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General Meeting

Source Differentiation and Risk Assessments for Sites Impacted by PFAS

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (ET)

U.S. Geological Survey Headquarters
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192


To register for in-person attendance, visit: https://www.trainex.org/frtr.
To register for online attendance, visit https://cluin.org/conf/tio/FRTRFall24/.

View/Download the Fall 2024 Meeting Agenda (1pp/212KB/PDF).
View/Download the Fall 2024 Speaker Bios (1pp/184KB/PDF).

Meeting Objectives:

The FRTR 2024 Fall General Meeting provides an opportunity to share the latest developments in PFAS source differentiation and identification techniques applied to site remediation, as well as an update on advances in human health and ecological risk assessment. The meeting will highlight site-specific case studies where source differentiation technologies helped in identifying sites requiring further investigation and remediation. Emerging contaminants and issues have presented new challenges for risk assessment of both ecological and human health concerns. Therefore, meeting presentations will focus on new technical approaches to conduct site-specific risk assessments for PFAS when toxicological data, enforceable standards and similar information are limited.

AGENDA

9:00 am Welcome
Rip Shively, USGS
9:10 am Meeting Objectives
Kent Glover, AFCEC
9:20 am Source Differentiation Concept: PFAS Source Differentiation Guide for Airports
Janet Anderson, GSI Environmental and Zachary Puchacz, Mead and Hunt (Remote Presentation)
10:00 am Source Differentiation Process: Technical Approaches to Characterizing PFAS Source Fingerprints and Background Concentrations
Cynthia Cash, AFCEC and Kavitha Dasu, Battelle
10:40 am Source Differentiation Assessment: Joint Base Cape Cod Case Study
Denis LeBlanc, USGS
11:20 am Break
11:40 am Risk Assessment Basics for Human Health — Refresher
Linda Gaines, U.S. EPA
12:30 pm Lunch — Agency Announcements
1:30 pm Risk Assessment Case Study 1, Human Health Risk Assessment for PFAS at Former Reese AFB, TX
Paul Carroll, AFCEC and Julie A Filosa (Kabel), AECOM
2:10 pm Risk Assessment Basics for Ecological Concerns with Emphasis on PFAS
Jason Speicher, NAVFAC Atlantic
2:50 pm Incorporating Ecological Risks into PFAS Investigations
Jason Conder, Geosyntec (Remote Presentation)
3:30 am Break
3:50 pm Risk Assessment Case Study 2, Ecological Risk Assessment for PFAS
Natalie Karouna, USGS
4:30 pm Roundtable with Presenters
5:25 pm Action Items/Adjourn