[CPEO-BIF] Report on the National Stakeholders' Panel on Vapor Intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Report on the National Stakeholders' Panel on Vapor Intrusion

Lenny Siegel
San Diego, California
March 12, 2008

In the evening of March 12, 2008, five community stakeholders presented 
to a roomful of more than one hundred vapor intrusion professionals at 
the National Stakeholders' Forum on Vapor Intrusion, sponsored by U.S. 
EPA in conjunction with the Association for Environmental Health and 
Sciences Spring 2008 meeting in San Diego. Each stakeholder represented 
a neighborhood contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs). 
Written answers from four of the stakeholders - to questions provided by 
event organizers - were handed out. The community presenters were Debra 
Hall from Hopewell Junction, New York; Bruce Oldfield from Hillcrest, 
New York; Mary Moore from Phoenix, Arizona; Jane Horton, from Mountain 
View, California; and Robert Dorr, from Providence, Rhode Island.

The event provided an unusual opportunity for consultants, government 
officials, and others to hear from the people directly impacted by vapor 
intrusion contamination, investigation, and response. The speakers were 
selected for their level of experience; they demonstrated a technical 
sophistication not normally found when the vapor intrusion question is 
first introduced into any community. Despite the late hour, the audience 
was attentive. In general, evaluations showed that the audience was 
impressed by the stakeholder presentations. For many, this was an 
unusual opportunity. One evaluator explained, "I have been in the VI 
industry for over 6 years and [have] never seen the personal side of my 
industry." A number of evaluators expressed concern that too much time 
was spent on the background/introductory portion of the evening's agenda.

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To download the entire 11-page report as a 960 KB PDF file, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/SanDiegoVIReport.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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