Enclosure 1 - Acronyms and Definitions_04162020.pdf

Enclosure 1: Acronyms and Definitions

ACRONYMS

AF Air Force

AFCEC Air Force Civil Engineer Center

AFF Aqueous Film Forming Foam

AGC Advanced Geophysical Classification

APP Accident Prevention Plan

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

BCE Base Civil Engineer

BRAC Base Realignment and Closure

CAC Common Access Cards

CADD Computer-Aided Design And Drafting

CD Compact Discs

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CIP Common Installation Picture

CLIN Contract Line Item Number

CMRA Contractor Manpower Reporting Application

COC Contaminants of Concern

CONUS Continental United States

COR Contracting Officer’s Representative

CPSMR Contractor’s Progress, Status, and Management Report

CQP Construction Quality Plan

CSDGM Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

CSM Conceptual Site Model

CWM Chemical Warfare Material

DAGCAP DoD Advanced Geophysical Classification Accreditation Program

DD Decision Document

DERP Defense Environmental Restoration Program

DLH Data Loading Handbook

DoD Department of Defense

DOT Department of Transportation

ELAP Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program

EMS Environmental Management System

EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal

ERP Environmental Restoration Program

ERPIMS Environmental Resources Program Information Management System

ESD Explanation of Significant Differences

ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute's

ESTCP Environmental Security Technology Certification Program

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation

FFA Federal Facility Agreement

FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee

FS Feasibility Study

FUSRAP Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

FY Fiscal Year

GCO Geophysical Classification Organization

GFI Government Furnished Information

GFP Government Furnished Property

GIO Geospatial Integration Office

GIS Geographic Information System

GPS Global Positioning Systems

GSR Green and Sustainable Remediation

HSP Health and Safety Plan

HTRW Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste

IBC International Building Code

IDW Investigation Derived Waste

IMS Integrated Master Schedule

IRP Installation Restoration Program

ITRC Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council

LCC Life-cycle Cost

LTM Long Term Management

MC Munitions Constituents

MCL Maximum Contaminant Level

MDL Master Document List

MDS Mission Data Set

MEC Munitions and Explosives of Concern

MMRP Military Munitions Response Program

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MPS Milestone Payment Schedule

NACE National Association of Corrosions Engineers

NCP National Oil and Hazardous Substances Contingency Plan

NEC National Electrical Code

NFA No Further Action

NFPA National Fire Protection Association

NPL National Priorities List

O&M Operations and Maintenance

OGC Office of the General Counsel

ORC Optimized Remediation Contract

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

OSWER Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (USEPA)

PAO Public Affairs Officer

PCB Polychlorinated Biphenyls

PFBS Perfluorobutane Sulfonate

PFOA Perfluorooctanoic Acid

PFOS Perfluorooctane Sulfonate

PMP Project Management Plan

PMR Project Management Review

PO Performance Objectives

POC Point of Contact

POP Period of Performance (overall contract/task order)

PP Performance Period (specific to Performance Objective)

PWS Performance Work Statement

QASP Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

QPP Quality Program Plan

QSM Quality Systems Manual

RA-O Remedial Action-Operation

RAO Remedial Action Objectives

RAB Restoration Advisory Board

RC Response Complete

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RECAP Risk Evaluation Corrective Action Program

REMG Resident Engineer Management Guide

RFI RCRA Facility Investigation

RI Remedial Investigation

RIP Remedy in Place

ROD Records of Decision

SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

SC Site Closeout

SDSFIE Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment

SHM Safety and Health Manager

SSHP Site Safety and Health Plan

SSI Supplemental Site Investigation

SSPC Steel Structures and Painting Counsel

TCE Trichloroethene

UFC Uniform Fire Code

USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers

DEFINITIONS

The definitions included in this Enclosure were adapted from the following sources:

1. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Site Remediation Program

Technical Guidance for Preparation and Submission of a Conceptual Site Model dated 16

December 2011.

2. Air Force Instruction 32-7020 dated 7 November 2014.

3. Council on Environmental Quality Aligning National Environmental Policy Act

Processes with Environmental Management Systems, A Guide for NEPA and EMS

Practitioners dated April 2007.

4. Interstate Technical Regulatory Council Green and Sustainable Remediation: A Practical

Framework dated November 2011.

5. Air Force Civil Engineer Center Optimized Exit Strategy Compendium for Performance-

Based Remediation dated October 2014.

6. 42 U.S. Code § 9601 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and

Liability Act Definitions.

7. United States Environmental Protection Agency Guide to Preparing Superfund Proposed

Plans, Records of Decision, and Other Remedy Selection Decision Documents dated July

1999.

8. National Academies Press Contaminants in the Subsurface: Source Zone Assessment and

Remediation dated 2005.

In the case where the definition provided below does not align with the source reference, the source reference shall prevail.

Definitions

Alternate Objective See PWS Section 1.2.7.

Conceptual Site Model1 A written and/or illustrative representation of the physical, chemical and biological processes that control the transport, migration and actual/potential impacts of contamination (in soil, air, ground water, surface water and/or sediments) to human and/or ecological receptors. It can range from a simple illustration to a more sophisticated comprehensive document and applied to all phases of the remedial process to understand the relationship between sources, migration pathways, and receptors associated with the site or area of concern and identified COCs. It serves to identify currently complete or potentially complete pathways to receptors and the potential for future risks. It should be continually revised to reflect the current understanding of the site during all phases of the investigation, remediation and support the remedial decision.

Decision Document2 A generic name for the document that selects a response action under all legal authorities. All DDs, including PPs and RODs, must go through legal and technical review. The remedial action objectives defined in the DD will be used later in the environmental restoration process to confirm and demonstrate that DOD has met the obligations established in the DD.

Draft Document Document submitted for AF and USACE review and approval. In all respects, Draft Documents shall be complete; substantively correct and consistent with applicable laws, regulations, and DoD/AF policies; in proper format; and free of grammatical and typographical errors. In general, Draft Documents are the initial version reviewed by AF and USACE. Draft Documents shall not be submitted to regulatory agencies for review.

Draft Final Document Document incorporating AF and USACE comments and submitted for regulatory agency review and/or approval. Draft Final Documents may also be required prior to Final Document preparation. Note some documents may initially be submitted to the regulatory agencies as Final with any comments being incorporated into subsequent documents as appropriate (e.g., system status reports, monitoring reports, “data dumps”).

Emerging

Contaminant2

Contaminants that either (1) do not have regulatory standards based on peer-reviewed science, or (2) contaminants that have the regulatory standards which may change due to new science, detection capabilities, or pathways.

Environmental

Management System3

A structure of procedures and policies used to systematically identify, evaluate, and manage environmental impacts of ongoing activities, products, and services.

Designed to provide order and consistency for organizations to address environmental concerns in a comprehensive manner, an EMS for a Federal agency is intended to ensure that all necessary actions are taken to integrate environmental accountability into day-to-day decision-making and long-term planning processes.

An EMS employs a continuous, rigorous, self-monitoring cycle for continual improvement of environmental performance.

Exit Strategy See PWS Section 8.1.2.

Final Document Document that has received AF and USACE approval, and where applicable, regulatory agency concurrence and/or approval. For documents requiring AF and/or regulatory agency signature, the document will not be considered Final until it is signed by the appropriate signatory(ies).

Green and Sustainable Remediation4

The site-specific employment of products, processes, technologies, and procedures that mitigate contaminant risk to receptors while making decisions that are cognizant of balancing community goals, economic impacts, and net environmental effects.

Land Use Control2 Any type of physical, legal, proprietary or administrative mechanism that restricts the use of, or limits access to, real property to prevent or reduce risks to human health and the environment. Physical mechanisms (i.e., engineering controls) encompass a variety of engineered remedies to contain or reduce contamination and physical barriers to limit access to property, such as landfill caps, fences, or signs. The legal, proprietary, or administrative mechanisms used for LUCs are generally the same as those used for Institutional Controls (ICs), as discussed in the National Contingency Plan. Examples of ICs include deed notices; IC registries, property easements and covenants; installation administrative controls, such as construction and work request review and approval processes; and administrative orders and cleanup agreements.

Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) An estimate of POP and post-POP costs based on proposed activities, activity duration, and assumptions from contract award through Contractor’s projected Site

Closeout date (or 30 years for sites with indefinite closeout dates).

Long-Term

Management2

Environmental monitoring, review of site conditions, and maintenance of a remedial action to ensure continued protection as designed once a site achieves

Response Complete. LTM includes operation and maintenance which are the measures required to maintain the effectiveness of response actions. LTM should not be used until no further environmental restoration response actions are appropriate or anticipated. LTM should not be used to refer to monitoring after

RIP (this includes sites for which the selected response action is natural attenuation). Examples of LTM include landfill cap maintenance, leachate disposal, fence monitoring and repair, management of five-year review execution, and LUC maintenance.

Note: the requirements for Five-Year Reviews are in accordance with the PWS and may not be included in LTM required under ORCs.

Optimized

Remediation

Contract

A contract that will effectively and efficiently manage the Air Force ERP in a performance-based, results-oriented, and cost conscious framework. One significant component will be the incorporation of lessons learned during PBRs in the development of ORC performance objectives. ORCs will be firm fixed price contracts and generally cover all known sites at an installation. Contractors will be incentivized to achieve performance objectives in keeping with the end state of choice as determined by a business case analysis of total life cycle cost with the objective of minimizing future Air Force liability and cost to the greatest degree feasible. While that end state of choice is generally RC, ORCs will utilize existing site data to inform realistic performance objective selection.

Performance Goal5 A standard being used to define when an effort has achieved satisfactory performance for a site for which the Performance Objective is OES. In a

Performance Model, it is the value for a specific Performance Indicator that distinguishes success from failure of the implemented approach. As such, the

Performance Goal is the pass/fail criterion for a given Performance Indicator.

Performance Indicator5 A measurable or calculable feature of an approach, system, or process that provides direct interpretive value with respect to (1) remedial mechanisms or (2) achievement of a remedial objective.

Performance Metric5 A unit of measure for a Performance Indicator.

Performance Model5 A predictive graphic model that describes the expected course of the remediation process (i.e., how conditions are expected to change over time as measured using appropriate Performance Indicators from the current state until the Performance

Goal is achieved).

Performance

Objective

The contractually required endpoint, status, condition, or requirement.

Performance

Period

The contractually required duration to achieve the Performance Objective.

Performance Standard The condition that must be satisfied to demonstrate a Performance Objective has been achieved.

Record of Decision2 The document required by CERCLA containing the final decision and statutory determinations of the lead agency concerning selection of the remedial action at a site(s). This includes any preliminary phase of a remedial action, such as an interim remedial action, which would require an interim ROD.

Reduce Life-Cycle

Cost

See PWS Section 1.2.5.

Remedial Action6 Those actions consistent with permanent remedy taken instead of or in addition to removal actions in the event of a release or threatened release of a hazardous substance into the environment, to prevent or minimize the release of hazardous substances so that they do not migrate to cause substantial danger to present or future public health or welfare or the environment. The term includes, but is not limited to, such actions at the location of the release as storage, confinement, perimeter protection using dikes, trenches, or ditches, clay cover, neutralization, cleanup of released hazardous substances and associated contaminated materials, recycling or reuse, diversion, destruction, segregation of reactive wastes, dredging or excavations, repair or replacement of leaking containers, collection of leachate and runoff, onsite treatment or incineration, provision of alternative water supplies, and any monitoring reasonably required to assure that such actions protect the public health and welfare and the environment. The term includes the costs of permanent relocation of residents and businesses and community facilities where the President determines that, alone or in combination with other measures, such relocation is more cost-effective than and environmentally preferable to the transportation, storage, treatment, destruction, or secure disposition offsite of hazardous substances, or may otherwise be necessary to protect the public health or welfare; the term includes offsite transport and offsite storage, treatment, destruction, or secure disposition of hazardous substances and associated contaminated materials.

Remedial Action –

Construction2

The period of time in which a response action is being implemented, but is not yet operating as designed. At the end of this phase of work, a remedy is in place.

Remedial Action

Objectives7

Describe what the proposed site cleanup is expected to accomplish.

Note: these are generally defined in the DD.

Remedial Action -

Operation2

The period of time that a selected remedy must operate before achieving remedial action objectives. At the end of this phase of work, the response is complete.

Remedial Design7 An engineering phase during which additional technical information and data identified are incorporated into technical drawings and specifications developed for the subsequent remedial action. These specifications are based upon the detailed description of the selected remedy and the cleanup criteria provided in the ROD.

Remedy in

Place2

Designation that a final remedial action has been constructed, is functional, and is operating as planned in the RD and would be expected to meet the remedial action objectives detailed in the DD. Examples of RIP are a soil vapor extraction system or an in situ chemical treatment system that is installed and operating as designed and for which performance data indicate the system will achieve remedial action objectives, thus demonstrating proper operation of the system. Because remedial action objectives have not been met, the site cannot be considered RC.

Response

Complete2

A milestone signifying that the DoD Component has met the remedial action objectives for a site, documented the determination, and sought regulatory agreement. RC signifies that DoD has determined at the end of the PA/SI or RI that no additional response action is required; achieved RIP and the required RA-

O has achieved the remedial action objectives; or where there is no RA-O phase, then the remedial action-construction has achieved the remedial action objectives.

LTM may occur after RC is achieved and precedes Site Closeout.

Site Closeout2 The stage at which the DoD has completed active management and monitoring at an environmental restoration site, and no additional environmental restoration funds will be expended at the site. SC occurs when environmental restoration goals have been achieved that allow unlimited use and unrestricted exposure of the property (e.g., no further LTM, including LUCs, is required).

Note: achieving Site Closeout may include, but not be limited to, the dismantling, removal, recycling, reclamation and/or disposal of all remedial activity systems and ancillary equipment above and underground to return the site to its natural state, well abandonment, and site restoration in accordance with Installation and regulatory requirements.

Source Strength8 The mass of contaminant present in the source zone and its flux from the source zone to the larger groundwater plume. The source strength is intended to convey information not only about the longevity of the source, but also about the size of the plume that would be created due to the flux from the source. Source-strength evaluations shall quantitatively determine the magnitude of each source relative to observed transport and attenuation rates and shall include all applicable

COCs. Data gap evaluations to delineate the extent of source-zone contamination shall be performed consistent with state-of-the-science methodologies (e.g., application of high resolution aquifer profiling, DNAPL partitioning tracer tests, vapor-phase tomography, downhole geophysics) and guidance.

Source Zone Delineation8

The location of a primary contaminant source in the subsurface (both horizontally and vertically) to include all applicable phase partitioning (e.g., NAPL, sorbed, dissolved, and vapor) and distribution into low permeability materials.