Strategies for Accelerating Cleanup at Toxic Waste Sites: Fast-Tracking Environmental Actions and Decision Making

by Payne; Scott Marshall

• ISBN13: 9781566702379
• ISBN10: 1566702372
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-29
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This book brings together technical and regulatory information crucial to environmental professionals, policy developers, and legal staff. Readers will learn how to improve environmental performance and hasten decision making, reduce costs, expedite actions, and revitalize a slowing industry. Strategies for improving communication and teamwork to help projects run smoothly are also discussed.-- Tables listing remedial and investigative technologies provide readers with a simple, yet comprehensive information source to identify and consider innovative technologies-- More than 60 figures showing the process and approach used to accelerate cleanup help readers understand and grasp the issues related to complex decision making-- Information presented on trust, communication, and teamwork related to technical decision making in the environmental industry offer approaches that improve internal and external communication, foster trust, and establish teamwork on projects

Table of Contents

1 Introduction	1	(14)
1.1 Reasons for Accelerating Cleanup and Streamlining Decision Making	2	(2)
1.2 Who Should Read This Book	4	(2)
1.2.1 What Kind of Book is This?	5	(1)
1.3 Fundamental Principles	6	(6)
1.3.1 Risk and Decision Making	8	(1)
1.3.2 The Scientific Method	9	(1)
1.3.3 Strategy and Approach	10	(2)
1.3.4 Investigation and Cleanup Technology	12	(1)
1.3.5 The Human Element	12	(1)
1.4 Book Organization	12	(3)
2 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	15	(64)
2.1 EPA'S Information Transfer and Technology Demonstration Programs	16	(8)
2.1.1 Remedial Technologies	17	(3)
2.1.2 Accelerated Investigation	20	(4)
2.2 CERCLA Early Actions and Accelerated Cleanup	24	(34)
2.2.1 Removal Actions	25	(8)
2.2.2 Interim Remedial Actions	33	(1)
2.2.3 Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model	33	(5)
2.2.4 Integrated Investigations	38	(4)
2.2.5 Presumptive Remedies and Plug-In Remedies	42	(6)
2.2.6 The Record of Decision	48	(7)
2.2.7 Superfund Case Study for Accelerated Cleanup	55	(3)
2.3 RCRA and Other EPA Programs	58	(19)
2.3.1 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act	59	(1)
2.3.2 RCRA Corrective Actions	59	(10)
2.3.3 USTs and RCRA	69	(1)
2.3.4 RCRA Waste Minimization	70	(1)
2.3.5 Integration of Environmental Programs	71	(3)
2.3.6 Evaluating the Impracticability of Groundwater Cleanup	74	(2)
2.3.7 Additional EPA Information	76	(1)
2.4 References	77	(2)
3 U.S. Department of Defense and Military Branches	79	(66)
3.1 Department of Defense	79	(27)
3.1.1 The Environmental Security Program	80	(2)
3.1.2 Lead Agency Responsibility	82	(1)
3.1.3 Budgeting as a Means of Fast-tracking Cleanup	83	(2)
3.1.4 DoD's Aggressive Approach for Site Cleanup	85	(1)
3.1.5 Base Realignment and Closure	86	(10)
3.1.6 Establishing Partnerships and Enhancing Community Involvement	96	(2)
3.1.7 Community Outreach Programs	98	(1)
3.1.8 Determination of Land Use	98	(1)
3.1.9 Measuring Progress at DoD Installations	99	(3)
3.1.10 Road to ROD	102	(4)
3.2 U.S. Air Force	106	(22)
3.2.1 The Air Force's Installation Restoration Program and Accelerated Cleanup	106	(7)
3.2.2 Air Force Center For Environmental Excellence	113	(15)
3.3 U.S. Navy	128	(14)
3.3.1 Navy Environmental Leadership Program	129	(1)
3.3.2 Integrated Project Schedules	130	(9)
3.3.3 Developing a Comprehensive Scope of Work	139	(2)
3.3.4 Accelerated Scheduling	141	(1)
3.4 U.S. Army	142	(1)
3.5 References	143	(2)
4 U.S. Department of Energy	145	(28)
4.1 Office of Environmental Management	147	(1)
4.2 OEM Environmental Restoration Program	148	(13)
4.2.1 OEM's Environmental Restoration Strategy and Accomplishments	148	(13)
4.3 Office of Health and Environmental Research	161	(10)
4.3.1 Overview of the NABIR Program	161	(10)
4.4 References	171	(2)
5 State and Local Environmental Programs	173	(32)
5.1 Research Programs	174	(4)
5.2 Voluntary Cleanup and Negotiating Actions under State Programs	178	(4)
5.2.1 Addressing Voluntary Actions from a Cultural and Flexibility Perspective	179	(3)
5.3 State Underground Storage Tank Programs	182	(12)
5.3.1 Acceleration through Preventing Future UST Releases	183	(2)
5.3.2 Considerations for Pilot Cleanup Technologies and Actions during UST Removals	185	(9)
5.4 Western Governors Association	194	(4)
5.4.1 Interstate Technology and Regulatory Cooperation Working Group Findings	194	(4)
5.5 State Abandoned Mine Reclamation Programs	198	(3)
5.5.1 Case Study -- Montana's Approach for Abandoned Mine Reclamation	199	(2)
5.6 Developing Flexible Record of Decisions under CERCLA	201	(1)
5.6.1 Case Study -- Streamside Tailings Project	201	(1)
5.7 California Base Closure Environmental Committee	202	(2)
5.8 References	204	(1)
6 Private Sector, Professional Organizations, and Concepts of Innovative Solutions	205	(50)
6.1 Observational Approach	206	(11)
6.1.1 Observational Method	206	(8)
6.1.2 Sequential Risk Mitigation	214	(3)
6.2 Risk-Based Cleanup Approach	217	(4)
6.2.1 Other ASTM Standards	220	(1)
6.3 Computer Modeling	221	(9)
6.3.1 Modeling Techniques and Decision Making	222	(8)
6.4 Geophysical Tools and Applications	230	(16)
6.4.1 Selecting and Planning Geophysical Applications	231	(8)
6.4.2 Case Study -- Electromagnetic Offset Logging	239	(7)
6.5 Innovative Technologies and Approaches	246	(7)
6.5.1 General Concepts of Environmental Innovation	246	(2)
6.5.2 Concepts of Innovative Technologies	248	(2)
6.5.3 Concepts of Innovative Approaches	250	(3)
6.6 References	253	(2)
7 Communication, Teamwork, Leadership, and Trust	255	(28)
7.1 General Concepts	255	(4)
7.1.1 Evidence Supporting the Need to Value People in the Environmental Profession	256	(3)
7.1.2 Science-Based Information	259	(1)
7.2 Communication	259	(8)
7.2.1 The Learning Process	260	(1)
7.2.2 Understanding Basic Dialogue	261	(3)
7.2.3 Communicating Success and Failure	264	(1)
7.2.4 I and Thou Concepts	264	(1)
7.2.5 Behavior Styles and Gender Differences	265	(2)
7.3 Teamwork	267	(6)
7.3.1 Mission and Vision	267	(2)
7.3.2 Partnership Models	269	(3)
7.3.3 Empowerment and Accountability	272	(1)
7.4 Leadership	273	(6)
7.4.1 Leadership Skills	275	(4)
7.5 Trust	279	(1)
7.6 People Training and Intervention	280	(1)
7.7 References	281	(2)
8 Strategic Planning and Lowering Environmental Costs	283	(46)
8.1 Strategic Planning	284	(32)
8.1.1 External Strategy Development and Implementation Process	286	(1)
8.1.2 Large-Scale Strategy Elements for Accelerating and Streamlining Environmental Projects	287	(10)
8.1.3 Small-Scale Strategy for Accelerating and Streamlining Environmental Projects	297	(4)
8.1.4 Strategic Plan	301	(1)
8.1.5 Brownfields and Environmental Strategic Planning	302	(14)
8.2 Lowering Environmental Costs	316	(12)
8.2.1 Reducing Remediation Costs	319	(3)
8.2.2 Remedial Performance Evaluations	322	(2)
8.2.3 Property Tax Reduction	324	(3)
8.2.4 Increasing Efficiency by Understanding What Motivates People	327	(1)
8.3 References	328	(1)
Appendix A Environmental Resource Guide	329	(22)
Appendix B Completed U.S. EPA Site Measuring and Monitoring Technologies Evaluation Projects As of 1994	351	(4)
Appendix C Remediation Technology Matrix	355	(66)
Index	421