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Facility Lead Corrective Action ApproachesFlexible Risk-Based / Performance-Based
Cleanupsusing the
Region 6 Corrective Action StrategyAugust 12-15, 2003
Washington D.C.Rick Ehrhart
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The CAS œ What is it?
Facility Lead/Risk Management Approach to Site Investigation and Cleanups
¢ Facility-wide evaluations
¢ CA process that is transportable to the States (Region 6 states are authorized) and other Regulatory Agencies
¢ Encompasses all aspects of the CA process( from investigation to remedy performance)
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The CAS œ What is it?
¢ Administrative flexibility
¢ Realistic evaluation of current and future land use and ground water resource use
¢ Purpose driven investigation (DQOs)
¢ Risk-based decision making
¢ Prioritization and focus on worst first
¢ Remedial selection based on ability to achieve performance standards
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CAS Policy Box
Source Control
Groundwater Use DesignationsInstitutional Controls
Point of Exposure
Point of Compliance
TechnicalImpractibility
Groundwater Cleanup Goals
Monitored Natural Attenuation
Cleanup Timeframe
Performance Monitoring
Land Use
Risk
ECO
Data Requirements
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Policy Considerations
¢ Land use
¢ Groundwater classification, restoration, movement and exposure protection
¢ Setting POC / POE
¢ Level of Protection
¢ Risk Management options for remedies
¢ Public Participation
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CAS Implementation
¢ Using Letter Agreements¢ Swapping out CA module with CAS in Permit or
Order!¢ Suspend that portion of the permit or order and
memorialize in Letter of Agreement between Administrative Authority and Facility¢ (modify permit or order at remedy completion)¢ Place in permit at renewal
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CAS - Key Elements/Steps1. Notice of Intent2. Conduct Scoping Meeting3. Develop Performance Standards4. Evaluate Conceptual Site Model5. Identify and fill data gaps (DQOs)6. Conduct HH and Eco Screening7. Conduct Risk Management / Cleanup8. Performance Monitoring
RFA, RFI, CMS, CMI… not a part of the CAS process
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Scoping Meeting
¢ Facility proposes performance standards¢ Conceptual Site Model (CSM) ¢ Establishes DQOs¢ Land use determinations¢ Groundwater use determination¢ Communication Strategy for project
Let‘s agree on the cleanup goals at the beginning of the process
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Performance Standards
¢ Source Control
¢ Statutory/Regulatory Requirements
¢ Site-Specific Risk Goal(s)
For each release site, the facility must propose the performance standard that applies
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Conceptual Site Model
¢ Facility Profile
¢ Physical Profile
¢ Land Use and Exposure Profile
¢ Ecological Profile
¢ Release Profile
¢ Risk Management Profile
What you know about a facility; the CSM guides your way through the entire process
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Data Quality Objectives
¢ Better quality data
¢ Focused investigations
¢ Only the information that is needed to make a risk management decision
Using the scientific planning process to achieve
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Land Use Determinations
¢ On-site: commercial / industrial, residential or other; State / facility has option of segregating onsite land use¢ Institutional Control: required for any cleanup to other than
residential or unrestricted use
¢ Off-site: land use based on existing use
Based on actual use and realistic future use
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Groundwater Use Determinations
¢ Resource Designation:¢ Drinking water or other protected use: throughout
the plume cleanup
¢ Non-drinking water use or other protected use: meet protective concentrations at POE
¢ Recognizes that not all GW resources are the same quality or require the same protection
Classification: default to states on beneficial use
and non-degradation issues
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Field Investigation¢ CAS Work Plan œ Filling Data Gaps that
don‘t meet performance standards
¢ Assess historical data¢ DQOs based on performance standards¢ Plan to collect data to meet DQOs ¢ Implementation schedule¢ Public participation
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HH and Eco Screening Tools
¢ Human Health¢ Screening Tables - two bright line tables
(BLTs) that utilize reasonable default receptor and exposure parameters specific to commercial facilities
¢ Site-Specific Risk Assessment
¢ Ecological Risk Evaluation¢ Exclusion Criteria Worksheet ¢ Checklist
Rapid Assessment of Risk
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CAS Human HealthRisk-Based Prioritization
High-Priority BLT
Low-Priority BLT
¢ First priority
¢ Second priority (further evaluate risk?)
¢ NFC (No Federal concern)
1 x 10 -4
1 x 10 -6
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Ecological Evaluation
¢ Objective:
¢ To help facilities and regulators determine if a detailed ecological risk assessment is necessary for a site or a portion of a site where corrective action is being pursued
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Ecological Evaluation
¢ Components:¢ Exclusion Criteria Worksheet
¢ Are protected species/environments present?¢ Are significant habitat/relevant receptors present?
¢ Are exposure pathways complete?
If No - then Ecological Assessment is completeIf Yes - then further evaluation is required
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Managing Risk
¢ Risk Management Plan
¢ Remedy identification¢ Final CSM Summary¢ Performance Monitoring¢ Public Participation
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CAS Public Participation
¢ Promotes early and continued involvement of stakeholders
¢ Encourages states to implement their own established procedures as long as they provide public participation at key decision making stages
¢ Agreement on performance standards¢ Remedy proposals¢ Closeout
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Risk Management Options
¢ Active Remediation (source control, pump & treat, SVE) to meet health-based goals for final remedy, including ecological issues
¢ Engineering Control (barrier that limits exposure and/or controls migration)
¢ Institutional Control (legal mechanism to prevent exposure)
Balance remedial option selected based on effectiveness, performance and cost
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Remediation
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The Problem: Releases do not meet performance standards
Risk Management Activity Evaluation and Selection
Institutional Controls Restrictions imposed on
land or other resources to prevent exposure
Reduce the concentrations of contaminants of concern (COC)
to minimize or eliminate unacceptable exposure
Engineered Controls Design and construct structures to prevent
migration of COC‘s, or prevent exposure
Facility evaluates and selects appropriate options, or combination of options, to
meet the performance standard
Risk Management Plan
—Tools“
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Corrective Action Strategy in Arkansas
RCRA and Voluntary Cleanup Programs
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The CAS in Arkansas¢ Nov. 2000 - Discussions with Region 6
¢ January 2001 - Arkansas has the first CAS pilot
¢ Incorporating CAS concepts into the ADEQ RCRA cleanup program
¢ ADEQ using CAS as a template for parts of their voluntary cleanup program
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CAS Pilots in Arkansas¢ State / EPA Projects
¢ Remington Arms, Lonoke¢ Koppers/Beazer, N. Little Rock¢ Great Lakes Chemical, El Dorado¢ Emerson Motors, Rogers
¢ State Projects
¢ Voluntary Corrective Action Projects
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Remington Arms CAS Project
A Facility PerspectiveSporting Ammunition Manufacturing Facility
Lonoke, Arkansas
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Objectives
°Present first-hand report on Region 6 CAS from Owner-Operator view
°Discuss positive aspects of Facility Lead process using CAS for the Remington Site
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Remington LonokeBackground Information
° Site is 20 miles east of Little Rock, AR
° Began operations in 1969 (sporting ammunition)
° Operations include metal finishing, electroplating, primer manufacturing
° Site divested by DuPont in 1993 (RCRA liability retained)
° Region 6 GPRA Baseline Facility
° No RFI history before 2001
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Property & Fenced Boundary
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CAS Implementation at Remington
¢ Prior to CAS, pace of activity had been slow¢ Lack of permit driver for CA¢ Multiple rounds of facility/regulator negotiations
¢ ADEQ approached Remington/DuPont in 2000 to pilot the CAS
¢ Letter of Agreement signed in November 2000
¢ —Notice of Intent“ submitted in December 2000
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CAS ImplementationOwner/Operator Perspectiveq CAS accelerates pace of activity and agency
interaction:q 1/23/2001 - CAS Scoping Meeting held at facilityq 4/24/2001 - CAS Work Plan finalizedq 5/1/2001 - Eco screening evaluation walk throughq 6/27/2001 - Phase 1 field work completedq 9/7/2001 - CA-725/CA-750 determination madeq 1/15/2002 - CAS Summary Report issuedq 1/22/2002 - Progress Meeting at facilityq 2/14/2002 - Work Plan Addendum Letterq 3/21/2003- Complete field work, prepare/public notice
RMPq 8/2003 - Implement RMP œ begin cleanupq 10/03 œ Cleanup complete issue RfR
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CAS Implementation at Remington
¢ —Scoping Meeting“ held at plant in January 2001
¢ Remington, DuPont, ADEQ and EPA participants
¢ Key upfront discussions and agreements:¢ Site conceptual model and land use (current and future)¢ Constituents and media of interest¢ Remedial objectives (i.e., —performance standards“)¢ Data quality objectives¢ Investigation strategy
¢ Additional issues identified:¢ Need to address ecological assessment
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CAS Implementation at Remington
° CAS facilitates early critical decisions° Key agreements in Scoping Meeting
° CSM data gaps agreed on (GW, eco, etc.)° Industrial land use deemed appropriate
(Residential for undeveloped portions of site)° Performance standards settled
° Region 6 industrial SSLs for human health soil screen° MCLs at fence line/production wells for GW° State water quality criteria for SW
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CAS Implementation at Remington
° CAS facilitates early critical decisions° Key agreements in Scoping Meeting (cont.)
° Investigation approach, DQOs, screening tools agreed upon
° SPLP for soil leaching potential° Surface geophysics to better define LF boundaries° XRF for field screen of metals (Pb) in soil ° Metals hold time to reserve samples for efficient
delineation° Use of on-site plant lab for explosive primer screen
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CAS Implementation at Remington
° CAS facilitates early critical decisions
° Ecological risk screening tools and site walkthrough (May 2001)
° Exclusion checklist used to screen out 10 of 14 SWMUs° unattractive habitat and/or de minimus impacted area
° Critical receptors and pathways identified at remaining units° input used to guide data collection
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Progress to Date
° Two phases of investigation completed° Letter approval of sampling effort
° NFA at 9 of 14 SWMUs after Phase I° met performance standards (Region 6 industrial SSLs)
° Delineation completed at remaining SWMUs° exceeded performance standards (metals, esp. Pb, in surface
soil)
° Groundwater/surface water pathways not impacted
° Ecological concerns addressed (no exposure pathways or de minimus areas)
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Progress to Date
° Determinations complete for GPRA EIs° Yes for CA-725 and CA-750 supported by data and
impacted SWMU use survey
° Cleanup plans underway for 2003° Soil stabilization/removal to begin in August° Field work expected to be complete in October° Corrective Action Completion and Ready for Reuse
Determination in December
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CAS Program InnovationsO/O Perspective
¢ Streamlined admin process to conduct CA¢ LOA/NOI vs. permit/order¢ a lot of work in a short time
¢ Cooperative/results based partnership¢ face-to-face meetings and conference calls¢ gained trust helps streamline review/oversight¢ builds on existing information
¢ Early agreement on critical issues¢ CSM (including land use, pathways, receptors, etc.)¢ DQOs and Performance Standards ¢ Screening Criteria and Methods
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CAS Program InnovationsO/O Perspective
¢ Flexibility to achieve results¢ Sampling Programs¢ Screening Approaches¢ Focus on What‘s Important / Worst First¢ Recognizes Changes will be Necessary as Data is
Collected¢ Appropriate Public Participation Needs
¢ Resources utilization can be better predicted¢ $, personnel¢ time
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Other Advantages
¢ Gives O/O responsibility to manage site program¢ develop CSM¢ develop targeted data collection and DQO plan¢ conduct risk screening¢ utilize a risk management approach
¢ Acknowledges cost as a function of remediation
¢ Remedial selection balanced between treatment, engineering controls and institutional controls
¢ Recognizes and promotes phased remediation
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More Information on CAS / Facility Lead Cleanups¢ See our Web site:¢ www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6pd/rcra_c/pd-o/riskman.htm
¢ ADEQ Web Site:¢ www.adeq.state.ar.us/hazwaste