State of the ITRC

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State of the ITRC

• Building for the Future

2006 ITRC Fall Meeting
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• Michael Crain
• 1961-2006

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ITRC Building for the Future

• Budget Budget Budget
• IAP
• Meetings With Funders
• Challenges Met
• New Outreach Consultant Battelle
• Budget

• New Members
• Welcome Old Members
• Trainings Conducted
• Documents Produced
• Teams Completed

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ITRC Building for the Future

• Building On Successful Infrastructure
• Project Tracking
• Project Proposal
• POC/State Action Plans
• Training Strategy

• Strategic Plan Implementation
• Engage ECOS
• Lewis Shaw at the Mid-Year
• Engage your Commissioner
• Look to ITRC

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Building for the Future Whats Next???

• Strategic Plan Implementation
• Funding Strategy
• New Teams
• Accelerate Cleanups
• EPAs 35 year estimate

• A Budget Before March!!!
• Successful Completion of Teams
• New/More Active Members
• Success Stories

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ITRC Financial Overview

• Overcame some major problems in 2006
• Work outlook for 2007
• Funding outlook for 2007
• Budget outlook for 2007

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Problem Areas in 2006

• Loss of WPI contract
• UXO, Vapor Intrusion, Perchlorate (185K)
• Communications and Outreach (300K)
• Tardiness of DOE funds
• Poor financial reporting

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Work Outlook for 2007

• Five teams closing out
• All funding contracts renewed or renewing
• All support contracts in place
• A published training strategy policy
• A monthly work tracking system
• A new planning system ready for 2008
• Several pre-funded projects in the queue

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Funding Outlook for 2007

• Traditional federal funders are on board
• IAP begins first fully-funded year
• Court new federal agency prospects
• Start-up of a foundations grant program for
  training and education

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Future Budget Actions

• Comply with ITRC and ERIS boards to work from a
  balanced budget this year
• Aggressively seek 2007 federal contribution
• Pursue potential IAP members
• Expand federal partners
• Seek foundation contribution

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ITRC State Engagement (SE) Program Update

• Mavis D. Kent
• ITRC State Engagement Coordinator
• Board of Advisors
• Dept. of Environmental Quality
• Portland, Oregon

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Focus for Today

• State Members State Action Plans
• Accomplishments Successes
• State Priorities Emerging Issues

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State Engagement (POCs)
ITRCs implementation arm for advancing
innovative environmental decision-making

• 46 State Members
• Montana joined
• New Mexico re-activated
• State Action Plans
• Tool for POCs
• Focus ITRC activity
• Over 30 states developed plans

ITRC Member State
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2006 SE Accomplishments Success Examples

• GA staff use ITRC products at DoD sites Fort
  Gordon - Small Arms Firing Ranges Fort Benning
  Diffusion Samplers Camp Wheeler UXO
  Investigation
• NV transforming an abandoned firing range to a
  wetlands park with ITRCs Small Arms Firing Range
  document and ITRCs Brownfield document for EPA
  funding process
• ME using ITRC Alternative Landfill products to
  evaluate bioreactors proposal
• KS and MO ITRCs ISCO-2 products saves the
  day in MO to deny ISCO. In KS, the same info
  helps in approval of ISCO at Dry Cleaner sites
• VT used perchlorate document to quickly respond
  to community and provide info for Commissioner

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State Priorities Emerging Issues Survey

• 29 states completed survey
• 142 state priorities 48 emerging issues
• Top 5 Priorities / Issues
• Institutional Controls / Long Term Stewardship
• Mines
• Environmental Impact of Alternative Energy
• Vapor Intrusion
• CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations)

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State Engagement Topics for Proposal Development

• Institutional Controls / Long Term Stewardship
• Environmental Impact of Alternative Energy
• CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations)
• Sediments

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ITRC Team Leader Liaison Update

• George Nicholas
• ITRC Team Leader Liaison
• Board of Advisors
• New Jersey DEP

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In 2006, TLs implemented a new project planning
system

• ITRC now manages by project vs. team
• 14 ITRC Teams have managed 28 projects
  successfully in 2006 with minimal schedule delays
  
• Due to efforts of TLs and PAs, ITRC can now
  predict its work load well into the future and
  plan more effectively for new initiatives

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So far in 2006 ITRC Teams Published 4 Tech-Regs
5 Non Tech-Regs
TECH - REGs
Non TECH-REGs

• ALT - Bioreactors
• ALT - Post Closure Care
• Ecological Land Reuse - Remediation Sites
• SCM DP Wells

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3 More Products will be Completed by Teams by End
of 2006
Non - TECH - REGs
TECH - REGs

• Vapor Intrusion Scenario Document

• Diffusion Sampler Passive Samplers
• Vapor Intrusion Overview Document

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Status of Team Closure Based Upon TL 2007 Budget
Submissions
Teams Finishing in 2007 ( 1st Qtr 07)
Teams with TBD Closure due to Pending Project
Proposals
Teams With Projects Going Into 2008

• Alt. Landfill Tech
• Diffusion Sampler
• Ecolog. Land Reuse
• MTBE
• Vapor Intrusion
• Rem. Process Opt.
• Enhanced Atten. of Chlorinated Organics

• Perchlorate
• Radionuclides
• Risk
• Sampling Characterization Monitoring

• Bioremediation of DNAPLS
• Brownfields
• UXO

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ITRC Training Program Update

• Michael Smith
• ITRC Training Program Liaison
• Board of Advisors
• Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation

2006 ITRC Fall Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ
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The ITRC Training program has been very
successful in providing timely, relevant and
needed high quality training to participants in
both the public and private sector
ITRC Training Program

• 5,202 participants in 1st 9 months of 2006
• On track to increase from 6,461 total
  participants in 2005 by the end of 2006
• 36 public offerings on 20 topics
• Promoting over 22 ITRC documents
• 31,591 participants (July 1999 Sept 2006)

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ITRC Training Program

• ITRC Training Program Strategy Approved by the
  Board August 2006
• Training Program Policy Manual
• Waiting for Board Approval
• Training Program Procedures
• IBT will be updated based on policy
• Classroom to be developed based on policy
  manual
• IBT on-going training development, delivery,
  and success stories
• Classroom-style development could begin in 2007
  depending on Board approval / funding
  availability

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Industry Affiliates Program
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• Project Proposal Process

Carolyn Hanson ITRC Project Manager
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New Project Proposal Process

• Why?
• Looking for improvements
• Projectized technical team work
• Way to address projects that bring in funding

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New Project Proposal Process

• Pre-proposal and proposal
• Process for both standard and funded projects
• Updated forms
• Process flowchart, instructions, and forms
  available at www.itrcweb.org/planning

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• Questions?