The Superfund Essentials webinar series presents essential information for environmental staff with little Superfund experience. The webinar introduces the Superfund program and gives an overview of the statutory and regulatory requirements. The site assessment and National Priorities List (NPL) process is discussed. The removal and remedial process modules describe the assessment and response process followed by OSCs and RPMs as they address their sites. The webinar closes out by explaining the community involvement and Federal Facilities programs and their role in Superfund. 

Objectives: After taking the webinar series, the participants will be able to (1) explain the provisions and requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), (2) follow the assessment and response process for conducting removal and remedial actions, and (3) describe the community involvement program and their part in cleanup actions.

This series is not open to Academia, consultants, contractors or other private entities. 

RPM 301 prepares Remedial Project Managers (RPMs) to address the challenges of managing  Superfund sites effectively. This course enhances RPMs' facilitation, team-building, and leadership skills, encouraging participants to apply these skills to common issues at large, complex sites, older sites, and sites with remedy effectiveness concerns. Participants and instructors will also explore project management best practices for working in teams and virtual work environments.  

Course Objectives:

• Develop skills to build, lead, and facilitate project teams more effectively.
• Identify and manage challenges and issues associated with large, complex sites.
• Recognize and address issues specific to older sites.
• Identify and manage remedy effectiveness issues.
• Utilize best practices to manage projects successfully. 

RPM 301 is an intermediate- to advanced-level training course recommended for EPA Superfund RPMs with at least five years of experience and who are leading the activities at Superfund sites. This course may also be valuable to other technical project team members from EPA and state agencies. 

Prerequisites: Superfund 101, and Remedial Process Training, and RPM 201.

Incremental Sampling provides an overview of incremental sampling (IS) concepts to address soil heterogeneity and ensure that soil samples accurately represent the site. The course uses the seven-step data quality objectives (DQO) process to explore the elements of planning and implementing IS designs. The course uses lecture and interactive scenarios to practice and discuss sampling design using the DQO process. 

Course Objectives:

• Understand how soil heterogeneity and sampling methodology impact data variability.
• Gain introductory skills necessary for planning, designing, collecting, and analyzing incremental soil samples with robust data quality considerations.
• Integrate systematic approaches for tool selection, field sampling, processing, and subsampling to produce representative soil samples that support defensible decision-making.
• Calculate common statistical parameters that support quality control and analysis in incremental sampling.
• Design an IS approach following the seven-step DQO process.

The Incremental Sampling course is recommended for EPA, federal, state, and tribal personnel who support site investigation programs.