Signings
The EPA and the Economic Development Administration (EDA) have renewed a 1995 memorandum of understanding (MOU) establishing a general working agreement between the EPA and the Commerce Dept.’s EDA. The agreement helps them to coordinate their policies and activities in support of brownfield assessment and cleanup, community revitalization, and economic redevelopment efforts. The objective is to enhance interagency cooperation and collaboration in keeping with the respective agencies’ environmental protection and economic development objectives.

The agreement, signed by Marianne Horinko of the EPA and the EDA’s David Sampson states that the two agencies will work together on strategy, linking assessment with redevelopment opportunities, and redevelopment research, among other joint actions.

Screen Play
The EPA is offering a remediation technology screening matrix. The “user-friendly” tool helps to screen for technologies for a remediation project. The matrix helps users examine 64 in situ and ex situ technologies for either soil or groundwater remediation. Variables used in screening include contaminants, development status, overall cost, and cleanup time. In-depth information on each technology is also available, including direct links to over 209 cost and performance reports written by members of the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable. The matrix is available at www.frtr.gov/matrix2/top_page.html