Managing Risk
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A variety of risk management tools are available in a variety of platforms. The Risk Management Tools Exhibit provides a list of some of these tools, a description of their use, and a resource link for further information.
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The Triad Approach is an integrated approach using systematic planning, dynamic work plans, and real-time measurement technologies to achieve more cost effective hazardous waste site cleanup strategies.
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Used at sites with scheduling constraints to effectively plan an expedited yet effective approach to investigation, clean up and revitalization. The process is used to identify the barriers to clean up and revitalization and to provide a mechanism to implement changes to a “dynamic workplan” to prevent these barriers from impacting project progress.
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DIAS is an object-oriented software framework developed by Argonne National Laboratory designed to provide a flexible holistic framework for coupling information management, modeling, and simulation.
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DIAS makes it feasible to build and manipulate complex simulation scenarios in which many thousands of objects can interact via dozens to hundreds of concurrent dynamic processes. As an example, DIAS has been used to simulate a virtual maritime environment within which existing models are employed to simulate the transition of wind generated waves in the deep water to waves in the near shore environment, then to surf height and currents. DIAS allows for the use of several different model combinations according to the complexity of the shoreline and near shore sea bottoms.
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EPA has developed the Envirofacts Data Warehouse and Applications in order to provide public access to a variety of EPA databases. These databases may be queried together or individually, and applications are provided for access via maps.
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Information in Envirofacts is accessible in a variety of ways from their homepage. Users that are unfamiliar with Envirofacts should begin with the “Quick Start” feature, allowing them to retrieve a sampling of information pertaining to their specific area. More in-depth information is available about particular subject areas. Users may select from a list of available topics. Experienced users may be interested in the “Advanced Capabilities” option. This option allows users to go directly to the Queries, Maps, or Reports that interest them.
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FIELDS is an ArcView software extension whose mission is to “identify, assess, communicate and help solve priority environmental problems in specific geographic areas.” FIELDS is designed to help: identify and delineate the area of concern; manage and analyze the historical data from the site; design surveys to characterize the contamination or fill data gaps; analyze and visualize the data; assess the associated human health and environmental risk; determine goals and design and evaluate alternative solutions; communicate the problem and solutions to the agency and the public; design, monitor and evaluate the chosen solution.
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FIELDS applies the technology of an expert system to integrate administrative and professional intelligence with the technical capacity of ArcView 2.1. It has a built-in machine learning mechanism to enable users to accumulate knowledge or obtain insights from past system experience for formulating analytical tasks. With this added functionality, the system provides powerful analytic tools and flexible query builders for examining pollutant issues under various scenarios in priority geographic areas. The system also includes a customized field-data-entry module to facilitate in-field sampling activities.
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The Soil Screening Guidance (SSG) presents a framework for developing risk-based, soil screening levels (SSLs) for protection of human health. The framework provides a flexible, tiered approach to site evaluation and screening level development. The SSG focuses on a simple methodology for developing site-specific screening levels, but also includes detailed models and generic SSLs to be used where site conditions warrant.
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Screening levels are not national cleanup levels, instead, they are intended to be used to streamline the evaluation and cleanup of site soils by helping site managers eliminate areas, pathways and/or chemicals of concern at National Priority List sites.
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Includes resources to assist in the identification and selection of innovative site characterization and cleanup technologies for site revitalization.
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The Road Map provides a generally applicable outline of the steps involved in the cleanup of a site slated for revitalization and introduces revitalization stakeholders to the range of innovative technology options and resources available to them.
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Software program that integrates visualization, geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, human health risk assessment, cost effective analysis, sampling design, and decision analysis.
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SADA is a free software that incorporates tools from environmental assessment fields into an effective problem-solving environment. Capabilities of SADA can be used independently or collectively to address site-specific concerns when characterizing a potentially contaminated site, assessing risk, and designing remedial action.
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Cost accounting and reporting system used on removal sites to track costs and usage of personnel, equipment, subcontractors, and purchases,
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Modules for cost tracking, cost projection, and invoicing.
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Provides public domain groundwater and vadose zone modeling software and services.
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The aim is to provide direct technical support to EPA and State decision makers in subsurface model applications and to manage and support the ground-water models and databases. This research encompasses the transport and fate of contaminants in the subsurface, the development of methodologies for protection and restoration of ground-water quality, and the evaluation of subsurface remedial technologies.
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Online application to help find, access, organize, use and share information to conduct causal evaluations in aquatic systems. Based on the EPA Stressor Identification process which is a formal method for identifying causes of impairments in aquatic systems.
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Contains a Step-by-Step Guide to conducting a causal analysis, example worksheets, a library of conceptual models, and information sources including related links, glossary and acronyms, and a reference section.
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