Project processes integration: An evaluation of legal and DOE requirements on project activities.

摘要

Environmental restoration of five Operable Units at the Fernald Environmental Management Project (FENT) includes compliance with the requirements of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA), (National Environmental Policy Act) NEPA, and DOE Orders (and other Federal and State laws, and regulations not relevant to this paper). Each of the regulatory drivers have differing procedural requirements for documenting the calculations, decisions, and actions involved in site cleanup. Integration of documentation and avoidance of duplication can save both time and money at Fernald. Such savings are being achieved by operable unit specific application of a number of Supporting Studies, revised procedures, and guidance documents. Also, each operable unit is seeking appropriate opportunities to produce single documents (usually those mandated by CERCLA, the primary regulatory driver) that simultaneously fulfill the important requirements of the other regulations and DOE orders. These opportunities are evaluated at all successive phases of decision making, remedial design, and remedial action.