Superfund News 2 

Final PCC Strategies 

Hudson River PCBs 

Highlights 3 

OSWER News 4 

BRAC Final Report 

MACT Rule 

In The Spotlight 5 

In Their Own Words 

ER3 Partners 

In the Courts 6 

Liberty Industrial Finishing 

Tidbits 7 

Insurance Policy Tip Sheet 

Headworks 

Calendar 8 

Glossary 

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newsletter highlighting hazardous 

waste cleanup cases, policies, 

settlements and technologies. 

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EPA Playing Vital Role 

in Hurricane Katrina 

Response

EPA emergency responders 

are on the scene in the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast 

region helping to protect, clean up and 

rebuild. EPA’s 

determine the extent of the release. 

Efforts to contain and clean up the 

estimated 25,000 gallons of oil 

spilled are ongoing. The spill affected 

nearby 

primary responsibility after natural disasters like 

Hurricane 

Katrina is to 

assist local 

and state authorities in 

searching out 

and evaluating 

potential haz- An aerial view of an oil spill in Chalmette,

ards from Louisiana taken from EPA’s ASPECT airplane. 

residential 

homes in 

St. Bernard Parish. EPA is 

conducting 

air and 

soil sampling at 

t h e 

Murphy 

Oil Site 

and surchemical and 

oil releases. Immediately after Hurricane Katrina dissipated, EPA began 

is aerial surveillance of the Gulf Coast 

region with its Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Collection 

Technology (ASPECT) plane. The ASPECT plane was developed by the EPA 

and the Department of Defense as an 

emergency response tool for detecting 

and delineating chemical vapor 

plumes. The ASPECT alerts emergency workers and civilians to potential hazards by providing precise digital mapping of chemical plumes. 

On September 5, 2005, ASPECT 

identified a large release at Murphy 

Oil Co. in Chalmette, Louisiana. EPA 

and Murphy Oil Co. began efforts to 

rounding 

area to further determine the impact 

of the spill. 

Teams of federal and state personnel began coordinating efforts to collect and properly dispose of household hazardous waste in the Southern Louisiana parishes. Household 

hazardous waste includes common 

domestic materials such as batteries, computer hardware, cleaning 

supplies and paint. As of October 10, 

the effort has collected over 112,000 

containers of household hazardous 

materials. The collection effort is important in order to avoid contamination from improper disposal such as 

pouring cleaning solvents down sewer 

drains. 

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Superfund News

Final PCC Str Final PCC Strategy Released eleased eleased

On October 12, 2005, EPA issued the final “National 

Strategy to Manage Post 

Construction Completion Activities at 

Superfund Sites” (PCC Strategy). The 

PCC Strategy will help ensure that 

remedies put in place at Superfund 

sites remain protective of human 

health and the environment long after 

construction is complete. The strategy includes five goals: ensuring that 

remedies remain protective and costeffective; ensuring that required institutional controls are implemented and 

effective; assuring adequate financing 

and capability to conduct post construction completion activities; support site 

reuse while assuring the remedy remains reliable; and improving site 

records management. EPA has already 

begun to implement some of the approaches outlined in the final strategy. 

The final PCC Strategy is available on EPA’s Post Construction 

Completion Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/superfund/action/ 

postconstruction/. 

For additional information, contact 

Tracy Hopkins, Office of Superfund 

Remediation and Technology Innovation, hopkins.tracy@epa.gov. 

GE Agrees to Begin Dredging

Hudson River 

Through a consent decree 

lodged with the District 

Court in Albany, New York 

on October 6, 2005, General Electric 

has agreed to perform the first phase 

of dredging PCB-contaminated sediments from the Hudson River and to 

build a facility to transfer and process the sediments. The estimated 

cost to construct the facility and conduct Phase 1 dredging is $100-150 

million. GE has also agreed to compensate EPA for up to $78 million in 

past and future cleanup costs at the 

Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site. 

After the Phase I dredging is completed, an independent peer review 

panel will review the engineering performance standards and determine if 

modifications are necessary before 

Phase 2. Once EPA informs GE of any 

necessary modifications, GE may elect 

to conduct Phase 2 dredging under 

GE’s Hudson Falls Plant was one of two 

manufacturing plants that contributed to 

PCB contamination of the Hudson. 

Over nearly thirty years, GE discharged an estimated 1.3 million 

pounds of PCBs from two capacitor 

manufacturing plants into the Hudson 

River. In 1976, a year before the discharges ceased, the State of New York 

the terms of the current consent de- GE has agreed to dredge sediments, 

cree. Should GE decide not to con- build a sediment processing facility, 

duct Phase 2 dredging, EPA can use and reimburse EPA up to $78 million. 

its enforcement authority to compel GE to conduct the dredging or sue 

in district court for cleanup costs if the began taking actions to restrict conAgency completes the Phase 2 dredg- sumption of PCB-contaminated fish 

ing. 

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from the Hudson River. In 1984, the 

site was added to the National Priorities List. In the 2002 Record of 

Decision, in which EPA selected the 

cleanup, the Agency determined that 

2.65 million cubic yards of contaminated sediments would need to be 

dredged to be protective of human 

health and the environment. GE conducted sampling to delineate areas 

for dredging, and agreed to design 

the remedy under the terms of two 

previous agreements. To date, GE 

has paid EPA $37 million for the 

Hudson River site. 

The 30-day public comment period 

for the consent decree ends November 14, 2005. During the comment 

period, the consent decree will be 

available on the Department of 

Justice’s Environmental and Natural 

Resources Division proposed consent decree Web site at: http:// 

www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. 

For additional information, contact 

Dave Kluesner, EPA Region 2, (212) 

637-3653. 
New EPA DeputyAdministr Administrator

Sworn In

On August 8, 2005, Marcus 

C. Peacock was sworn in

as the 13th Deputy Administrator of EPA. Mr. Peacock graduated from the University of Southern 

California with a Bachelor of Science 

in systems and industrial engineering. He went on to obtain his Master 

of Public Policy degree from Harvard. 

Mr. Peacock served as an industrial 

engineer and line supervisor at R.R. 

Donnelley & Sons, a printing company 

in Los Angeles, California. He later 

joined the environmental consulting 

firm, Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly 

and served as a Program Manager. 

He served as a staff member on two 

Congressional subcommittees of the 

House Committee of Transportation 

and Infrastructure. From January 

1995 to December 1998, he was a staff 

member for the Water Resources and 

the Environment Subcommittee and 

from January 1999 to January 2001 

he served as staff director for the Oversight and Emergency Response Subcommittee. 

Most recently, Mr. Peacock held the 

position of Associate Director for 

Natural Resources, Energy and Science within the Office of Management 

and Budget. His accomplishments 

include leading the government in the 

Budget and Performance Integration 

Initiative, part of the President’s 

Management Agenda. He also oversaw the development of the Program 

Assessment Rating Tool method 

(PART), which rates federal 

program’s effectiveness. In 2005, 

PART was awarded the prestigious 

Innovations in American Government 

Award by Harvard University. 

As Deputy Administrator, Mr. Peacock will be responsible for overseeing 

the implementation and enforcement of 

the nation’s federal environmental laws 

and regulations. EPA has an annual 

budget of $8.6 billion and 18,000 employees nationwide. 

Hurricane Katrina, continued from page 1 

EPA’s response has also included site 

assessments of National Priorities List 

(NPL) Superfund sites in the Gulf Coast 

region that were affected by either Hurricanes Katrina or Rita. In most cases 

a second evaluation was completed by 

the sites Remedial Project Manager after local officials and EPA personnel 

performed initial site assessments. 

The sites were inspected for physical 

damage and flooding. Subsequent sampling efforts are ongoing for all affected 

sites. EPA has posted information 

about the NPL site assessment activities on its website at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/katrina/ 

superfund.html. 

Also, EPA is continuing comprehensive multi-media sampling to assess 

the environmental conditions and determine the level of protection necessary for emergency workers and hurricane victims. A mapping system 

called Enviromapper has made it possible to search for sampling results 

in specific neighborhoods of New Orleans and in other cities and rural areas affected by Katrina. The results 

of flood and surface water sampling 

in Louisiana are available on EPA’s 

Hurricane Katrina website at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/enviro/katrina/ 

emkatrina.html. Links to sediment 

and air sampling results are also 

available on EPA’s Hurricane 

Katrina website at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/enviro/katrina/. 

Highlights

EPA’s Hurricane 2005 Response Page at: 

http://www.epa.gov/katrina/index.html provides many resources, including an option 

to receive email updates when changes are 

posted to the Web site. Or call the EPA Region 6 Office of External Affairs at 1-800-887-

6063 (toll-free line for calls from EPA Region 

6 states) or 1-214-665-2200. 

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OSWER News

BRAC Commission Releases Final

List of Closings and Realignments

The Base Realignment and Reuse Office (FFRRO) and re- Superfund sites: Brunswick Naval Air 

Closure (BRAC) Commis- gional federal facility programs, Station, Lone Star Army Ammunition 

sion delivered its final report will assist in the cleanup and Plant, Riverbank Army Ammunition 

to President Bush on September 8, transfer of excess property on Plant, Umatilla Army Depot, and Wil2005. The Commission’s final recom- closed and realigning bases that low Grove Naval Air Station. One nonmendations for base closures or re- will be turned over to local com- major closing, the Malony U.S. Army 

alignments are based on recommen- munities. EPA’s Federal Facili- Reserve Center (on Fort Devens), is lodations proposed by the Department ties program oversees DoD cated on a larger site that is listed on 

of Defense (DoD) on May 

Five major closings that are also NPL

Superfund sites: 

Brunswick Naval Air Station,

Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant,

Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant,

Umatilla Army Depot, and

Willow Grove Naval Air Station. 

the NPL. FFRRO is cur13, 2005. The Commis- rently working with DoD 

sion approved 177 of the and updating guidance to 

DoD recommendations prepare for its role in 

and added five closures implementing BRAC recor realignments for a to- ommendations. The 

tal of 182 recommended BRAC Commission recomclosures or realignments. mendations will become fiThe final report recom- nal if Congress does not act 

mends 22 major facility to reject them by Novemclosures, representing 21 ber 9, 2005. 

of the 33 major closures proposed by cleanup actions at those facilities 

the DoD and one additional closure on the National Priorities List The 2005 BRAC commission’s final 

added by the Commission. DoD de- (NPL) and is charged with ensur- report may be found on the BRAC 

fines “major” as a base with plant re- ing that the transfer of property website at: http://www.brac.gov/ 

placement value over $100 million. and future use of these sites are finalreport.asp 

protective of human health and 

EPA’s Superfund Federal Facilities the environment. The following For additional information, contact 

Response Program, made up of the five major closings listed in the Tracey Seymour, FFRRO, (703) 603-

Federal Facilities Restoration and final BRAC report are also NPL 8712. 

EPA Finalizes Rule to Cut Mercury, Lead and Other 

Air Emissions from Hazardous Waste Combustors 

EPA took action to remove hazardous substances like lead and mercury from the environment by 

reducing air pollutants from hazardous waste combustors. The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, more commonly known as MACT, will be effective December 12, 2005. These new 

regulations will reduce emissions of hazardous waste like lead, mercury, arsenic, dioxin and furans, and 

hydrogen chloride and chlorine gas. Emissions of particulate matter also will be reduced. Hazardous air 

pollutants are known or suspected to cause serious damage to human health and the environment. 

Additional information on MACT is available on EPA’s Hazardous Waste Combustion Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/combust/finalmact/index.htm. 

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In T heir Own W o r ds: 

John Frisco of Region 2 Offers His Insights on the Montclair/ 

West Orange and Glen Ridge Radium Cleanup Efforts 

I ’ve been working at EPA for just

 over 30 years and I manage the

 Superfund remedial program. Although my responsibility extends to 

most Superfund sites in Region 2 (NY, 

NJ, PR, VI), I have been directly involved in managing the cleanup of 

radioactive contamination at the 

Montclair/West Orange and Glen 

Ridge Radium sites since the sites 

were first discovered more than 20 

years ago. During this time, I have 

developed close working relationships with local officials as well as 

the hundreds of impacted residents. 

They turned to EPA to fix a massive 

problem that affected them in so many 

personalways. . 

Unlike most Superfund sites which 

may be close to people, these sites are 

within densely-populated residential 

communities. People were living on 

radioactive soil, emitting radon gas 

and gamma radiation. Families, especially those with young children, 

were afraid. We listened to their concerns and tried our best to alleviate 

their fears. As could be expected 

working in these communities for 

over two-thirds of my professional 

career, I have come to know many of 

the families very well. It has been 

“It has been extremely satisfying 

for me both professionally and 

personally to have been able to 

help so many people who had no 

where else to turn.” 

extremely satisfying for me both 

professionally and personally to 

have been able to help so many 

people who had no where else to turn. 

I’m actually sending this message 

from the EPA trailer compound in 

Montclair where EPA directed the 

massive cleanup effort. This last 

trailer, which will be moved to another Superfund site in about a 

month, has been my office away from 

my office in a New York City federal 

building where I actually spend 

most of my time. Although I was eligible to retire over a year ago, I long 

ago made a promise to myself, and others, that I would not leave EPA until 

this cleanup was done and all of the 

families returned to their homes. 

That has now occurred. All that remains is to clean up and organize the 

files in the trailer and to restore this 

compound that the town of Montclair 

so graciously provided. . 

My expectation is to retire sometime next year, after I clean out my 

office and organize all of my files there. 

It will take me that long to accomplish 

this, having a tendency to save everything. I will also start to think about 

what to do in retirement. Back in college, I never imagined that a career in 

public service could be so challenging 

and satisfying. As it turns out, I was 

wrong. 

John Frisco serves as the Superfund 

Remedial Program Manager for Region 

2. 

In the Spotlight

Pr ospectiv e P a r tner s in Sustaina ble 

De v elopment Identified f or ER3 

E PA has received 14 statements of interest from prospective partners with expertise in sustainable development in response to an April 22, 2005 Federal 

Register notice. Establishing partnerships is a key objective of the Environmentally Responsible Redevelopment 

and Reuse (ER3) Initiative launched 

by the Office of Enforcement Compliance and Assurance in September 

2004; the Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement is serving as lead office. 

ER3 staff reviewed the statements of 

interest and found that all fulfilled 

the criteria for partnership. The 

strong response to the call for partners is encouraging evidence of support for sustainable practices in redevelopment. 

Memoranda of Cooperation (MOC) 

are being finalized for each potential 

partner. The MOCs will state the expertise of partner organizations and 

identify areas where EPA and its partners can work together to provide support to sustainable redevelopment 

projects. The MOCs will also stipulate that the partnerships are not financial contracts and that partner organizations are not entitled to monetary compensation from EPA. Once 

the MOCs are finalized, EPA will becontinued on page 7 

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In The Courts

Consent Decree

Entered for Part

of the San

GabrielValley

Superfund Site

Eleven settling defendants have 

agreed to pay EPA over $8.25 million 

for the Puente Valley Operable Unit 

(Area 4) of the San Gabriel Valley 

Superfund site in Los Angeles, California. The consent decree, lodged on 

September 8, 2005 with the District 

Court for the Central District of California, resolves the liability of the settling defendants for the Interim Record 

of Decision (Interim ROD); the defendants allegedly contributed to ground 

water contamination at the site. EPA 

can use funds received through the 

settlement to address the site cleanup, 

and the reimbursement of some past 

costs will help EPA to fund future 

cleanups. The site remedy calls for 

pumping and treating the ground water and preventing further migration 

of the contamination; once complete, 

the ground water treatment system 

will treat nearly 3.5 million gallons of 

water a day. 

EPA is working with other potentially responsible parties to negotiate 

agreements to clean up the Puente 

Valley ground water. On August 17, 

2005, a consent decree with two other 

potentially responsible parties, Carrier Corporation and United Technologies, Inc., was lodged with the U.S. 

District Court in Los Angeles. Carrier and United Technologies have 

agreed to spend approximately $26.5 

million to build a system to pump and 

treat shallow ground water. They have 

also agreed to complete an innovative 

supplemental environmental project, 

namely using plants to help address 

low-level contamination on a former 

duck farm that lies over the ground 

water plume. 

The Puente Valley Operable Unit is 

a ground water plume underlying the 

City of Industry and parts of the cities 

of La Puente and Walnut. The ground 

water is contaminated with volatile 

organic compounds (VOCs) from 

degreasing, metal cleaning and other 

activities. All four areas of the San 

Gabriel Valley Superfund site were 

added to the National Priorities List 

in 1984. Ground water from the entire 

basin serves as the main domestic 

water supply to over one million 

people. 

For additional information, contact 

Dustin Minor, EPA Region 9, 

minor.dustin@epa.gov. 

EPA Region 2

Signs PP Signs PPSigns PPA for

the Liber the Liberty

Industrial Industrial

Finishing

Superfund Site

EPA has signed a prospective purchaser agreement (PPA) with the Stop 

& Shop Supermarket Company in contemplation of a multi-million dollar 

supermarket development by Stop & 

Shop at a 9-acre parcel, ground-leased 

to Stop and Shop for up to 75-years, at 

the Liberty Industrial Finishing 

Superfund site in Farmingdale, New 

York. The PPA will provide a covenant 

from EPA not to sue or take administrative action against Stop & Shop, 

and it satisfies a condition of the 

ground lease allowing the development 

to go forward. The PPA is subject to a 

30-day public comment period and the 

development is also subject to 

completion of local zoning approvals. 

Prior to this action, in 2003, the Town 

of Oyster Bay entered into a separate prospective purchaser agreement with EPA to permit their acquisition of a 15-acre portion of the 

Site for redevelopment by the Town 

into a municipal park. 

The 30-acre Liberty Industrial Finishing site was used during World 

War II and the Korean War for airplane parts manufacturing and 

metal finishing. Beginning in the 

1950s, the site was used for other 

industrial processes, including metal 

plating and warehousing. Wastes 

generated at the site were discharged 

into below-grade sumps, underground leaching chambers, and unlined groundwater recharge basins or 

lagoons. As a result, soils and 

groundwater were contaminated 

with heavy metals and volatile organic compounds. The site was added 

to the National Priorities List in 

1986. EPA selected a comprehensive 

cleanup for the Site in a 2002 Record 

of Decision. That remedy—which includes excavating on-site soils, extracting and treating groundwater, 

and excavating and disposing of offsite sediments—has an estimated 

present value of $34 million. Potentially responsible parties have commenced the implementation of a $32-

million portion of the Site-wide remedy under the terms of an August 

2004 consent judgment. Through the 

PPA, Stop & Stop has agreed to 

implement a $100,000 portion of the 

remaining remedy as to which no 

PRPs have as yet been identified by 

EPA, and also to pay EPA $12,500. 

For additional information, contact 

Michael A. Mintzer, EPA Region 2, 

(212) 637-3168. 

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Revised

Financial Financial

Assurance

Language

Released eleased

by Bob Polin, Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement 

On August 16, 2005, the Office of 

Site Remediation Enforcement 

(OSRE) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued revised 

financial assurance language for the 

model CERCLA RD/RA Consent Decree (CD). In FY 2006-2007 ensuring 

compliance with financial assurance 

requirements will be an OECA national priority. The revised model language will further that priority by requiring that responsible parties provide adequate financial assurance for 

completion of the cleanup at the time 

they enter into an RD/RA Consent 

Decree. 

The revisions are generally intended 

to clarify and strengthen a number of 

the financial assurance requirements 

applicable to PRPs in CERCLA settlements, and the revisions include the 

following changes: (a) PRPs will have 

to finalize the form and substance of 

their financial assurance prior to execution of the CD and must make such 

financial assurance effective within 

10 days after the entry of the CD; (b) 

insurance policies are now an expressly permissible financial assurance mechanism; (c) clarifies that EPA 

has a right to access financial assurance in the event of a work takeover; 

and (d) clarifies that any form of financial assurance must be acceptable 

in all respects (i.e., in both form and 

substance) to EPA. 

OSRE Introduces

New Financial New Financial

AssuranceTool

In the upcoming FY 2006-2007, a 

national priority for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 

will be to ensure financial assurance 

requirements are met. In order to 

assist the regional offices with meeting this priority, the Office of Site 

Remediation Enforcement has developed an insurance policy tip sheet. The 

tip sheet provides a wealth of information concerning the use of insurance policies as CERCLA financial 

assurance. It includes information on 

how and why the use of such policies 

as CERCLA financial assurance 

works, information detailing what is 

required of the Insurer and what language should be included in the policy, 

the risks and challenges in using insurance policies as CERCLA financial assurance and pointers for the 

successful use of such policies. 

The Insurance Policy Tip Sheet, issued September 2005, can be found 

on the web at http://intranet.epa.gov/ 

oeca/osre/project/fa-mech.html. 

EPA Provides

Flexible

Wastewater Wastewater

Treatment

Options Options

EPA took steps to provide flexible 

and environmentally sound regulatory management by expanding the 

Wastewater Treatment Exemptions 

for Hazardous Waste Mixtures, more 

commonly known as Headworks. The 

rule, effective November 3, 2005, determines which methods of managing 

hazardous waste produce discharges 

that can be safely handled under nonhazardous waste standards. The 

risk-based expansion will result in net 

cost savings for affected industry and 

fully protect human health and the environment. 

Additional information on 

Headworks is available on EPA’s Revision of Wastewater Treatment Exemptions for Hazardous Waste Mixtures Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/ 

hazwaste/id/headworks/index.htm 

In Their Own Words, continued from 

page5 

gin posting a list of its new partners on 

its website at: http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/cleanup/redevelop/er3/. 

Applications for partnerships are 

still being accepted. Interested organizations should submit a letter of interest addressing their qualifications 

to help redevelop contaminated land 

or remediation sites through sustainable methods. 

For additional information, contact 

Phil Page, Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement, page.phil@epa.gov. 

CleanupNews Moves to 

Electronic-Only Format 

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CleanupNews will be delivered to 

subscribers by HTML email only. 

The hard copy print edition will no 

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Current print subscribers are encouraged to subscribe to the electronic version by going to the 

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cleanup/cleanupnews.html.

Tidbits

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calendar

Glossary 

December 4-7, 2005 

2005 Emergency Preparedness 

and Prevention and Hazmat 

Spills Conference 

Baltimore, MD 

www.2005conference.org 

January 10-12, 2006 

ASPECT 

BRAC 

CD 

CERCLA 

Airborne Spectral Photometric 

Environmental Collection Technology 

Base Realignment and Closure 

Consent decree 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and 

Liability Act 

OECA 

OSRE 

OSW 

OSWER 

Office of Enforcement Compliance and 

Assurance 

Office of Site Remediation Enforcement 

Office of Solid Waste 

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency 

Response 

2006 North American 

Environmental Field Conference 

and Exposition 

Tampa, Florida 

http://www.envirofieldconference.com/ 

January 18-20, 2006 

2006 Waste Management 

National Meeting 

Arlington, VA 

http://www.epa.gov/osw/meeting/ 

April 19-20, 2006 

2006 Design and Construction 

Issues at Hazardous Waste Sites 

Conference 

Philadelphia, PA 

http://www.rdra.org/construction/ 

DOD Department of Defense 

EPA Environmental Protection Agency 

ER3 Environmentally Responsible


Redevelopment and Reuse


FFRRO Federal Facilities Response and


Reuse Office


MACT Maximum achievable control


technology


NPL National Priorities List 

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Remediation and Technology Innovation, Office 

of Underground Storage Tanks, and Office of 

Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and 

PART Program Assessment Rating Tool 

PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyls 

PPA Prospective purchaser agreement 

PRP Potentially responsible party 

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 

RD/RA Remedial design/remedial action 

VOCs Volatile organic compounds 

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