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Value Engineering and Remedy Resilience in the CERCLA Process

Course Note

This is a HYBRID course with both in-person and virtual attendance options. Please ensure that you are choosing for the correct attendance option.  

Course Overview

This training will provide two important sets of tools to RPMs to reduce the costs and improve the resilience of CERCLA remedies. Value Engineering (VE) is a structured process that can be used to reduce the costs of CERCLA remedies without sacrificing protectiveness or other functionality. This training will provide an introduction for EPA RPMs to VE federal policies, procedures, and best practices. The training will also explain how life cycle cost analysis and risk management can be used to evaluate and improve the resilience of a remedy, or its ability to adjust and remain capable of meeting remedial action objectives, despite challenges or changes that often arise. This will include R10 case studies, interactive sessions for participants, and reference material.

Audience

Priority registration will be given to EPA Region 10 Superfund RPMs. 
RPMs and other staff involved in Superfund site clean up such as OSCs and Technical Support staff from other regions will be permitted to attend as space permits.
 

Instructors

Cannon Silver, P.E. has more than 30 years of experience leading site investigations, feasibility studies, technology evaluations, remedial design, construction oversight, remedial system operations and maintenance, and optimization under CERCLA Superfund, RCRA and state programs. He has extensive experience serving in engineering and project management roles, and in interacting effectively with regulators and the public. His areas of technical expertise include innovative groundwater, sediment, and vapor treatment technologies, sustainability, and remedy resiliency. He serves as CDM Smith’s Resilience Discipline Leader for remediation projects.

 
Jeff Bamer, P.E. is a senior environmental engineer with 23 years of experience in the planning, design and application of in situ and ex situ soil, groundwater and soil vapor treatment systems and remediation processes, and oversight of construction, and serves as CDM Smith’s Discipline Lead for Remedial Design. He has experience in evaluating site data, developing design alternatives and cost estimates, managing design development, integrating input from multi-disciplinary teams to create effective remedial designs, permitting the construction and discharges of these systems, implementing these designs via conventional (design/bid/build) and alternative (design/build) delivery means, implementing and overseeing operation and maintenance (O&M) activities, optimizing existing systems, and performing third-party reviews.
 
Marc Schlebusch, P.E. has more than 27 years of experience with environmental regulations to hazardous waste site characterization, remedy design, cost estimation, remedy construction, and operation and maintenance. He has prepared cost estimates with values from less than $1 million to more than $100 million. His experience with remediation projects includes preparing cost estimates during the CERLCA and RCRA feasibility study process and for selected remedy construction. His experience with civil works projects includes preparing cost estimates during the planning process for project authorization and for construction contract bidding. He has participated in value engineering studies for both remediation and civil works projects and independent external panel reviews of complex civil works projects. 
For general information contact Jean Balent via e-mail at balent.jean@epa.gov

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