RPM COURSE in SF

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

SITE REMEDIATION COURSE IN SAN FRANCISCO
February-March, 1997

For the second year, I am participating in a team-taught UC Berkeley 
Extension course for Remedial Project Managers (or environmental 
professionals seeking to become RPMs). The following is the official 
course announcement:

Lenny Siegel

STRATEGIES FOR SITE REMEDIATION: A CASE STUDY APPROACH

In this course you learn to develop and implement integrated strategies 
to achieve site remediation project objectives. Using a series of 
principles and remediation project tools that apply to a wide variety 
of site mitigation projects, you review case histories in the sequence 
normally ascribed to the Superfund processs, critique the actual 
decisions made, and discuss other approaches. You work in teams as you 
analyze case histories, explore alternatives, and decide upon 
appropriate actions.

* The Chevron Chemical-Tifton, Georgia case is present by Project 
Manager, Jeff Wyatt.

* The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-Main Site and the 
LLNL-Site 300 cases are presented by project managers Albert Lamarre 
and John Ziagos.

* The Hillview-Porter Site (Palo Alto) case is present by Alfred 
Wanger, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control project 
officer.

* Lenny Siegel, Director of the Pacific Studies Center [and SFSU 
CAREER/PRO], leads a discussion of public participation and community 
issues related to Superfund projects.

These cases and discussions represent the viewpoints of private 
enterprise PRPs (potentially responsible parties), federal government 
PRPs, regulators responsible for Superfund projects, and organizers of 
community action committees for Superfund projects. Cases deal with 
issues like voluntary versus involuntary remediation, privately versus 
publicly funded remediation, single versus multiple PRPs, and different 
regulatory statutes that govern State Sites or National Priorities List 
(NPL) Sites. You examine such issues as avoiding NPL listing; 
developing strategies to form partnering arrangements among PRPs, 
regulators, and community action committees; the value of PRPs' 
encouraging and perhaps funding community action committees; organizing 
multiple PRP groups; and strategies on whether or not to pursue legal action.

Howard Hatayama, M.S., is the director of Environment, Safety, Health, 
Laboratory Administration, for the UC Office of the President

Richard J. Woodward, II, Ph.D., is with The Woodward Consulting Group 
in Oakland.

February 28-March 1 and March 14-15: Fri.-Sat., 8:30 am-5 pm
San Francisco: UC Extension Downtown, 150 Fourth St., Suite 675
$395 (EDP 256172)

To enroll call 510/642-4111.