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

2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
August 10, 2004

On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, the following members of the Remediation Technologies Development Forum’s 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
Chuck Reeter, U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center
Michelle Thomson, URS Corporation

Also participating in the call was Christine Hartnett from ERG.

NEXT PRB ACTION TEAM MEETING

Call participants agreed to hold the next PRB Action Team meeting in conjunction with the Interstate Regulatory Technology Council (ITRC) conference that is scheduled to take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the last week of October 2004. They agreed that the PRB Action Team meeting should be 1 to 1½ days in length and they proposed holding it on October 26 (starting at noon) and October 27 (possibly lasting all day). In addition, call participants suggested holding a brief PRB Steering Committee meeting on the morning of October 26, 2004. (The dates and times are all tentative at this point, but they will be finalized as soon as possible.)

Call participants also talked about the meeting agenda and identified the following as topical areas:

Given that the meeting is only about 10 weeks away, Puls advised using an aggressive two-pronged approach to solicit speakers: (1) contact potential speakers directly, and (2) include a solicitation for papers in the meeting invitation.

ACTION ITEMS

Call participants identified the following action items: