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Triad Approach 5 

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Companies Fined 

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Bush Selects J Bush Selects Johnson

asAdministr Administrator

WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY DAVID BOHRER 

President George W. Bush announces Stephen Johnson as his 

nominee for EPA Administrator in the Roosevelt Room at the 

White House Friday, March 4, 2005. 

Current Acting EPA Administrator Stephen 

Johnson has been selected for the permanent post by 

President Bush. At the March 

4th nomination announcement at 

the White House, the President 

described Johnson as “a talented 

scientist and skilled manager 

with a lifelong commitment to environmental stewardship” and 

welcomed his experience as a scientist in helping “set clear, rational standards for environmental 

quality.” In his remarks, Johnson 

said that he was “deeply honored” 

by the nomination. He also acknowledged the contributions of 

former Administrators Michael 

Leavitt, now head of Health and 

Human Services, and Christine 

Todd Whitman. 

If confirmed by the Senate, 

Johnson would be the first EPA 

employee to become Administrator. 

In his 24 years of service with the 

Agency, he has held a number of 

posts, including Deputy EPA Administrator and Assistant Administrator of EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances. 

Johnson’s biography is available 

at: http://www.epa.gov/adminweb/ 

administrator/biography.htm. 

EPA Marking 35 king 35th

Anniversary of Earth Day

I

n a 1980 EPA Journal article, Senator Gaylord 

Nelson, Earth Day founder, 

said his main motivation for creating Earth Day “was to show the 

political leadership of the Nation 

that there was broad and deep support for the environmental movecontinued on page 3 

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2005 National Notable Achievement 

Award Winners to be Honored

Highlights

The Office of Superfund 

Remediation and Technology 

Innovation has announced the 

winners of the 2005 National Notable 

Achievement Awards. The recipients 

will be honored in a ceremony at 1:30 

pm at the Crystal Plaza Hotel in Crystal City, Virginia on April 27, 2005. 

Award winners will receive a cash 

award and plaque. 

The Notable Achievement Awards 

acknowledge individual and collaborative Regional achievements in: 

Brownfields, Emergency Management, Superfund, Superfund Enforcement, RCRA Corrective Action, 

Regional Science, Underground 

Storage Tanks, Federal Facilities 

Response, Environmental Justice, 

Cross Program Land Revitalizawould bring an enforcement action. For 

the GE-Pittsfield Site, he revised the 

consent decree’s model deed restrictions to facilitate redevelopment while 

protecting human health and the environment. 

Superfund - Technical Enforcer 

Technical Enforcer of the Year Carlyn 

Winter Prisk of Region 3’s Hazardous 

Site Cleanup Division. Carlyn is involved in all parts of enforcement, including PRP investigations and settlement negotiations. She has effectively 

used ability to pay evaluations to inThe winners of the Enforcement 

Team award used mediation to 

achieve a consent decree for the 

Special accounts are Superfund subaccounts containing settlement money 

to be used at particular sites, and in 

some cases money remains unused in 

accounts. The team held site-specific 

meetings for each account, identified 

more effective ways to manage the 

accounts, and produced comprehensive site-by-site analysis. They identified 24 out of the 32 accounts reviewed that could be paid down, for a 

payroll benefit of nearly $1 million. 

They also developed procedures for 

managing special accounts that can 

be adopted by other Regions. 

Superfund - Enforcement 

Team 

The winners of the Enforcement 

Team Award accomplished a consent decree for the Tennessee Products Superfund Site in Chattanooga, Tennessee worth over $23 

million. The consent decree requires 

the potentially responsible parties to 

perform the remedy and reimburse 

EPA for some of its past costs. The 

team members from EPA Region 4— 

Nestor Young, Janice Thomas, Cheryl 

Smout, Kent Mayo, William Sapp, 

and Stacey Haire—were able to convince the defendants to settle because 

they assembled and presented compelling evidence in the negotiations. 

The team, assisted by David Batson 

of EPA’s Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center, also effectively used 

alternative dispute resolution to negotiate the consent decree, thereby 

affording lengthy and costly litigation. 

For additional information, contact 

Dr. Richard W. Popino, (202) 564-

5136. 

tion, and Resource Conservation 

Challenge. Here are some highlights: 

Superfund - Legal Enforcer 

Each year, the Agency gives four 

awards for Superfund Enforcement: 

Legal Enforcer, Technical Enforcer, 

Financial Management, and Enforcement Team. This year’s Legal Enforcer award will be presented to John 

Kilborn of Region 1’s Office of Environmental Stewardship, Superfund 

Legal Office. John used his real estate expertise to assist with the redevelopment of the Raymark Site in 

Stratford, Connecticut, including encouraging a local bank to use “green 

building” principles when constructing a new branch on the former site. 

He also crafted a “comfort letter” to 

municipalities that were concerned 

about converting former railroad 

tracks to bike trails for fear that EPA 

Tennessee Products Superfund

Site worth more than $23 million. 

vestigate potentially responsible parties (PRPs). For the AIW Frank Site, 

Carlyn discovered that the PRP was 

gambling significant sums of money 

while asserting an inability to pay EPA 

for costs at the site. In addition, Carlyn 

helped identify PRPs to the Maryland 

Sand Gravel & Stone Site and negotiated a consent decree worth over $20 

million. 

Superfund - Financial Management Team 

The Region 3 Special Accounts Management Team—Laura Janson, Barbara Borden, Linda Baric, Leslie 

Vassallo, Millie DeLeon-Ramos, Robin 

Faux—will receive the Financial Management Team of the Year Award for 

reviewing all Region 3 special accounts, 

with a combined worth of $54 million. 

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Earth Day, continued from page 1 

ment.” Reflecting back on that first 

Earth Day, April 22, 1970, and the 

nearly 20 million people that participated, Nelson said that even he was 

surprised by the overwhelming public 

support. 

Today, several hundred million participants from over 100 countries join 

in Earth Day activities each year, from 

cleanup efforts to environmental film 

festivals. If you are interested in a 

volunteer opportunity or participating 

in an Earth Day event, the Earth Day 

Network, available online at: http:// 

www.earthday.net/programs/find/ 

searchEvent.aspx, offers an extensive 

list of US and international events. 

EPA will be involved in many events 

across the United States. EPA Region 3 and the Fairmount Park Commission will host a special 35th Anniversary Earth Day Celebration in 

Center City, Philadelphia. The educational event, featuring regional environmental organizations and interactive exhibits, will take place in Love 

Park (15th and JFK Boulevard) between 10 am and 2 pm on April 22, 

2005. For additional information, 

contact Jordan Parman at 

parman.jordan@epa.gov. And EPA 

Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson (right) with Administrator 

William K. Reilly, Earth Day 1990. 

Region 2 will present its Environmen- Information regarding the awards is 

tal Quality Awards honoring individual available at: http://www.epa.gov/reand group achievements in late April. gion2/news/2005/05006.htm. 

Earth Day Resources 

• EPA’s Earth Day website at: http://www.epa.gov/earthday provides 

a variety of information resources. 

• EPA’s Superfund Office has a kids Earth Day page with a recommended reading list at: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/kids/ 

earthday.htm. 

• Region 5 has a “Happy Earth Day Coloring and Activities Book,” 

http://www.epa.gov/region5/publications/happy/happy.htm 

• US Army Environmental Center’s Earth Day website at: http:// 

aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/earthday00.html offers educational materials, including a “disaster cleanup exercise.” EPA HISTORY OFFICE

OSWER News 

Institutional Contr Institutional Controls Implementa ols Implementation

StrategyAnnounced Announced

The Office of Site 

Remediation Enforcement, 

the Office of Superfund 

Remediation and Technology Innovation and the 10 EPA Regional Offices 

have launched a nationwide effort to 

review institutional controls (ICs) at 

all Superfund sites where remedy construction activities have been completed. ICs are non-engineered instruments, such as administrative and 

legal controls, that help minimize human exposure to contamination and 

protect the integrity of the remedy. The 

offices and Regions announced a strategy to review ICs in a September 2004 

memorandum, “Strategy to Ensure Institutional Controls Implementation at 

Superfund Sites.” The strategy calls 

for identifying priority sites with potential IC issues and developing Regionspecific action plans; outlines site-specific follow-up activities; establishes a 

new IC coordination and communication structure; and describes steps to 

improve EPA’s capacity for evaluating IC effectiveness. Through a combination of priority reviews and regularly scheduled Five-Year Reviews, 

EPA anticipates a five-year schedule 

to evaluate all potential IC issues at 

Superfund sites where remedy construction activities are complete.

 Recently, EPA has improved its approach to ICs by issuing guidance,

 continued on page 4 

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Enforcement News

Controls, continued from page 3 

adding IC-related language to model 

documents (e.g., the Model RD/RA 

Consent Decree), developing the Institutional Controls Tracking System 

(ICTS), identifying both program and 

legal IC coordinators for each region, 

and forming the national Management 

Advisory Group for ICs. These improvements, however, have tended to 

benefit recently remediated sites. The 

strategy ensures that sites addressed 

earlier in the Superfund program also 

receive the benefit of subsequent IC 

experience. Because IC information 

at older sites is sometimes not centralized or reliable, EPA gathered 

baseline information about ICs at 899 

construction complete sites, and identified and prioritized sites where IC 

implementation either had not occurred or might have been performed incorrectly. 

EPA expects that evaluation and 

corrective measures will be initiated 

at priority sites within one year after issuance of the strategy. EPA is 

also working on improving IC use 

and ensuring that all construction 

completion sites are critically evaluated in the next five year review and 

all sites in the future receive adequate IC evaluations. In FY 2005, 

EPA plans to supplement the fiveyear review and operation and maintenance plan guidance, provide focused training on ICs and ICTS, and 

conduct outreach activities to involve other parties in identifying 

and resolving IC-related issues. EPA 

has also begun developing guidance 

for Institutional Controls Implementation and Assurance Plans, developing guidance for calculating the full 

life-cycle costs of ICs, and revising 

model CERCLA and RCRA enforcement documents to reflect new IC 

guidance. 

The memorandum outlining the 

strategy is available at http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/ 

policies/cleanup/superfund/ic-strategy-04.pdf. 

For additional information, contact 

K.C. Schefski, OSRE, (202) 564-8213

or Michael E. Bellot, OSRTI, (703) 

603-8905. 

Plymouth Sta ymouth State University Fined f sity Fined f sity Fined for

HazardousWasteViolations

EPA has proposed penalizing 

Plymouth State University 

$171,050 for hazardous waste 

violations observed during a June 2003 

inspection. Through the inspection, 

EPA found that the university was not 

making hazardous waste determinations or properly storing waste. There 

was also a lack of “no smoking” signs, 

and spill and fire control equipment 

were not maintained. 

Universities and colleges typically 

store hazardous waste for use in laboratories and university operations. 

Region 1 has been aggressively identifying college non-compliance and encouraging schools to conduct self-audits through its College and University Initiative, an initiative that recently closed. Schools in the Region 

can still take advantage of EPA’s 

Audit Policy to ensure that they are 

meeting all federal requirements. 

For additional information, contact 

Sheryl Rosner, EPA Region 1, (617) 

918-1865 or rosner.sheryl@epa.gov. 

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TriadApproach Streamlines Site eamlines Site

Activities and R vities and Reduces Costs educes Costs

By Ann Eleanor, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation

EPA’s waste programs, and a 

number of other practitioners 

in the waste cleanup community, are exploring the Triad approach 

to site cleanup. Triad replaces the traditional prescriptive approach to site 

characterization, cleanup, and monitoring with a more dynamic and comprehensive approach that is flexible 

and recognizes site-specific decisions 

and data needs. This approach incorporates advancing science, technology, 

and lessons-learned from the field. 

EPA’s Technology Innovation Program 

mined practitioner experiences for techniques leading to successful, effitematic planning keeps all concerned 

parties informed, involved, and focused on project objectives throughout the cleanup process. 

Triad was used successfully for the 

data and direct real-time sampling for 

organic compounds and metals. After 

more than a year of planning, the actual field work took only eight weeks. 

The redevelopment company is very 

pleased with the Triad approach and 

the time saved. The continuously-refined conceptual site model has allowed the developer to re-examine site 

reuse and efficiently align reuse designs with site conditions. 

For a chlorinated solvent source investigation at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, this approach helped 

manage decision uncertainty and expedite the site management proIn the Spotlight

cient and less expensive remedial The Navy estimates it saved $2.5 cess. Direct-push deployed in situ 

projects. The Triad approach was sensors provided real-time, highassembled around the common million using the Triad approach density data sets to delineate subfactor that made projects success- for a chlorinated solvent source surface contamination, confirming 

ful: management of all sources of investigation at Camp Pendleton. a very small solvent mass that 

uncertainty in project data. 

The three elements of Triad—systemic project planning, dynamic work 

strategies, and real-time measurement technologies—are integrated to 

attain more efficient and affordable 

project management. By including ‘ifthen’ approaches, scientifically sound 

site models can be developed and corrected in real-time, streamlining site 

activities and cutting life-cycle costs 

and lifespan by a third or more. SysMilltown Redevelopment Project for 

the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Through systematic planning, stakeholders were 

continuously involved which enabled 

efficient resource distribution between planning phases, and the 

sample collection phase was streamlined. EPA’s Environmental Response Team used a freeware database decision-support tool to manage 

regulators readily agreed posed no 

threat to receptors. The Navy estimated that Triad saved $2.5 million 

and cut the project schedule by three 

years. 

Additional information on Triad is 

available through the Triad Resource 

Center at: http://www.triadcentral.org. 

The center contains a growing selection of resources for design, implementation, and legal defensibility of the 

Triad approach. 

EPA Proposes Gr oposes Groundwater Remedy

for Southeast F or Southeast Federal Center al Centeral Center

EPA is proposing long-term 

treatment and monitoring of 

groundwater and institutional controls preventing use of 

groundwater for drinking water for the 

Department of Transportation parcel of Southeast Federal Center. The 

proposed remedy will eventually restore groundwater at the site to drinking water standards. Drinking water 

is currently pumped in from a local 

utility. 

The Department of Transportation 

(DOT) parcel constitutes 11 acres of 

the 55-acre Washington Navy Yard, 

a former military ordnance production site on the Anacostia River in 

DC that is being cleaned up and redeveloped. Construction of a new 1.35-

million-square-foot DOT headquarters 

at the site began in 2004, following the 

excavation and removal of contaminated soils. The building is scheduled 

to open in 2006. 

The public comment period for the 

proposed remedy ends March 28, 2005. 

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In The Courts

District Cour District Courts DigestCooper v. AviallRuling

By David Dowton, Office of Site Remediation Enforcement 

On December 13, 2004, the 

Supreme Court held in 

Cooper Industries v. Aviall 

Services, 125 S. Ct. 577, that the plain 

language of CERCLA Section 

113(f)(1) allows a potentially responsible party to seek contribution only 

CERCLA Sections 107 and 113 and 

certain common law theories. The 

court held that the plaintiffs: (1) had 

not offered material evidence that the 

defendants were CERCLA operators; 

(2) could not bring a claim under Section 107 because they were not innotion, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1404 

(S.D.N.Y., 2005), the district court 

found that Elementis could not 

bring a claim under Section 107 to 

recover costs it had incurred performing a voluntary cleanup. Following the Supreme Court’s Aviall 

“during or following” a “civil accleanup costs. 

decision, the Plaintiff acknowlaction. Elementis maintained, 

Two recent New York District 

Court decisions cite Cooper v. 

Aviall when denying private party 

claims to recover cleanup costs. 

tion” under CERCLA Sections 

106 or 107(a). Two recent district 

court decisions cited the Supreme 

Court’s decision when denying 

private party claims to recover 

edged in a supplemental brief 

that it could not recover its voluntary costs under Section 

113(f) because it had not been 

subject to a Section 106 or 107 

In AMW Mat’ls Testing, Inc v. Town cent parties; and (3) pursuant to Aviall, however, its claim under Section 

of Babylon, 348 F.Supp.2d 4 (E.D.N.Y, could not bring a contribution claim 107, arguing that the Aviall deci2004), the district court denied AMW under Section 113 because they had sion effectively overruled prior Secand the property owner’s claim to re- incurred cleanup costs voluntarily and ond Circuit case law holding that 

cover costs from the cleanup of haz- in the absence of “judicial or adminis- a liable party could not bring such 

ardous substances discovered after a trative measures to compel cleanup.” a claim. The Court disagreed and 

fire in AMW’s paint room. The plain- The Southern District of New York held that Elementis had no valid 

tiffs argued that the Town and local reached the same conclusion on the is- CERCLA claim under Section 107. 

fire department were liable as opera- sue of whether a liable party can bring For additional information, contors under CERCLA. The plaintiffs a claim under Section 107. In Elementis tact David Dowton, OSRE, (202) 

asserted causes of action under Chems., Inc. v. TH Agriculture & Nutri- 564-4228. 

Companies Fined for Violations of RCRA Order

Agroup of current and former 

owners of a south Seattle, 

Washington industrial site 

will be required to pay $720,250 to 

EPA for the failure to abide by the 

cleanup terms of a 1993 Administrative Order. This industrial site manufactured and processed a wide variety 

of chemicals until closing in April 

1991. From the 1930s through 1986, 

chemical products were manufactured 

at the site including glues, resins, and 

hardeners. Beginning in 1952, the facility was used to make vanillin, which 

is used in flavoring foods and manufacturing drugs. These manufacturing processes have resulted in a long 

history of above and below ground releases of contaminants such as tolucleanupnews 

ene, arsenic, cadmium, copper, mineral 

oil, sulfuric acid, and other pollutants. 

Sampling at the site has detected contamination of groundwater flowing 

into the Lower Duwamish River, a 

Superfund site. 

The group of companies which include the current site owner Container 

Properties LLC., as well as Bayer 

CropScience (the successor of RhonePoulenc Inc.) and Rhodia, Inc., were 

required by the 1993 Administrative 

Order, issued under the authority of 

the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, to follow a work plan to construct and operate facilities to prevent 

contaminants from entering the Lower 

Duwamish River. The companies 

failed to comply with several requirements of the Order, including failing 

to construct the approved groundwater treatment system and to conduct 

sampling in accordance with the approved Work Plan. EPA will now consider each company as a Significant 

Non-Complier, a term used to identify 

chronic violators or those who deviate 

substantially from the terms of an order. In both 1998 and 2000, the same 

companies paid penalties of $320,000 

and $159,500, respectively, for failing 

to conduct required cleanup work at 

this site. 

For additional information, contact 

Shawn Blocker, EPA Region 10, 

blocker.shawn@epa.gov. 

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Two New Hazar w HazardousWaste Rules Finalized

By Diane Bartosh, Office of Solid Waste 

Hazardous Waste Manifest 

Streamlined 

On January 27, 2005, EPA improved 

the tracking of hazardous waste shipments by establishing a nationally 

standardized manifest form. This new 

form makes the nation’s hazardous 

waste tracking system more efficient 

by replacing differing state formats 

with one national form. This streamlined approach will benefit waste handlers and regulators by reducing the 

costs and time associated with managing multiple forms, while maintaining the safety of EPA’s well-established cradle-to-grave hazardous 

waste tracking system. 

EPA estimates the change in paperwork burden resulting from this rule 

will save states and industry between 

$12-20 million annually. More than 

139,000 businesses in approximately 

45 industries are expected to achieve 

time and cost efficiencies through the 

new tracking system. These businesses ship approximately 12 million 

tons of hazardous wastes annually and 

use between 2 and 5 million Hazardous Waste Manifests. 

By using a streamlined and consistent national standard, hazardous 

waste handlers can better track complicated shipments, such as container 

residues, rejected wastes and international shipments. The new form 

also makes it easier to collect data 

for hazardous waste reporting. The 

new form will be phased in over an 

18-month transition period. Once the 

new form is in place, handlers will be 

able to obtain new forms from any 

source that has registered with EPA 

to print and distribute them. The rule 

was published in the Federal Register 

March 4, 2005. More information is 

available at: http://www.epa.gov/ 

epaoswer/hazwaste/gener/manifest/ 

index.htm. 

Some Dye and Pigment Production Waste Is Listed as 

Hazardous 

In a final rule signed on February 

15, 2005, EPA took steps to better 

protect ground water resources and 

human health by listing certain 

wastes generated by the dye, pigBrownfields 2005 will be held in Denver, Colorado, November 2-4. Conference co-sponsors EPA and ICMA are seeking suggestions for presentations, sessions, marketplace 

roundtables, and best practice case studies. Ideas can be submitted 

online, or there is a “Call for Presentations” form that can downloaded at: http://www.brownfields2005.org/en/Ideas.aspx. The 

submission deadline is April 29, 2005. 

Call for Presentations for Call for Presentations for

Brownfields 2005

ment, and food, drug and cosmetic industries as hazardous waste K181. 

While listed hazardous waste must be 

strictly managed under Subtitle C of 

the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Agency is using a 

flexible regulatory approach that focuses on total quantities of chemical 

constituents of concern in a waste that 

present the greatest risk. The K181 

listing focuses on seven hazardous constituents. 

Waste that contains less than the 

specified threshold levels of constituents of concern are not hazardous (e.g., 

aniline levels below 9,300 kg/yr). Moreover, regulatory exemptions are provided for waste either sent for disposal 

in landfills that meet specific design 

standards or treated in an approved 

combustion unit. Waste that does not 

qualify for these exemptions, and that 

meets or exceeds the specified thresholds for any of the specific constituents 

of concern, must be managed as listed 

hazardous waste K181. These dye and 

pigment classes are commonly used for 

coloring textiles, paper, plastics, 

leather, inks, paints/coatings, food, 

drugs, and cosmetics. EPA estimates 

that about 36 facilities annually generate about 36,000 metric tons of potentially affected waste. This rule was 

published in the Federal Register on 

February 24, 2005. 

This regulation is a major milestone 

for EPA because it is the final action 

resulting from a lawsuit filed by the 

Environmental Defense Fund (now Environmental Defense) in 1989. The 

lawsuit was filed to enforce EPA’s legal deadlines under the 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments for 

listing hazardous waste. Additional 

information is available online at: 

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

hazwaste/id/dyes/index.htm. 

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calendar

April 13, 2005 

Waterfront Redevelopment 

Conference and Deal Flow 

Exhibition 

New York, NY 

http://ny-brownfields.com/ 

index.htm 

April 20-21, 2005 

ASTSWMO Mid-Year Meeting 

Keystone, CO 

http://www.astswmo.org 

May 3-4, 2005 

National Corrective Action 

Conference 

Denver, CO 

http://www.nationalcaconf.com/ 

home.html 

May 15-19, 2005 

2005 International Oil Spill 

Conference 

Miami Beach, FL 

http://www.iosc.org/index.asp 

July 12-15, 2005 

2005 Community Involvement 

Conference and Training 

Buffalo, NY 

http://www.epancic.org/2005/ 

overview.cfm 

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