Final Report and Recommendations - March 14, 2012

Abridged Recommendation Summary - March 14, 2012

INTRODUCTION

Michigan is embarking on a Collaborative Stakeholders Initiative (CSI) in order to reinvent its remediation and brownfield redevelopment programs to support Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder's goals to:

• Reinvent our government

• Create more and better jobs

• Restore our cities

• Enhance our national and international image

• Protect our environment

• Solve problems through relentless positive action

The CSI process has the following goals:

1. Set the stage for swift and durable implementation through the development of recommendations to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) that address the following seven key issues facing Michigan's cleanup and redevelopment programs:

   • Groundwater/Surface Water Interface (GSI) Pathway

   • Cleanup Criteria;

   • Vapor Intrusion

   • Free Product, Source Removal, and Csat;

   • Brownfield Redevelopment;

   • Part 201 Rules/Operational Memoranda/Guidance

   • Due Care Obligations
      

2. Foster an improved climate of trust, cultural understanding and cooperation among stakeholders and state agency staff.
   

MDEQ has partnered with stakeholders and Michigan State University (MSU), through its Cooperative Extension (MSUE) to design and implement this process.  Members of the Coordinating Committee can be located at their biography document.  MSUE staff have provided input on the development of the Initiative's efforts, and devised facilitative processes for scheduled events. 

Each of the seven key issues (noted above) has been assigned to an Issue Group (see Group Member link, below).  Each member of each Issue Group is designated as a "Leader."  These group interactions will be facilitated by MSUE educators and facilitation experts.  Each member of an Issue Group has been invited to submit information for consideration by his group, which should represent that person or organization's "best thinking" on the issue.  The Group submittals are available for review and provided in links below ("Group Submittals").  Issue Group Leaders are expected to represent a wide range of concerns and provide a means by which the public and the regulated community's voices can be heard.  Each Issue Group is composed of between six and ten participants, as well as two facilitators (a senior facilitator and an assistant).  Additional participants (not part of an Issue Group) are characterized as "Legends."  Legends include DEQ leadership and key stakeholder representatives. 

The result of this collaborative effort will be development of a set of recommendations in each of the seven issue areas, focused on action plans to implement the recommendations through the development and/or modification of policy, rules, guidance, or statute.  These recommendations will be presented to MDEQ Director Dan Wyant for consideration and implementation.

The time frame for undertaking this Collaborative Stakeholders Initiative takes place over a very short period of time:  an initial Plenary session on campus at MSU on February 3, 2012; a two-day working session commencing February 15 and ending February 17, 2012, at the Kellogg Biological Station on Gull Lake; and a final Plenary session to present the recommendations at the Kellogg Conference Center, MSU, March 15, 2012.

Please note that nominations to participate in the CSI are now closed and additional participants cannot be accommodated.  However, in the interest of complete transparency, we are providing agendas and other documents that are being considered in this process as links on this web page to allow all interested parties and stakeholders to understand the issues being considered.  Further, the March 15 presentation of CSI recommendations will be webcast to accommodate all interested parties.
 

UPDATES

Monthly Update - April 24, 2012

New District Peer Review Process - April 4, 2012

Remediation Division Technical and Program Support Teams (TAPS) Nominations Memo - April 17, 2012

RD TAPS Diagram

RELATED LINKS

Part 201

Part 201 Rules

Part 213

SCHEDULE
February 3, 2012: Kellogg Conference Center

February 15 - 17, 2012:  Kellogg Biological Station (Schedule Details)

March 15, 2012:  Kellogg Conference Center

• The Final Report and Recommendations of Michigan's CSI - Reinventing the State's Cleanup and Redevelopment Program were presented on March 15, 2012.  The recommendations presented by participants in the CSI as well as the CSI Coordinating Committee, included MDEQ staff and Michigan State University Extension facilitators.

  •  CSI Powerpoint Plenary Sesion

  • Webinar

CONTACT 
Anne P. Couture, Acting Division Chief, Remediation Division,
phone:  517-335-1104          email:  josephs1@michigan.gov
 

GROUP MEMBERS (list)

GROUP SUBMITTALS

Group 1: Groundwater Surface Water Interface

• Proposed Changes to Michigan Act 451 Governing the Role of GSI Monitoring  in Remediation of Contaminated Sites (11-4-09) - ARCADIS (Dan O'Neil)

• GSI and Stormsewers 

• ORR Recommendation R-1

• Talking Points GSI Discussion

• A Consultant's View of the GSI Pathway Under Amended Part 201

• Cleanup and Redevelopment Program Redesign GSI Pathway Improvements

• Michigan's Regulation of Groundwater Plumes as Wastewater Discharges:  "Spot On" or "Missing the Mark"?

• Regulation of the GSI Pathway in Michigan

Group 2: Cleanup Criteria

• Intake Factors (5/1/2012)

• Soil Criteria Ingestion and Dermal Pathways (5/1/2012)

• 3-22-12 Cleanup Criteria Stakeholder Group Meeting (3/23/12)

• PSIC 2-fold, etc. (3/23/12)

• Soil Criteria Calculation Etc. Spreadsheet (3/23/12)

• Soil to Ambient Air Pathway:  Parameters and Particulate Emission Inputs (3-21-12)

• Soil Contact Criteria Parameters (3-20-12)

• Soil to Ambient Air Pathway (3-20-12)

• Proposed Soil Contact Criteria References (3-20-12)

• Operational  Memorandum Attachment 7, Soil Inhalation Cleanup Criteria (3-20-12)

• Proposed Soil Contact Criteria Rules (3-20-12)

• Proposed Part 201 Criteria Background Information (2-3-12) (black & white version)

• Proposed Part 201 Soil Contact Criteria (2-3-12) (black & white version)

• Proposed Part 201 Tapwater Exposure Pathway (2-3-12) (black & white version)

• Proposed Part 201 Vapor Intrusion Exposure Pathway (2-3-12) (black & white version)

• ORR Recommendation R-3

• ORR Recommendation R-9

• ORR Recommendation R-14

      December 8, 2011 - Proposed Revisions to Part 7 (Cleanup Criteria) of the Administrative Rules for Part 201 (Environmental Remediation) of PA 451 of 1994, as amended

• Webinar Part 1 (15 min) Intro to Proposed Revisions and Stakeholder Process 

• Webinar Part 2 (28 min) Background, Summary of Proposed Revisions and Rules Not Related to a Specific Pathway 

• Webinar Part 3 (18 min) Proposed Part 201 Tapwater Exposure Pathway 

• Webinar Part 4 (14 min) Proposed Soil Contact Criteria 

• Webinar Part 5 (19 min) Proposed Vapor Intrusion Exposure Pathway and Proposed Provisions for Groundwater Venting to Surface Water Pathway 

• Webinar Part 6 (19 min) Question and Answer Session 

Group 3: Vapor Intrusion

• 2012 January Draft Guidance Document - New version available (5-8-2012)

• The Evaluation of the Vapor Intrusion to the Indoor Air Pathway (12-2011)

• ORR Recommendation R-2

• 2001 Report from the Michigan Environmental Science Board Indoor Air Inhalation Panel

• Vapor Intrusion Pathway for investigation, evaluation, and selection of remedy

Group 4: Free Product, Source Removal, and Csat

• Free Product Initiative (1-9-2012) - ARCADIS (Dan O'Neil)

• ORR Recommendation R-6

• ORR Recommendation R-11

• Non-aqueous Phase Liquid (NAPL)/Free Product/Source Control Issues 

• NAPL ASTM Outline

• Summary of Part 213 Proposed NAPL Provisions

• Pragmatic TPH Screening Values for LNAPL Mobility - Where Does Csat Fit In?

Group 5: Brownfield Redevelopment

• Act 381 Discussion Outline submitted jointly by the MDEQ and MEDC

• Hurdles and Challenges of Goal One and Goal Two

• Brownfield Redevelopment Draft Statement

Group 6: Part 201 Rules

• Soil Relocation - MDEQ

• ORR Recommendation R-4

• ORR Recommendation R-5

• ORR Recommendation R-8

• ORR Recommendation R-16

Group 7: Due Care Obligations

• Local Unit of Government Due Care Provisions (1-19-2012) - Gielow Correspondence

• MDEQ Communication regarding Due Care Plans Approval (1-17-2012)

• ORR Recommendation R-10

• ORR Recommendation R-13

• Due Care Citizen's Guide

• Due Care Brochure

• Due Care Matrix with Instructions