This cooperative agreement fully funds for $25,000 ohio EPA's program to perform short-term response activities

This agreement will provide a funding mechanism essential to ohio EPA's involvement in providing project coordination, communication, and field investigation assistance to US EPA's removal program. This work will also include soil sampling project coordination with US EPA and referral preparation activities associated with sampling project. This work plan will be coordinated with region 5'S ohio site assessment and removal personnel as site assistance is requested.activities:activities to be performed include the following short-term response actions. Support and coordination activities may include but are not limited to the following actions: 1. Coordinate and cooperate with EPA region 5'S emergency response branch and site assessment program in identifying priorities, participating in meetings/conference calls, information/data gathering and exchange and site inspections/field investigations, preparing site removal referrals, etc. 2. Collaborate and assist with the performance of integrated or combined removal action assessments, as requested by EPA's NPL coordinator and in coordination with EPA's region 5 emergency branch personnel. 3. Facilitate timely response action support. 4. Provide general field investigation activities and field investigation support including but not limited to contracting GEO probe and lab services, performing sampling activities, geophysical surveys, mapping and enhanced GPS services, hydrogeologic consultation, sediment coring services, RRT support, etc. Ohio EPA will contact EPA and seek approval on new potential site removal referrals prior to conducting any pre-referral site sampling and discuss the site(S) with EPA. In such instances, ohio EPA will provide EPA the opportunity to review and provide comment on site sampling work plans prior to implementation. Ohio EPA will only conduct such field activities under this CA if there ISA likelihood of a future site removal referral. 5. Participate in outreach activities, as necessary. 6. Identify potential applicable or relevant and appropriate requirements (ARARS), as appropriate. 7. Review documents (including but not limited to finalized enforcement agreements and action memoranda as they pertain to site strategies, etc.) upon request. 8. Assist with obtaining access agreements and establishing institutional controls upon request.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated and expected outcomes and deliverables are: 1. Assistance with removal activities in cooperation with EPA region 5'S emergency response branch at existing sites and sites that have yet to be discovered/determined. 2. Accomplishing pillar 1: clean air, land, and water for every american and pillar 3: permitting reform, cooperative federalism, and cross-agency partnership the intended beneficiaries are: the US EPA, ohio EPA, the state of ohio and the nearly 12 million residence of ohio.