RTM Communications, Inc. Presents their Latest Seminar

Vapor Intrusion Affecting Contaminated Property Deals & Redevelopments

[January 23, 2008 - January 23, 2008]
Address: Holiday Inn Riverwalk
217 North St. Mary’s St.
San Antonio, TX
78205-2303, USA

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Whether you are an environmental professional, prospective buyer/developer, seller, site owner, lender or insurer, virtually all stakeholders in a real property transaction can be adversely affected by vapor intrusion (VI) problems. All types of sites can be affected, especially those that have petroleum or solvent related contamination. Brownfield sites are logical candidates for vapor intrusion based on their history of former commercial and industrial use affecting soils and ground water. With most state voluntary cleanup programs using risk-based cleanup standards and institutional controls, it is important that responsible parties and their consultants involved in the site investigation, cleanup and redevelopment consider vapor intrusion pathways. One of the challenges to the use of risk-based cleanups and institutional controls is vapor intrusion causing once closed sites to be reopened.

This vapor intrusion session in focus will cover the following: 1) industry standards and practices such as the ASTM standard for VI assessments for real estate transactions, 2) the tiers for screening and assessing site conditions, establishing risk-based cleanup standards 3) methods and modeling VI pathways at petroleum and chlorinated solvent sites, 4) use of mitigation systems and institutional and engineering controls use of mitigation systems 5) case law and recent litigation and 6) lessons learned involving the buyers, sellers, consultants and insurers risk engineering and claim analysis.

8:30 - 9:30 ASTM Vapor Intrusion (VI) Standard for Real Estate Transactions

* A cost-effective screening method as part of the environmental site assessment process
* Developing a sound and defensible technical standard with questionnaire
* Delineating responsibilities, significance and use and assessment protocol/screening tiers
* Typical real estate transactions impacted by vapor intrusion
* Risk-based screening methods and tiers for indoor chemical vapors
* Establishing risk-based cleanup test based on site specific data
Anthony J. Buonicore, Chairman, EDR, Inc. and Chairman of ASTM Task Group E50.02.06
Bart Eklund, Principal Scientist, URS Corporation

9:30 - 10:00 Screening, Evaluating and Restoring Sites Affected by Vapor Intrusion

* Accounting for the environmental factors, mitigation systems
* Site specific modeling to screen out certain site conditions
* Tracking treatment as a form of diagnostics, mitigation systems
* Application of advanced techniques and pre-emptive mitigation or further monitoring at sites using risk-based targets – case studies
David L. Folkes, President, Enviro Group Ltd.

10:00-10:15 BREAK Refreshments courtesy of RTM Communications, Inc.

10:15-11:00 Vapor Intrusion: An Environmental Challenge in Risk Engineering and Claims Analysis

* Current risk management approaches for VI
* Sampling analytical and modeling approaches to VI assessments
* Implementing remedial and engineering controls and institutional controls
* Claims management and litigation risk at VI sites
Sandra Gaurin, Senior Project Manager, TetraTech EM, Inc.
Josh Pillon, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies

11:00- 12:15 Cutting Edge Case Law, Case Studies and Industry Perspectives on Vapor Intrusion at Contaminated Sites

* Assessing and mitigating VI at petroleum and chlorinated solvent sites
* Strategies for vapor intrusion evaluation of legacy sites
* Legal and technical challenges involved in investigating and designing a VI mitigation system and making real time decisions for commercial transactions
* Landmark vapor intrusion case law and case studies featuring transactional issues involving loan servicer and inadequate due diligence
Lawrence Schnapf, Esq., Schulte Roth & Zabel
Blayne Hartman, Ph.D., Co-Founder, H&P Mobile Geochemistry

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