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> Grant Opportunities and Awards

FY 2010 EPA Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup
Grants. These 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; coalitions are
funded up to $1,000,000 over three years), Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF)
Grants (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) and Brownfields Cleanup Grants
(each funded up to $200,000 over three years). The proposal deadline is October 16,
2009. Proposal guidelines are available at httev/wwwjeEajgov/brawiifieids/aEENcayi^

EPA Announces Brownfields RLF and Environmental Job Training Grants.

Communities in 55 state or local governments will receive $55 million in supplemental
funding for brownfields RLF grants to help communities carry out cleanup activities,
redevelopment projects, and create jobs for local residents living near brownfields sites.
The grants include $42 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009 that President Obama signed into law on February 17, 2009, and $13 million from
the EPA brownfields general program funding. Fourteen communities in eight states
will share $6.8 million in Brownfields Job Training Grants geared toward cleaning up
contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. These
grants are funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The
U.S. EPA, under its Brownfields Program, is awarding grants of up to $500,000 each to
eligible governmental entities and non-profit organizations. For more information, see

http://epa.aov/brownfields/eparecoverv/index.htm#supp .

ASTM Green Cleanup Standards - Call for Participation. ASTM has established a
workgroup to initiate the development of green cleanup standards. The first meeting for
the ASTM E50.04 Green Cleanup Task Group will take place in conjunction with the
regularly scheduled E50 meetings on Thursday, October 22, 2009 8am-4pm in Atlanta
at the Hyatt Regency. The purpose of this meeting will be to review proposed core
elements for the standards as well as a draft outline for the ASTM Guide (Guide to be
distributed prior to the meeting). If you interested in serving on the Green Cleanup task
group or for further information on the effort see the Green Clean Up Announcement

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under "Additional Information" athttD://www.astm.ora/coMMiT/coMMiTTEE/E5o.htm or contact Daniel
Smith at 61 0-832-9727 or dsmith@astm.org.

> Upcoming Live Internet Seminars

Solar Energy on Closed Landfills: Regulatory and Technical Considerations -
September 9, 2009, 10:00AM-11:00AM EDT (14:00-15:00 GMT). The briefing
provides an overview of technical and regulatory facets of constructing solar farms on
closed landfills. It summarizes the findings of a draft paper covering a combination of
case study evidence and literature research. The target audience for this study includes
project managers, owners, developers, operators, regulators, and various levels of
stakeholders with an interest in revitalizing contaminated lands. The author is a
National Network for Environmental Management Studes Fellow with EPA's Office of
Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation. For more information and to

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

Computational Toxicology: ToxCast and the Comparative Toxicogenomics
Database (CTD) - September 9, 2009, 2:00PM-4:00PM EDT (18:00-20:00 GMT). The

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Research
Program (SRP), in collaboration with U.S. EPA/OSRTI, presents the Risk eLearning
session "Computational Toxicology: ToxCast and the Comparative Toxicogenomics
Database (CTD)." This seminar will indicate the utility of computational approaches to
achieving a better understanding of the potential risks of contaminants and is a must
see as a follow up to the Cumulative Risk seminars. Dr. David J. Dix, Acting Deputy
Director of EPA/ORD's National Center for Computational Toxicology will present
"ToxCast - Screening and Prioritization of Environmental Chemicals Based on
Bioactivity Profiling and Predictions of Toxicity." NIEHS grantee and Mount Desert
Island Biological Laboratory investigator, Dr. Carolyn Mattingly, will present "The
Comparative Toxicogenomics Database: A resource for predicting
chemical-gene-disease networks." For more information and to register, see

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

ITRC In Situ Bioremediation of Chlorinated Ethene - DNAPL Source Zones -
September 10, 2009,11:00AM-1:15PM EDT (15:00-17:15 GMT). Treatment of
dissolved-phase chlorinated ethenes in groundwater using in situ bioremediation (ISB)
is an established technology; however, its use for DNAPL source zones is an emerging
application. This training course supports the ITRC Technical and Regulatory
Guidance document In Situ Bioremediation of Chlorinated Ethene: DNAPL Source
Zones (BioDNAPL-3, 2008). This document provides the regulatory community,
stakeholders, and practitioners with the general steps practitioners and regulators can
use to objectively assess, design, monitor, and optimize ISB treatment of DNAPL
source zones. For more information and to register, see http://www.itrcweb.ora or

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

TABEZ - Free, Online Tool to Facilitate Writing EPA Brownfields Assessment and
Cleanup Grants - September 14, 2009,1:00PM-2:30PM EDT (17:00-18:30 GMT).

This tool takes the "fear factor" out of EPA brownfields grant applications. Learn how to
use TABEZ to produce a quality proposal, including helpful tips for your proposal
preparation. For more information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive .

EPA Region 8 Brownfields Grant Guidelines Q&A Session for Potential
Applicants -September 15, 2009,11:00AM-1:00PM EDT(15:00-17:00 GMT). The

US EPA is currently accepting proposals for (approx.) $79.4 million under its
Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup (ARC) grant programs. Brownfields

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Program staff in the EPA Denver office will provide a brief overview of this funding
opportunity and be available to answer questions from potential applicants. For more
information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive .

Collaborative Research on Environmental Toxicants in Rapidly Developing
Settlements of the U.S.-Mexico Border - September 16, 2009, 2:00PM-3:00PM EDT
(18:00-19:00 GMT). This project aims to improve environmental public health in the
San Diego-Tijuana city-region. The objective is twofold: (1) develop new
watershed-based strategies/models that can help the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) address Global Environmental Health (GEH),
and (2) share the science and technology contributions of of University of California
San Diego's (UCSD) Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP) with urban-regional
planning scholars, educators and professionals who are struggling to better understand
how problems of the built environment, land use and pollution impact environmental
public health. For more information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive .

ITRC LNAPL Training Parts 1 and 2 - September 17 and 22, 2009. Light
non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs) are organic liquids such as gasoline, diesel, and
other petroleum hydrocarbon products that are immiscible with water and less dense
than water. LNAPLs are important because they are present in the subsurface at
thousands of remediation sites across the country, and are frequently the focus of
assessment and remediation efforts. Part 1 of this training course explains how LNAPLs
behave in the subsurface and examines what controls their behavior. Part 1 also
explains what LNAPL data can tell you about the LNAPL and site conditions. Relevant
and practical examples are used to illustrate key concepts. Part 2 addresses LNAPL
characterization and site conceptual model development as well as LNAPL recovery
evaluation and remedial considerations. Specifically, Part 2 discusses key LNAPL and
site data, when and why those data may be important, and how to get those data. Part
2 also discusses how to evaluate LNAPL recoverability. For more information and to

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

Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI) 10th Anniversary: Celebrating Success
- September 17 and October 22. EPA's Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI)
celebrates its 10-year Anniversary in 2009! To mark this event, EPA is hosting a
diverse series of seminars featuring Superfund site reuse success stories. This and
successive webinars will present reuse case studies on multi-use, renewable energy,
ecological reuse, and commercial reuse. For more information and to register, see

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

Understanding Life Cycle Assessment: Applications for OSWER's Land and
Materials Management - September 23, 2009, 2:00PM-3:30PM EDT (18:00-19:30
GMT). The Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI) is
hosting an informative webcast presentation by Jane Bare, expert on Life Cycle Impact
Assessment (LCIA) in EPA's Office of Research and Development. Ms. Bare's
presentation will provide an overview of LCIA, including general scope, terminology and
existing models, and will provide examples of how LCIA has been applied, including an
application to a Superfund site. Ms. Bare is the author of several scientific journal
papers on life cycle impact assessment, is one of fourteen international experts
controlling the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, and has worked on ISO 14042
development. For more information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive .

Understanding the FY 2010 Brownfields Job Training Grant Application Process
and Request for Proposals - September 28, 2009, 2:00PM-3:30PM EDT
(18:00-19:30 GMT). The purpose of the presentation will be to provide guidance to
prospective applicants on how to apply for a Brownfields Job Training Grant for the
fiscal year 2010 competition. This will include information on how to build a strong
proposal, eligibility information, the competition process, a discussion of the ranking

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evaluation criteria, and changes which have occurred since the FY09 and Recovery Act
competitions. Applicants who received funding in FY09 or through the Economic
Stimulus/ARRA funding are not eligible to apply for FY 2010 funds.For more
information and to register, see http://ciu-in.ora/iive .

> New Documents and Web Resources

DNAPL Remediation: Selected Projects Where Regulatory Closure Goals Have
Been Achieved (EPA 542-R-09-008). The purpose of this paper is to highlight sites
where dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) source reduction has been
demonstrated as an aid in meeting regulatory cleanup goals. The presence of DNAPL
in the subsurface can serve as a long-term source of dissolved contaminant plumes in
groundwater, making it more difficult to reach regulatory closure. However, once the
DNAPL source is addressed, residual groundwater plumes may be more amenable to
treatment, including less aggressive techniques such as monitored natural attenuation
(MNA) or bioremediation. This paper updates the document, DNAPL Remediation:
Selected Projects Approaching Regulatory Closure, prepared in 2004 by providing
more recent information on technologies and on five additional selected sites at which
DNAPL source reduction technologies were applied (August 2009, 52 pages). View or

download at http://www.clu-in.ora/techpubs.htm .

Considerations for Applying the Triad Approach: Hartford Area Hydrocarbon
Plume Site, Hartford, Illinois (EPA 542-R-06-008). Intermittent fires related to vapor
intrusion and odor complaints at the Hartford site have affected residences throughout
the Village of Hartford. Subsequent investigations by a group of potentially responsible
parties, known as the Hartford Working Group (HWG), have detected extensive
hydrocarbon contamination beneath the site. The suggestions provided in this report
are intended to provide input to the HWG so characterization and remedial design can
be optimized. This report was based on review of on-going project documents and
subsequent discussions with the Region 5 on-scene coordinators (OSC) and State of
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) representatives. The suggestions
provided are intended as a starting point for refining the existing conceptual site model
(CSM) for the Hartford site so that an effective remedy can be designed and
implemented as quickly as possible (August 2007, 68 pages). View or download at

http://www.clu-in.ora/techpubs,htm .

EPA Data Finder. Data Finder is a single place to find EPA's data sources so people
can access and understand environmental information. All of the data sources are
available on the Internet and have been organized by topics such as air, water, and
chemicals. In the near future, EPA will use Data Finder to discover raw data and make
it accessible via Data.gov, a federal site that helps people find, download, and use
datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. This version of Data
Finder provides an initial collection of EPA's data sources. View and use at

http://www.epa.aov/datafinder/ .

Assessment Tool for Closure of Low-Threat Chlorinated Solvent Sites. The

Groundwater Committee, a staff committee of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water
Quality Control Board embarked on a project to develop criteria for evaluating if and
when chlorinated solvent sites that pose little threat to human and ecological health,
water quality, and beneficial uses but do not yet meet cleanup standards at all
locations, could be closed. This process is referred to as "low-threat closure."
Low-threat closure is based on the understanding that cleanup standards can be met
under natural conditions within a reasonable timeframe, once adequate source control
and plume remediation are complete and considering site-specific conditions, the future

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land use, and the likelihood of and timeframe for actual beneficial use of the affected
water resources. Nonetheless, it can be difficult to close chlorinated solvent sites due
to concerns about pollutant toxicity, recalcitrance, and mobility, and the uncertainty
associated with site characterization and remediation. This document summarizes nine
narrative criteria for site closure. The narrative criteria describe the conditions under
which closure is warranted for low-threat sites. View or download at

http://www,waterboards,ca,aov/sanfranciscobav/sitecleanupproaram,shtml#SCPEIements .

EUGRIS Corner. New Documents on EUGRIS, the platform for European
contaminated soil and water information. More than 12 resources, events projects and
news items were added to EUGRIS 1 - 24 August, 2009. These can be viewed at
http://www.euaris.info/whatsnew.asa Then select the appropriate month and year for the updates
in which you are interested. The following reports were featured on EUGRIS:

European Communities Environmental Protection Groundwater Regulations
(Northern Ireland) 2009; Statutiry Rules of Northern Ireland 2009 No 254. New

Groundwater Regulations, taking into account responses to the consultation, will come
into force on 10 August 2009. The new regulations will: protect groundwater by
preventing the direct discharge of certain hazardous substances; require anyone
wishing to discharge other substances to go through an authorisation procedure; and
provide a more flexible risk-based approach. View or download at

http://www,doeni,aov.uk/aroundwater regulations northern ireland 2009.pdf.pdf .

An Introduction to Land Contamination for Public Health Professionals (2009).

The purpose of this document is to introduce environmental public health practitioners
to the process used for dealing with land contamination. The document aims to provide
an overview of public health issues surrounding land contamination and the public
health risk assessment process. This includes aspects of the environmental protection
regimes where they apply to the protection of public health from substances contained
in, on or under land, determination of sites as contaminated land as well as risk
assessment procedures. Where more in-depth information is required, the appendices
contain additional information including a guide to other documents available. It is
hoped that this will be a useful guide to

the public health issues surrounding land contamination and the regulatory processes
used to examine and mitigate the impacts of land contamination. View or download at

http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb C/1242198452556?p=1158934607604 .

> Conferences and Symposia

Call for Abstracts!! Green Remediation: Environment - Energy - Economics,
Amherst, MA, June 15-17, 2010. The conference will address the full range of
environmental, energy and economic aspects of green and sustainable remediation,
taking into account the energy requirements of treatment systems, air emissions, water
use requirements and impacts on water resources, land and ecosystem use and
impacts, energy use and renewables, material consumption, reuse, and waste
generation. The conference will provide a forum for scientists, regulators, managers,
and other stakeholders from around the globe to interact and share new knowledge in
both basic and applied research in green and sustainable remediation. Abstracts are
encouraged in all areas of green and sustainable remediation, from basic to applied
research, from case studies to demonstration projects. Abstracts for platform
presentations are due by November 1, 2009. For more information and to submit an

abstract, see http://www.umass.edu/tei/conferences/GreenRemediation/GreenCallForAbstracts.html .

GreenRemediation, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 9-10, 2009. Sustainable

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approaches for decision-making and soil remediation are more relevant than ever. The
objective of the GreenRemediation Conference is to improve the awareness of green
remediation solutions among environmentalists and decision makers. Main topics are
Policy Drivers, Decision Support Tools and Sustainable Remediation Technologies.
Attendees from countries around the world are expected. The conference is being
organized in collaboration with Danish EPA, Information Centre on Contaminated Sites
- DANISH REGIONS, The Capital Region of Denmark and a number of private
organizations. The Scientific Committee is formed by international capacities from
Nordic Countries, Austria, the UK and the US. For more information and to register, see

http://www.polvtec.dk/GreenRemediation/ .

Brownfields 2009 Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 16-18, 2009. The

Brownfields 2009 Conference will see stakeholders from community, planning, real
estate, finance, and policy interests from across the nation converge to focus on
brownfields cleanup, redevelopment, and a broad range of land revitalization solutions.
Take advantage of learning and networking opportunities including first-rate educational
sessions, valuable mobile workshops, dynamic plenary speakers, excellent
organizational meetings, and more. For more information and to register, see

http://www.brownfieldsconference.ora .

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