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December Board announces 2006 2007 teams On December 5, the ITRC Board of Advisors made decisions regarding the 2007 status of ITRC technical teams. The Board decided that nine existing teams have the necessary funding to continue operations into 2007. Six new teams will start up in 2007 without INTERSTATE TECHNOLOGY & REGULATORY COUNCIL funding. As funding becomes available, these emer- gent teams will become active. Four teams will close Emergent Teams out in 2007. Arsenic in Groundwater Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) Ongoing Teams Futures Bioremediation of DNAPLs Light, Nonaqueous-Phase Liquids (LNAPLs) Brownfields Mining Waste Enhanced Attenuation: Chlorinated Organics Sediments Perchlorate Radionuclides Closing Teams Remediation Process Optimization Alternative Landfill Technologies Risk Assessment Resources Diffusion/Passive Samplers Sampling, Characterization, and Monitoring Ecological Land Reuse Unexploded Ordnance Vapor Intrusion ITRC opens annual membership drive At this time each year, ITRC begins its effort to enroll Time investments new members and get recommitments from existing During enrollment, applicants applying as members members. This year the enrollment process has been pledge to commit at least 10% of their professional time improved—you can apply online for membership in to advance ITRC projects. This time commitment can ITRC’s 2007 teams. To access the enrollment form, be met in a variety of ways: click on the “Membership” button (www.itrcweb.org/ membership.asp) on the Web site. (The process I participating on team conference calls requires a browser that supports Java script.) I attending ITRC meetings/conferences (based on an in- kind contribution of time, states and stakeholders are ITRC reaches out to diverse members of the environ- provided with travel funding for ITRC meetings) mental community and welcomes participants from I writing and reviewing documents state and federal agencies, industries, public interest I arranging site visits to facilities groups, universities, and tribes. One field on the form I asks you to select the group that most accurately providing educational information on technologies defines your affiliation. For you to qualify as an indus- I providing market information on site technology needs try participant, your company must be a member in If you are unable to invest good standing with the Industry Affiliates Program 10% of your professional In This Issue (IAP). For information on how your company can join time but wish to con- • Co-Chair Update IAP, go to www.itrcweb.org/iap.asp. tribute to ITRC projects, • Changes to the Board Joining and recommitting to ITRC teams you may wish to partici- • Michael Crain Remembered All ITRC teams urge current members to recommit by pate as an interested party. • Project Planning renewing their membership. While ongoing and emer- You can apply for this sta- • Goodbye and Hello tus on the membership gent teams (see 2007 teams article above) are seeking • 2006 Fall Meeting new members, closing teams are not accepting new form. Federal employees and industry participants • ITRC Awardees members. However, current members of closing teams • RPO Success Story (Alternative Landfill Technologies, Diffusion/Passive can apply for full mem- • Highlight of a POC Samplers, Ecological Land Reuse, and Vapor Intrusion) bership without pledging are urged to sign up for these teams to help in the order- time. • Highlight of a Team Leader (See ITRC opens annual • Training Program ly closeout of their teams. membership drive, page 7) reetings to all ITRC mem- As we look to 2007, it’s critical 2006 Teams bers! We thoroughly that all ITRC members reflect on enjoyed the Fall Meeting the theme for the Fall Meeting: Alternative Landfill Technologies (ALT) G Team Leader: Charles Johnson, CO and only wish there had been ITRC—Building for the Future. more time to meet with ITRC While it is incredibly difficult to Arsenic in Groundwater members. We enter these meetings look beyond the demands of Team Leader: Vacant with grand ideas about sitting day-to-day responsibilities, that is down with members to discuss exactly what we have to do. The Bioremediation of DNAPLs issues, but before we know it, it’s infrastructure efforts that we have Team Leader: Naji Akladiss, ME time to head home. Because we previously discussed and that aren’t as successful as we’d like to were the subject of the presenta- Brownfields Team Leader: Christine Costopoulos, NY be at meetings in getting your tions by George Nicholas, Mavis ideas, the continuing contacts from Kent, Michael Smith, Carolyn Diffusion/Passive Samplers members are that much more Hanson, and Anna Willett, pro- Team Leader: Kim Ward, NJ important. Please don’t hesitate to vide a firm foundation for ITRC’s contact either of us, or any Board continued growth. Ecological Land Reuse of Advisors mem- Team Leader: Charles Johnson, CO ber, if you have an Speaking of growth, issue or idea you’d ITRC welcomes our Enhanced Attenuation: like to discuss. newest state, Chlorinated Organics Montana, to the Team Leaders: Judie Kean, FL and Kimberly Wilson, SC Unfortunately, we ITRC fold. We now began the Fall By Joe Francis (NE) have 46 state mem- and Bob Mueller (NJ) MTBE and Other Fuel Oxygenates Meeting on a somber bers and continue Team Leader: Fred McGarry, NH note. Dave Asiello, the DoD liai- discussions with the four remain- son on the Board of Advisors, ing states. Equally important, we Perchlorate relayed the tragic news of the were glad to reengage with New Team Leaders: Sara Arav-Piper, NV accidental death of Michael Crain, Mexico. As we enter 2007, we and Laurie Racca, CA who had served as the U.S. Army need to look to active participa- Corps of Engineers liaison on the tion from all states. We’d love to Radionuclides Team Leaders: Robert Storms, TN Board. As Dave so eloquently con- see all states participate in next and Carl Spreng, CO veyed in his opening tribute, year’s Fall Meeting—let’s hope Michael was a well-respected we’ll increase our state participa- Remediation Process Optimization Board member—when Michael tion from the 34 states that Team Leaders: Sriram Madabhushi, SC talked, the Board stopped and lis- attended the meeting in Scottsdale and Tom O’Neill, NJ tened. ITRC lost a valuable Board to the full ITRC state contingent member, but more importantly at the 2007 Fall Meeting. Risk Assessment Resources Team Leaders: Steve DiZio, CA we lost a good friend. A memorial and Brian Espy, AL fund has been set up for the edu- The Board of Advisors looks to an cation of Michael’s daughters. If exciting and promising 2007. Sampling, Characterization, you’d like to contribute, see the We’re eager to complete a num- and Monitoring (SCM) address on the next page of this ber of important projects and Team Leader: Stuart Nagourney, NJ newsletter. hope to initiate a few new ones. The Board committed to having a Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) We are on the verge of opening a budget prepared before we enter Team Leaders: Gary Moulder, PA and Jeff Swanson, CO new year, and 2007 is sure to be 2007, something that—while it productive for ITRC, thanks to the should be routine—has been diffi- Vapor Intrusion devotion and efforts of our mem- cult to accomplish over the last Team Leaders: John Boyer, NJ bers. We are nearing completion of few years. The Board is commit- and Bill Morris, KS numerous efforts, in the middle of ted to Building for the Future and others, and just starting some— we look to you, the members, to State Engagement Liaison then there are a multitude of proj- help us achieve that goal. Please Board Member: Mavis Kent, OR ects we would like to begin. If don’t hesitate to contact any there were just more hours in the Board member with any ideas to Team Leader Liaison Board Member: George Nicholas, NJ day…. move ITRC into the future. 2 Board names new Industry Representative At the end of 2006, the terms of three positions on the Board of Advisors are set to expire: State Engagement Coordinator, State Representative-at-Large, and Industry Representative. Mavis Kent, the current State Engagement Coordinator, and Saba Tahmassebi, the current State Representative-at-Large, have agreed to serve another three- year term. Anna Willett, the current Industry Representative, has completed her term, and the Board has named Brian Sogorka as her replacement. The Board appreciates Anna Willet’s service as the Board’s first liaison for the Industry Affiliates Program and welcomes Brian, who in previous years served as an ITRC co-chair from New Jersey. The nine-member Board of Advisors provides overall direction for ITRC. Members of the Board of Advisors represent the various groups important to ITRC: state agencies, industry, and public stakeholders. ITRC remembers Michael Crain Michael was 45 and leaves his wife, Sue, and two teenage daughters, Kelli, a freshman at Creighton Michael Crain, a federal liaison on the ITRC Board of University, and 16-year-old Megan. The Board of Advisors, died in a fall while hunting in rural Bartlett, Advisors has made a modest, personal contribution to Iowa. He worked for the U.S. Army Corps of the girls’ college fund. Engineers in the Omaha office and participated on ITRC’s Perchlorate and Diffusion/Passive Samplers Expressions of personal condolences should be sent to teams. His ITRC team colleagues will miss him. The Sue Crain and Family, 56001 230th St., Glenwood, Board of Advisors appreciates his two and a half years IA 51534. Memorial contributions can be sent to the of service to ITRC. Kelli and Megan Crain College Fund, c/o Glenwood State Bank, 32 N. Walnut St., Glenwood, IA 51534. Project planning—Another step forward As ITRC enters its second decade, for startup as projects to be under- develop preproposals to address it is taking steps toward building a taken by new teams.