Presenter Name: Robert Bull, CHMM Business Title: Environmental Scientist Contact Information: Science Applications International Corporation P.O. Box 93838 Las Vegas. NV 89193-3838 Phone: 702 295 2106 Fax: 702 295 2025 E-mail: rbull_it@nv.doe.gov Affiliation: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a diversified high-technology research and engineering company based in San Diego, California. SAIC offers a broad range of expertise in technology development and analysis, computer system development and integration, technical support services, and computer hardware and software products. SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in the areas of Business, Biomedical Research, Criminal Justice, Energy, Environment, Financial Services, Health Care, Maritime, National Security, Space, Telecommunications, and Transportation. SAIC has a web site at http://www.saic.com . Biography: Robert Bull has worked in environmental management since 1982, devoting much of his career to compliance and hazardous waste management. He joined Science Applications International Corporation in 1989, where he currently manages the Industrial Sites Project Preliminary Assessment Group. The Group performs comprehensive Phase I assessments for DOE sites in Nevada.

Title of Presentation: The Value of Preliminary Assessment Data in a Federal Environmental Restoration Program Setting Author: Robert Bull, CHMM Keywords: preliminary assessment, integrated safety management, database management systems Abstract: The objective of this presentation is to communicate to managers and technical staff working on major State and Federally funded environmental restoration programs the value and uses of preliminary assessment (PA) data. The presentation will: · Describe the Federal ERP setting; · Define the various types of PA data and its limitations; · Describe the typical application of PA data to the budget planning, integrated safety management and the data quality objectives processes; · Provide examples of successful and unsuccessful application of PA data. The main issue associated with this process is the proper application of the PA data. Principal investigators and compliance/regulatory agencies are reluctant to utilize the information to minimize sample strategy and design. Rather, the information can be misused to overstate the problem, which may lead to conservative, overplanned projects. Database management system developments provide the most promising improvements to this process. User-freindly databases are critical to the rapid identification and evaluation of PA data. Field, historical and planning information compiled during the PA process can be quickly retrieved and manipulated for use. Database queries can be executed to extract specific information and datasets can be exported to other applications to ease manual data entry and compilation. Sponsor: Janet Appenzeller-Wing. Project Manager, U.S. Department of Energy