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AFCEE Emerging Issues Program
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AFCEE
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Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Contaminants overview
Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Heavy metals
Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Others
Diffuse pollution-->Contaminants-->Pesticides
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The AFCEE Emerging Issues (EI) Program continues to develop data-driven information to support the AF Environmental Restoration Program's questions and needs regarding 'emerging contaminants' (ECs) at restoration sites. For environmental restoration purposes, EC's are site-specific based on regional or state regulatory standards and/or site-specific conditions, and will fall under one of two general classes: (1) ECs may be 'emerging' because the compounds have never been considered at environmental restoration sites, (i.e. have never been included as a Contaminant of Potential Concern (COPC)), and have substantial data gaps regarding extent of AF contamination, sufficient analytical methods, and/or toxicity of the EC, (2) a contaminant may be 'emerging' due to a revision to or change in that compound's regulatory risk drivers, (i.e. regulatory standards are changing, however the AF already has systems or strategies in place to address the EC; e.g. TCE). Currently, the EI Program is filling key data-gaps for perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), supplying needs and objectives for AFCEE Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) addressed innovative remediation technologies of 1,4-dioxane and PFCs, and developing RACER cost estimates to determine the financial requirements necessary to delineate 1,4-dioxane and hexavalent chromium under Performance Based Remediation (PRB) at an enterprise-scale.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 01/05/2012
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