CERCLA
CERCLA was enacted by Congress in this year in response to hazardous waste contamination concerns such as Love Canal.
What is 1980?
The three parties that signed the Oak Ridge Reservation FFA.
Who are DOE, EPA, and TDEC?
This secret city was established in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project.
What is Oak Ridge?
This federal agency manages the Oak Ridge Reservation.
What is DOE?
This phase of the CERCLA process gathers data to determine the nature and extent of contamination.
What is the Remedial Investigation (RI)?
The year the current Oak Ridge Reservation FFA became effective.
What is 1996?
Before it was officially known as Oak Ridge, the Manhattan Project reservation was known by this name.
What is the Clinton Engineer Works (CEW).
The buildup of a persistent pesticide, metal, or other contaminant in an organism's body over time.
What is bioaccumulation?
This Oak Ridge database serves as the consolidated repository for environmental data generated under the FFA.
What is OREIS? (Oak Ridge Environmental Information System)
Before CERCLA, there was no comprehensive federal program for cleaning up abandoned hazardous waste sites; CERCLA created this program, commonly known by this one-word nickname.
What is Superfund?
This appendix contains the enforceable milestones and deadlines for FFA projects.
What is Appendix E?
This reactor, now a National Historic Landmark, was the world's first continuously operated nuclear reactor and served as the pilot plant for plutonium production.
What is the X-10 Graphite Reactor?
This type of air monitoring measures pollutant concentrations in the surrounding environment rather than directly at a facility emission source.
What is ambient air monitoring?
This document outlines the procedures used to ensure environmental data are of known and acceptable quality.
What is a QAPP? (Quality Assurance Project Plan)
This infamous Ohio river caught fire multiple times due to industrial pollution, helping spur the modern environmental movement.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
Under the FFA dispute resolution process, unresolved disputes are first elevated to this body before reaching the Senior Executive Committee.
What is the Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC)?
This seven-story Oak Ridge hotel housed visiting scientists, military officials, and dignitaries during the Manhattan Project.
What is the Alexander Inn?
Many organic contaminants are removed from groundwater treatment systems by this process, which causes molecules to bind to the surface of activated carbon.
What is adsorption?
The permit program regulating discharges to surface waters.
NPDES
This section of CERCLA requires federal facilities, including the Oak Ridge Reservation, to comply with the law's cleanup requirements.
What is Section 120?
This appendix contains the prioritization methodology used to establish annual restoration priorities.
What is Appendix G?
According to local legend, this East Tennessee logger and preacher foretold the construction of a great city, factories, and thousands of workers in Bear Creek Valley decades before the Manhattan Project.
Who is John Hendrix?
This statistical value is often used in risk assessments and remediation decisions to estimate a contaminant concentration that is unlikely to underestimate the true site mean.
What is the Upper Confidence Limit (UCL)?
What acronym is used for the Northern long-eared bat, a federally threatened species commonly evaluated during ecological reviews and consultations in Tennessee?
What is MYSE?