Materials ManagementResource Conservation

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Materials Management/Resource Conservation
Trish Erickson Acting Director, Land Remediation
Pollution Control Division National Risk
Management Research Laboratory
BOSC Midcycle Review - Land Research Program
April 24, 2008
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Materials Management

• Materials assessment for disposal
• New materials
• Newly-recognized concerns
• Landfills
• Alternative covers
• Landfill bioreactors
• Energy linkage

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Disaster Debris

• Evaluation of volume reduction (aka Burn Grind)
• Can shredding/ grinding safely reduce debris
  volume with possible recovery of recyclables?
• Can incineration safely destroy debris, including
  asbestos-containing materials?

Asbestos
Formosan termite
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Disaster Debris

• Burn Grind project
• 3 ORD labs/centers
• 3 program offices
• Region 6 LDEQ
• USACE, FEMA, OSHA, NIOSH
• CRADAs with equipment suppliers

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Alternative Asbestos Control Method

• NESHAPS method is expensive
• Safe, less expensive alternative may stimulate
  more brownfields redevelopment
• Three tests on different materials, fiber types
• First test at Ft. Chafee, AACM was 5 times
  faster, 50 less costly than NESHAPS
• http//www.epa.gov/region06/6xa/asbestos.htm

Building demolished with asbestos in place
controlled by foam, being loaded into lined
trucks. Alternative method cost is about half
the cost of conventional asbestos removal.
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Landfills

• Past work on liners, covers, QA, and performance
  over time
• Still finding questions
• Alternative covers
• Methodology to demonstrate functional equivalency
• Field tests at 12 sites
• Extensive outreach and tech transfer

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Landfills
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-Service Hydraulic Conductivity of GCLs in
Landfill Covers EPA 600/R-05/148
Ohio EPA Declares Countywide Landfill a Public
Nuisance Agency Orders Landfill to Reduce Odor
Asks U.S. EPA and ATSDR for Assistance Citing
hundreds of citizen complaints and the foul odor
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Landfills

• Region 5 RARE funding to investigate
  water-reactive waste from secondary aluminum
  production
• CRADA in development with waste generators,
  owner/operators, state regulators
• Pharmaceuticals disposal
• Estimated 1040 tons of active ingredients enter
  U.S. landfills each year
• PhD student research on fate of pharmaceuticals
  in landfills

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More Integrated Waste Management
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Landfill Evapotranspiration Covers

• December 2005 BOSC poster reported cost savings
  of 155 million
• Summer 2007 estimate is over 200 million savings
  at gt35 sites using ACAP data in design and/or
  regulatory approval

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Landfill Bioreactors

• Field studies at 3 sites
• Highly leveraged resources, with owners/operators
  contributing in-kind
• Bioreactor Landfill Performance Second Interim
  Report
• EPA/600/R-07/060
• Developed and co-instructed ITRC Bioreactor
  Course 2003-2008

LFG Collection
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Resource Conservation

• Assessing beneficial use
• Brownfields and land reutilization

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Resource Conservation

• Assessment tools - Application of common approach
  to evaluate beneficial use, appropriate disposal,
  and remediation
• Speciation
• Leachability testing
• Fate transport
• Degradation/transformation testing
• Capabilities being migrated to nanomaterials
• Brownfields/Land revitalization

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Brownfields

• Began as transfer of knowledge from Superfund,
  RCRA Corrective Action to less contaminated
  brownfields
• Documents on common site types
• International workshops on overcoming barriers
• Tool development
• SMARTe decision support system
• Extensive partnership and outreach
• Funded directly by the program office through
  FY07
• Evolved to incorporate more sustainable land use

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SMARTe Sustainable Management Approaches and
Revitalization Tools electronic

• Level 1 Information, Resources, Knowledge Bases
• Level 2 Analysis Tools
• Level 3 My Project Compare Reuse Options

Decision options
Uncertainties
Objectives
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SMARTe

• My Project released October 2007
• Web statistics 35K-55K hits/month average of
  55 countries hit/month
• gt300K invested by partners plus in-kind
  contributions, including
• Paola Agostini (University of Venice) Public
  Participation/Community Involvement tool
• Sabine Martin (Kansas State University) Select
  a Consultant checklist
• Peter Meyer (University of Louisville) and
  Kristen Yount (Northern Kentucky University)
  Finding an Insurance Broker checklist
• Doug MacCourt (Ater Wynne)/Charlie Bartsch (ICF
  Consulting) Financial Resources tool (in
  development)
• Jim Weaver (EPA) Fate and Transport tool
• ITRC Model Projects, Peer Review, Section
  Leads, Trainers
• BMBF Model Projects, five workshops and two
  conferences
• Trainers in each region EPA, State government,
  private consultants (donate time) TABs
• Exploring CRADAs for future development and OM

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Land Reutilization

• Developed metrics for sustainable development/
  redevelopment
• Native species
• Habitat
• Soil
• Water
• Air
• Applied in master plan developed with residents
  of Stella, MO