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Course Title: Surface Program Job Specific Environmental Training (ER-DENV1)

Upon completion of reading the below information, please send your name, life number and course number (ER-DENV1) to Training@bnl.gov to notify them that you have completed the course.

Environmental Activity/Project: Surface Program

Environmental Aspects: Hazardous Waste, Radioactive Waste, Mixed Waste, Regulated Industrial Waste, Sensitive/Endangered Species and Sensitive Habitats, Pine Barrens

Contacts for the Information: GPG Project Manager

Course Objective: Because your work activities have been identified as having significant potential to impact the environment, this course has been designed to provide you with the job-specific information that you must know to protect the environment.

  1. What potential impacts to the environment are associated with your activities (i.e. types of contamination that could impact air or water, generation of excess waste)?Potential for generation of hazardous, radioactive, or mixed waste when work is in contaminated areas.
    • Potential releases of radioactive, hazardous, mixed and/or industrial wastes from storage areas contaminating surrounding soil, storm drains, permitted recharge basins, and/or runoff into drainage areas.
    • Potential for disturbance of sensitive/endangered species or sensitive habitats and work in Pine Barrens zones.
  2. What consequences may result if your operations were to impact the environment (i.e. disciplinary action, loss of permits, shutdown of facility)?
    • Regulatory noncompliance, fines, violations
    • Decreased Stakeholder Support
    • Schedule Impacts and stop work issuances
    • Increased costs
    • Public Relations impacts
    • Personal accountability
  3. What benefits or positive effects would you notice with improved environmental performance (i.e. reduced disposal costs, improved relationships with regulators and public)?
    • Avoid environmental releases and associated costs
    • Improved relationships with regulators and public
    • Reduce waste management costs
    • Reduced waste maintenance and reporting costs
    • Improve monitoring costs
    • Accelerated completion of remedial action
  4. What role and responsibility do you have for these potential impacts and environmental performance?
    • Sample surrounding monitoring wells for possible groundwater contamination quarterly
    • Contain, characterize , and manage wastes per SOPs
    • Ensure operational controls are in place and working
    • Take specified action should controls fail
    • Quarterly soil gas monitoring
    • Maintenance of landfill caps
    • Inspection of storage areas
    • Maintain records/manifests
    • Follow procedures in handling chemicals and radioactive wastes
    • Recognition of potential impacts or problems
    • Provide adequate sampling for closeout report
    • Monitor radiation levels associated with the soil
    • Review groundwater analytical data
    • Report on monitoring data
    • Work/operate in accordance with applicable procedures/standards/orders/regulations
    • Implement corrective actions
  5. What controls or procedures are implemented to reduce the potential for emergency?
    • Applicable BNL SBMS Subject Areas and ESH Standards (See Operational Control form for specific subject areas/standards)
    • Follow Environmental Monitoring SOPs in the control of investigation derived wastes
    • Project Specific Work Plans
    • Work Permit
    • Rad Work Permit
    • Surveillance and monitoring
    • Tracking non-conformance reports and taking corrective action as applicable
    • Follow procedures for handling hazardous and radioactive wastes
    • Proper containers for chemical or radioactive wastes
    • Shielding for radioactive wastes
    • Secondary containment of chemical storage drums
    • Waste control per approved procedures
    • Generate task specific work plans and HASPs
    • Proper grading, dust mitigation
    • Runoff controls
    • Dust controls
    • Interim Remedy Monitoring Plan
    • BNL Groundwater Contingency Plan
  6. How would you respond in an emergency to reduce the potential for environmental impact and what actions could be taken to mitigate? (Refer to existing procedures and documents (i.e. the Local Emergency Plan) where applicable).
    • No specific emergency scenario is likely, but it is Laboratory policy to call x2222 in emergencies
    • Notify Project and Line Managers
    • Emergency instructions are defined in the job specific Health and Safety Plan
    • Notify BNL Management/DOE/Regulators/Public
  7. What pollution prevention and waste minimization techniques have been or could be considered to reduce or eliminate the potential to impact the environment?
    • Have implemented procedures to reduce/eliminate likelihood of releases
    • Dispose of Sr-90 contaminated water at SR-90 treatment system
    • Process (shredding) of bulk waste stream to segregate waste types and volumes
    • Compaction of PPE
    • Utilize segmented gate system to reduce radioactive soil waste
    • Smart sampling to characterize contaminated soils
    • Soil removal and waste disposal
  8. Are there any key Environmental-specific Competency Requirements (Experience, Education, Qualification) for this position?
    • See GPG JTA for Field Engineer
    • See Employee Training Assessment for personnel noted as contacts above
    • Complete this job specific environmental training form