Engineering Forum Greener Cleanup Subcommittee
Overview
The Engineering Forum Greener Cleanup Subcommittee (EFGCS) is a team of cleanup project managers dedicated to helping implement EPA’s Principles for Greener Cleanups under Superfund, RCRA, LUST, Brownfields, and other regulatory or voluntary cleanup programs. The Forum formed the Subcommittee in 2008 to facilitate the flow of information about the Principles among Agency programs and the Agency’s state and federal partner organizations. To help EPA headquarters and regional staff speak about the Principles with one EPA voice, the EFGCS:
- Provides expert advice and technical materials to project managers and engineers needing general assistance in applying the Principles;
- Exchanges and disseminates policy, technical, or administrative updates about greener cleanups; and
- Organizes periodic workshops and Web-based public training seminars on how to plan and implement greener cleanups.
Under the Agency’s Superfund Program, this technical support includes site-specific assistance to regional Superfund staff in reviewing green remediation options during the site investigation and remedy selection processes and in optimizing and retrofitting existing remedial systems; see EPA’s Superfund Green Remediation Strategy (strategic action 2.7) for more information. Planning, engineering, and other types of tools for applying the Principles are available online in the CLU-IN Green Remediation Focus area Exit
Technical Materials
The Greener Cleanups Subcommittee of the TSP Engineering Forum sponsors development of issue papers and tools designed to help cleanup project managers, service contractors, and others plan and implement cleanups with a minimized footprint on the environment.
Methodology for Understanding and Reducing a Project’s Environmental Footprint. February 2012. EPA’s methodology supplements the Agency's green remediation primer (EPA 542-R-08-002) by providing an approach to quantify energy, air, water, materials & waste, and land & ecosystem metrics that comprise the environmental footprint of a remedy. It also provides initial suggestions on how to reduce the footprint during the remedy selection, design, implementation, and operation phases.
Spreadsheets for Environmental Footprint Analysis (SEFA) Exit
SEFA comprises a set of analytical woorkbooks that allow a user to prepare an environmental footprint analysis as described in EPA's Methology for Understanding and Reducing a Project's Environmental Footprint. Automated SEFA calculations derived from site-specific input generate outputs that help the user determine which cleanup activities are driving a project's footprint, and to adjust project parameters to reduce the footprint.
Sustainable Materials Management in Site Cleanup
This technical issue paper addresses the opportunities to reduce waste and divert it from landfills during site remediation, primarily by reusing onsite materials, reusing or recycling materials offsite, and procuring construction materials with recycled content. The paper includes site-specific examples of waste reduction and landfill diversion and provides an extensive compendium of related tools and resources.
Training Seminars
The Greener Cleanups Subcommittee engages in development of training sessions on approaches for planning and implementing greener cleanups. The training venues include web-based seminars, conference workshops and regional meetings. Materials presented in recent public seminars and at selected conferences are available for viewing or downloading from the CLU-IN archives of the Green Remediation Focus Exitwebsite.
Subcommittee Members
U.S. EPA - Region 1
5 Post Office Square - Suite 100
Boston MA 02109-3912
Kimberly White (OSR07-1)
E-mail: white.kimberly@epa.gov
(617) 918-1752
U.S. EPA - Region 2
290 Broadway
New York, NY 10007-1866
Stephanie Vaughn (19THFL)
E-mail: vaughn.stephanie@epa.gov
(212) 637-3914
U.S. EPA - Region 3
1650 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029
Hilary Thornton (3HS23)
E-mail: thornton.hilary@epa.gov
(215) 814-3323
Chris Corbett (3HS20)
E-mail: corbett.chris@epa.gov
(215) 814-3220
U.S. EPA - Region 4
61 Forsyth Street, S.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303-8960
Candice Teichert (9T25)
E-mail: teichert.candice@epa.gov
(404) 562-8821
U.S. EPA - Region 5
77 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604-3507
Jon Peterson (SE-7J)
E-mail: peterson.jon@epa.gov
(312) 353-1264
U.S. EPA - Region 6
1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200
Dallas, TX 75202-2733
Raji Josiam (6SF)
E-mail: josiam.raji@epa.gov
(214) 665-8529
US EPA - Region 7
901 North Fifth Street
Kansas City, KS 66101
US EPA - Region 8
1595 Wynkoop Street
Denver, CO 80202-1129
Tim Rehder (8EPR-PS)
E-mail: rehder.timothy@epa.gov
(303) 312-6293
U.S. EPA - Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Julie Santiago-Ocasio (SFD-7-3)
E-mail: santiago-ocasio.carmen@epa.gov
(415) 972-3525
Karen Scheuermann (WST-4)
E-mail: scheuermann.karen@epa.gov
(415) 972-3356
U.S. EPA - Region 10
1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98101
Kira Lynch (ECL-113)
E-mail: lynch.kira@epa.gov
(206) 553-2144