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Environmental Remediation Contracting: Summary of a Symposium (1994)
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ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACTING: (Summary of a Symposium)

Technical Report

No. 127

ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACTING

(Summary of a Symposium)

Federal Construction Council

Consulting Committee on Procurement Policy

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1994

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ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACTING: (Summary of a Symposium) Technical Report No. 127 ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACTING (Summary of a Symposium) Federal Construction Council Consulting Committee on Procurement Policy NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. 1994

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ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACTING: (Summary of a Symposium) NOTICE The Federal Construction Council (FCC) is a continuing activity of the Building Research Board of the National Research Council (NRC). The purpose of the FCC is to promote continuing cooperation among the sponsoring federal agencies and between the agencies and other elements of the building community in order to advance building science and technology--particularly with regard to the design, construction, and operation of federal facilities. Currently, 18 agencies sponsor the FCC: Department of the Air Force, Office of the Civil Engineer Department of the Air Force, Air National Guard Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Department of the Army, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation Department of Energy, Office of Project and Facilities Management Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Department of State, Office of Foreign Buildings Operations Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Construction Management General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Facilities Engineering Office National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building and Fire Research Laboratory National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program National Science Foundation, Structural Systems and Construction Processes Program Smithsonian Institution, Office of Facilities Service U.S. Information Agency, Voice of America U.S. Public Health Service, Office of Management U.S. Postal Service, Facilities. As part of its activities, the FCC periodically publishes reports like this one that have been prepared by committees of government employees. Since these committees are not appointed by the NRC, they do not make recommendations, and their reports are not reviewed and approved in accordance with usual NRC procedures. Consequently, the reports are considered FCC publications rather than NRC publications. For further information on the FCC program or FCC reports, please write to: Executive Secretary, Federal Construction Council, Building Research Board, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20418.

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ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACTING: (Summary of a Symposium) FCC CONSULTING COMMITTEE ON PROCUREMENT POLICY Chairman Robert Webb, Office of Policy, Department of Energy Members Leland Anderson, Engineering and Construction, Air National Guard Wade Belcher, Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration Thomas Blanchard, Jr., Facilities Office, U.S. Postal Service Charles W. Clark, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget Calvin F. Curington, Engineering Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Donald W. Dormstetter, Office of Design and Construction, Smithsonian Institution Luther H. Flouton, Division of Health Facilities Planning, U.S. Public Health Service Sandra Gatlin, Operational Contracting Division, Department of the Air Force Richard Hughes, Design and Construction Branch, National Institutes of Health Andrew Juettner, Voice of America John Joyner, Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration Charles G. Krips, Office of Foreign Buildings, U.S. Department of State Bob McMullen, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy Get W. Moy, Engineering & Construction, Office of the Secretary of Defense Walt Norko, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army James Pesnell, Facilities Engineering Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration David Petersen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army Emilo Pucillo, Office of Engineering Service, U.S. Public Health Service Lee Schmidt, Office of the Civil Engineer, Department of the Air Force Francis E. Sullivan, Office of Construction Management, Department of Veterans Affairs Jim Sullivan, Voice of America

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ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACTING: (Summary of a Symposium) William C. Timperley, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy Dianne Walters, Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration Staff Henry Borger, Executive Secretary, Federal Construction Council Lena B. Grayson, Project Assistant

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ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACTING: (Summary of a Symposium) PREFACE The federal government currently owns literally thousands of installations, both active and inactive, on which there are environmental problems that must be corrected; in addition, the government is responsible for overseeing the cleanup of thousands of non-federal sites through the Superfund. This cleanup effort is expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars, rivaling or surpassing the savings and loan “bailout” in size, and it could well take 30 years or more to complete. The Army Corps of Engineers, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and the Environmental Protection Agency already have contracted for billions of dollars of environmental remediation, either as federal property administrators or as environmental remediation regulators and operators of the Superfund. Many other federal agencies will be involved in environmental remediation in the future. Experience has shown that environmental remediation poses significant, special contracting problems for the federal government. Among the issues causing problems are project definition, regulatory liaison, choice of contract type, ordering procedures, fee arrangements, professional oversight, measurement of completion, and relations with the local populace. The Federal Construction Council (FCC) Counseling Committee on Procurement Policy held a symposium in April 1993 to bring together interested parties from federal agencies, environmental contractors, and others to enhance the knowledge base and allow other agencies now facing this mission to learn from the experiences of others. This report comprises summaries of papers prepared for the symposium. The summaries were prepared by the invited speakers, and the opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the FCC. However, the papers are believed to be relevant and timely and to contain information that will be useful to the sponsoring federal agencies.