State of the ITRC Building for the Future 2006 ITRC Fall Meeting

Michael Crain

ITRC – Building for the Future New Members Welcome Old Members Trainings Conducted Documents Produced Teams Completed Budget Budget Budget IAP Meetings With Funders Challenges Met –New Outreach Consultant – Battelle –Budget

ITRC – Building for the Future Building On Successful Infrastructure –Project Tracking –Project Proposal –POC/State Action Plans –Training Strategy Strategic Plan Implementation Engage ECOS –Lewis Shaw at the Mid-Year –Engage your Commissioner –Look to ITRC

Building for the Future – What’s Next??? A Budget Before March!!! Successful Completion of Teams New/More Active Members Success Stories Strategic Plan Implementation –Funding Strategy –New Teams Accelerate Cleanups –EPA’s 35 year estimate

ITRC Financial Overview Overcame some major problems in 2006 Work outlook for 2007 Funding outlook for 2007 Budget outlook for 2007

Problem Areas in 2006 Loss of WPI contract –UXO, Vapor Intrusion, Perchlorate ($185K) –Communications and Outreach ($300K) Tardiness of DOE funds Poor financial reporting

Work Outlook for 2007 Five teams closing out All funding contracts renewed or renewing All support contracts in place A published training strategy & policy A monthly work tracking system A new planning system ready for 2008 Several pre-funded projects in the queue

Funding Outlook for 2007 Traditional federal funders are on board IAP begins first fully-funded year Court new federal agency prospects Start-up of a foundations grant program for training and education

Future Budget Actions Comply with ITRC and ERIS boards to work from a balanced budget this year Aggressively seek 2007 federal contribution Pursue potential IAP members Expand federal partners Seek foundation contribution

ITRC State Engagement (SE) Program Update Mavis D. Kent ITRC State Engagement Coordinator Board of Advisors Dept. of Environmental Quality Portland, Oregon

Focus for Today State Members & State Action Plans Accomplishments & Successes State Priorities & Emerging Issues

46 State Members –Montana joined –New Mexico re- activated State Action Plans –Tool for POCs –Focus ITRC activity –Over 30 states developed plans State Engagement (POCs) ITRC Member State ITRC’s implementation arm for advancing innovative environmental decision-making

2006 SE Accomplishments – Success Examples GA – staff use ITRC products at DoD sites: Fort Gordon - Small Arms Firing Ranges; Fort Benning – Diffusion Samplers; Camp Wheeler – UXO Investigation NV – transforming an abandoned firing range to a wetlands park with ITRC’s Small Arms Firing Range document and ITRC’s Brownfield document for EPA funding process ME – using ITRC Alternative Landfill products to evaluate bioreactors proposal KS and MO – ITRC’s ISCO-2 products “saves the day” in MO to deny ISCO. In KS, the same info helps in approval of ISCO at Dry Cleaner sites VT – used perchlorate document to quickly respond to community and provide info for Commissioner

State Priorities & Emerging Issues Survey 29 states completed survey –142 state priorities; 48 emerging issues Top 5 Priorities / Issues –Institutional Controls / Long Term Stewardship –Mines –Environmental Impact of Alternative Energy –Vapor Intrusion –CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations)

State Engagement Topics for Proposal Development Institutional Controls / Long Term Stewardship Environmental Impact of Alternative Energy CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) Sediments

ITRC Team Leader Liaison Update George Nicholas ITRC Team Leader Liaison Board of Advisors [ New Jersey DEP ]

In 2006, TLs implemented a new project planning system  ITRC now manages by “project” vs. “team”  14 ITRC Teams have managed 28 projects successfully in 2006 with minimal schedule delays  Due to efforts of TLs and PAs, ITRC can now predict its work load well into the future and plan more effectively for new initiatives

So far in 2006: ITRC Teams Published 4 Tech-Regs & 5 Non Tech-Regs  ALT - Bioreactors  ALT - Post Closure Care  Ecological Land Reuse - Remediation Sites  SCM – DP Wells TECH - REGs  Diffusion Sampler – Passive Samplers  RPO – Fact Sheets  RADS – Real Time Characterization  UXO - Technology Document  EACO - Resource Guide Non - TECH - REGs Non TECH-REGs

3 More Products will be Completed by Teams by End of 2006  Vapor Intrusion Scenario Document Non - TECH - REGs  Diffusion Sampler Passive Samplers  Vapor Intrusion Overview Document TECH - REGs

 Alt. Landfill Tech*  Diffusion Sampler*  Ecolog. Land Reuse*  MTBE*  Vapor Intrusion*  Rem. Process Opt.  Enhanced Atten. of Chlorinated Organics Teams Finishing in 2007 ( * = 1 st Qtr 07)  Perchlorate  Radionuclides  Risk  Sampling Characterization & Monitoring Teams with TBD Closure due to Pending Project Proposals Status of Team Closure Based Upon TL 2007 Budget Submissions  Bioremediation of DNAPLS  Brownfields  UXO Teams With Projects Going Into 2008

ITRC Training Program Update Michael Smith ITRC Training Program Liaison Board of Advisors Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation 2006 ITRC Fall Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ

ITRC Training Program State/Local Government Federal Agencies Other Consultant/Engineering Firms The ITRC Training program has been very successful in providing timely, relevant and needed high quality training to participants in both the public and private sector  5,202 participants in 1st 9 months of 2006 On track to increase from 6,461 total participants in 2005 by the end of 2006  36 public offerings on 20 topics Promoting over 22 ITRC documents  31,591 participants (July 1999 – Sept 2006)

ITRC Training Program  ITRC Training Program Strategy Approved by the Board August 2006 Training Program Policy Manual Waiting for Board Approval Training Program Procedures IBT – will be updated based on policy Classroom – to be developed based on policy manual  IBT – on-going training development, delivery, and success stories  Classroom-style – development could begin in 2007 depending on Board approval / funding availability

Industry Affiliates Program

Project Proposal Process Carolyn Hanson ITRC Project Manager

New Project Proposal Process Why? Looking for improvements “Projectized” technical team work Way to address projects that bring in funding

New Project Proposal Process Pre-proposal and proposal Process for both “standard” and “funded” projects Updated forms Process flowchart, instructions, and forms available at

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