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

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
January 2, 2002

On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, the following members of the Remediation Technologies Development Forum's (RTDF's) Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRB) Action Team met in a conference call:

Bob Puls, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Action Team Co-chair)
Bruce Sass, Battelle
Tim Sivavec, General Electric Corporate Remediation
Stephen White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Also participating in the call was Danielle Sass from Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG).


THE STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROPOSAL

The RTDF PRB Action Team plans to initiate a monitoring project to assess PRB performance. The group is in the process of outlining the project's scope and identifying funding sources. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), which has been identified as a potential funding source, recently issued a call for proposals titled Diagnostic Procedures To Evaluate Remediation Performance at Chlorinated Solvent Contaminated Sites. Pre-proposals are due on January 10, 2002; the PRB Steering Committee plans to submit one. Prior to the conference call, Tim Sivavec distributed an outline for the pre-proposal. Conference call participants discussed the outline, suggested changes, and identified topics that still need to be addressed. Modifications and/or additions were recommended for the following areas of the proposal:

Puls agreed to complete the pre-proposal and to submit it to SERDP. Sivavec and Sass will send information and materials for the proposal by January 4, 2002.

Puls will contact Liyuan Liang to determine whether Oak Ridge National Laboratory is still interested in participating in the RTDF's monitoring project.