United States Risk Management, L.L.C.

Services

Risk Assessment / Corrective Action

Provision of human health and ecological risk assessments under RCRA / CERCLA for industrial, commercial, and municipal entities. From initial site sampling activities through regulatory-based risk assessment, our staff can fully characterize environmental risks associated with past, present, and future site use. In addition, our staff supports these services with equipment to perform air quality surveys, groundwater, and sediment and soil sampling.

Completion of site-specific health and safety plans for implementation of sampling activities and evaluation of current operations conditions. This includes the use of computer-based exposure and fate and transport modeling.

Provision of regulatory assistance with regard to evaluation of site exposures. This includes permitting assistance and modeling techniques to evaluate impacts to the community as a result of changes in emissions limits or new permitting.

Use of risk assessment methodology to support Dredged Materials Assessments performed under the Army Corps of Engineers Dredging Program. This work involves the evaluation of impacts to human health and ecological systems in the performance of dredging and disposal activities along waterways.

In addition, risk assessment staff have been responsible for development of new regulatory guidelines regarding voluntary remediation programs. Personnel expertise has been recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the form of recognition of project excellence in the form of the Phoenix Award, granted to projects that exemplify excellence in land reuse and redevelopment. To date, this is the only project award for a site in Louisiana.

United States Risk Management, L.L.C., (USRM) personnel have extensive experience in the utilization of risk assessment in support of corrective action measures. The use of these services applies to a variety of different projects, including the following:

• Risk-Based Corrective Action
• Risk-Based Closure
• Risk-Based Reduction of Post-Closure Care Activities
• Calculation of Alternate Clean-Up Levels
• Implementation / Design of Voluntary Remediation Programs
• Release Modeling / Exposure Analysis
• Risk-Based Ranking Criteria

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