://www.itrcweb.ora or http://ciu-in.ora/iive.
Overview of New EPA Superfund Groundwater Guidance and Tools - November 4,
2014,12:30PM-1:30PM EST (17:30-18:30 GMT). Groundwater remediation is a
component of more than 90 percent of active Superfund sites and achieving remedial
action objectives can take years or even decades. Collectively federal agencies, states
and potentially responsible parties (PRPs) spend hundreds of millions of dollars each
year to address contaminated groundwater. Given the importance of groundwater, the
challenges and costs associated with groundwater remedies, the EPA has recently
issued a new suite of guidance and tools to help focus resources on the information
and decisions needed to effectively complete groundwater remedies and to ensure that
these remedies protect human health and the environment. This 1 hour webinar will
describe the benefits and utility of the following recently issued EPA guidance and
tools: Guidance for Evaluating Completion of Groundwater Restoration Actions (Nov.
2013),	Groundwater Remedy Completion Strategy (May 2014), Recommended
Approach for Evaluating Completion of Groundwater Restoration Remedial Actions at a
Groundwater Monitoring Well (Aug. 2014), and Groundwater Statistical Tool (Aug.
2014).	The above EPA groundwater guidance and other resources are available on
EPA'S WebSite at http://www.epa.aov/superfund/health/conmedia/gwdocs/. Participants may also be
interested in the CLU-IN seminar on Evaluating Completion of Groundwater
Restoration Remedial Actions on November 12, 2014. For more information and to
register, see http://clu-in.ora/live.
NARPM Presents...Evaluating Completion of Groundwater Restoration Remedial
Actions - November 12, 2014,1:00PM-3:00PM EST (18:00-20:00 GMT). This
session is designed to assist RPMs, EPA technical support staff, and states in
understanding EPA's new guidance for evaluating remedial action completion for
groundwater restoration projects. The training will be based on the "Guidance for
Evaluating Completion of Groundwater Restoration Remedial Action," November 2013;
"Recommended Approach for Evaluating Completion of Groundwater Restoration
Remedial Actions," August 2014; and the Groundwater Statistical Tool, August 2014.
This training will assist participants in understanding how groundwater contaminant well
data and site-specific conditions may be evaluated to assess whether restoration of a
contaminated aquifer is complete. By taking this webinar, participants will achieve the
following objectives: understand EPA's recommendations for determining if a
groundwater restoration remedial action is complete; understand recommendations for
evaluating contaminant of concern concentration levels on a well-by-well basis; be
exposed to the groundwater statistics tool and understand how it may be used to
evaluate well-specific data; and understand how well-specific conclusions may be used
to make a determination that the restoration remedial action is complete. For more
information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive.
ITRC Project Risk Management for Site Remediation - November 13, 2014,
11:00AM-1:15PM EST (16:00-18:15 GMT). Remediation Risk Management (RRM) is a
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course of action through which all risks related to the remediation processes (site
investigations, remedy selection, execution, and completion) are holistically addressed
in order to maximize the certainty in the cleanup process to protect human health and
the environment. Remediation decisions to achieve such a goal should be made based
on threshold criteria on human health and ecological risks, while considering all the
other potential project risks. Through this training course and associated ITRC
Technical and Regulatory Guidance Document: Project Risk Management for Site
Remediation (RRM-1, 2011), the ITRC RRM team presents tools and processes that
can help the site remediation practitioner anticipate, plan for, and mitigate many of the
most common obstacles to a successful site remediation project. Examples of project
risks include remediation technology feasibility risks; remedy selection risks; remedy
construction, operation and monitoring risks; remedy performance and operations risks;
environmental impacts of systems during their operation; worker safety risk, human
health and ecological impacts due to remedy operation; as well as costs and schedules
risks including funding and contracting issues. For more information and to register,
SG6 http://www.itrcweb.ora Of http://clu-in.ora/live.
Mining Remediation and Sustainability - November 17, 2014, 2:00PM-4:00PM EST
(19:00-21:00 GMT). This webinar features three presentations delivered at the 2014
National Conference on Mining Influenced Waters (MIW).The session highlights EPA's
efforts to identify lower-maintenance and innovative MIW treatment technologies, work
being conducted by the International Network for Acid Prevention (INAP), and efforts
undertaken by Barrick Gold Corporation to clean up and implement best industry
practices at a mining-impacted river in the Dominican Republic. For more information
and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive.
NARPM Presents...Interactions between Superfund and RCRA - Case Studies
and Review - November 18, 2014,1:00PM-3:00PM EST (18:00-20:00 GMT). The
interface between RCRA and Superfund is diverse, whether it is waste analysis and
disposal or an adjacent RCRA Corrective Action site with co-mingling plumes. The goal
of this webinar is to inform Superfund RPMs, and others, of the RCRA process be it
regulation, guidance or personal interactions between the programs. Case studies from
Superfund RPMs and RCRA Corrective Action PMs will provide real world examples of
this interaction. In addition, a high-level overview of RCRA is provided to set up each
case study example. For more information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive.
Pore water Concentrations and Bioavailability: How You Can Measure Them and
Why They Influence Contaminated Sediment Remediation - Sessions II, III, and IV
- November 19, December 1 and 15, 2014. NARPM Presents and Risk e-Learning are
offering a four-part webinar series to help you understand why, how, and when to
measure porewater concentrations and bioavailability as part of contaminated sediment
assessment and management. Hosted jointly by the EPA Contaminated Sediments
Forum and the National Institute of Environmental Health Science's Superfund
Research Program, this webinar series will also focus on the use of passive sampling
devices (PSD) and what they tell us about contaminant bioavailability. Previously held
as a course at the National Association for Remedial Project Managers (NARPM)
Training Program meeting, the webinar series features experts in the field of porewater
and bioavailability and includes lectures and case studies, including practical tips to
maximize the utility of porewater and bioavailability measurements. Presenters will
explain the basics of chemical fate, transport, and uptake, with a focus on porewater as
a key route of exposure and a strong indicator of bioavailability. PSDs are a promising
technology for measuring porewater concentrations and assessing bioavailability,
particularly for common sediment contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), chlorinated pesticides, and
dioxin-like compounds. The webinar series will include information about direct
measurements of porewater, such as centrifuging sediment samples or Henry
Samplers, which may also be used and are particularly useful for measuring metals.
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For more information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive.
SERDP and ESTCP Webinar, Novel Sampling Approaches for Improving the
Management of Contaminated Sediment Sites - November 20, 2014,
12:00PM-1:30PM EST (17:00-18:30 GMT). The third scheduled event in the SERDP
and ESTCP webinar series will be held on Thursday November 20 and will feature Dr.
Philip Gschwend (MIT) and Dr. Bart Chadwick (SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific) who
will discuss new sampling tools and approaches for improving the characterization and
informing the remediation of contaminated sediments. Specifically, the presenters will
discuss the use of an in-situ friction-sound probe for mapping particle size at
contaminated sediment sites as well as the use of passive sampling in support of
remediation at these sites. To view presentation abstracts and speaker biographies, and
to register for this free webinar, please visit the SERDP and ESTCP website at
http://www,serdp-estcp,ora/Tools-and-Trainina/Webinar-Series/11-20-2014.
ITRC Integrated DNAPL Site Strategy - December 2, 2014, 2:00PM-4:15PM EST
(19:00-21:15 GMT). The ITRC Integrated Dense Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Site
Strategy (IDSS-1, 2011) technical and regulatory guidance document will assist site
managers in development of an integrated site remedial strategy. This course
highlights five important features of an IDSS including: a conceptual site model (CSM)
that is based on reliable characterization and an understanding of the subsurface
conditions that control contaminant transport, reactivity, and distribution; remedial
objectives and performance metrics that are clear, concise, and measurable; treatment
technologies applied to optimize performance and take advantage of potential
synergistic effects; monitoring based on interim and final cleanup objectives, the
selected treatment technology and approach, and remedial performance goals; and
reevaluating the strategy repeatedly and even modifying the approach when objectives
are not being met or when alternative methods offer similar or better outcomes at lower
cost. For more information and to register, see http://www.itrcweb.ora or http://ciu-in.ora/iive .
NARPM Presents...ICs in Decision Documents - December 3, 2014,
2:00PM-3:30PM EST (19:00-20:30 GMT). Join in this seminar to learn about effective
documentation of Institutional Controls (ICs) in Superfund decision documents. This
webinar will help Remedial Project Managers (RPMs) and IC Coordinators better
understand the specific requirements for formally documenting ICs in Explanation of
Significant Differences (ESD), Record of Decision (ROD) Amendments, and RODs.
Participants will hear both the regional and headquarters' perspective on the
appropriate use of ICs in remedy decisions and be provided with site-specific examples.
The presenters will identify the expectations of the NCP, as well as explore additional
policy and guidance to assist RPMs in documenting ICs. Finally, participants will
understand how properly documented ICs can help ensure meaningful public
involvement as well as facilitate the development of the Institutional Control
Implementation and Assurance Plans (ICIAPs). For more information and to register,
SG6 http://clu-in.org/live.
> New Documents and Web Resources
Petroleum Vapor Intrusion: Fundamentals of Screening, Investigation, and
Management. Petroleum Vapor Intrusion (PVI) is the process by which volatile
petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) released as vapors from light nonaqueous phase
liquids (LNAPL), petroleum-contaminated soils, or petroleum-contaminated
groundwater migrate through the vadose zone and into overlying buildings. This ITRC
guidance document uses a scientifically-based approach to support improved decision
making at potential petroleum vapor intrusion (PVI) sites by employing an eight-step
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process. By applying this approach, decision makers can confidently screen out sites,
and therefore focus limited resources on the small fraction of petroleum-contaminated
sites that warrant vapor control or additional site management. This ITRC guidance
complements the ongoing work of U.S. EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks
(OUST) in addressing the PVI pathway (October 2014, 388 pages). View or download
at http://www.itrcweb.ora/Petroieumvi-Guidance/. For more information on 2015 dates for the
corresponding Internet-based training course, see
http://www.itrcweb.org/Trainina/ListEvents7Topicl D=28&SubTopicl D=48.
Research Brief: Measuring Vapor Intrusion to Estimate Underground
Contamination. Vapor intrusion involves the movement of contaminants from beneath
a home or a business up into the air inside the building. The vapor source is typically
groundwater that contains low to moderate concentrations of either chlorinated
solvents, such as trichloroethylene (TCE), or petroleum-related compounds, such as
benzene. The importance of measuring vapor intrusion is that even in low
concentrations, long-term exposure to these volatile chemicals may pose an
unacceptable risk of chronic health effects. Scientists from the Brown University
Superfund Research Program have taken a step toward providing a simpler, accurate
screening method to determine whether chemicals in underground sources are seeping
into buildings and contaminating indoor air. The researchers developed process
models to predict the concentrations of vapors that enter indoor environments. Results
from the process models were consistent with advanced computer modeling
techniques. For more information, see http://tools.niehs.nih.gov/srp/researchbriefs/view.cfm7Brief ID=238.
Technology Innovation News Survey Corner. The Technology Innovation News
Survey contains market/commercialization information; reports on demonstrations,
feasibility studies and research; and other news relevant to the hazardous waste
community interested in technology development. Recent issues, complete archives,
and subscription information is available at http://ciu-in.ora/products/tins/. The following
resources were included in recent issues:
•	Vapor Intrusion from Entrapped NAPL Sources and Groundwater Plumes:
Process Understanding and Improved Modeling Tools for Pathway Assessment
•	Rhizosphere Bacterial Degradation of RDX: Understanding and Enhancement
•	Floating Treatment Wetlands (FTWS) in Water Treatment: Treatment Efficiency
and Potential Benefits of Activated Carbon
•	Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy
& Air, 18-21 March 2013, San Diego, CA: Selected Manuscripts
•	Fire Fighting Foams with Perfluorochemicals: Environmental Review
EUGRIS Corner. New Documents on EUGRIS, the platform for European
contaminated soil and water information. More than 11 resources, events, projects and
news items were added to EUGRIS in October 2014. These can be viewed at
httEV/wwwjeuansjnfo/whatsnewjasE. Then select the appropriate month and year for the updates
in which you are interested. The following resource was posted on EUGRIS:
Nuclear Site Remediation and Restoration during Decommissioning of Nuclear
Installations (Nuclear Energy Agency, 2014). This report, prepared by the Task
Group on Nuclear Site Restoration of the NEA Co-operative Programme on
Decommissioning, highlights lessons learned from remediation experiences of NEA
member countries that may be particularly helpful to practitioners of nuclear site
remediation, regulators and site operators. It provides observations and
recommendations to consider in the development of strategies and plans for efficient
nuclear site remediation that ensures protection of workers and the environment. View
Or download at htt]3V/www1oecd_jiea1O!2/rwm/Eubs/2014/7192_£EireE2lLE(jI
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> Conferences and Symposia
LNAPLs: Science, Management, and Technology - ITRC 2-day Classroom
Training, Denver, CO, April 7-8, 2015; Seattle (area), WA, September 15-16, 2015;
Austin, TX, November 18-19, 2015. Led by internationally recognized experts, this
2-day ITRC classroom training will enable you to develop and apply an LNAPL
Conceptual Site Model (LCSM), understand and assess LNAPL subsurface behavior,
develop and justify LNAPL remedial objectives including maximum extent practicable
considerations, select appropriate LNAPL remedial technologies and measure
progress, and use ITRC's science-based LNAPL guidance to efficiently move sites to
closure. Interactive learning with classroom exercises and Q&A sessions will
reinforce these course learning objectives. For local, state, and federal government;
students; community stakeholders; and tribal representatives, ITRC has a limited
number of scholarships (waiver of registration fee only) available. For more information
and tO register, see http://www.itrcweb.ora/trainina.
Call for Abstracts! 8th Symposium on Design and Construction Issues at
Hazardous Waste Sites, Philadelphia, PA, April 15-17, 2015. The applications of
engineering and science associated with cleaning up hazardous waste sites continue to
evolve rapidly. The goal of this symposium, co-sponsored by U.S. EPA, is to facilitate
an interactive engagement between professionals from government and the private
sector related to relevant and topical issues affecting our field. Abstracts are being
accepted through November 21, 2014 in the following topic areas: project
management, technology, lessons learned and case studies, and new approaches for
hazardous waste cleanups. For more information and to view the call for abstracts, see
https://www.reaonline.com/builder/site/tab1 ,aspx?EventlD=1609144.
Call for Abstracts! 13th International UFZ-Deltares Conference on Sustainable
Use and Management of Soil, Sediment and (Ground)Water Resources
(AquaConSoil), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 9-12, 2015. The 13th International
AquaConSoil Conference will focus on sustainable use and management of soil,
sediment and water resources through four themes: dealing with contamination of soil,
groundwater and sediment; soil, groundwater and sediment in the biobased, circular
economy; managing multiple functions of the subsurface; and the role of the subsurface
in climate change adaptation. It will provide opportunities for scientists, companies and
policy makers to extend and enforce their network, start new cooperation activities and
be informed of the latest developments in the field of sustainable use and management
of soil, sediment and water resources. The call for abstracts is open until November 30,
2014. For more information and to submit an abstract, see
http://www.aauaconsoil.ora/themes--call.html.
Call for Ideas Extended! 2015 National Brownfields Training Conference,
Chicago, IL, September 2-4, 2015. Your ideas for interactive, insightful, and engaging
educational sessions are being sought for Brownfields 2015. Submit your ideas for
educational sessions tailored to encourage conversations and participation from
attendees. The conference planning committee is looking for ideas in the following
topic areas/tracks: Moving Forward: How Do We Get from Ideas and Plans to
Assessment and Cleanup; Heavy Lifting: Leveraging Available Financing to Spur
Brownfields Redevelopment; Put on Your Marketing Hat: Real Estate and
Development; Planning for a Better Environment; Working Toward a Sustainable
Future; Making a Visible Difference in Communities; Worry Beads: How to address
Liability and Avoid Enforcement; Launching a New Era of State, Tribal, and Local
Partnerships. The call for ideas is open until December 8, 2014. For more information
and tO Submit your idea, see http://www.brownfieldsconference.ora/en/education/call for ideas.
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