# Presentation: 295480

##  GPRAOne State’s Perspective

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** ****GPRA****One State’s Perspective**

**Arthur Shrader**
**UST Program**
**South Carolina DHEC**

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**	****	****	****	****R****elease**
**	****	****	****	****A****bsolution**
**	****To leak is human ....To Stop the Leak and Attain Cleanup Complete is**** Divine**** **

## South Carolina

**Tools that “Get the Job Done”:**
**G**oals that are Attainable
**P**roactive Assessment Strategies
**R**isk-Based Corrective Action (RBCA)
**A**ggressive Cleanup Methods** **

## RBCA Risk-Based Corrective Action

**Define the Risk**
**Assessment to Define the Chemicals**
**Find and Document All Receptors**
**Definition of the Risk Allows**
**Establishment of Appropriate Actions to Protect Receptors**
**Prioritization of Limited Resources**** **

## RBCA Risk-Based Corrective Action

**Define Closure Goals**
**Soil Action Levels**
**Vapor Action Levels**
**Action Levels for Other Chemicals (MtBE, Naphthalene)**
**Site Specific Cleanup Goals**

## RBCA Risk-Based Corrective Action

**Cleanup Goals > MCL**
**Monitored Natural Attenuation**
**Faster Active Cleanups**** **
**Quickly Close Low Priority Cases**
**Close 29% of All New Cases**

## RBCA

**Accelerated Closures**

**Cumulative **
**Cases**
**Closed**

**State**

## South Carolina Assessments

## Assessments

**Initial Assessment Defines Risk**
**Streamline the Assessment Process**
**No Plan Required for Initial Work**
**Select Best Assessment for Situation**
**Final Assessment Defines it All**
**Standard Format Reduces Work Preparation & Review Time**

## Assessments

- Cleanup Initiated as a Percent of Open Cases

## Time and MaterialsWhat We Had

**Time and Materials****What We Had**

-  **People Worked, but **
**  ****Nothing Was Completed**
-  **Constant Cost Changes**
- -  **More Soda**
**-  Sharpen Shears**
** ****The Fund Owned:**
**      ****- Broken Chair**
**      ****- Dull Shears**
** ****Invoices were a Novel**
-  **Fights over $2.37**

##  Focus Everyone on Cleanup Results ..... Not on Payments   

**What We Wanted**

-   **The Job Completed**
**   ****or Substantial Progress**
**  ****Minimal Cost Increases**
**    ****or Change Orders**
** ****The Fund did Not:**
**    ****Own Broke Equipment**
**    ****Warehouse Equipment**
**Simplified Invoices**

-  **Focus Everyone on Cleanup Results ..... Not on Payments**

## Cleanup Technologies

**Best Technology is Used**

**    **

**Percent**

## Work Is Successfully Completed

**Guarantee Required for the Bid Amount**
- 	**- Performance Bond**
**	****- Irrevocable Letter of Credit**
**QA/QC**
- 	**- Oversight of  System Installation ****	**
**	****- Split Samples Verify Goals Are Met**
**	****- Verification Monitoring Wells**

## CleanupProgress

## Cost

**Plume Size Is The Key Cost Factor**                 - $27,000 for 45’ x 90’                                      - $80,000 for 120’ x 200’                               - $120,000 for 180’ x 225’
**No Significant Cost Increases**
**BTEX and MtBE **
**MCLs or Higher Target e.g. 800 ppb **
**(SC Action Level for MtBE is 40 ppb)**

## Rehabilitation System

**System Belongs to the Contractor**                 **- No Additional Cost for Repairs**
-  Acts of Nature (Lightning, Hurricane)
- Theft or Vandalism
- Routine Wear and Tear
- 	**- Removed by Contractor**
**Fund Does Not Salvage Used Equipment**

## Procedures

**Payment Based on Performance**** :**
**As Goals are Met Payment is Authorized**
**Single Page Invoice Validated by Last Report**** **
**Invoice Processing is Less Than Two Days**
**Reduction in Size of Financial Files**
**Regulators are Not Pushing for Results... ....Contractor’s Efforts Result in Payment **
**Engineers and Geologists are Engineers and Geologists NOT Accountants**** **

## Procedures

**Everyone Focuses on Results **
**The Entire Plume Is Remediated**
**Better System Components Are Used**
**The Best Technology or Method(s) Are Used**
**Bid/Fixed Cleanup Cost**
**Allow Best Use of Funding**
**Allow Budget Projections **
**Avoid Change Orders (Unfair to Second Lowest Bidder)**

## GPRAConclusions

**RBCA is the Road Map**
**25% are “1 Year Closures” = Minimum Work**
**33% are “2+ Years Closures” = Assessment and Resampling  e.g. MNA**
**41% are “3 to 5+ Year Closures” = Cleanup**
**Easy Closures are Going, Going, Gone **
**Each State’s Situation and Resources will Accelerate or Delay Closures**

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