State of the ITRCBuilding for the Future

2006 ITRC Fall Meeting

Michael Crain

1961-2006

ITRC – Building for the Future

• New Members• Welcome Old

Members• Trainings Conducted• Documents Produced• Teams Completed

• Budget Budget Budget

• IAP• Meetings With

Funders• Challenges Met

– New Outreach Consultant – Battelle

– Budget

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

Building for the Future – What’s Next???

• A Budget Before March!!!

• Successful Completion of Teams

• New/More Active Members

• Success Stories

• Strategic Plan Implementation– Funding Strategy– New Teams

• Accelerate Cleanups– EPA’s 35 year

estimate

ITRC Financial Overview

• Overcame some major problems in 2006

• Work outlook for 2007

• Funding outlook for 2007

• Budget outlook for 2007

Problem Areas in 2006

• Loss of WPI contract

– UXO, Vapor Intrusion, Perchlorate ($185K)

– Communications and Outreach ($300K)

• Tardiness of DOE funds

• Poor financial reporting

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

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

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

ITRC State Engagement (SE) Program Update

Mavis D. Kent ITRC State Engagement Coordinator

Board of AdvisorsDept. of Environmental Quality

Portland, Oregon

Focus for Today

• State Members & State Action Plans

• Accomplishments & Successes

• State Priorities & Emerging Issues

• 46 State Members– Montana joined– New Mexico re-

activated

• State Action Plans– Tool for POCs– Focus ITRC activity– Over 30 states

developed plans

State Engagement (POCs)

ITRC Member State

ITRC’s implementation arm for advancing innovative environmental decision-making

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 ITRC’s Small Arms Firing Range document and ITRC’s Brownfield document for EPA funding process

• ME – using ITRC Alternative Landfill products to evaluate bioreactors proposal

• KS and MO – ITRC’s 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

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)

State Engagement Topics for Proposal Development

• Institutional Controls / Long Term Stewardship

• Environmental Impact of Alternative Energy

• CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations)

• Sediments

ITRC Team Leader Liaison Update

George Nicholas ITRC Team Leader Liaison

Board of Advisors[ New Jersey DEP ]

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

So far in 2006: ITRC Teams Published

4 Tech-Regs & 5 Non Tech-Regs

ALT - Bioreactors

ALT - Post Closure Care

Ecological Land Reuse - Remediation Sites

SCM – DP Wells

TECH - REGs

Diffusion Sampler – Passive Samplers

RPO – Fact Sheets

RADS – Real Time

Characterization UXO - Technology

Document

EACO - Resource Guide

Non - TECH - REGsNon TECH-REGs

3 More Products will be Completed by Teams by End of 2006

Vapor Intrusion

Scenario Document

Non - TECH - REGs

Diffusion Sampler

Passive Samplers

Vapor Intrusion Overview Document

TECH - REGs

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

Chlorinated Organics

Teams Finishingin 2007

( * = 1st Qtr 07)

Perchlorate

Radionuclides

Risk

Sampling

Characterization &

Monitoring

Teams with TBD Closure due to Pending

Project Proposals

Status of Team Closure Based Upon TL 2007 Budget Submissions

Bioremediation

of DNAPLS

Brownfields

UXO

Teams With Projects Going

Into 2008

ITRC Training Program Update

Michael SmithITRC Training Program Liaison

Board of Advisors

Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation

2006 ITRC Fall Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ

ITRC Training Program

State/Local Government

Federal Agencies

Other

Consultant/Engineering

Firms

35%

8%43%

14%

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

5,202 participants in 1st 9 months of 20065,202 participants in 1st 9 months of 2006On track to increase from 6,461 total participants in On track to increase from 6,461 total participants in

2005 by the end of 2005 by the end of 20062006

36 public offerings on 20 topics36 public offerings on 20 topicsPromoting over 22 ITRC documentsPromoting over 22 ITRC documents

31,591 participants (July 1999 – Sept 2006)31,591 participants (July 1999 – Sept 2006)

ITRC Training Program

ITRC Training Program Strategy Approved by the Board August 2006

• Training Program Policy Manual Waiting for Board Approval

•Training Program ProceduresIBT – will be updated based on policy IBT – will be updated based on policy Classroom – to be developed based on policy Classroom – to be developed based on policy manualmanual

IBT – on-going training development, delivery, and IBT – on-going training development, delivery, and success storiessuccess stories

Classroom-style – development could begin in 2007 Classroom-style – development could begin in 2007 depending on depending on Board approval / funding availabilityBoard approval / funding availability

Industry Affiliates Program

Project Proposal Process

Carolyn Hanson

ITRC Project Manager

New Project Proposal Process

Why?

• Looking for improvements

• “Projectized” technical team work

• Way to address projects that bring in funding

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

Questions?