SBIR Phase I: Ground Truthing Approach to Risk Assessment and Communication Under Uncertainty

9661182诺尔顿 这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目将由决定TX进行，重点是开发改进的方法和相关的软件系统，用于评估和传达环境健康风险，以及估计与这些风险相关的潜在财务负担。 建议的方法将允许风险评估员和风险管理人员有效地评估受污染的工业和废物管理场地的参数不确定性和可变性影响的累积风险，同时最好地客观利用场地污染物数据。 该软件系统将有助于客观分析为消除污染而可能采取的补救行动的相关成本，以及环境污染造成的相关财务风险和责任。 一个特别及时的应用所提出的方法是众多的布朗菲尔德网站位于美国各地。 为软件系统建议的许多图形结构将大大简化风险问题与现场利益相关者的沟通。 所提出的方法将既建立的概念和最近研究的技术，但是，决定TX的方法代表了一种新颖的尝试，联合收割机所有这些互补的概念到一个易于使用的包。 本研究开发的技术可用于简化政府和私营部门的废物现场调查和补救项目。 受益于这些工具的实体包括商业和工业企业，其场地属于《综合环境反应、赔偿和责任法》（CERCLA）、《资源保护和恢复法》（RCRA）以及其他环境法规和驱动因素的范围。 此外，这些软件工具将极大地帮助法律的、金融、工业、保险和真实的房地产界确定与购买或重建受污染财产相关的责任和金融风险。

9661182 Knowlton This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project to be carried out by Decision TX focuses on the development of improved methods and a related software system for assessing and communicating environmental health risks, as well as estimating potential financial burdens associated with such risks. The suggested methods will allow risk assessors and risk managers to efficiently evaluate the accumulated risks at contaminated industrial and waste management sites affected by parameter uncertainty and variability, while making the best objective use of site contaminant data. The software system will facilitate objective analysis of costs associated with remedial actions that might be undertaken to remove contamination, and the associated financial risks d liabilities imposed by the environmental contamination. A particularly timely application of the proposed approach is to the numerous Brownfield sites located throughout the United States. Many of the graphical constructs suggested for the software system will greatly simplify the communication of risk issues to site stakeholders. The methods proposed incorporate both established concepts and recently-researched technologies; however, the Decision TX approach represents a novel attempt to combine all of these complementary concepts into an easy-to-use package. The technologies developed under this research can be applied to streamline waste site investigations and remediation projects in both government and private sectors. Entities standing to benefit from the tools include commercial and industrial businesses whose sites fall under the purview of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and other environmental regulations and drivers. In addition, these software tools would greatly aid the legal, financial, industrial, insurance, and real estate communities, in determining liabilities and financial risks associated wit h the purchase or redevelopment of contaminated properties.