Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement (2271A) May 2006 

Washington, DC 20460 Issue #27 

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inside Border 2012 der 2012der 2012 Achieves

Environmental Goals onmental Goals

Notable Achievement Awards 2 Along Bor Along Border

Atlas Tack 3 

New NPL Sites 

ENSENADA, MEXICO – In late April 2006, the annual meetAnaconda Mine 4 ing of Border 2012 (a U.S.-Mexican collaboration to improve 

Phoenix-Goodyear Airport the environment along the border) drew representatives from 

both countries and stakeholders to discuss recent successes and outline 

Rubicon 5 goals for the future. The bi-national program focuses on cleaning the 

air, providing safe drinking water, reducing the risk of exposure to hazIn the Courts 6 ardous waste, and ensuring emerGrand Street Mercury gency prepared­ ness along the U.S.-

Davis Refining Mexican border. The national coordinators for Bor­ der 2012 are the 

Tidbits 7 EPA and Mexico’s SecreIC Document tariat of Envi­ ronment and NatuIC Roundtable ral Resources (SEMARNAT), the 

federal environ­ mental authority in 

Calendar 8 Mexico. The gov­ ernments of the 10 

Glossary border states, other U.S. and 

Mexican federal agencies, and tribal governments are partnering with 

EPA and SEMARNAT in this program. 

The achievements accomplished since the program’s inception three 

years ago include: 

· removing more than 2,000 tons of hazardous waste from a former 

U.S. leader smelter in Tijuana;

· cleaning up more than two million waste tires from the Mexicali

and Ciudad Juarez border region; 

· improving training in bio-terrorism response; 

· developing a new drinking water system; and 

· establishing the Baja California Emergency Management Institute, which will provide sustainable emergency preparedness train

CleanupNews is a quarterly 

newsletter highlighting hazardous ing. 

waste cleanup cases, policies, The program’s immediate priorities include improving emergency pre- settlements and technologies. 

paredness through drills conducted at sister cities; developing a strategy to address waste tire piles and prevent future piles; and conducting 

a pilot test of radio frequency identification technologies for tracking 

border shipments of hazardous waste. 

Border 2012 is a 10-year bi-national plan to protect the environment 

and the health of the nearly 12 million people living along the border 

continued on page 5 

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EPA Honors Notable Achievement

Notable Achievements

On April 19, 2006, EPA’s 

Office of Solid Waste honored recipients of the 2006 

National Notable Achievement 

Awards in a ceremony in Washington, 

DC. The annual awards honor outstanding EPA, Regional and State efforts from the following Program offices: Brownfields, Emergency Management, Superfund, Superfund Enforcement, RCRA Corrective Action, 

Federal Facilities, Regional Science, 

Environmental Justice, and 

for her exemplary work with special 

accounts. Lisa implemented some 

changes that have improved the cost 

recovery process. She also developed a 

spreadsheet that allows management 

to view all account balances for many 

sites at once; was the lead Regional reviewer of the draft guidance on the management of special accounts; and made 

suggestions on the Special Accounts 

Training Tool format proposed by Headquarters. 

correct spending authority for each 

site. To aid in the tracking of the more 

than $250 million in Region 9 special 

accounts funds, they developed a sitespecific summary report for each of 

the special accounts. The team also 

helped develop a Power Point training session that can be used by Headquarters and other Regions and participated in conference calls to help 

address special accounts issues. 

Land Revitalization. 

Here are some highlights from 

the Superfund awards: 

Superfund – Legal Enforcer 

Bethany Dreyfus, Region 9 

Bethany Dreyfus received the 

Legal Enforcer award for her role 

in the major settlement for the 

PGA North Superfund Site in 

Arizona. Bethany was assigned 

to this case in 2002 when the 

Superfund – Enforcement 

OSRE Director Susan Bromm (left) and OSWER AA 

Susan Bodine (right) with the Enforcement Team Award 

Team 

Kerr-McGee Consent Decree Team, Region 5 

Mary Fulghum, Rebecca 

Frey, and Annette Lang 

Region 5’s Kerr-McGee Consent Decree Team earned the Enforcement Team award for 

achieving a comprehensive 

settlement for four Kerr-McGee 

NPL sites in DuPage County, Illinois in August 2005. The 

potentially responsible party 

(PRP) was not performing site 

work required under a unilateral administrative order and had reimbursed only a small portion of EPA’s 

past oversight costs. Thanks to 

Bethany’s efforts, the PRP agreed to 

negotiate a consent decree. Under the 

consent decree, the PRP will complete 

work required under existing Records 

of Decision and any future work EPA 

determines is necessary to address 

perchlorate at the site. The PRP will 

also reimburse EPA for past costs and 

pay future costs. 

Superfund – Technical Enforcer 

Lisa Ouyang, Region 9 

Lisa Ouyang, a cost recovery specialist and member of the Superfund Case 

Development Team since 1995, was 

awarded the technical enforcer award 

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winners. 

Superfund – Financial Management Team 

Special Accounts Team, Region 9 

Anabel Yo-Eco, Lisa Ouyang, Kim 

Muratore, Judith Winchell, David 

Wood, Harrison Karr 

The Special Accounts Team in Region 

9 earned the Financial Management 

Team award for their outstanding efforts to improve the management of 

special accounts in Region 9 and to develop training materials. The team 

worked to improve staff knowledge of 

special accounts and encourage the staff 

to establish, track, and use special account funds. One way they achieved this 

goal was to identify all sites with PRP 

settlements that did not have special 

accounts and work with the RPMs to 

set up special accounts and request the 

settlement resulted in a cost-effective yet efficient cleanup that 

is supported by the community. KerrMcGee had completed most cleanup 

at two of the four sites, but the sediments, banks, and floodplains contaminated with radioactive thorium 

wastes had not been cleaned up. The 

settlement ensures the cleanup of the 

other two sites and will reduce transaction costs by resolving pending and 

potential future CERCLA 106(b) 

claims for reimbursement of more 

than $110 million Kerr-McGee spent 

complying with Unilateral Administrative Orders (UAOs). 

For additional information, contact 

Karen Tomimatsu, Office of Solid 

Waste, tomimatsu.karen@epa.gov or 

(703) 605-0698. 
New Settlement Will Help Spur

Cleanup of Atlas Tack

M ASSACHUSETTS— 

Under the terms of an 

April 14, 2006 consent 

decree, Atlas Tack Corporation and 

M. Leonard Lewis will pay $2.3 million for the Atlas Tack Superfund site 

in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. The 

parties will also either give the government most of the proceeds from 

selling the property or retain it and 

pay the US most of the fair market 

value. In addition to the funds provided by the parties, the Town of 

Fairhaven has agreed to pay unpaid 

real estate taxes, currently in excess 

of $80,000, and the U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers will pay $50,000 to the 

Superfund. EPA recently committed 

$3 million in funds for Phase II of the 

site cleanup, which entails the excavation and off-site disposal of contaminated sediments from the Solid 

Waste and Disposal Area; the cost of 

Phase II cleanup is estimated at approximately $14 million. Phase II 

cleanup can commence once Phase I 

cleanup (the demolition of buildings 

and excavation/disposal of contaminated soils and sediments in the Commercial Area) is complete. Phase III 

Manufacturing building being 

demolished as part of the Atlas Tack 

cleanup. 

will address contamination the adjacent tidal marsh. The cost to cleanup 

the entire site is estimated at $18 million. 

Atlas Tack operated a tack and nail 

manufacturing facility at the site 

from 1901 until 1985. Wastes from 

production processes were discharged 

into an unlined lagoon, which is located next to a saltwater tidal marsh 

in Buzzards Bay Estuary and some 

acid-containing wastes migrated into 

soils and groundwater from the main 

building. The groundwater is contaminated with cyanide and toluene 

that leached from the lagoon. The onsite soils and debris are contaminated 

with volatile organic compounds 

(VOCs), heavy metals, pesticides, 

polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), 

and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 

(PAHs). Atlas Tack was added to the 

Superfund National Priorities List in 

1990. A Record of Decision outlining 

the cleanup plan was finalized in 

2000. In 2000, EPA removed asbestos from dilapidated parts of the 

buildings to ensure public safety. 

Superfund News

EPA Adds and Proposes Sites to 

National Priorities List 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — EPA is adding 

six new hazardous waste sites that pose 

risk s to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund 

sites. EPA is proposing to add four other sites to the 

list. 

In addition, EPA is recommending restoring the 

Ringwood Mines/Landfill site in Ringwood, New Jersey to the list. The site was originally added to the 

list Sept. 1, 1983 and deleted Nov. 2, 1994. EPA is 

also withdrawing the proposal to add the Sunflower 

Army Ammunition Plant in De Soto, Kansas to the 

list. 

Information about these sites is available on the 

Superfund program’s Current NPL Updates Web site 

at: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/ 

current.htm. 

Added to the NPL: 

Klau/Buena Vista Mine, San Luis Obispo, Calif. 

Alternate Energy Resources. Augusta, Ga. 

Olin Chemical, Wilmington, Mass. 

Parkview Well, Grand Island, Neb. 

West Highway 6 & Highway 281, Hastings, Neb. 

Quendall Terminals, Renton, Wash. 

Proposed to the NPL: 

ASARCO Taylor Springs, Taylor Springs, Ill. 

Sherwin-Williams/Hilliards Creek, Gibbsboro, N.J. 

Matteo & Sons, Inc., Thorofare, N.J. 

Maunabo Urbano Public Wells, Maunabo, Puerto Rico 

Proposed to be restored to the NPL: 

Ringwood Mines/Landfill, Ringwood, N.J 

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Highlights

EPA Continues Emergency Cleanup at 

Anaconda Mine 

NEVADA—In April 2006, 

EPA began moving fill 

from part of the Anaconda 

Mine site in Yerington, Nevada for use 

in building a soil cap over sulfide tailing contamination at the site, along 

with using soil sealant on areas of wind 

erosion in adjacent evaporation ponds 

. The emergency action was the second removal action initiated as a result of a December 2005 memo from 

Sulfide tailings from mining 

operations prior to cap 

construction. 

Jim Sickles, the Remedial Project 

Manager for the site. The memo, which 

outlined the finding from an October 

2005 removal assessment, requested 

the assistance of EPA’s emergency response group to address two problems 

that posed an imminent threat to human health and the environment: PCB 

contamination from electrical 

transformers and fugitive dust from 

mine tailings. 

During the removal assessment, 

EPA determined that the PCB contamination and fugitive dust 

needed to be addressed as soon as 

possible. Because the sulfide tailings were exposed, there was the potential the wind could 

spread the dust across 

ing airborne. Once complete, the soil 

cap and sealant will cover 8 basins 

across nearly 120 acres at the site. 

The emergency response has cost 

approximately $600,000 to date. 

Anaconda Mine site is a massive 

3,400-acre site approximately 65 

miles from Reno. Copper was discovered in the region in 1865, and the 

the property or even “EPA has taken steps to 

carry it off-site. The address imminent dangers to 

emergency response was human health and the 

necessary to prevent the environment from PCBs and 

contaminants from migrating. To address the 

PCB contamination, 

EPA removed and disposed of 119 

PCB-containing electrical transformers. EPA asked potentially responsible party Atlantic Richfield 

Company (ARCO) to complete the 

removal actions, but the company 

declined. EPA is completing the 

emergency cleanup and seeking reimbursement from ARCO and other 

potentially responsible parties. 

EPA is using a number of safeguards to prevent the spread of contamination during the placement of 

the cap, including air monitoring 

and using water trucks to help reduce the risk of the tailings becomfugitive dust.” 

site began operating as Empire Nevada Mile in 1918. Between 1918 

and 1978, Anaconda continued mining operations at the site. ARCO purchased the property in 1977, operated 

the facility for just one year, and sold 

it to Don Tibbals, who leased portions of the property for use. Arimetco 

purchased the property from Tibbals 

and conducted leaching operations at 

the site; the company went bankrupt 

in 2001 and abandoned the property. 

For additional information, contact 

Jim Sickles, RPM,sickles.james@epa.gov, 

or Tom Dunkelman, OSC, 

dunkelman.tom@epa.gov.

Parties Commit to Pay over $8 Million

and Complete Brownfields Cleanups

ARIZONA – Unidynamics/ 

Phoenix, Inc. and its parent 

company, Crane Co., have 

agreed to a settlement for the Phoenix-Goodyear Airport North Superfund 

Site. The potentially responsible parties will pay over $8 million and complete site work. The settlement requires the parties to continue the cur4 cleanupnews 

rent cleanup efforts, conduct supplemental site investigation, pay EPA 

$6.7 million for past costs, and pay 

future cleanup costs. They will also 

pay $500,000 in penalties for failing to complete some required 

cleanup work. 

The parties have also agreed to 

complete a supplemental environmental project that will encourage 

redevelopment in Goodyear, the city 

most impacted by the site contamination. The companies will create 

an inventory of and assess up to 25 

potential Brownfields sites in the 

city. From the compiled list of available sites, the city and residents will 

select four sites for more extensive 

continued on page 6 
Border 2012, continued from page 1 

while encouraging sustainable devel- place between 1996 and 2000. Border 

opment. Most of the population along 2012 operates with a “bottom-up” apthe border is concentrated in 14 proach through which the regions idenpaired “sister cities” where rapid tify local issues and the implementapopulation growth in the future will tion of projects happens locally. The 

increase the need for ensuring envi- program also strongly encourages 

ronmental pro- stakeholder intection and the “Border 2012 has volvement. 

safety of citi- achieved great things Additional inzens while al- since its inception in formation about 

lowing for devel- 2002, including cleaning the Border 2012 Waste tire pile prior to cleanup. 

opment. The up 2 million waste tires program is availprojected popu- and 2,000 tons of able on EPA’s 

lation by 2020 smelting waste.” U.S.-Mexico 

is nearly 20 Border 2012 

million. Framework 

The legal authority for Border 2012 Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/ 

is the 1983 La Paz Agreement, which usmexicoborder/intro.htm. The 

gave U.S. and Mexican federal envi- communiqué outlining items discussed 

ronmental authorities the power to at the annual meeting is available on 

develop joint initiatives. Border 2012 EPA’s Region 9 Web site at: http:// 

builds on the efforts of a preceding www.epa.gov/Region9/border/ 

agreement, Border XXI, which was in Border2012JointCommunique_2006.pdf. The same area after cleanup was 

completed. 

LOUISIANA – Rubicon LLC of Geismar, Louisiana will begin recycling aniline and benzene 

resulting from its production processes, a move that will reduce nearly 1.5 million 

pounds of hazardous waste. Rubicon has pledged to reduce 500,000 pounds of aniline and one 

million pounds of benzene. On April 13, 2006, EPA and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality honored the commitment with a plaque identifying Rubicon as a partner of the 

National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP). NPEP is a voluntary waste minimization program that encourages public and private organizations to form voluntary partnerships 

with EPA that reduce the use or release of any of 31 priority chemicals. 

More information about NPEP may be found on the NPEP Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/ 

epaoswer/hazwaste/minimize/partnership.htm. 

For additional information, contact Tim Townsend, EPA Region 6, 214-665-6514 or 

townsend.timothy@epa.gov. 

Rubicon Pledges to Reduce 

Hazardous Waste by 1.5 Million 

Pounds 

In the Spotlight

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In The Courts 

Grand Street 

Mercury 

Settlement 

Proposed 

NEW JERSEY — Under the terms 

of a proposed consent decree lodged 

April 25, 2006, GE has agreed to pay 

EPA and the State of New Jersey for 

costs incurred cleaning up the Grand 

Street Mercury Site in Hoboken, New 

Jersey. The consent decree requires 

GE to reimburse the United States 

over $2.8 million and the State of New 

Jersey $195,000. In March 2005, GE 

filed a petition requesting reimbursement for cleanup costs the company 

incurred pursuant to a unilateral administrative order; GE will drop its 

reimbursement petition as part of the 

proposed settlement. In addition, GE 

has agreed to end its contest of a pending settlement between the United 

States and other responsible parties 

worth nearly $4 million. The proposed 

consent decree and the dates of the 

30-day public comment period will be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

The Grand Street Mercury site includes a former industrial building 

where mercury vapor lamps and mercury connector switches were produced 

for over 50 years. In the 1990s, the 

building was converted into residences/studio spaces. When the local 

health department identified elevated mercury levels in some residents, EPA became involved at the 

site. Mercury was identified across 

the site, including in porous surfaces 

like wood and brick and in vaporized 

form in the air. Because of the extensive site contamination, EPA determined that the most effective remedy 

was to relocate residents, demolish 

the building and adjacent townhouse, 

and dispose of soils. The site was 

added to the National Priorities List 

in 1997. Site cleanup was recently 

completed, and EPA will proceed with 

the final steps to remove the site from 

the NPL. 

For additional information, contact 

Sarah Flanagan, EPA Region 2, (212) 

637-3136. 

Parties Agree to 

Pay for Costs at 

Davis Refining 

FLORIDA – Seventy-nine potentially responsible parties, including the 

State of Florida and four federal agencies, will reimburse EPA over $2.5 million for response costs at Davis Refining Superfund Site in Tallahassee, 

Florida. The agreement became final 

on May 2, 2006 following a 30-day public comment period. Monies received 

through the settlement will cover costs 

from a removal action conducted at the 

site between 1998 and 2000. 

Davis Refining was an oil recycling 

and storage facility from 1971 to 1993. 

In 1998, EPA began removing aboveground and underground storage tanks, 

some buried pipeline, drums, labpaks, 

and soils contaminated with oil. The 

removal was completed in 2000. 

For additional information, contact 

Laura Niles, EPA Region 4, (404) 562-

8353 or niles.laura@epa.gov. 

Phoenix-Goodyear, continued from page 4 

site assessments, and the settling parties will complete cleanup at three 

sites. The parties are required to 

spend no less than $1 million on inventorying and remediating the selected sites. 

Goodyear has seen a significant population increase of more than 100% over 

the past ten years. The city is hoping 

to proceed with “infill development”— 

cleaning up and reusing existing properties rather than creating sprawl. The 

cleanup of a few abandoned properties 

and the list of potential Brownfields 

sites that can be considered for cleanup 

in the future will help aid that goal. 

The settlement was lodged on April 

11, 2006 with the U.S. District Court 

for the District of Arizona. The 30-day 

public comment period began on April 

26, 2006 with the publication of the 

Federal Register notice. 

From 1963 until 1994, the 

Unidynamics/Phoenix, Inc. facility was 

used to manufacture defense and aerospace component systems, including 

pyrotechnics and explosives. Until 

1980, most wastes generated by the 

facility were disposed of in eleven dry 

wells and two unlined oxidation ponds. 

Site soils and groundwater are contaminated with volatile organic compounds (including trichloroethylene) 

and perchlorate. 

For additional information, contact 

Bethany Dreyfus, legal contact, 

dreyfus.bethany@epa.gov, or Mary 

Aycock, technical contact, 

aycock.mary@epa.gov. 

The following proposed consent decrees are currently in the 30-day

public comment period. During the comment period, the proposed

settlements can be reviewed on DOJ’s Proposed Consent Decrees Web

site at: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. 

U.S. and the State of Oregon v. City 

of Millersburg, Oregon

for the Teledyne Wah Chang Albany

Superfund Site in Millersburg

Comment period extended to 6/5/06 

U.S. v. Jay and Kathleen Jackson 

and Jackson Services, Inc. 

for the 10th Street Superfund Site

in Columbus, Ohio 

Comment period ends 6/12/06 

Some Proposed Settlements 

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New IC Document 

Released 

On March 17, 2006 EPA released 

“Enforcement First to Ensure Effective 

Institutional Controls at Superfund 

Sites” to reemphasize that EPA will 

maximize potentially responsible 

party participation in any actions 

needed to ensure the implementation 

and effectiveness of institutional controls at sites. Institutional controls 

are non-engineered instruments, such 

as administrative and legal controls, 

that help minimize human exposure 

to contamination and protect the integrity of the remedy. They work by 

limiting land or resources use and by 

providing information to modify behavior. In many cases, institutional 

controls not only help protect the remedial objectives at a site, but can 

also assist in the beneficial reuse of 

sites. The Enforcement First for Institutional Controls policy guidance 

recognizes that both the EPA and the 

potentially responsible parties at the 

site share an interest in ensuring that 

controls are and remain protective of 

human health and the environment, 

and that the responsible parties play 

a critical role in providing any additional information, correcting or implementing additional controls at these 

sites. The memorandum identifies 

examples of specific activities that 

EPA may look to responsible parties 

to conduct at sites, including: evaluations of current and future land uses 

on or around the site, analysis of real 

property title information, use of state 

of the art tools such as “one-call” systems, new monitoring and mapping 

technologies, available statutory environmental covenants, as well as enhanced planning and cost estimation 

tools. 

The Enforcement First for Institutional Controls approach assists the 

Agency’s efforts to implement the September 2004 “Strategy to Ensure IC 

Implementation at Superfund Sites” 

(see, Cleanup News,” Issue #20 

(Spring 2005)). That strategy is a nationwide effort to review institutional 

controls at all Superfund sites where 

remedy construction activities have 

been completed. The strategy calls 

for the identification of priority sites 

with potential institutional controls 

issues and the development of Regionspecific action plans; provides an outline of site-specific follow-up activities; establishes a new institutional 

controls coordination and communication structure; and describes steps 

to improve EPA’s capacity for evaluating IC effectiveness. 

These and other related institutional controls documents are available on the EPA Institutional Controls website (under the Superfund 

cleanup and policy and guidance on 

institutional controls link) at http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/cleanup/redevelop/ic.html. 

EPA/ASTSWMO/ 

ICMA 

Institutional 

Controls 

Roundtable 

From April 4-6, 2006, EPA, the Association for State and Tribal Solid 

Waste Management Officials 

(ASTSWMO) and the International 

City/County Management Association (ICMA) sponsored a national Institutional Controls Roundtable and 

Training in Tucson, Arizona. Over one 

hundred and twenty stakeholders 

gathered to discuss critical issues concerning institutional controls (ICs). 

The participants represented EPA 

HQ offices (OSWER, OECA, and 

OGC), all ten EPA Regions, States, 

local governments, federal facilities, 

and various organizations representing these entities. The purpose of the 

Roundtable was to provide an opportunity for all the various organizations 

to learn how much they all have in common in protecting the public from the 

vestiges of improper waste handling, 

while encouraging appropriate use of 

these sites, and accountability. 

The Roundtable participants engaged in a broad array of panel discussions, ranging from: legal (e.g., easements and covenants) to technical (e.g., 

EDSC data standards); federal (EPA’s 

IC tracking system), to state 

(Tennessee’s perpetual care trust fund) 

to local government (Emeryville, 

California’s tracking system); and primary topics (e.g., IC costing) to crosscutting (e.g., environmental justice). 

There were several discussions regarding the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act (UECA) and several States’ 

wide-ranging experiences in adopting 

the Act. Other panels addressed issues related to the implementation of 

ICs such as: Fifth Amendment “takings” considerations; senior interests 

(e.g., utility easements); and adjacent 

property contamination. 

In September 2004 EPA issued an 

Institutional Control Strategy to ensure ICs are appropriately implemented at Superfund sites to ensure 

protectiveness of the remedy. In 2005 

EPA held an EPA-only session of best 

practices to identify and address IC 

issues. What came out of that session 

was a better understanding of how crucial the participation of State and local governments is to this work. The 

2006 Roundtable was an opportunity 

to bring all implementors together to 

learn about enforcement, monitoring, 

and tracking issues and solutions. 

Contacts: Phyllis Anderson (703) 603-

8971, and Helena Healy (202) 564-

5124. 

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Glossary

Calendar June 12 - 16, 2006 

11th Annual Contaminated and 

Hazardous Waste Site 

Management-Theory, Practice & 

Outdoor Field Demonstrations 

http://www.wastenews.com/elib/ 

event_details.html?id=361 

Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

June 19 - 21, 2006 

2006 Joint Arkansas Recycling 

Coalition & the Mississippi 

ARCO Atlantic Richfield Company 

ASTSWMO Association of State and Territorial 

Solid Waste Management Officials 

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and 

Liability Act 

DOJ Department of Justice 

EDSC Environmental Data Standards 

Council 

OSRE Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement 

OSRTI Office of Superfund Remediation 

Technology Innovation 

OSWER Office of Solid Waste and Emergency 

Response 

PAHs Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 

PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyls 

Recycling Coalition Recycling PCE Tetrachloroethene 

Conference & Trade Show 

http://www.wastenews.com/elib/ 

event_details.html?id=375 

Tunica Resorts, MS 

June 20-21, 2006 

National Corrective Action 

Conference 

http://www.epa.gov/ne/ 

nationalcaconf/ 

Providence, RI 

June 24 - 26, 2006 

Canadian Association of 

Recycling Industries (CARI-ACIR) 

65th Annual Convention 

http://www.wastenews.com/elib/ 

event_details.html?id=355 

Mont Tremblant, Quebec 

August 21 - 25, 2006 

2006 Midwestern States Risk 

Assessment Symposium 

http://www.wastenews.com/elib/ 

event_details.html?id=372 

Indianapolis, IN 

EPA Environmental Protection Agency 

ICs Institutional controls 

ICMA International City/County


Management Association


NPEP National Partnership for 

Environmental Priorities 

NPL National Priorities List 

OECA Office of Enforcement and


Compliance Assurance


OGC Office of General Counsel 

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ROD Record of decision 

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22nd Annual National 

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Arlington, VA 

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