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F -- ALTERNATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES DUE 051895. Contact Tim Sherer, 202/260-2484. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeks to test a non-binding allocation process for clean-up costs at a mix of Superfund sites, including an industrial landfill site, a waste oil recycling site, and a municipal solid waste site. Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs) range from 2 to 200, including owner/operators, generators, federal Agency PRPs, states and municipalities. It is the intent of the EPA to enter into a contract with qualified neutral parties to provide allocation services at selected sites. The selected neutral parties serving as allocators shall establish and maintain a restricted access document repository and must execute confidentiality agreements with the EPA and PRPs at the site. Interested parties shall submit their name, title, mailing address, phone number, current job title, employer, all baseline data, and specific technical information by COB 5/26/95. Interested parties shall submit three copies of all information. To ensure confidentiality, interested parties are asked to submit all required information, with the exception of any cover memo, on plain bond paper or any other type of paper that is free of a firm's corporate insignia or other distinctive markings. In addition, interested parties should refrain from referring to themselves or their firm by name in the text of the document. Information submitted should be pertinent and specific in the technical criteria under consideration. Baseline Criteria: 1) candidate allocators shall not be directly employed as a full-time employee by an Agency or department of the U.S. government; 2) candidate allocators shall demonstrate experience serving as a neutral party, assisting in the resolution of allocation disputes regarding the application of the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) or other laws pertaining to the remediation of hazardous substances. For purposes of the initial evaluation, baseline criteria as identified above are of relatively equal importance. Selection of candidate allocators for consideration by FRPs at a specific site shall be through an order of preference, based on demonstrated competence and qualifications necessary for the satisfactory performance of professional allocation services required. Please include information on the three technical evaluation factors listed below. Evaluation factors 1 and 2 are of relatively equal importance. Evaluation factors 1 and 2 are more important than evaluation factor 3. 1. Past Experience. Please list the locations and date(s) of your employment, with an emphasis on work as a neutral party at hazardous waste and/or solid waste sites. 1a) Describe allocations/dispute resolution experience and methods for facilitating, mediating, and arbitrating for an allocation process. 1b) Describe specialty media experience: contaminant-specific expertise including but not limited to ground water modeling, risk assessment, assessment of the mobility of hazardous substances; process-specific expertise including but not limited to identifying types of wastes that result from manufacturing processes and segregating hazardous substances for processes such as industrial finishing, waste oil recycling, paint and industrial coatings manufacturing and other processes which result in waste production; and, site-specific expertise. 1c) Describe hazardous or solid waste experience: list specific sites/facilities and their locations with which you are currently involved or have previously been involved. 1d) Provide a listing of employers within the last five years who are currently accessible; include a telephone number and point of contact. Subfactors are listed in descending order of importance with 1b and 1c being of equal importance. 2. Current Capabilities. 2a) Describe your data management experience: demonstrated ability for manipulating and organizing large amounts of data from a site into information useful to the allocation of responsibility for costs. 2b) Discuss demonstrated ability to handle legal issues in allocations, with an emphasis on CERCLA issues; 2c) Discuss process design experience: capability to design a process and to establish a timeframe for implementation of the allocation of costs among parties. 2d) Describe fate and transport analysis experience: ability to model and assess the movement of contaminants through specific media and to assess its ultimate destination and concentration. Subfactors listed are of equal importance. 3. Education and Affiliations. 3a) For the key personnel proposed for this action, provide information on educational accomplishment(s) including the names of colleges and universities attended, type of degree earned, and year(s) degree(s) were granted. 3b) Provide names of technical or professional societies or organizations related to education and areas of expertise. Subfactors listed are of equal importance. Interested parties must submit the information as outlined above to the Contracting Officer. After evaluation of the baseline criteria, EPA will develop an initial listing of candidate allocators. Based on evaluation of specific expertise and other factors as related to each site, a list of candidate allocators will be developed and submitted to PRPs for selection of a site allocator. Interested parties are advised that the EPA has implemented substantial procedural guidelines to ensure that the Agency component which will participate in the qualifying process for allocators shall not be the same entity which represents the Agency in the allocation voting process. PRPs at each site will vote by ranking the list of candidates in order of preference. All PRPs will return their votes to the EPA for tabulation. Prior to the voting process, candidate allocators shall supply additional information to the EPA to conduct a conflict of interest screen. The Contracting Officer shall make the final COI determination. Upon selection of the site allocator, the Contracting Officer shall request a technical and cost proposal. Any negotiations that may be necessary shall be conducted between the selected allocator and the EPA Contracting Officer. No Request for Proposal (RFP) or solicitation or other announcement of this opportunity will be made. (124)

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