Meeting notes and materials from the Jan. 23, 2025, meeting of the Remediation and Redevelopment External Advisory Group (RR EAG) are available on the DNR’s RR EAG webpage.
The RR EAG was formed to address a broad range of issues, encompassing both technical and policy topics related to encouraging the investigation, cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites in Wisconsin.
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The publication Guidance: Wisconsin Vapor Quick Look-Up Table Indoor Air Vapor Action Levels and Vapor Risk Screening Levels (RR-0136) is now updated and available on the DNR website. The U.S. EPA updated toxicity information for 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE) in November 2024 by changing from U.S. EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) chronic inhalation reference concentration (RfC) to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) RfC for this chemical. The update decreased the VALs and VRSLs for 1,1-DCE.
The purpose of this look-up table is to list volatile organic compounds frequently encountered at cleanup sites in Wisconsin. Consultants should compare vapor data for open sites to the updated table for potential additional actions. Vapor data for chemicals not listed on RR-0136 should accessed via the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Vapor Intrusion Screening Level (VISL) Calculator; instructions on using VISL are included in RR-0136.
Additional documents and guidance from the Remediation and Redevelopment Program may be found using the search tools available on the publications and forms webpage.
Questions regarding this document may be submitted to Jennifer Borski at Jennifer.Borski@wisconsin.gov.
The Interstate Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC) will offer online vapor intrusion training over two sessions on Feb. 27 and March 11, 2025.
The training series provides an overview of vapor intrusion mitigation and shares information on using the ITRC’s Vapor Intrusion Mitigation Interactive Directory. The interactive directory includes fact sheets, technology information sheets and checklists. Staff members from the DNR participated in the development of the technical resources and the training.
The training is a series of eight modules covering the topics listed below and will be presented over two, two-hour sessions:
Session 1 – Feb. 27, 2025 (noon to 2 p.m. CST)
Topics include:
Session 2 – March 11, 2025 (noon to 2 p.m. CST)
Topics include:
Environmental professionals are encouraged to register at the CLU-IN Vapor Intrusion Mitigation webpage. The training is also available on-demand at the CLU-IN Vapor Intrusion Mitigation archive.
While the documents are designed to assist state regulators, they also serve to raise awareness with environmental consultants and other industry professionals.
Site-specific questions regarding vapor intrusion in Wisconsin should be directed to the assigned DNR Project Manager. General vapor intrusion questions can be directed to the appropriate contact listed at RR Program Staff Contacts.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a meeting of the Remediation and Redevelopment External Advisory Group’s (RR EAG) Vapor Intrusion Subgroup on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.
The RR EAG was formed to address a broad range of issues, encompassing both technical and policy topics related to encouraging the investigation, cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites in Wisconsin.
The RR EAG identifies issues and topics of interest that may be addressed by subgroups. Subgroup members are expected to research and develop recommendations on the selected topics for presentation to the full group. RR EAG subgroup meetings are open to the public. Interested individuals may attend in-person or register to attend by zoom.
Location:
State Natural Resources Building (GEF 2)
Room G09
101 S Webster St.
Madison, WI
When:
2 – 3:30 p.m. – Zoom attendance registration.
In-person attendees should RSVP to Coreen Fallat by noon on Feb. 10, 2025, at CoreenR.Fallat@wisconsin.gov. Please check in at the security desk before taking the elevator.
Visit the DNR’s RR EAG webpage for the meeting agenda, materials and additional information. Subscribe for updates on future RR EAG meetings.
Semi-annual reporting for the period of July 1 to Dec. 31, 2024, is due by Jan. 31, 2025. Semi-annual reporting is required of responsible parties (RPs) for all open sites, including those sites the DNR formerly classified as “conditionally closed” in the Bureau for Remediation and Redevelopment Tracking System (BRRTS) online database. Consultants may submit these reports on behalf of RPs.
The DNR will send an email with a unique Report Identification (ID) number to contacts of sites listed in the database during the first week of January 2025. If you do not receive an email by Jan. 8, 2025, you can request a Report ID number by submitting the Report ID Request Form.
The Report ID number uniquely identifies the activity you can report, the reporting period and verifies the person using the Report ID is authorized to submit the report. If you have any questions, please contact Tim Zeichert at Timothy.Zeichert@wisconsin.gov or 608-219-2240.
State law requires semi-annual reports from people who meet the definition of a responsible party in NR 700. Property owners, such as local governments that have an exemption under Wis. Stats. §§ 292.11(9)(e) or 292.23, and lenders that have an exemption under Wis. Stats. § 292.21 for specific properties are not required to submit a semi-annual report for those exempt properties under state law.
Sites formerly classified by the DNR as “conditionally closed” are open sites that have not been granted case closure and, by definition, have remaining action(s) needed (e.g., properly abandoning monitoring wells or investigative waste needing to be removed).
Semi-annual reporting for sites formerly classified as “conditionally closed” should indicate what actions are being taken to complete the remaining actions.
The next reporting period is from Jan. 1, 2025, to June 30, 2025.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host Remediation and Redevelopment External Advisory Group (RR EAG) subgroup meetings on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024.
The RR EAG was formed to address a broad range of issues, encompassing both technical and policy topics related to encouraging the investigation, cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites in Wisconsin.
The RR EAG identifies issues and topics of interest that may be addressed by ad hoc subgroups. Subgroup members are expected to research and develop recommendations on the selected topics for presentation to the full group. RR EAG subgroup meetings are open to the public. Interested individuals may attend in-person or register to attend by zoom.
Location:
State Natural Resources Building (GEF 2)
Room G27A
101 S Webster St.
Madison, WI
In-person attendees should RSVP to Coreen Fallat by noon on Dec. 4, 2024, at CoreenR.Fallat@wisconsin.gov. Please check in at the security desk before taking the elevator.
When:
10 – 11:30 a.m. – RR EAG Funding Sustainability Subgroup;
Zoom attendance registration.
Noon – 1:30 p.m. – RR EAG NR 700 Subgroup;
Zoom attendance registration.
2 – 3:30 p.m. – RR EAG Vapor Intrusion Subgroup;
Zoom attendance registration.
3:45 – 4:30 p.m. – RR EAG Ad Hoc Meeting on Engagement;
Zoom attendance registration.
Visit the DNR’s RR EAG webpage for meeting agendas, materials and additional information. Subscribe for updates on future RR EAG meetings.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that the Sept. 19, 2024 meetings of the Funding Sustainability, NR 700 and Vapor Intrusion subgroups of the Remediation and Redevelopment External Advisory Group (RR EAG) are canceled.
The full RR EAG will meet on Oct. 11, 2024. The RR EAG will discuss future plans for the subgroups in light of the announcement on Sept. 10, 2024 that administrative rulemaking efforts related to the investigation and cleanup of hazardous substance discharges to the environment are discontinued.
All meetings of the RR EAG and subgroups are open to the public. Visit the DNR’s RR EAG webpage for registration information, meeting agendas and materials.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced it will discontinue current administrative rulemaking efforts related to the investigation and cleanup of hazardous substance discharges to the environment.
Wisconsin Statutes (Wis. Stat.) Ch. 292 directs certain parties to clean up contaminated sites in Wisconsin; Wisconsin Administrative (Wis. Admin.) Code chs. NR 700-799 provide the specific steps and standards for conducting cleanup activities.
In January 2024, two scope statements were approved for rulemaking by the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board. The scope statements were related to continuing obligations (Board Order RR-14-23) and soil cleanup (Board Order RR-15-23). Rulemaking efforts are intended to provide clarification to existing statutes that are helpful to our external partners and customers as they work to investigate and clean up contamination in our state.
The DNR formed the NR 700 Rule Advisory Committee (RAC) to advise DNR staff during development of these proposed rules. Through meetings with the RAC, DNR recognized the need for and importance of taking additional time to conceptualize how best to revise the rules to meet the shared objectives of the DNR and external partners and customers.
The DNR will discontinue efforts on both scope statements and will allow the authority to work on rule revisions to expire. All meetings of the NR 700 Rule Advisory Committee (RAC) are cancelled.
The DNR would like to recognize and thank the RAC and many other members of the public who have provided us with valuable input on both draft rules. Our collaborative work is not lost. The DNR will consider the input we have received, will continue to work with the RR EAG, and will reintroduce scope statements in the future to restart work on the rules.
The DNR will continue to apply its authority under existing statutes and rules to serve our customers as they are accustomed and ensure protection of public health and the environment.
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Karen Campoli will take on a management role with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR)’s Remediation and Redevelopment (RR) Program. Campoli recently accepted a new position as the Team Supervisor in the Northeast Region stationed in the Green Bay office.
Campoli has been with the RR Program for the past four years, most recently as a project manager and member of the Superfund Site Assessment Team. She started in her new role on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. Prior to the DNR, Campoli worked as an environmental consultant in Chicago.
She replaces Roxanne Chronert, who took a position as the Policy and Program Operations Director for the RR Program earlier this year.
Karen Campoli, Team Supervisor in the Northeast Region
The RR Sites Map is the Wisconsin DNR’s web-based mapping system that provides information about contaminated properties and other activities related to the investigation and cleanup of contaminated soil or groundwater in Wisconsin. The RR Sites Map is part of the DNR’s Wisconsin Remediation and Redevelopment Database (WRRD), an interlinked system tracking information on different contaminated land activities.
The RR Sites Map is on a new platform with a new look.
The new version of the RR Sites Map includes the following improvements:
Customers can provide feedback or recommendations for the new platform to the DNR. Feedback will help the DNR make future improvements. Please contact DNRRRBRRTSFEEDBACK@wisconsin.gov with feedback or questions.
