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A -- EXPEDITED SITE CHARACTERIZATION SOL ESC-PSA-98-01 POC Technical POC: Dr. Martin Edelson; edelson@ameslab.gov, phone: 515.294.4987, fax: 515.294.1230, mail: Ames Laboratory, 130 Spedding Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011 E-MAIL: Click here to contact cummings@ameslab.gov or edelson@ameslab.gov, Contracting POC: Jack Cummings, cummings@ameslab.gov; Technical POC: Martin Edelson, edelson@ameslab.gov. The Ames Laboratory, a Department of Energy Laboratory managed by Iowa State University, is seeking expressions of interest from firms or other organizations who may wish: to learn the "Expedited Site Characterization"(ESC) environmental site assessment methodology; to volunteer an ESC demonstration site; to acquire assistance planning and managing an ESC site assessment project; or who may wish to have an ESC environmental site assessment project conducted. ESC is a field-proven methodology for environmental site assessment. It varies from traditional methods of environmental site assessment in significant ways. It requires the development and management of a multi-disciplinary core team, who plan and manage the project and are engaged in real-time data acquisition and interpretation, who engage in in-field decison-making, and who produce a dynamic environmental assessment and remediation workplan. The first phase of the work uses multiple non-intrusive or minimally-intrusive hydrogeological techniques to establish the hydogeology for one's conceptual site model. The next phase focuses upon the chemical contaminants within the now-established site model. Cost and time effective turn-around is assured by using on-site mobile laboratories . A comprehensive quality assurance plan is developed to assign quality attributes to all historical and contemporarily-gathered information, and all of this is maintained in a unified database to assure the quality of the information used in ESC decison-making. As practiced by the Ames Laboratory, ESC also emphasizes the proactive involvement of one's regulatory partners in this field-process. The ESC process varies from traditional site assessment methodologies in other ways as well. Regulators are accepting ESC because of its strategy of proactive regulatory involvement, because the high quality of the data produced by the ESC process leads to better decision-making, and because these combine to move projects to their clean-up phase well ahead of conventional site assessment methodologies. Site owners are accepting ESC because it breaks the lengthy and expensive iterative cycle of site analysis, survey planning, field-sampling, off-site sample analysis, data interpretation, site re-analysis and re-survey (all of which may take years before leading to real remedial action). The Ames Laboratory's ESC team leader is recognized as one of the most effective ESC field-managers in the DoE community, he has successfully introduced significant innovations into the ESC model, and he is co-author of the recent ASTM ESC standard. This announcement IS NOT a procurement solicitation. Any firm or organization that enters into a formal partnership agreement will be expected to work under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), a Work For Others (WFO) agreement, or a related contracting instrument. This request for expressions of interest will close within 60 days of publication. Interested parties should contact Dr. Edelson at: "edelson@ameslab.gov", phone: 515.294.4987, fax: 515.294.1230. See also http://www.etd.ameslab.gov/etd.overview or http://www.edt.ameslab. gov/etd/technologies/projects/esc/index.html (0047)

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