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Negotiation Support

     TechLaw technical staff routinely support EPA through technical document reviews and meeting support for CERCLA and RCRA corrective action sites. Our personnel have the backgrounds and training necessary to confidently provide the technical and regulatory basis for advancing cleanup and corrective action objectives at sites. TechLaw has provided extensive technical support during meetings, conference calls, and formal presentations for almost every EPA project we support. TechLaw personnel have participated in regular quarterly meetings, presentations, and teleconferences with EPA and attended more than 800 meetings, presentations and teleconferences regarding CERCLA/RCRA investigations and cleanups, which have provided the oversight agency’s team an opportunity to comment and form a consensus on technical approaches. We have explained, clarified, and defended technical review comments at panels comprised of state and federal agencies, facility representatives, contractors, the public, and other stakeholders. TechLaw has also provided expert witness support for government organizations. For example, at George AFB, TechLaw critically reviewed the design and operation of treatment systems to remove JP-4 from vadose soils. The TechLaw project manager presented the results of the evaluation at a BCT meeting, which included members of the EPA, DoD, and the State of California RWQCB.

Negotiation support activities have included the following:
  • Reviewing PRP work plans and technical reports
  • Preparing public meeting notices and responses to comments
  • Evaluating technical capabilities of PRPs
  • Conducting oversight to confirm PRP compliance with work plans
  • Reviewing PRP data for scientific/engineering validity
  • Estimating site response costs
  • Developing language for draft orders
  • Negotiation of documents and settlement proposals
  • Preparing witnesses
  • Producing trial exhibits
  • Maintaining and tracking correspondences, reports, interviews and records
  • Providing subject matter experts, often using our own internal experts
Projects

 
Williams AFB
TechLaw coordinated the efforts of a panel of military experts in steam-enhanced extraction technology, EPA technical experts, and in-house TechLaw experts, to provide critical evaluations and recommendations regarding the design and operation of a thermal remediation pilot study conducted by Air Force consultants. These efforts are helping to expedite the program and have included meetings to discuss and critique the design and associated Work Plans for this innovative pilot study of thermally enhanced extraction of jet fuel. TechLaw’s efforts have been largely an “on-board” process, where technical reviews and evaluations are conducted in a real-time manner with monthly face-to-face meetings and evaluations of four design documents.

EPA Region 8

TechLaw provided support for oversight and negotiation support activities at the Amoco Refinery in Casper, Wyoming. Specifically, TechLaw provided assistance in reviewing corrective action work plans, reports, and other documents; determining human health and ecological impacts; providing oversight of sampling and construction activities; conducting data evaluation and review activities; and providing technical support for the development of EPA orders and technical demand letters.

     
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