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> Funding Opportunity

FY 2017 Brownfields Area-Wide Planning (BF AWP) Grant Guidelines. EPA is

announcing the availability of funding to eligible entities who wish to develop an
area-wide plan for brownfields assessment, cleanup, and subsequent reuse. This
funding is for research and/or technical assistance activities directed to one or more
brownfield site(s) located in a specific area (such as a neighborhood, downtown or
business district, local commercial corridor, community waterfront or city blocks). Each
project funded under this grant must result in an area-wide plan which includes specific
plan implementation strategies for assessing, cleaning up, and reusing the brownfields
site(s) as well as related brownfields and project area revitalization strategies. EPA
anticipates awarding approximately 20 projects in total, funded at up to $200,000 each.
The proposal submission deadline is August 10, 2016. Submission details and an
archive of the June 16 outreach webinar are available at

https://www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-current-news-and-events.

> Upcoming Live Internet Seminars

OSC Academy Presents...Some Things On-Scene Coordinators Should Know
About EPA's Vapor Intrusion Guidance - July 13, 2016,1:00PM-3:00PM EDT
(17:00-19:00 GMT). The presentation will introduce and describe highlights of the
OSWER Technical Guide For Assessing And Mitigating The Vapor Intrusion Pathway
From Subsurface Vapor Sources To Indoor Air (OSWER Publication 9200.2-154; June
2015) and Compilation of Information Relating to Early/Interim Actions at Superfund
Sites and the TCE IRIS Assessment (August 2014) with Q&A afterwards. For more

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information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive.

ITRC Issues and Options in Human Health Risk Assessment - A Resource When
Alternatives to Default Parameters and Scenarios are Proposed - July 14, 2016,
1:00PM-3:15PM EDT (17:00-19:15 GMT).After participating in this ITRC training
course, the learner will be able to apply ITRC's Decision Making at Contaminated Sites:
Issues and Options in Human Health Risk (RISK-3, 2015) document when developing or
reviewing site-specific risk assessments by: identifying common issues encountered
when alternatives to default parameters and scenarios are proposed during the planning,
data evaluation, toxicity, exposure assessment, and risk characterization and providing
possible options for addressing these issues; recognizing the value of proper planning
and the role of stakeholders in the development and review of risk assessments; and
providing information (that includes links to additional resources and tools) to support
decision making when alternatives to default approaches, scenarios and parameters are
proposed. For more information and to register, see http://www.itrcweb.ora or http://ciu-in.ora/iive.

ITRC Integrated DNAPL Site Strategy - July 19, 2016,1:00PM-3:15PM EDT
(17:00-19:15 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.

SRP Water Innovation - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Solutions: Session
IV - Communicating Risk and Engaging Communities: Arsenic and Well Testing -
July 21, 2016,1:00PM-3:00PM EDT (17:00-19:00 GMT). The NIEHS Superfund
Research Program (SRP) presents the fourth session in the Risk e-Learning series SRP
Water Innovation - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Solutions

(http://www.niehs.nih.aov/research/supported/centers/srp/events/riskelearnina/water innovation/index.cfmV Session IV,

Communicating Risk and Engaging Communities: Arsenic and Well Testing, will feature
efforts by several SRP Centers to engage communities on private water related to well
testing and treatment alternatives. The 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regulates
more than 170,000 public water systems to protect health, but not more than 13 million
private wells. State and local government requirements for private well water testing are
rare and inconsistent; the responsibility to ensure water safety remains with individual
households. Over the last two decades, geogenic arsenic has emerged as a significant
public health concern due to high prevalence in many rural American communities.
Speakers include Rebecca Fry, Director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill SRP, Yan Zheng, Columbia University SRP Center, Kathleen Gray, UNC SRP
Center, and Mark Borsuk, Dartmouth College SRP Center. For more information and to

register, see http://clu-in.ora/live.

Leveraging Resources for Brownfields Revitalization - July 26, 2016,
1:00PM-2:30PM EDT (17:00-18:30 GMT). This is the first in OBLR's webinar series
exploring what communities need to know to successfully leverage their available
resources to successfully meet their brownfields revitalization challenges. This webinar
will discuss available tools and focus on Dubuque, lowas successful efforts to leverage
its own resources to attract other federal, state, public and private sources of funding
and technical assistance. For more information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive.

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Military Munitions Support Services - Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study -
August 4, 2016,1:00PM-4:00PM EDT (17:00-20:00 GMT). This will be a Military
Munitions Support Services seminar with subject matter experts discussing Remedial
Investigation / Feasibility Study development. For more information and to register, see

http://clu-in.org/live.

SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series. SERDP and ESTCP are offering webinars to
promote the transfer of innovative, cost-effective and sustainable solutions. The webinar
series targets end users including practitioners, the regulatory community and
researchers to provide cutting-edge and practical information from sponsored research
and technology demonstrations. An upcoming webinar on July 14 (Remote Methods for
Water Conservation) will feature two presentations highlighting Department of Defense
(DoD) water conservation efforts. First, Ms. Kathryn Ostapuk, who works on legislative
and regulatory environmental policy issues for the Navy, will provide an overview of
water policy and regulations as well as current challenges facing military installations
especially in regions with scarce water resources. Second, Mr. Gary Anguiano, the
water pollution team lead for the Environmental Security Technology Development
Branch at the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center, will
describe the findings of an ESTCP project on innovative acoustic sensor technologies
for leak detection in challenging pipe types at DoD installations. For more information
and to register, see https://serdp-estcp.ora/Toois-and-Trainina/webinar-series/07-14-20i6. Another webinar
on July 28 (Geophysics 101 - Realistic Expectations for Geophysics When Used for Site
Characterization and Remediation Monitoring) is the second of a two-part series
providing practical information on the general capabilities and limitations of geophysics
for remediation, and decision-based tools to support the cost-effective and appropriate
use of geophysical technologies at contaminated sites. Ms. Carole Johnson and Dr.

Fred Day-Lewis from the United States Geological Survey will present several modules
on borehole geophysical logging, geophysical characterization of hydrogeological
frameworks at remediation sites and geophysical monitoring of remedial treatments. For
more information and to register, see https://serdp-estcp.ora/Toois-and-Trainina/webinar-series/07-28-20i6.

> New Documents and Web Resources

Technology News and Trends (EPA 542-N-16-001). Munitions and associated
residues such as explosives and heavy metals remain on millions of acres formerly or
currently used for artillery training, munitions disposal, weapons testing or other military
activities. Presence of these materials may pose threats such as premature munitions
detonation, chemical exposure and environmental contamination. The Spring 2016
issue of Technology News and Trends describes demonstrations of a munitions
classification system aimed at maximizing recovery of subsurface munitions while
minimizing excavation of non-hazardous metallic items. The newsletter features articles
about demonstration of advanced geophysical sensors at the former Spencer Artillery
Range in Tennessee; Camp Edwards on the Joint Base Cape Cod in Massachusetts;
and Camp San Luis Obispo in California. The newsletter also highlights important
resources such as quality assurance planning tools for advanced geophysical
classification and upcoming web seminars about advanced geophysical classification in
remedial investigations, feasibility studies, and removal or remedial actions (Spring

2016). View at https://ciu-in.ora/products/newsitrs/tnandt/20i6sprina.

Considerations for Developing Leaching Test Methods for Semi- and Non-Volatile
Organic Compounds (EPA 600-R-16-057). This report documents a USEPA workshop
in September 2015 in Arlington, VA, and included subject-matter experts from

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academia.The workshop purpose was to exchange information concerning how to
evaluate or predict the potential for leaching of semi- or non-volatile organic constituents
at contaminated sites where in place treatment has been used to control migration, and
from waste that is disposed or re-used. Workshop discussions focused on identifying
technical issues for further consideration to support the development of tools that may be
used in making determinations of protectiveness and regulatory compliance (April 2016,

90 pages). View or download at https://clu-in.org/download/char/Oraanics-Workshop-Report.pdf.

Strategic Considerations for the Sustainable Remediation of Nuclear Installations.

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) formed the Task Group on Nuclear Site
Restoration, involving nuclear operators, experts and regulators, to review the strategic
aspects of nuclear site remediation.This report summarizes work carried out between
March 2014 and December 2015, providing observations and recommendations relating
to the development of strategies and plans for sustainable site remediation at nuclear
sites. "Sustainable remediation" represents remediation actions and goals that are
informed by an understanding of the safety and environmental benefits, the impacts of
remediation activities, and the social and economic benefits and impacts, including the
impacts on natural resources and climate change, both in the short term and the long
term. This report describes the concept of sustainable remediation of contaminated land
and groundwater in the context of the decommissioning of nuclear sites. The main steps
in the determination of end states are described and the importance of an adaptive
approach is highlighted. The report was prepared by the Task Group on Nuclear Site
Restoration. Members of the group were nominated by members of the Working Party on
Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD), and many had participated in a preceding
task group established under the NEA Co-operative Programme on Decommissioning
(CPD) that examined worldwide practice for nuclear site remediation, which was the
subject of a report, Nuclear Site Remediation and Restoration during Decommissioning
of Nuclear Installations: A Report by the NEA Co-operative Programme on
Decommissioning, published by the NEA in 2014. View or download the new 2016

report at http://www.oecd-nea.ora/rwm/pubs/20i6/7290-strateaic-considerations.pdf. The 2014 report is
available at http://www.oecd-nea.ora/rwm/pubs/2014/7192-cpd-report.pdf.

NAVFAC Fact Sheet on Sustainable Long-Term Management of Landfills.

Sustainable long-term management (SLM) helps to minimize the lifecycle depletion of
energy, material resources, and financial resources. This fact sheet describes SLM
strategies that may be suitable for landfills managed under the Environmental
Restoration (ER) and Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) programs. In this context,
the ultimate goal of SLM of closed landfills is termination of active post-closure care
(PCC) based on the demonstration of functional stability and a transition to passive
controls for off-gas and leachate management. Functional stability is defined as a landfill
site that demonstrates no unacceptable risk to human health or the environment (HHE)
at the relevant point of exposure (POE) in the absence of active care. Issues addressed
include passive controls, optimized landfill cap design and maintenance, long-term
monitoring, beneficial site reuse, clean closure considerations, and shoreline erosion
protection issues (April 2016, 8 pages). View or download at https://ciu-in.ora/NAVFAcsi_M.

Superfund Research Program (SRP) Research Briefs. To get monthly updates on
research advances from the SRP you can subscribe to their Research Brief mailing list

at https://list.nih.aov/cai-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=SRP-BRIEF&A=1.

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 https://ciu-in.ora/products/tins/. The following
resources were included in recent issues:

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•	Evaluating the Efficacy of a Low-Impact Delivery System for In Situ Treatment of
Sediments Contaminated with Methylmercury and Other Hydrophobic Chemicals

•	Documenting Spatial and Temporal Variations of Subsurface Contaminants Using
Tree Cores: Implications for the Design of Effective Waste Management
Strategies

•	Advice on Mercury Remediation Options for the Wabigoon-English River System

•	Risks and Effects of the Dispersion of PFAS on Aquatic, Terrestrial and Human
Populations in the Vicinity of International Airports

•	Development of an Expanded, High-Reliability Cost and Performance Database
for In-Situ Remediation Technologies

•	Independent Review of Elemental Phosphorus Remediation at the Eastern
Michaud Flats FMC Operable Unit near Pocatello, Idaho

•	Microbiological-Enhanced Mixing Across Scales During In-Situ Bioreduction of
Metals and Radionuclides at Department of Energy Sites

•	Arsenic, Antimony and Selenium Removal from Mine Water by Anaerobic
Bioreactors at Laboratory Scale

•	Screening of the Bacterial Reductive Dechlorination Potential of Chlorinated
Ethenes in Contaminated Aquifers: A Technical Assistance Manual for
Assessment of Natural Attenuation of Chloroethenes-Contaminated Sites

EUGRIS Corner. New Documents on EUGRIS, the platform for European contaminated
soil and water information. More than 17 resources, events, projects and news items
were added to EUGRIS in June 2016. These can be viewed at httnv/www.eunris.infn/whatsnew.asn
. Then select the appropriate month and year for the updates in which you are
interested. The following resource was posted on EUGRIS:

Dealing with Contaminated Land in England. This Environment Agency report gives
an overview of the findings of a survey commissioned by Defra in 2014 about
contaminated land activity in England. The report documents progress made in
particular on identifying and remediating contaminated land sites. It uses information
submitted by 197 of 326 local councils (60%) in England. (April 2016, 24 pages). View or
download at

https://www.aov.uk/aovernment/uploads/svstem/uploads/attachment data/file/513158/State of contaminated land report.pdf.

> Conferences and Symposia

Petroleum Vapor Intrusion: Fundamentals of Screening, Investigation, and
Management - ITRC 2-day Classroom Training, Somerset, NJ, September 26-27,
2016 AND Framingham, MA, November 9-10, 2016. Preapproved for continuing
education for CT LEPs, MA LSPs, NJ LSRPs, and SC PGs. This 2-day ITRC classroom
training is based on the ITRC Technical and Regulatory Guidance Web-Based
Document, Petroleum Vapor Intrusion: Fundamentals of Screening, Investigation, and
Management (PVI-1, 2014) and led by internationally recognized experts. Wthin the
training class - hear about EPA's Technical Guide For Addressing Petroleum Vapor
Intrusion At Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites (June 2015).The ITRC guidance
document and EPA guide are complementary documents with the ITRC training course
providing the "how-to" knowledge and skills for screening, investigating, and managing
the petroleum vapor intrusion pathway. The class will enable you to develop the skills to
screen-out petroleum sites based on the scientifically-supported ITRC strategy and
checklist; focus the limited resources investigating those PVI sites that truly represent an
unacceptable risk; and communicate ITRC PVI strategy and justify science-based
decisions to management, clients, and the public. Interactive learning with classroom
exercises and Q&A sessions will reinforce these course learning objectives. For local,

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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.

Incremental-Composite Soil Sampling, Chicago, IL, July 28, 2016. This full-day
course focuses on the theory and application of ITRC's Incremental Sampling
Methodology (ISM), composite sampling designs, and hybrids of the two
(Incremental-Composite Sampling, ICS). ICS hybrid designs are useful to address
multiple project goals simultaneously. Since "representativeness" is a key aspect of data
quality and ISM/ICS data are demonstrably more representative than most discrete data,
it will be argued that ICS data are indeed "better" than non-ICS data. The course will
answer questions such as: What is the difference between ITRC's ISM and EPA's
Incremental-Composite Sampling (ICS) strategies? Is there written EPA guidance? What
features should an ISM or ICS design have? Can ICS give project risk assessors the
data they want, while simultaneously meeting the RPM's own data needs for
characterization or remedial design? How are background concentrations determined
and comparisons to background handled using ICS? How do we know whether ICS
"worked" for the project? For more information and to register, seehttps://trainex.ora/icss.

2016 National Training Conference on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and
Environmental Conditions in Communities, Washington, DC, October 19-20, 2016.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), which supports and promotes emergency planning and
provides the public with information about releases of toxic chemicals in their community
through the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). Join us for presentations, panels,
discussions, exhibits, and networking opportunities as we celebrate TRI's 30th birthday
and look ahead to the next 30 years of community right-to-know. The TRI Program
provides information on industrial releases and other waste management of toxic
chemicals and what industrial facilities are doing to prevent pollution in communities.

This conference is the TRI Program's main public outreach and training event, bringing
together EPA, localities, states, tribes, federal agencies, companies, community groups,
researchers, and non-governmental organizations. The theme of this year's conference
is TRI at 30: Working Together To Reduce Toxic Releases. For more information and to

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