SUMMARY OF THE REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT FORUM
IN-PLACE INACTIVATION AND NATURAL ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TECHNOLOGIES SOIL-METALS ACTION TEAM
CONFERENCE CALL

February 28, 2001
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

On Wednesday, February 28, 2001, the following members of the In-Place Inactivation and Natural Ecological Restoration Technologies (IINERT) Soil-Metals Action Team met in a conference call:

Bill Berti, DuPont Central Research and Development (Action Team Co-Chair)
James Ryan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Action Team Co-Chair)
Sally Brown, University of Washington
Rufus Chaney, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Mike Ruby, Exponent Environmental Group
Gary Pierzynski, Kansas State University
Kirk Scheckel, EPA

Laurie Stamatatos of Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), was also present.

THE ACTION TEAM’S SYMPOSIUM

The IINERT Action Team plans to hold a symposium at the 2001 American Society of Agronomy (ASA) conference. The symposium will summarize activities that have been conducted at the Joplin, Missouri, site.

Bill Berti and James Ryan said that about eight presentations should be featured. Although only eight slots are available, more than eight potential speakers have been identified. So far, Stan Casteel, Harry Compton, Judith Hallfrisch, Rufus Chaney, Sally Brown, Mark Doolan, Peter Grevatt, David Mosby, John Yang, Mike Ruby, John Drexler, Kirk Scheckel, and Mark Maddaloni have been identified as potential speakers. Berti asked the people listed to talk to each other about ways to combine their presentations.

Berti and Ryan said that they need to move toward finalizing the symposium’s agenda. Thus, presentation titles must be chosen and submitted to them by March 15, 2001. For each presentation, the title, the speaker(s), and a brief summary of the presentation’s content should be submitted. Berti said that call participants must indicate whether they are going to combine presentations or speak alone. By submitting titles, Action Team members will reserve spots for themselves on the symposium’s agenda. They will still be required to submit an abstract, however. These will be due on August 1, 2001, but revisions can be made up until August 17, 2001. (Berti said that he already distributed an e‑mail that indicates where to find information about abstract submittal.)

After receiving the presentation titles, Berti will put together the agenda and allocate time slots for each presentation. The symposium will span about three hours; some talks will be given 30-minute time slots but others will only receive 10 to 20 minutes. Berti will submit the presentation titles to Gary Pierzynski by March 30th, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. In early May, Pierzynski said, a group of ASA representatives will set the schedule for the 2001 ASA conference. At this time, the IINERT Action Team’s symposium will be folded into the larger conference’s agenda.

Call participants agreed that the following must be done before the presentation titles are finalized:

• Berti will call Maddaloni to determine whether he is available to speak on issues pertaining to lead.
  
  
• Berti will contact Compton to determine whether he is available to provide insight on the symposium’s “Introduction/Background” presentation.
  
  
• Berti will follow up with Doolan, Yang, and Drexler. The latter will be asked whether he performed analyses on lead mineralogy samples from Joplin. If so, he will be asked to give a joint presentation with Scheckel.
  
  
• Chaney and Ryan will call Hallfrisch to make sure she is willing to give a presentation on rat data. They will also ask her whether she would be willing to present Casteel’s data if he is unable to attend the symposium.