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AFCEE PBM Guidance
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This guide was issued by the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment (AFCEE) to support environmental project teams responsible for implementing the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP). It reflects the Air Force's continuing commitment to demonstrate protectiveness and to meet necessary, feasible, and reasonable environmental cleanup obligations in the most effective and efficient manner possible. This Performance-Based Management (PBM) guide is designed to provide an overview of the PBM initiative and direct the reader to more detailed guidance on each of the components of PBM.
The Air Force Performance-Based Management (PBM) initiative provides a framework for initiating environmental cleanup actions and optimizing those actions as they progress. Application of PBM is required by the Air Force Cleanup Program Performance-Based Management Policy1, Air Force Instruction 32-7020, and the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) for all active Air Force installations and those in the base realignment and closure (BRAC) program.
The Air Force recognized that many of its cleanup actions were not performing as originally expected and began to develop guidance for optimizing performance. The first was the Long-Term Monitoring Optimization Guide, released by the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment (AFCEE) in October 1997. Optimization of treatment system equipment was addressed the following year by a joint Army, Navy, and Air Force effort that resulted in the Remedial Systems Evaluation (RSE) guidelines and optimization checklists that are available from the Army Corps of Engineers2. The RSE approach looks at the performance and maintenance of individual pieces of remediation equipment (e.g., extraction well performance). The Air Force's Remedial Process Optimization (RPO) initiative (in 2000) took a broader view of remediation program optimization by addressing the performance of the selected remedial technologies. RPO considers whether the technology can be optimized or whether a change of technology would be appropriate at that point in time. Optimization was broadened in 2004 by the release of guidance for assessing the remedial action objectives (RAOs) that form the basis of the cleanup effort. Basically, an objectives assessment (OA) addresses the question, "Are we headed toward the appropriate goal?" These and other components form the core of PBM.
1 SAF/IEE, October 27, 2004.
2 RSE guidelines and checklist documents are available from the USACE Web site at http://www.environmental.usace.army.mil/rse_checklist.htm.
Performance-Based Management Remedial Objectives Assessment - Using the Statutory Tests of Performance to Develop Achievable Response-Action Completion Strategies (Draft Final, June 2004) - 1956 KB
This guide was issued by the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment (AFCEE) to support environmental project teams responsible for implementing the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP). It reflects the Air Force's continuing commitment to demonstrate protectiveness and to meet necessary, feasible, and reasonable environmental cleanup obligations in the most effective and efficient manner possible. This Remedial Objectives Assessment guide is designed to help environmental project teams assess, document, and improve the protectiveness of implemented response decisions to achieve response complete in a reasonable time frame as part of the Performance-Based Management (PBM) initiative. This guide reviews how to assess remedial objectives by taking advantage of the flexibility inherent in the DERP Guidance and the iterative nature of cleanup programs under the Comprehensive Environmental Restoration, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended. Improving scientific and technical knowledge should be integrated into the various tests of performance provided by the environmental statutes, to demonstrate protectiveness while improving the rate of response-complete determinations.
A remedial objectives assessment uses current knowledge of the site and science to iteratively:
- Define the environmental problem by updating the conceptual site model (CSM) in order to validate or refine the protectiveness requirements and options
- Use the statutory-provided tests of performance to update applicable or relevant and appropriate requirement (ARAR) selection in order to ensure the necessity, feasibility, and reasonableness of the remedial action objectives
- Use comparative benefit/cost analysis techniques to ensure implementation of the most effective and efficient means to achieve protectiveness and realistic completion goals in a reasonable time frame without waste of national resources
Project teams are encouraged to take full advantage of innovations in environmental and performance data collection and evaluation techniques to improve CSMs, validate response-action decisions, optimize remedy performance, and expedite effective and efficient completion of environmental response actions.
DLA PBM Guidance
Performance-Based Environmental Restoration Management Assessment (PERMA): Applying Decision Analysis to Implement Achievable Response-Action Completion Plans (Revision 1, January 2004) - 938 KB
This Guide was issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) with support from AFCEE to clarify the requirements for implementing the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) at DLA installations. The Guide reflects DLA's continuing commitment to demonstrate and achieve protectiveness and to meet necessary, feasible, and reasonable environmental response-action obligations in the most effective and efficient manner possible. This PERMA Guide is designed to assist DLA environmental project teams (and others) to achieve response complete in a reasonable timeframe, while maintaining protectiveness of human health and the environment.
US Navy Guidance
The US Navy, through their Remediation Innovative Technology Seminar (RITS), has made several materials available discussing optimization guidance and policy/site closeout guidance, conceptual site models, technology optimization, and monitoring and optimization tools. In addition, through the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC), the US Navy has also written their own Guide to Optimal Groundwater Monitoring (January 2000) and Guidance for Optimizing Remedial Action Operation (RAO) (April 2001), as well as establishing their own Policy for Optimizing Remedial and Removal Actions (Apr 2004). See the AFCEE PBM Training web page for these documents and more.
Interstate Technical Regulatory Council (ITRC) Guidance
The ITRC recently published the document "Technical and Regulatory Guidance for the Triad Approach: A New Paradigm for Environmental Project Management." The technical/regulatory guidance document was prepared by the ITRC Sampling, Characterization and Monitoring (SCM) Team and serves to introduce new concepts regarding the manner in which environmental work is conducted. These new concepts can increase effectiveness and quality and save project money. These ideas aren't new but have been developed into a logical approach for environmental project management. Click here to download the document.
US EPA Triad Guidance
The US EPA supports the adoption of streamlined approaches to sampling, analysis, and data management activities conducted during site assessment, characterization, and cleanup. Under the name of "the Triad approach," the EPA is coordinating with other Federal and State agencies to develop an organized framework of work strategies that exploit new data collection and interpretation tools and advances in telecommunications to support real-time, field-based decision making. The Triad approach has been shown to decrease lifecycle costs for site investigation, cleanup, and monitoring, while increasing confidence in the protectiveness of project decisions. For more information regarding Triad, including fact sheets and educational, training, policy, and guidance materials, visit the EPA Triad web page.
Remedial Process Optimization (RPO) Guidance
Through the AFCEE Remedial Process Optimization (RPO) Outreach Office, RPO guidance is available from the DOD, the Air Force, AFCEE, and the US EPA. For more information about the AFCEE RPO Outreach Office and to access these guidance documents and more, visit the AFCEE RPO Outreach Office web page.
Long-term Monitoring Optimization Guide
This document was prepared to assist DOD installation managers in the optimization of their long-term monitoring (LTM) programs by identifying and applying the appropriate strategies and optimization tools. These strategies and tools should assure compliance with data quality objectives (DQOs) and quality assurance (QA) requirements to improve overall effectiveness while minimizing cost. This file expands to a series of Microsoft Word 6.0 documents, Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 slides and bitmap files. (1.7 Mb) - NOTE: This file extension must be changed to "EXE" for it to work properly.
Guidance for Contract Deliverables
This Guidance for Contract Deliverables (GCD) replaces and supersedes the 1993 Handbook for the Installation Restoration Program (IRP), Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Studies (RI/FS). The purpose of the GCD is to provide guidance to AFCEE contractors in performing work and preparing documents related to the IRP on active and closure bases. The GCD consists of six modules published by AFCEE. To access these files, visit the AFCEE PBM Quality Assurance web page.
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