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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 or 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 remediation alternatives. For
more information and to register, see http://www.itrcweb.org or
http://clu-in.org/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.org
or http://clu-in.org/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.org or http://clu-in.org/studio .
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.org or
http://clu-in.org/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.gov/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 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 t
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