Accelerated actions were developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) within the regulatory framework for initiating early cleanup action or accelerating ongoing cleanup action to abate, mitigate, or reduce risk to human health or the environmen...
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The U.S. EPA currently is developing and implementing a streamlined way to clean up hazardous waste sites known as the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model, or SACM. It is designed to make the Superfund Program more efficient by cutting years off of cleanups and quickly reducing risks to people and the environment. ...
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The document details the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model (SACM), the Office of Emergency and Remedial Response's new model for streamlining and accelerating the Superfund program. The concept has been designed to make Superfund work better and deliver results the public will value: (1) quick reduction of acute ...
This Performance Management Plan describes the approach for accelerating cleanup activities of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Operations Office (NNSA/NV) Environmental Management (EM) Program. This approach accelerates the reduction of risk at NNSA/NV sites while ...
The bulletin provides answers to issues the Regions have raised on the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model (SACM).
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site has prepared a Ten Year Plan (Plan) that demonstrates how the Site would achieve accelerated cleanup and rapidly reduce the risks the Site currently poses to its workers, the public, and the environment. A major e...
The application of science and technology to environmental cleanup is critical as government agencies and key audiences balance the need for steady progress with pressing budget constraints. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in partnership with universities and industry, uses its diverse scientific and engineering capabilities to translate new discoveries into solutions ...
Acknowledging that the magnitude and diversity of the critical issues facing the DOE-EM cannot be addressed by a single institution, the Laboratory Directors established the EM Core Laboratories. This collaborative network ensures that the best available resources are addressing environmental quality issues through the introduction of critical new science and technology. Based upon the ...
Accelerated actions were developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) within the regulatory framework for initiating early cleanup action or accelerating ongoing cleanup action to abate, mitigate, or reduce risk to human health or the environment at a contaminated waste site. The ...
The Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model (SACM), is the most significant change to the Superfund program since its inception. It will streamline the Superfund process and provide risk-based cleanups at the greatest possible number of sites. The Superfund program has operated within a complex system that was designed ...
This report describes the status of Environmental Management`s (EM`s) cleanup program and a direction forward to complete achievement of the 2006 vision. Achieving the 2006 vision results in significant benefits related to accomplishing EM program objectives. As DOE sites accelerate cleanup activities, risks to ...
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Superfund is undertaking an initiative to develop presumptive remedies that are appropriate for specific types of sites, contaminants, or both. The initiative is part of a larger program, known as the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model (SACM), which is designed to speed all aspects of the Superfund clean-up process. The issue of the ...
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... 6.12 Initiatives for Accelerating Cleanup ... of commercial/retail, residential and open ... disposal hierarchy requirements and community reuse planning ...
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Accelerated cleanup initiatives at the SRS include expediting radioactive sludge processing. Sludge is the highest risk component of waste since it contains the highest concentrations of long-lived radionuclides. The sludge is staged into batches that are...
In an effort to speed and maximize cleanup of the worst sites first, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model (SACM). SACM streamlines the Superfund process so hazardous waste sites can be addressed quicker and in a more cost effective manner. EPA Regional offices developed a number of ...
With the end of the Cold War in 1992, the mission for the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (Site) was changed from production of nuclear weapon components to special nuclear materials (SNM) and waste management, accelerated cleanup, reuse and closure of the Site. This change in mission presents new hazards and risk management ...
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The extent of environmental contamination created by the nuclear weapons legacy combined with expensive, ineffective waste cleanup strategies at many U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites prompted Congress to pass the FY96 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, which directed the DOE to: ''provide sufficient attention and resources to longer-term ...
The fact sheet describes the Regional pilot programs testing the application of the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model, and describes the major categories of pilots and the overall status of the programs.
Fifty years of nuclear weapons production and energy research in the United States during the Cold War generated large amounts of radioactive wastes, spent nuclear fuel (SNF), excess plutonium and uranium, thousands of contaminated facilities, and contaminated soil and groundwater. During most of that half century, the Nation did not have the environmental regulatory structure or nuclear waste ...
Nearly 40 years of nuclear weapons production at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS or Site) resulted in contamination of soil and underground systems and structures with hazardous substances, including plutonium, uranium and hazardous waste constituents. The Site was placed on the National Priority List in 1989. There are more than 370 Individual Hazardous Substance Sites ...
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... Title : Risk Mitigation Techniques Employed in the Remediation Contracting Process for the Environmental Cleanup of Fort Ord California. ...
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... cleanup standard for petroleum contaminated soils (PCS ... for TPH, might result in residual soil contamination that ... evaluated the ratio of BTEX to TPH ...
waste sites. The Superfund program addresses both short and long term risks, from toxic chemical spills and threats to the permanent cleanup and rehabilitation of abandoned...
This study evaluated the TPH (total petroleum hydrocarbon) cleanup standard for petroleum contaminated soils (PCS). Regulators from thirteen states were surveyed to characterize current standards used for PCS cleanup and regulatory viewpoints on the use o...
This is the first of a series of four EUROCOURSES that will be conducted under the title of Technologies for Envirommental Cleanup.'' This first course will address the needs of today's environmental protection managers who must deal with the cleanup of soil and ground water contamination. It focuses on recent developments in ...
This is the first of a series of four EUROCOURSES that will be conducted under the title of ``Technologies for Envirommental Cleanup.`` This first course will address the needs of today`s environmental protection managers who must deal with the cleanup of soil and ground water contamination. It focuses on recent developments in the areas of policies and ...
When the Rocky Flats closure project was declared complete in October 2005, it was the largest environmental cleanup to date. Even more impressive, it was ahead of schedule and well under budget. Several factors combined to produce this success including a performance-based contract with financial incentives, development and application of innovative technologies, and a ...
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The problems encountered during facility or land cleanup operations will provide challenges both to technology and regulatory agencies. Inevitably, the decisions of the federal agencies regulating cleanup activities have been controversial. The major dilemma facing government and industry is how to accomplish cleanup in a ...
human health and ecological risks at Federal Facilities. Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) Utilization of risk and exposure assessment methodologies to help Underground...
This document was previously referred to as the Draft 2006 Plan. As part of the DOE's national strategy, the Richland Operations Office's Paths to Closure summarizes an integrated path forward for environmental cleanup at the Hanford Site. The Hanford Sit...
Cleanup levels of low-level radioactivity in soils is required in the RCRA/CERCLA regulations. These levels should be based on a risk approach. Because of public perception of radiation risk there has been a reluctance to establish residual radiation levels at the conservative end of a risk scale, which could be ...
In support of the accelerated cleanup challenge, personnel at the Savannah River Site have been working diligently to identify and acquire cost-effective waste containers that can be used to package a voluminous amount of low level radioactive waste that needs to be disposed. In so doing, personnel have transformed their paradigm in packaging low level ...
The U Plant geographic zone (UPZ) occupies 0.83 square kilometers on the Hanford Site Central Plateau (200 Area). It encompasses the U Plant canyon (221-U Facility), ancillary facilities that supported the canyon, soil waste sites, and underground pipelines. The UPZ cleanup initiative coordinates the cleanup of the major facilities, ancillary facilities, ...
This paper explores how risk- and technology-based criteria are currently used in the RCRA and CERCLA cleanup programs. It identifies ways in which risk could be further incorporated into RCRA and CERCLA cleanup requirements and the implications of risk-based approaches. The more universal use ...
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...environmental investigation, hazard control, and on-going risk reduction activities. Typically...environmental cleanup (and not against lawsuit for damages). Risk of cleanup may be shared...training for, and technical, financial, or other assistance...
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Accelerating site cleanup to reduce facility risks to the workers, the public and the environment during a time of declining federal budgets represents a significant technical and economic challenge to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Operations Offices and their respective contractors. A significant portion of a facility's ...
The DOE-EM Office of Engineering and Technology is responsible for implementing EM's international cooperative program. The Office of Engineering and Technology's international efforts are aimed at supporting EM's mission of risk reduction and accelerated cleanup of the environmental legacy of the ...
from the autoimmune condition known as Graves' for these compounds. ... Perchlorate is considered a potential environmental health risk. The State ...
health impacts of exposure to radiation and for determining acceptable levels of radioactivity in the environment. For environmental cleanups, compliance with environmental...
... While the risk of a catastrophic accident may be remote, if it occurs, it could be far in excess of the insurance coverage that ...
... SOIL POLLUTION, *ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTS, RISK, DATA MANAGEMENT, DEGRADATION, CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION, MONITORING ...
MONITORING, COMPLIANCE, AND RISK REDUCTION Environment at LANL: Waste Environment Air Biological Resources Clean-up Compliance & Monitoring Cultural Resources Environmental...
MONITORING, COMPLIANCE, AND RISK REDUCTION Environment at LANL: Water Environment Air Biological Resources Clean-up Compliance & Monitoring Cultural Resources Environmental...
Cutting and removal of oil-impacted marsh plants are still used worldwide as a clean-up and recovery technique. To experimentally test the efficacy of cutting and removing marsh plants under subtropical conditions, we simulated an oil spill (Bunker MF-180) in Spartina alterniflora marshes and compared the responses of plant height, biomass, density of culms and number of ...
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Over the past two years, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Richland Operations Office (RL) has formulated a focused, outcomes-based vision for accelerated cleanup of the Hanford Site. The primary elements, or outcomes, of this vision are to (1) accelerate restoration of the Columbia River Corridor, (2) transition the Central Plateau ...
The memorandum provides a summary of progress to date in implementing SACM and refines goals and strategies in transitioning to full implementation in FY 1994.
