SUMMARY OF THE REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT FORUM
PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS ACTION TEAM
STEERING COMMITTEE CONFERENCE CALL

10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
October 4, 2004

On Monday, October 4, 2004, the following members of the Remediation Technologies Development Forum Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRB) Action Team's Steering Committee met in a conference call:

Bob Puls, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Action Team Co-chair)
John Vidumsky, DuPont (Action Team Co-chair)
Tom Krug, GeoSyntec Consultants
Michelle Thomson, URS Corporation
Matt Turner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Stephen White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Also participating in the call was Christine Hartnett from ERG.

NEXT PRB ACTION TEAM MEETING

The next PRB Action Team meeting will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 26 and 27, 2004. A draft agenda has been created for the meeting. During the conference call, PRB Steering Committee members reviewed the agenda and requested some changes.

During previous conference calls, the PRB Steering Committee discussed the possibility of holding a poster session on the evening of October 26. Bob Puls asked whether any abstracts for posters have been submitted. Krug said that someone had contacted him about delivering information on using organoclay sorbents in cutoff walls. He was not sure whether this presentation would fit into the platform presentation sessions; if not, he said, the information could be presented as a poster. Puls said that he does not think a poster session is warranted unless at least five or six posters are presented. Thus, unless additional requests for posters are submitted over the next couple of weeks, the poster session will be canceled.

ACTION ITEMS

• ERG will modify the meeting agenda and send a revised version to the meeting session chairs for review. Once the agenda has been approved, ERG will distribute it to all of the meeting attendees.



• A PRB Steering Committee meeting will be held on the evening of October 25, 2004. Puls asked Steering Committee members to send him ideas for that meeting's agenda.



• Krug will send Puls and Vidumsky an abstract on using organoclay sorbents in cutoff walls.



• GeoSierra and Adventus have expressed interest in paying for meeting refreshments. Puls will ask representatives from these two companies to communicate with each other about paying for coffee breaks.



• ERG will send an email to all of the meeting speakers. In that email, ERG will indicate that speaking slots are 30 minutes long and that speakers should plan to deliver a 20-minute presentation and to allow 10 minutes for questions. In addition, ERG will request copies of the speakers' PowerPoint presentations so that these presentations can be included in a booklet.



• ERG will set up the next PRB Steering Committee conference call for October 18, 2004.