Cost-Risk-Benefit Analyses for Decision Making
- risk management through the use of decision analysis techniques; decision
making involving quantitative risk assessment analyses, cost analyses,
and benefits analyses (involving possible involvement of stakeholders and
regulators, with such criteria evaluated as stakeholder/regulatory acceptance
of methods, ecological risk considerations, worker risk, transportation
risks, long-term maintenance considerations, future liabilities, political
considerations, programmatic considerations, compliance considerations,
etc.).
Risk Assessment - evaluations of the potential
human health impacts associated with exposures from hazardous waste sites
or contaminated properties; land use considerations; quantitative uncertainty
analysis; development of risk-based cleanup goals; prioritization of waste
site investigations and cleanup based on probabilistic risk; and prioritization
of characterization needs based on risk requirements.
Groundwater Analysis - evaluations of contaminant
transport and migration potential; volume of contamination estimates; probability
mapping of nature and extent of groundwater contamination; monitor well
network design; natural attenuation evaluations; Alternative Concentration
Limit (ACL) evaluations; and pump and treat analyses.
Soil Sampling Design and Evaluation - use of
both statistical and geostatistical analysis techniques to design soil
sampling networks; geostatistical analysis of uncertainty in the nature
and extent of contamination; and volume estimates of cleanup liability.
Performance Assessment for Hazardous and Radioactive
Waste Disposal - comprehensive analyses of potential contaminant migration,
impacts to potentially exposed populations, and landfill design.
Brownfields Assessments - integration of the
decision support tools and methods for risk-based analyses relative to
real estate transactions and reuse.
