PAI Specialties
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION

General:

PAI Corporation (PAI) provides comprehensive environmental restoration (ER) technical services under both the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Our clients include government agencies and commercial firms that have acknowledged PAI's outstanding performance and support in formal evaluations. Our ER experience includes:

Remedial Investigations/RCRA Facility Investigations (RIs/RFIs)
Feasibility Studies and Corrective Measures Studies (FSs/CMSs)
Proposed Plans and Records of Decision (PPs/RODs)
Remedial Designs/Remedial Actions (RDs/RAs)
Engineering Evaluations/Cost Analyses (EEs/CAs) and Action Memoranda
Removal Actions and Interim Removal Actions

Specific Areas of Expertise:

Program Management

Remedial Investigations
RCRA Facility Investigations
Feasibility Studies
Corrective Measures Studies
Records of Decision
Remedial Design
Removal/Remedial Actions
RCRA/CERCLA Action Oversight

Examples:

 
Environmental/Site Restoration Support at NASA/Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, CA
PAI manages the Site Restoration Program at ARC, and performs site investigation and remediation activities, ensures underground storage tank (UST) regulatory compliance, and installs and surveys monitoring wells. PAI prepares work plans and study designs for sampling and analysis of soil, soil vapor, and groundwater. PAI also operates remediation, treatment, and other engineered pollution control systems, and maintains the Geographic Information System (GIS).  BACK TO MENU
 
Provide ES&H Support to the Bechtel Nevada (BN) Environmental Restoration Group
PAI supported BN in the start up and initial restoration work at the R-MAD D&D and DECON facilities, supported BN in HAZWOPER restoration & other ER projects, and monitored work practices during ER construction activities.  BACK TO MENU
 
ER Program at the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project (WSSRAP)
PAI provides direct support and oversight of the remediation of WSSRAP, a National Priorities List site, and prepares/reviews the associated documents (RI/FSs, RODs, EEs/CAs, sampling plans, work plans, etc.). PAI also coordinates regulatory review and comment resolution.  BACK TO MENU
 
CERCLA Action Planning for Operable Unit (OU) 2 at the Y-12 Plant
OU 2, located in Bear Creek Valley, contains radioactive, hazardous, and mixed wastes. PAI performed the scoping and screening of remedial technologies for the OU 2 FS, prepared the PP and ROD, and developed the remedial design work plan.  BACK TO MENU
 
CERCLA Removal Action at the Atomic City Auto Parts Site in Oak Ridge
PAI investigated the site to define the nature and extent of soil and groundwater contamination, performed an EE/CA, prepared an action memorandum to support the proposed action, and provided oversight of the removal action.  BACK TO MENU
 
ER Program for DOE/OR
For 7 years, PAI supported comprehensive ER program tasks for DOE facilities in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio. PAI provided the full scope of CERCLA action planning, including preliminary assessments, site inspections, site characterizations, RIs, FSs, proposed plans, RODs, EE/CAs, decontamination and decommissioning (D&D), and action memoranda. PAI also supported remediation technology selection; treatment process and equipment design; oversight of remedial construction; management of waste generated as part of RA and D&D activities; and laboratory services for the ER program.  BACK TO MENU
 
Bethel Valley (BV) ER Projects Management for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
PAI managed the ORNL BV ER projects, including the nuclear materials and facilities utilization; the FS, PP, ROD, and other documentation for Waste Area Group (WAG) 1 surface impoundments; the treatability study of WAG 1 Gunite and Associated Tanks OU; the BV watershed RI/FS; and the Bethel Valley main plant EE/CA.  BACK TO MENU
 
ER and Waste Management at the Nevada Test Site (NTS)

PAI played a major role in the implementation of CERCLA and RCRA programs at the NTS and other DOE/Nevada sites in Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, and Mississippi. PAI’s services included hazard evaluations, RI/FS, site investigations and characterizations, community relations, and remedial action planning.  BACK TO MENU