CERCLA & Brownfields

This session will include an overview of the top issues that the four Task Forces (Beneficial Use; Radiation; Solid Waste Disposal and Conversion; and Sustainable Materials Management) within the Materials Management Subcommittee are working on, along with the opportunity for attendees to discuss and recommend future work needed in Materials Management.

EPA Updates: • Opening Remarks • National Recycling Strategy and National Recycling Goal • U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report on Recycling • Sustainable Management of Food • Electric Arc Furnace Slag • Non-Hazardous Secondary Material (NHSM) Scrap Tire Fact Sheet Emerging Wastes (batteries, solar panels, wind turbines)

As more States and Territories reach their implementation dates, with many seeing a high rate of sump testing failures, there is a need for quality repair options and procedures. While certainly offering some level of assurance of product performance, no testing regimen can fully account for installation workmanship or guarantee the performance of products after long term exposure in actual field conditions. This session will discuss some of the options that are out there and what some States require for repair to sumps. Issues dealing with used sump test water will also be discussed.

Remedial technologies are used in every State to address contamination, but are there consequences to remediation? This session will focus on sites where a remedial technology was implemented to clean up the petroleum contamination, but other unintended contamination resulted from the remediation.

This session will focus on the reduction of State revenues and potential impacts to the State UST programs in the future. Attendees will learn how the switch to electric vehicles will not only affect state funds but will also make connections to issues of environmental justice. Find answers to questions like “How many fuel consuming cars are being replaced by electric vehicles?” and “Who will UST funds be serving?”. Following presentations from the NGA and Coltura, attendees are invited to participate in a Q&A session to discuss the future of the State UST fund programs.

This session will focus on the Investigation and Remedy Selection Focus Group project on climate resiliency and sustainability of remedies by presenting case studies on how States have dealt with climate change during the cleanup of a site.

EPA OBLR Updates (current topics): • Grant Timing and Schedules • Transition Information and Questions • What are the challenges States are facing?

EPA Updates: • Opening Remarks • National Permitting Oversight Policy (NPOP) • National RCRA Permitting Priorities • Corrective Action 2020 Goals Results and 2030 Goals Implementation Planning • PFAS Petitions • e-Manifest Program and Implementation • Generator Compendiums • Generator Improvements Rule Citation Crosswalk • SQG Re-Notification • Pharms Rule FAQs • Lithium Ion Battery Webpages • RCRA EJ Community of Practice

Disposal of very low-level radioactive waste can have an impact on hazardous waste and solid waste facilities. The session will discuss what agencies regulate radioactive material, what exactly they regulate and how they interact.

The Environmental Justice (EJ) movement emerged in the early 1980s due to the recognition of the presence and impacts of treatment, storage, and disposal facilities for toxic substances being disproportionately found in racial minority and high-poverty communities across the country. With this recognition came Executive Order 12898 in 1994, which established EJ offices in the U.S. EPA, Department of Justice, and other federal agencies. Many of the same issues brought to the forefront in the 1980s are still being faced in these communities. In this session, U.S. EPA will highlight their initiatives on EJ as well as EPA’s general EJ programs, policies, and implementation within OLEM. Additionally, representatives from State agencies will highlight their agency’s approaches to EJ and how they are being implemented within their agency’s waste programs.

Building off of the first session on EJ, this session will focus on a more specific examination of EJ at federal facility cleanups. Representatives from the EPA OLEM, U.S. Department of Energy and State of Alaska will share information about successes and challenges in implementing EJ principles and policies at federal facilities. The session will end with a moderated discussion among participants to share recommendations on how to address EJ at federal facilities in the future.

EPA OECA and EPA OLEM: COVID-19 & Inspections and the EPA OLEM and EPA OECA NPM Guidance’s • Susan Bodine, Assistant Administrator, EPA OECA • Peter Wright, Assistant Administrator, EPA OLEM

Theme: Resiliency Dr. O’Grady will discuss creating greater resiliency for dealing with uncertainty and ensuring a growth mindset for greater success and happiness.

This webinar will provide participants with an overview of the U.S. General Services Administration’s role in ensuring compliance with applicable environmental requirements during the transfer and disposal of federal properties.

During this webinar representatives from three State programs will share strategies to assist States with assessing costs of cleanup technologies and identifying and preventing against fraud in State reimbursement programs.

The ASTSWMO CERCLA Post Construction Focus Group developed a checklist in June called, Preparing Post-Construction Cleanup Sites for Natural Disasters. This checklist is to help States in identifying efficient and effective measures for preparation in advance of potential natural disasters to aid in the identification of likely concerns following a natural disaster. This webinar will go through the checklist with case studies and examples to show how this checklist can be used.

• ASTSWMO Position Paper on Recycling: Cathy Jamieson (VT), Chair, ASTSWMO Materials Management Subcommittee
• EPA Draft National Recycling Strategy and National Recycling Goals and Metrics: Caroline Emmerson, Meghan Radtke, Ron Vance, EPA ORCR
• Current State of the Recycling Industry: David Biderman, Executive Director, SWANA

This webinar will share examples of how several State UST programs have adapted to the pandemic including the development of new safety policies and procedures for employees, owners, and operators, implementation of new outreach and oversight methods, and a discussion of what has and has not worked.

Public outreach and community involvement is one of the most important jobs States and lead Federal agencies have when working on remediation projects. Outreach and looking at ways to engage our communities in meaningful community participation during the life cycle of our projects is essential. Due to COVID-19, we have had to shift ways to engage the public and in-person public meetings may not be possible. This challenge has led to innovation on using different platforms and tools on how to perform engagement remotely. This 90- minute session will share success stories and challenges from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Defense (DoD) and States

The Recycling session covered the following topics:

• ASTSWMO Position Paper on Recycling: Cathy Jamieson (VT), Chair, ASTSWMO Materials Management Subcommittee

• EPA Draft National Recycling Strategy and Draft National Recycling Goals: Caroline Emmerson, Meghan Radtke, Ron Vance, EPA Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR)

• Current State of the Recycling Industry: David Biderman, Executive Director and CEO, Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)