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

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
December 20, 2001

On Thursday, December 20, 2001, 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)
Liyuan Liang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bruce Sass, Batelle
Tim Sivavec, General Electric Corporate Remediation

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

THE STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SERDP) PROPOSAL

The RTDF PRB Steering Committee 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. 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 RTDF Steering Committee plans to submit one. Prior to the conference call, Tim Sivavec distributed an outline for the pre-proposal. This was the subject of the call's discussion. Topics discussed included: