Message #115: September 2006

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Upcoming Live Internet Seminars

ITRC Remediation Process Optimization Advanced Training
~ September 12. Remediation Process Optimization (RPO) is the
systematic evaluation and enhancement of site remediation to
ensure that human health and the environment are being protected
over the long term at minimum risk and cost. The purpose of this
ITRC training is to present an overview of the material covered in
five technical fact sheets that ITRC's RPO Team produced to
enhance site remediation optimization and decision-making. The
training modules provide additional information and techniques to
improve project schedules, effectively manage resources,
emphasize risk, and discuss tools to efficiently cleanup contaminated
sites. For more information and to register, see http://www.itrcweb.org Of

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

ITRC Perchlorate: Overview of Issues, Status, and Remedial
Options ~ September 19. Improved analytical methodology has
increased the known extent of perchlorate contamination in the U.S.
A variety of remediation technologies are currently commercially
available and being used for perchlorate remediation. This training,
based on ITRC's Perchlorate: Overview of Issues, Status, and
Remedial Options (PERC-1), explains why perchlorate is a hot topic
in the environmental community including up-to-date information on
sources, occurrences, toxicity and exposure, regulatory status and

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remediation alternatives. For more information and to register, see

http://www.itrcweb.ora Of http://clu-in.ora/studio .

ITRC Triad Approach: A New Paradigm for Environmental
Project Management ~ September 21. This seminar discusses
the relationship of the Triad to previous regulatory 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), serves as the basis for this training course.
For more information and to register, see http://www.itrcweb.ora Of

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

Jump-Starting Ecological Restoration ~ September 21. This
seminar will examine the relevance and importance of ecological
restoration in the Superfund program and discuss implementation
strategies and specific techniques to speed the recovery of disturbed
and contaminated land. Participants will learn why ecological
restoration is important to the Superfund program; gain an
understanding of the relationship between land disturbance,
functioning ecological systems, and how restoration projects are
managed; and learn various techniques. The seminar also will
address in-situ remediation of metal contaminated soils. For more
information and to register, see http://clu-in.org/studio .

EPA Pharmaceuticals in the Environment - September 26. The

U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development is hosting a series of
Internet webcasts throughout the fall on pharmaceuticals in the
environment. This first webcast on pharmaceuticals and personal
care products (PPCPs) in the environment provides an overview of
the issue as well as an idea of what activities are occuiring in the
EPA Regions. Registration for this seminar will open Friday,

September 8. See http://clu-in.org/studio .

ITRC Planning and Promoting of Ecological Reuse of
Remediated Sites ~ September 28. This training is based on the
ITRC Technical and Regulatory Guideline: Planning and Promoting
Ecological Land Reuse of Remediated Sites (ECO-2, 2006). The
document presents a process to promote ecological land reuse
activities considering natural or green technologies instead of more
traditional remedies. The guidance demonstrates that natural or
ecological end-uses are valuable alternatives to conventional
property development or redevelopment. Ecological benefits and a
process for calculating their value are included in the guidance and
reviewed in this training. For more information and to register, see

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

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ITRC What's New with In Situ Chemical Oxidation? ~ October
5. This seminar presents updated guidance and technology
advancement information for In Situ Chemical Oxidation. Topics
include a regulatory discussion related to ISCO implementation;
details on the chemistry behind ISCO technology; considerations for
system design and application, including health and safety; and
performance evaluation information. The course is based on the
ITRC's In Situ Chemical Oxidation of Contaminated Soil and
Groundwater, Second Edition (ISCO-2, 2005), with sections on
technology overview and applicability, remedial investigations, safety
concerns, regulatory concerns, injection design, monitoring,
stakeholder concerns, and case studies. For more information and to

register, see http://www.itrcweb.ora Of http://clu-in.ora/studio .

New Documents

New Cost and Performance Information on Cleanup
Technologies. The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
(FRTR) recently announced the release of 39 new case study and
technology assessment reports. These reports document the cost,
performance, and lessons learned in implementing a wide range of
hazardous waste site cleanup technologies in the field, ranging from
large-scale demonstrations to full-scale applications. With these new
additions, a total of 715 reports are now available in four areas - 383
cost and performance case study reports describing the use of
remediation technologies; 164 reports describing the use of site
characterization and monitoring technologies; 101 case studies
describing long-term monitoring/optimization of remediation
technologies; and 67 reports describing the assessments of
remediation technologies at hazardous waste sites. For more

information, see http://www.frtr.aov/costperf.htm .

Abstracts of Remediation Case Studies, Volume 10 (EPA
542-R-06-002). This new report, published by the Federal
Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR), is a collection of
abstracts summarizing nine cost and performance case studies on
the use of remediation technologies at contaminated sites. The case
studies include several different technologies for treating soil or
groundwater contamination or both, with 3 reports on soil cleanup, 3
reports on groundwater and 3 reports on both soil and groundwater.
View or download the volume of abstracts at http://clu-in.org/techpubs.htm. For
hard copies, call (800) 490-9198 or fax to (513) 489-8695.

Final Report: Edible Oil Barriers for Treatment of
Perchlorate-Contaminated Groundwater (ESTCP ER-0221). This
final technical report was published by the U.S. DoD Environmental

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Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). It documents
the demonstration of emulsified edible oils for remediation of
perchlorate in groundwater. The primary objective of this project was
to evaluate the cost and performance of an emulsified oil permeable
reactive barrier (PRB) to control the migration of perchlorate plumes
at DoD installations. The performance of the PRB was evaluated by
monitoring the distribution of the oil emulsion in the aquifer, the
impact of the oil injection on the aquifer permeability and
groundwater flow paths, and the changes in contaminant
concentrations and biodegradation indicator parameters both up
gradient and down gradient of the PRB. Data obtained during the
pilot test were used to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of
emulsified edible oils for remediation of perchlorate and chlorinated
ethanes in groundwater through enhanced biodegradation (February
2006, 196 pages). View or download at

http://docs.serdp-estcp.orq/viewfile.cfm?Doc=ER%2D0221 %2DFR%2D01%2Epdf.

Cost & Performance Report: In Situ Remediation of a
TCE-Contaminated Aquifer Using a Short Rotation Woody Crop
Groundwater Treatment System (ESTCP ER-9519). This ESTCP
field-scale demonstration project was conducted to evaluate the
capability of Eastern cottonwood trees (Populus deltoides) to
intercept and treat groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene
(TCE) and cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cDCE) at the Carswell Golf
Course (CGC), within the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base
(NAS-JRB) Fort Worth, Texas. Eastern cottonwood trees are
classified as a short rotation woody crop (SRWC) because they are
fast-growing, easy to regenerate, and a commercially viable source
of pulp for paper products. The study was undertaken to determine
the potential for a short rotation woody crop groundwater treatment
(SRWCGT) system to control hydraulically the migration of a
contaminated groundwater plume and to biologically enhance the
subsurface environment to optimize in situ reductive dechlorination
of the detected chlorinated ethenes (May 2006, 81 pages). View or

download at http://docs.serdp-estcp.ora/viewfile.cfm?Doc=CU%5F9519%5FC%26P%2Epdf.

Grant Guidelines To States For Implementing The Delivery
Prohibition Provision Of The Energy Policy Act Of 2005
(EPA-510-R-06-003). The U.S. EPA Office of Underground Storage
Tanks issued this guidance on August 7, 2006. Title XV, Section B of
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 amends Subtitle I of the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, the original legislation that created the underground
storage tank (UST) program. The UST provisions of the Energy
Policy Act focus on preventing releases and direct EPA to help states
comply with new UST requirements. EPA and states, working closely
with other stakeholders, developed the delivery prohibition grant

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guidelines, which describe the procedures states must use for
prohibiting delivery to underground storage tanks that are ineligible to
receive product. States receiving federal funds must implement the
delivery prohibition requirements by August 8, 2007. EPA regions will
incorporate the guidelines into their future grant agreements with
states (August 2006, 11 pages). View or download at

http://www.epa.aov/oust/fedlaws/final dp.htm.

Strategy for an EPA/Tribal Partnership to Implement Section
1529 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPA-510-R-06-005). The

U.S. EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks issued this guidance
on August 7, 2006. Title XV, Section B of the Energy Policy Act of
2005 amends Subtitle I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the original
legislation that created the underground storage tank (UST)
program. The UST provisions of the Energy Policy Act focus on
preventing releases and direct EPA to help states comply with new
UST requirements. EPA and tribal representatives collaborated
extensively to develop a strategy for underground storage tank
programs in Indian Country. The strategy identifies key issues and
actions to: strengthen the relationships between EPA and tribes;
improve information sharing; enhance tribal capacity; and further the
cleanup and compliance of underground storage tanks in Indian
Country. EPA will continue to work closely with our tribal partners to
implement the strategy and report to Congress regarding strategy
implementation by August 8, 2007 (August 2006, 154 pages). View

or download at http://www.epa.aov/oust/fedlaws/final ts.htm.

Planning and Promoting Ecological Land Reuse of Remediated
Sites (ECO-2) This report was published by the Interstate
Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC). It describes key decision
points in a flow diagram format and defines the practicality of
applying natural or green technologies to traditional remediation
processes. Ecological benefits have not traditionally been designed
into, nor credited to, the value of the reusable land until successful
remediation was completed. Now, natural and green technologies
can improve the ecology of the site as long as they support the intent
of the land^s use and do not jeopardize the elimination or reduction
of the human or environmental risk. Consideration of ecological
benefits, as well as the end use of an environmentally impacted site,
is an integral component of the remediation process (July 2006, 154

pages). View or download at htt p ://www. itrcwe b .oro/Docu ments/ECO-2. pdf. Hard copies
available in mid September at http://www.itrcweb.org/product reguest.asp?DOCID=view.

Vendor Spreadsheets. EPA created the REACH IT System to
compile and share information on treatment and characterization
technologies for a range of contaminant types and media. Over time,

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this system was populated with information on over 500 remediation
technologies and 260 characterization technologies. With the
evolution of on-line search services and engines and the
development of a range of other resources on technologies and
vendors coupled with resource limitations, EPA discontinued the
on-line REACH IT System in 2006. Upon discontinuation of the EPA
REACH IT System, a fully searchable database is no longer
available. However, limited technology and vendor information is
preserved in the form of two vendor summary lists. See

http://clu-in,ora/vendor/vendorinfo/.

EUGRIS Corner. EUGRIS is the platform for European
contaminated soil and water information. See the following link to
access the following three documents: http://www.euaris.infoAA/hatsnew.asp.

•	NICOLE Workshop Report: Data Acquisition for a Good
Conceptual Site Model. This report provides a summary of a
May 2006 meeting in Carcassonne, southern France. Invited
papers at this workshop presented examples from real
contaminated land case studies to emphasize the importance
of good quality data acquisition for the development of robust
and appropriate conceptual site models, combining information
on geology, biology and the chemistry of the subsoil. The
emphasis was on innovative and cost effective data collection
methods in support of the site management decision making
processes rather than ~wanting to know what is in the soil^.
The workshop included an excursion to the area of a former
gold mine that has been undergoing an extensive remediation
programme which is nearing completion. A range of
presentations were given on-site illustrating some of the
remediation methods tested and employed (May 2006, 42
pages).

•	Best Practice Guidelines on the Preparation of Waste
Management Plans for Construction and Demolition Projects.
This report was produced by the UK Ministry for the
Environment, Heritage and Local Government (2006). The
Guidelines provide guidance on the preparation of Project
Construction and Demolition Waste Management Plans for
certain classes of project, which exceed specified threshold
limits. The requirement for such Plans extends equally to both
public and private sector developments. They provide clients,
developers, designers, practitioners, contractors,
sub-contractors and competent authorities with an agreed basis
for determining the adequacy of C&D Waste Management
Plans (July 2006, 32 pages).

•	Review of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS)

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& 8722; Renewed Strategy. This report was published by the
Council of the European Union (2006). This document sets out
a single, coherent strategy on how the EU will more effectively
live up to its long-standing commitment to meet the challenges
of sustainable development. It reaffirms the need for global
solidarity and recognizes the importance of strengthening our
work with partners outside the EU, including those rapidly
developing countries which will have a significant impact on
global sustainable development (June 2006, 29 pages).

Conferences and Symposia

Reminder! Alternative Landfill Cover Workshops. The U.S. EPA
will conduct a series of workshops regarding design and permitting
of alternative final landfill covers. These 2.5-day workshops will be
held in Austin, TX (Sept. 26-28), Chicago, IL (Oct. 16-18), Denver,
CO (Nov. 28-30) and Riverside, CA (Jan. 23-25, 2007). Often called
evapotranspiration (ET) covers, these innovative designs are of
considerable interest to the solid waste industry due to performance,
cost, and long-term stability. The workshops are intended to teach
consultants and engineers how to design and submit quality
proposals for ET covers, and to teach regulators how to evaluate
those proposals. Participants will get an understanding of the
hydraulic properties of these covers, how to optimize designs with
models, and how to ensure that the final product is environmentally
protective. The most current research on field performance,
monitoring, economics and construction techniques will be
presented. For more information and to register, see

http://wwwJandfillcover.dri.edu/ .

Reminder! Land Revitalization Summit, October 30- November
1, Austin, Texas. U.S. EPA Region 6 will host its first cross
program Land Revitalization Summit to promote land revitalization as
a part of State and Federal cleanup programs. The meeting will allow
state agencies, municipalities, developers, lenders, brokers, and
others to discuss ways that government can better assist in
achieving faster, protective cleanups that will support
redevelopment. The Region is now evaluating agenda topics and
soliciting speakers for the meeting. For agenda and registration
information, see hwp^.ha.mma^. or call Kathy Thomas at (214)

665-2229, or email LRsummit@epa.aov.

Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium &
Workshop, Washington, DC, November 28-30. This event is
sponsored by the DoD Strategic Environmental Research

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Development Program (SERDP) and the DoD Environmental
Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). It will provide
attendees: (1) concurrent technical sessions covering the latest in
environmental research results and technical innovations; (2) poster
sessions featuring more than 300 technical posters; (3) exhibit
booths offering information about funding opportunities in related
research programs; (4) two sessions providing a summary of SERDP
and ESTCP program development and opportunities to conduct
research and demonstrations; and (5) networking opportunities with
more than 800 environmental professionals. For agenda and
registration information, see http://www.estcp.ora/.

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