Technical Support Project Meeting - Las Vegas, NV

Monday, November 5, 2007

GROUND WATER FORUM BUSINESS SESSION
8:00 am - 8:15 am	Welcome and Introductions, Co-chairs Glenn Bruck (Region 9) and Luanne Vanderpool (Region 5)
8:15 am - 10:00 am	Action items/Work Groups Status Update/Potential New Projects, Co-chairs Glenn Bruck (Region 9) and Luanne Vanderpool (Region 5)
10:00 am - 10:15 am	BREAK
10:15 am - 10:30 am	Issues with Long-Term Effectiveness and Protectiveness of Ground-Water Remedies, Howard Orlean (Region 10)
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Recommendations from 5-Year Review Work Group
10:45 am - 11:15 am	Discussion on Potential Actions, Co-chairs Glenn Bruck (Region 9) and Luanne Vanderpool (Region 5)
11:15 am - 12:00 pm	Status Update on the Ground Water Technical Support Center in Ada, OK, Dave Burden (NRMRL-Ada) (PDF) (25pp, 409KB)
12:00 Noon - 1:30pm	LUNCH
GROUND WATER FORUM BUSINESS SESSION (continued)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm	Research on Fate, Transport and Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Fractured Sedimentary Rock at the Former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, NJ, Clair Tiedeman (USGS) (PDF) (23pp, 11.4 MB)
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Questions and Answers
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	BREAK
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm	Regional Feedback on the Fractured Rock Conference, Forum members
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Regional Case Study – Full-Scale Treatment of a DNAPL Source Zone through Injection of Food-Grade Vegetable Oil, Henning Larsen (Oregon DEQ) (PDF) (23pp, 3.8 MB)

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

PLENARY: PRESENTATIONS FROM THE NATIONAL EXPOSURE RESEARCH LABORATORY (NERL) - LAS VEGAS
8:15 am - 8:25 am	Welcome, Daniel Heggem (Director, NERL-Environmental Sciences Division [ESD])
8:25 am - 8:35 am	Welcome, John Reeder, Director, Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office
8:35 am - 9:00 am	Overview of Fractured Rock Technical Support Available from USGS Claire Tiedeman (USGS) and Kathy Davies (Region 3)—tentative
9:00 am - 9:15 am	Overview of NERL’s Environmental Science Division (ESD), Daniel Heggem (Division Director, NERL-ESD) (PDF) (20pp, 2.5 MB)
9:15 am - 9:25 am	Technical Support Center Transition, Brian Schumacher (ESD) (PDF) (4pp, 835KB)
9:25 am - 9:50 am	Geophysics to Monitor Remediation, Dale Werkema (ESD) (PDF) (25pp, 4.6 MB)
9:50 am - 10:20 am	Vacuum Distillation: An EPA Method that Expands the Number of Volatiles that Can be Analyzed, Especially in Difficult Matrices, Michael Hiatt (NERL-Environmental Chem. Br.) (PDF) (42pp, 4.6 MB)
10:20 am - 10:50 am	Thermal Multispectral Detection of Industrial Chemicals, David Williams (NERL-Landscape Characterization Branch-Research Triangle Park) via video link (PDF) (33pp, 1.5 MB)
10:50 am - 11:15 am	GIS and Logistics Regression for Predicting Nutrients and Pesticides in Streams, Ann Pitchford (NERL-Landscape Ecology Branch) (PDF) (33pp, 4.0 MB)
11:15 am - 12:00 pm	Tour of ESD, George Brilis (ESD)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	LUNCH

FORUM BUSINESS SESSIONS

Ground Water

Engineering

Federal Facilities

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Environmental Geophysics: Methods, Aplications, and Case Studies, Dale Werkema (NERL-Las Vegas) (PDF) (42pp, 4.6 MB)

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Purpose of Session, Review of GWF Mission Statement, Co-chairs

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Discuss GWF Goals for Future, All

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Discuss consequences of 1 meeting/year and ways to maintain 2^nd meeting, All

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Discuss Working with Other Forums, All

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Green remediation as future direction for the Engineering Forum (½ hr) (PDF) (23pp, 703KB)
Prepare Co-chairs’ presentation for November 7^th Plenary Session

Dry run presentation (½ hr)
Get input/feedback (½ hr)
Finalize presentation (½ hr)

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Plan PRB Roundtable for 2008 NARPM

Brainstorm for presentation approaches and identify potential presenters and panel members, identify potential case studies, products, or outcome of the roundtable (1 hr)
Review ideas and goals from brain storming (½ hr)
Consolidate above efforts (½ hr)

1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Introductions
Updates with John Reeder, Director, FFRRO
Identify topics for Federal Facilities Leadership Council (FFLC) coordination
Should Federal Facility Forum fall meetings with be with the TSP or FFLC?
Regional issues

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

PLENARY SESSION: FORUM BUSINESS
8:00 am - 8:15 am		Welcome & Introductions, Mike Overbay (Co-chair Federal Facilities Forum)
8:15 am - 9:15 am		Remedies at NPL Sites, Norm Niedergang (Director, TIFSD) and John Reeder (Director, FFRRO) (PDF) (5pp, 711 KB)
9:15 am - 9:35 am		Engineering Forum Update, Mike Gill (Co-chair, Region 9 STL) (PDF) (20pp, 535 KB)
9:35 am - 9:55 am		Federal Facilities Forum Update, Mike Overbay (Co-chair, Region 6) (PDF) (8pp, 31 KB)
9:55 am - 10:15 am		Ground Water Forum Update, Luanne Vanderpool (Co-chair, Region 5) (PDF) (21pp, 189 KB)
10:15 am - 10:30 am		BREAK
10:30 am - 12:00 pm		Facilitated Joint Discussion Can the TSP forums be more efficient? Collaboration Future of TSP
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm		LUNCH

FORUM BUSINESS SESSIONS
Ground Water, Engineering, and Federal Facilities
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Ground Water/Surface Water Interactions and Perchlorate Transport along the Las Vegas Wash, Henderson, Nevada Brian Giroux (McGinley & Associates, Inc.), Paul Hackenberry (Hackenberry Associates, LLC), and Greg Pohll, Desert Research Institute) (PDF) (31pp, 3.0 MB)
Ground Water and Engineering		Federal Facilities
2:30 pm - 4:45 pm Technical Impracticability (TI) Waivers: Usage at NPL Sites, Matt Charsky and David Bartenfelder (OSRTI) (PDF) (24pp, 226 KB)		2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Meet with Idaho National Laboratory representatives about the Explosives at Contaminated Sites Issue Paper
Ground Water	Engineering
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm TI, So Far, Anniston Army Ammunition Depot, Anniston, AL, Kay Wischkaemper (Region 4) (PDF) (38pp, 11.4 MB) 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm TI Waiver Case Study, Herb Levine (Region 9)	4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Evergreen List including issue paper updates Materials Handling Equipment In-Situ Chemical Oxidation Oxygenates Evapotranspiration Covers In-Situ Thermal Treatment

Thursday, November 8, 2007

FIELD TRIP	GROUND WATER FORUM BUSINESS SESSION
8:00 am Depart 8:30 am Arrive AMPAC facility and begin tour 9:30 am Depart AMPAC for bus tour 10:30 am Arrive Las Vegas Wash Erosion Control System Site 11:30 am Depart for hotel	8:00 am - 8:40 am Webpage and QuickPlace, Howard Orelan (Region 10) 8:40 am - 9:00 am Working with the Interstate Technology & and Regulatory Council (ITRC), Co-chairs 9:00 am -10:00 am Spring 2008 meeting: theme, tech. topics, case studies, training 10:00 am - 10:15 am BREAK 10:15 am - 11:00 am Potential new projects: Triad, Stable Isotopes, Others? Co-chairs 11:00 am - 11:30 am Summary and Recap of Action Items, Co-chairs 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Sensors: A New Way to Collect Data for Environmental Decision-Making? Elizabeth Conroy (ITRC New Jersey Schools Development Authority) (PDF) (21pp, 773KB)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm LUNCH
FORUM BUSINESS SESSIONS
Federal Facilities	Ground Water and Engineering
Site Investigations in the Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP): Policy and Technical Issues Training at NARPM 2008 conference National training on munitions site investigations Underwater Munitions Open Topics and Parking Lot	1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Flux-Based Site Management, Lynn Wood and Michael Brooks (GWERD-Ada) (PDF) (98pp, 4.3 MB) 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm BREAK
	Ground Water	Engineering
	3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Flux-Based Site Management, Lynn Wood and Michael Brooks (GWERD-Ada) (PDF) (98pp, 4.3MB) 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Seminar Feedback, Forum members 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Reprise NAPL delineation with TarG at the Manufactured Gas Plant Superfund Site, VT, Steve Mangion (Region 1 STL)	3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Future EPA Contracting Strategies: Performance/Fixed-Price Based vs. Current Contracting Strategies, Marie Noel (Region 7)

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