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Be familiar with the general format for site assessments for property transactions and for remediation by regulatory agencies.
Be familiar with the kinds of background information that are needed for establishing compliance history, assessing need for additional or new data, designing new information/data gathering activity, ensuring safety of the investigators and public, and protecting the rights of the responsible
Be familiar with site assessment factors such as information-gathering activity appropriate to the problem site, behavior of site owner/manager, severity of the health/environmental threat, health and welfare of the public, safety of workers on the site, and the applicable laws and regulations.
Understand the importance of record keeping, documentation, and chainof-custody procedures, irrespective of the nature of the corrective action contemplated.
Identify two sets of circumstances that might bring about the necessity for a background report on a former site.
A “Phase I” review of a site would not normally include extensive groundwater sampling. True? False?
Review the meanings of “strict” liability and “joint and several” liability and their implications for present or potential property owners, “responsible parties,” contractors performing site clean-ups, others.
Why would facility owners be reluctant to have environmental audits preformed on their facility — even if performed by a private contractor/consultant?
How might a facility owner maintain confidentiality of the contractor’s findings?
Why are inspection policies, sampling procedures, and records review procedures of regulatory agencies of concern to the facility owner/operator?
Since you may frequently need to refer to the ASTM standard for Phase I Site Assessments, how would you go about obtaining a copy? Did you try to do so?
Be familiar with the technologies that may be employed in site remediation, e.g., on-site containment, solidification/stabilization, chemical treatment, bioremediation and destruction; “pump-and-treat” regimes; natural attenuation; extraction; off-site treatment and disposal; and related RCRA1
Understand the respective roles of RCRA and CERCLA in site remediation.
Be familiar with “How Clean is Clean” issues, the basis for them, some resolutions thereof, and the roles assigned to risk assessment in the remediation processes.
Be familiar with the National Contingency Plan, the “blueprint” role of the NCP in site remediation, how to find the NCP and how to maintain or ensure currency with it.
Understand the linkages between hazardous waste site remediation, the Brownfields Initiative, and environmental justice issues.
What are the distinctions between “biological treatment” and “bioremediation” of hazardous wastes?
The text briefly discusses two methods of in situ remediation methods that involve heating of the contaminated soil. One is termed _______________ and is an example of a _______________ method. The other method is referred to as _______________ and is an example of a _______________ method.
Macroencapsulation and microencapsulation are remediation techniques that appear to hold promise. How do they differ?
Critics have recently complained of disappointing effectiveness and greater than anticipated time and cost of “pump-and-treat” groundwater remediation technology. Discuss possible alternatives for a generalized groundwater contamination cleanup project.
Discuss how a “numeric national cleanup goal” might be formulated. How might it be applied?
Discuss developments, changes, impacts of Superfund legislation that may have occurred since preparation of this edition (late 2000).
Be familiar with the hazards associated with the traditional “red bag wastes,” methods to minimize the hazards, and current criteria for managing the wastes.
Be familiar with the traditional sanitarian approach to biomedical waste management and the impacts of the AIDS epidemic and the 1988 beach washups on the Atlantic seaboard.
Understand the regulatory approach of the Subtitle J regulations (40 CFR 259) and the use of the tracking form.
Be familiar with regulatory developments and trends which are reordering options for management of medical/biomedical/infectious wastes.
Red-bagged wastes are usually placed in a rigid container for shipment.Why is this necessary?
How do criteria for ultimate disposal of RCRA hazardous wastes differ from those for infectious waste?
Why are sharps considered so dangerous to infectious waste handlers?Why must unused discarded sharps be managed as if they had been used?
The van body of an infectious waste transport truck is not acceptable as a “rigid container.” Why not?
What is meant by “starved air” incineration as in infectious waste incineration? Why is it considered good design for an infectious waste incinerator?
What is the major concern regarding atmospheric emissions from infectious waste incinerators?
Be conversant with basic radioactivity, uses of nuclear energy, and problems of nuclear waste contamination.
Understand the basic physiological and human health effects of penetrating ionizing radiation and approaches to protection from exposure for workers and the public.
Have an understanding of the magnitude of the nuclear waste management problem in the U.S., the causes, and the impediments to timely remedy thereof.
Be conversant with the four separate and distinct types of radioactive wastes and with the management.
Be similarly conversant with the generation, special problems of management, and regulatory requirements imposed upon handlers of “mixed wastes.”
The text discusses four types of radiation, three of which may be of concern in managing radioactive waste. One type probably will not be encountered on a radioactive waste site. Discuss.
If α-particles are so easily attenuated (i.e., by a paper barrier), why is this type radiation of concern to hazardous or radioactive waste workers?
Physiological effects of radiation on man are classified as somatic or genetic. Explain the terms and their implications.
Occupational exposure to radioactive materials is limited by 40 CFR 20 to 50 rems per year to each of several organs, but only 5 rems total body exposure. Explain!
Three radioactive repository/storage sites are in various stages of development in the U.S. Identify them and the types of wastes to be managed at each.
What is meant by RCRA “mixed waste”? Why is it a major problem (a)from a technical standpoint and (b) from a regulatory standpoint?
Most TRU wastes are relatively mild in terms of radioactivity. Why, then, is TRU to be managed in deep underground repositories? What special management problems attend TRU wastes?
Some of the LLW disposal compact memberships are not noteworthy for geographical contiguity nor proximity. What problems do you foresee in this regard?
Considering overall history of development, what problems do the Yucca Mountain, WIPP, and Ward Valley sites have in common? As a future policy-maker/implementer, how would you develop and implement plans for a future site in a manner that would avoid the controversies that have attended the three
Understand the nature and magnitude of the environmental threat of leaking underground storage tanks.
Understand the causes of underground storage tank and piping failures.
Be familiar with the theories and practice of internal tank testing and external monitoring for leaks.
Be familiar with remediation measures, tank rehabilitation procedures, and requirements for new tank and piping installations.
Be conversant on the RCRA Subtitle I requirements for underground storage tank management.
Be conversant on the distinctions between migration of subsurface release of MTBE and releases of other gasoline components and know where to find current information on the problem.
Four factors result in releases from underground petroleum storage tanks.What are the factors? One of these is believed to be the most common cause of releases. Which one is that?
Describe/explain the galvanic corrosion process as it affects steel underground storage tanks.
How do sacrificial anodes protect underground storage tanks and piping?What other methods of corrosion protection/prevention are available for USTs.
Is the piping associated with underground storage tanks also subject to galvanic activity?
Why is testing of underground pressurized and suction piping associated with underground storage tanks considered to be so important?
The RCRA Subtitle I regulations (40 CFR 280) provide several leak detection options. What is meant by interstitial monitoring?
Discuss late and current findings regarding human health and environmental impacts of MTBE contamination of groundwater.
Under what circumstances is leak detection not required for UST piping?What is the rationale for that exception?
You’ve been notified by the attorney for your late uncle Harry that he left his old service station property to you. It has been padlocked since 1976.You decide to look the place over and find that there are at least two underground storage tanks that apparently have some petroleum product in
Understand the types of hazards that may be encountered by workers on hazardous waste sites.
Be familiar with actions and preventive measures that may or should be taken to minimize impacts of those hazards, during both routine and emergency conditions.
Be familiar with regulatory requirements for protection of worker health and safety on hazardous waste sites.
(Appendix) Identify the accounting items for which adjustments are made to the purchase price of goods acquired for resale when determining the cost of purchases. Assume that the firm uses the gross method of recording purchase discounts. LO70
4 What do you consider the key success factors (in light of the success criteria discussed in section 1.9) for implementing this special international project?
3 What barriers needed to be overcome? General question referring back to Chapter 1:
2 Is the knowledge management method handled well? Give the reasons for your answer.
1 What type of project learning method does the GPPS constitute?
3 Where do you see the link between ‘projectized’ organizations, project learning, and the learning organization?
2 What measures can be taken to enable project learning in an international context?
1 Where do you see the greatest impediments to learning in and from projects?
3 To support the training and development of site engineers.
2 To value engineer tenders and ongoing projects.
1 To contribute towards putting together tenders.
2 How was knowledge created and transferred? (Base your answer on the SECI cycle.)
1 What kinds of problems impeding knowledge transfer in international projects can you identify?
4 Problems concerning the organization as a whole.
3 Communication problems impeding knowledge transfer.
2 Problems related to the inherent characteristics of a project.
1 Problems related to the cultural diversity of stakeholders.
11 deal with measures to enable and foster project learning in an international context?
10 apply methods to capture knowledge in international projects elucidate the main tasks, methods and output of the project completion phase
9 discuss the main impediments to learning in and from international projects
8 explain the interaction between culture and knowledge creation and transfer
7 know the knowledge creation circle and the knowledge management circle
6 understand knowledge and knowledge management
5 assess the importance of organizational learning
4 Outline the ground rules for efficient co-operation in the transnational development team that could have avoided the conflicts.
3 What reasons for the conflicts between the US and the German project administration offices can you identify?
2 Create a suitable communication governance system (cf. Figure 9.5) on behalf of the American project manager. You are free to add information not given in the text based on your own assumptions.
1 Where do you see the differences in communication style between the US-Americans and Germans?
3 Suppose you are an international project manager: how do you cope with diversity?
2 Where do you see the impact of culture (national, organizational, functional)coming on attitudes towards conflict and conflict resolution strategies?
1 In your opinion, what roles does trust play in international co-operation?
3 If you were the facilitator, what would you do to get the project back on track?
2 Conflicts can be solved in a bilateral process, with the parties involved exchanging their views, or unilaterally, with typically the more powerful party trying to impose their solution on the other people involved.
1 A direct or indirect approach to conflict resolution is taken.
3 What would you suggest in order to solve this intra-organizational conflict? Base your answer on the structural topics discussed in Chapter 6 and communication as discussed in Chapter 9.
2 Quality of communication: do they communicate frequently and with a minimum of misunderstanding?

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