SUMMARY OF THE REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT FORUM
SEDIMENTS REMEDIATION ACTION TEAM
CONFERENCE CALL

10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
January 3, 2002

On January 3, 2002, the following members of the Remediation Technologies Development Forum's (RTDF's) Sediments Remediation Action Team met in a conference call:

Nancy Grosso, DuPont Corporate Remediation (Action Team Co-chair)
John Davis, The Dow Chemical Company
Kelly Madalinski, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ralph Stahl, DuPont Corporate Remediation

Danielle Sass of Eastern Research Group, Inc., (ERG) was also present.

THE MARCH 2002 SEDIMENTS REMEDIATION ACTION TEAM MEETING

The Sediments Remediation Action Team plans to meet in Baltimore, Maryland, in March 2002. Call participants discussed the meeting's agenda, outlining the following schedule and events:

• March 11. A general RTDF Sediments Remediation Action Team business session will be held between 2:00 and 6:00. Topics discussed will include: (1) Action Team activities planned for 2002, (2) the monitored natural recovery framework, (3) in situ treatment development, (4) the stability workshop, (5) the Navy's recent document, (6) the April 2002 symposium on sediments characterization, (7) the August 2002 SETAC workshop, and (8) pilot site updates. The latter topic will cover activities planned at the Anacostia River, as well as those proposed at a site in California.



• March 12 and 13. Ralph Stahl said that a Rapid Assessment Workshop is scheduled for the morning of March 12. He agreed to identify speakers and create the workshop's agenda. Several speakers have already expressed willingness to participate, he said, noting that a diverse set of speakers (i.e., government representatives, industry representatives, and academics) will be present. During the afternoon of March 12 and the morning of March 13, the meeting will focus on "renewable disposal." Nancy Grosso agreed to create the agenda for this portion of the meeting. Speakers will be asked to present information on: (1) ex situ treatment for sediments reuse and (2) efforts being made to reclaim old confined disposal facilities.

Call participants also noted that a working meeting is scheduled to take place between RTDF members and the Anacostia Watershed Toxics Alliance (AWTA). John Davis agreed to contact Dick Jensen to determine whether this meeting will be held on the afternoon of March 13 or the morning of March 14, or both. He will also find out whether this meeting will be held in Baltimore or in Washington D.C. Davis will send an e-mail to conference call participants to relay Jensen's response. Davis said that AWTA is compiling a monitoring plan for the Anacostia River and that a draft might be available before the March 2002 meeting. If it is available, Grosso noted, it would be useful to distribute the draft to those RTDF members who are committed to reviewing and commenting on the document. This would help increase the productivity of the RTDF-AWTA working meeting. Call participants thought this was an excellent idea.

Grosso and Stahl agreed to continue working on the meeting's agenda, and to send information about speaker names and presentation titles to Kelly Madalinski by January 18, 2002. Madalinski will compile the information that he receives from them and distribute a draft agenda by January 25, 2002.