Environmental Remediation
Mission Statement
Our Mission is to provide our customers high quality, full-service
environmental engineering and management support that is both timely
and cost effective; and to maintain our reputation as one of the
Corps' best Environmental Remediation design centers.
What We Do
We provide technical and managerial resources in the execution of a full range of environmental remediation and environmental protection activities.
We remediate sites for federal agencies or Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) that are contaminated with hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste (HTRW), or military munitions while complying with federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations. We strive to minimize our use of hazardous materials and conserve our natural and cultural resources.
The Omaha District is responsible for technical aspects of environmental studies, investigations, and designs for HTRW site characterization, remediation, and site closures in compliance with Comprehensive Environmental Response (CERCLA), Compensation and Liability Act and or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Within the past 5 years, the Omaha District has been approved as one of four USACE Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) design centers. The District is also an Ordnance and Explosive Removal District.
The environmental remediation field for Omaha District consists primarily of customers who have several service center options. So, our concept of customer service is "We Work for YOU" in order to provide services that you as a customer will desire for future work. At your request and direction, and with your specific needs as our highest priority, we provide appropriate in-house or contracted resources and strive to exceed your expectations. We provide you, our customer, with consistent high quality, responsive and cost-effective management, and engineering and technical support. If services are required outside of the Omaha District geographic boundaries, we partner with other Corps offices to capitalize on the Corps' nationwide corporate assets.
The Omaha District is home to the HTRW Center of Expertise. A team of responsive, dedicated, innovative
professionals supporting USACE, the Army and the Nation’s challenging environmental missions across the world.
We work with our customers to attain solutions that benefi t and protect the public and the environment.
Capabilities
Services
- Acquisition Support
- Applicable or Relevant Appropriate Requirements Evaluation
- Compliance Audits
- Cost Recovery
- Document Review
- Environmental Lab Data Review
- Field Oversite
- Global War on Terrorism Technical Assistance
- Program Management
- Five-Year Reviews
- Remediation Systems Evaluation
- Technical Project Consultation
- Technical Project Planning Facilitation
- Training
- Policy/Guidance Development
- Environmental Lab Assessment
Programs Supported
- Army Deactivated Reactor Program
- Army Installation Restoration Program
- Base Realignment and Closure
- Department of Defense and State Memorandum of Agreement
- Formerly Used Defense Sites
- Formerly Utilized Remedial Action Program
- Potentially Responsible Party Program
- Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Program
Technical Expertise
- Chemistry
- Compliance
- Cost Engineering
- Geology
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Health Physics
- Process Engineering
- Risk Assessment
- Safety and Occupational Health
Our Services
We have technical capabilities to provide support in all areas of
air, soil, and water remediation.
- Air sparging with soil vapor extraction
- Air quality/dispersion
modeling
- Ammunition demolition area bioremediation
- Archeological studies
- Asbestos, lead-based paint, radon testing, surveys, design and
abatement
- Capping and collection systems
- Chemical and geotechnical data management
- Chemistry
- Construction/remediation management
- Contaminated building
remediation and demolition
- Contaminated marine sediment characterization
- Contaminated sediments remediation
- Drilling, sampling and exploration
- Environmental engineering, science and compliance
- Environmental law
- Environmental quality
- Extraction and air stripping and extraction and carbon adsorption
- Fate and transport modeling
- Flame treatment
- Geologic/geo-environmental explorations
- Geology
- Geophysics
- Geotechnical engineering
- Groundwater modeling, remediation and monitoring and treatment systems
- Hazardous waste manifesting
- Health and safety
- Health physics services
- Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) field screening, site characterization and remedial design
- Human health and environmental and ecological risk assessments
- Hydrogeologic investigations and studies
- Incineration facilities
- Industrial hygiene services
- Innovative contract tools to meet the varied needs of
environmental programs
- Innovative technology development and deployment
- In-person field oversight and direction of investigation and
remediation contractors
- In-situ and ex-situ treatment systems
- Installation Restoration, Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)/Superfund projects
- Integrated GIS services
- Laboratory quality assurance; in-house HTRW laboratory
- Landfill caps and covers, capping design, repair, removal and
disposal
- Landscape architect services
- Low-temperature thermal desorption
- Mixed waste disposal
- Military munitions response projects
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) studies
- Ordnance and explosives (OE) removal
- Petroleum, oil and lubricant (POL) replacement systems design
- Pilot studies (interception trench and groundwater treatment,
infiltration/inflow and various treatment technologies)
- Pollution prevention and waste minimization
- Preliminary Assessments/Site Investigations (PA/SI)
- Preparation of closeout reports for regulator acceptance
- Pre-placed design/construction contracts
- Radioactive waste disposal contracts
- Rapid Response and scientific support
- Remedial Investigations/Feasibility Studies (RI/FS)
- Remote data instrumentation and acquisition
- Sampling, analyses, evaluation and reporting for all media (i.e.,
groundwater, soil and air) for environmental and compliance
requirements
- Sampling and characterization of water, air, soil and sediments
- Sediment capping design
- Sediment remediation
- Soil excavation, removal, transport and disposal; soil
solidification remediation and soil vapor extraction
- Special studies, program development, environmental planning,
financial management and staff support (short and long-term)
- Subsurface exploration and monitoring well installation
- Surface washing and demolition
- Technical assistance (engineering, regulatory, community
relations, legal and real estate)
- Toxicology
- Treatment systems (review and evaluation of compliance)
- Underground and/or aboveground storage tanks (management, removal
and upgrade)
Our Areas of Expertise
Military-funded Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) Remediation and Prevention
- Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)
- Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP)
- Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS)
- Installation Restoration (IR)
- Containerized HTRW (CON/HTRW)
- Military Munitions Response (MMR)
- Potentially responsible party for Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW)
- Potential Responsible Party (PRP/HTRW) and Military Munitions
- Response MMR Potential
- Responsible Party (PRP)/Military Munitions Response (MMR)
- Building Demolition and Debris Removal (BD/DR)
Inter Agency & International Services (IIS): Environmental
- Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund Program
- Brownfields
- Restoration of Abandoned Mine Sites (RAMS)\
- Abandon Mine Lands (AML)
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Compliance
- Environmental Permit Acquisition & Monitoring
- Underground storage tanks
- Building demolition
- Environmental planning
- Technical assistance (engineering, regulatory, community relations, legal and real estate)
Innovative Contracting Support Services
- Environmental Remediation Services Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts
- Pre-placed remedial action contracts Northwest Kansas (NWK)
- Long Term Response Action (LTRA) contracts Northwest Kansas (NWK)
- Hazardous waste disposal contracts Northwest Kansas (NWK)
- Performance Based Contracting (PBC)
What We Can Do For You
- Technical Assistance
- Cradle to Grave Project Management
- Engineering and Construction
capabilities/support
- Contract Acquisition
- Independent Technical Reviews
- Long-term Operation and Monitoring
- Remedial Action
- Remedial Design
- Studies/Investigations
- Response/Removal Actions
- Site Closeouts
What We
Offer
- Comprehensive environmental services
- Cost-conscious project management, technical expertise
- A “single point” for project accountability and financial responsibility
- Highly qualified in-house technical capability
- Extensive contracting capabilities dedicated to environmental programs
- Diverse, nationwide experience
- Highly experienced and proficient teams well-versed in interpretation and implantation of federal, state, and local environmental regulations and guidelines
- Technical project teams focused on customer needs, regulatory
requirements, quality products, fiscal responsibility, and project
delivery
- Dedicated on-board specialized environmental disciplines
(chemists, environmental engineers, geologists, geophysicists,
drilling and exploration professionals, geotechnical engineers,
chemical engineers, cost engineers, industrial hygienists, risk
assessors, health physicists, hydrogeologists, environmental
attorneys and construction managers)
Did You Know?
- The Corps provides quality engineering and environmental services to federal agencies, as well as to state and local government agencies. Agencies commonly engage the Corps on a cost-reimbursable basis.
- The Environmental Protection Agency was the Corps' first environmental restoration customer; our partnership has continued since 1982. Since then, our program has grown to include Army, Air Force and Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS).
- We encourage customer participation in all aspect of project execution. The customer is part of the team.
- Omaha District is one of four Corps Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) design centers and is an approved Ordnance & Explosive Removal District.
- Omaha District,
- Our annual environmental program is averaging over $190 million.
- We have accomplished more than $1.9 billion of site remediation in the past five years.
- We have performed Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) remediation activities in several foreign countries, more than 40 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories and possessions.
- We have numerous contracting tools, with millions of dollars in contract capacity available to support our customers.
- We have technological capabilities to provide support in all areas of air, soil and water remediation.
For more information, visit the HTRW Web site at http://www.environmental.usace.army.mil/. |
