e.e.r.c.: Highlights and Initiatives: November, 1997

	Energy, Environment and Resources Center The University of Tennessee Highlights and Initiatives
November 1997 Energy, Environment and Resources Center Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies Gary A. Davis, Director Office of Communications and Publications David Brill, Director Center for Geography and Environmental Education Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program Sheila Webster, Director Pellissippi Research Institute Donald Alvic, Director Pro-Dialogue Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors Water Resources Research Center Tim Gangaware, Associate Director For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134. Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/	Appointments. Gary Sayler, who has served as acting director of the Waste Management Research and Education Institute (WMREI) for several years, was named director at the institute's bi-annual advisory committee meeting in October. The eight-member advisory committee comprises technical and policy experts drawn from private industry, academia, and state and federal governments. Their role is to examine the institute's progress and outline future directions. The committee members include Robert Fox, B & JF Associates, LLC; Charlie Bailey, Tennessee Eastman Division; David Conn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; T. Randall Curlee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Energy Division; G. Dodd Galbreath, Tennessee Dept of Environment and Conservation; Steve Hildebrand, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division; Roger Minear, University of Illinois Institute for Environmental Studies; and Frank Harris, University of Tennessee. Projects. EERC Senior Research Associate Kim Davis, in her capacity as a principle investigator for the "Activated Sludge Data Base Project" funded by WMREI, is organizing industrial sponsors for this and similar projects under the auspices of the new Wastewater Treatment Consortium (WTC) led by Gary Sayler, who also directs UT's Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB). Researchers and industrial representatives will convene in December to suggest future directions for research under WTC. Davis, along with post-doctorate Research Associates Curtis Lajoie and Alice Layton and EERC Research Associate Steve Stamm, is constructing a data base of RNA sequences to identify the bacteria in waste-water treatment plant (WWTP) sludge. The management of sludge, a byproduct of the WWTP process, is an important determinant in water quality, and the data base will help reveal the types of bacteria that correlate with various WWTP operating conditions. In conjunction with America Recycles Day, November 15, EERC Senior Research Scientist Rosalyn McKeown-Ice and Senior Research Associate Catherine Wilt released the results of a statewide solid-waste survey. The report confirms that Tennesseans strongly support solid-waste recycling and that there has been a significant rise in recycling activities since 1989. State calculations, however, still show Tennessee three percentage points shy of its 25-percent waste-reduction goal. McKeown-Ice and Wilt co-direct the Tennessee Solid Waste Education Project (http://www-tnswep.ra.utk.edu), which is sponsored by WMREI and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Publications. EERC Research Associate Paul Tarrant, of EERC's Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program, co-authored the eighth annual edition of Software Directory of Automated Records Management with John Phillips of Cohasset Associates, Inc., in Chicago. The directory, which examines document-management software systems and lists basic product features along with vendor contact information, was published by ARMA International (Association of Records Managers and Administrators) in October. Tarrant, who served on ARMA's Information Technologies Committee for nine years, has recently been appointed referee for all ARMA publications and serves on the Publications Coordination Committee. Conferences. Val Loiselle, executive director of the Association of Radioactive Metal Recyclers (ARMR), in cooperation with the EPA, has recently been working to establish scrap metal standards and regulations for fugitive sources recovery. ARMR addresses common industry problems relating to radiologically contaminated metals and comprises processor companies, engineers, demolition contractors, Department of Energy management and operating contractors, universities, and national laboratories. In August, ARMR and the EERC co-sponsored the Beneficial Reuse Conference in Knoxville, which drew 125 participants from across the nation. At the conference, Loiselle discussed the link between decontamination and decommissioning (D&D), beneficial reuse, and low-level waste disposal. Loiselle also serves on the Nuclear Energy Institute task force, which seeks to establish safe, equitable, and effective regulation of the nuclear energy industry for similar D&D and beneficial reuse/recycle activities.

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

The University of Tennessee

Highlights and Initiatives

November 1997

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director

Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies

Gary A. Davis, Director

Office of Communications and Publications

David Brill, Director

Center for Geography and Environmental Education

Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director

Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program

Sheila Webster, Director

Pellissippi Research Institute

Donald Alvic, Director

Pro-Dialogue

Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors

Water Resources Research Center

Tim Gangaware, Associate Director

For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134.

Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/

Appointments. Gary Sayler, who has served as acting director of the Waste Management Research and Education Institute (WMREI) for several years, was named director at the institute's bi-annual advisory committee meeting in October. The eight-member advisory committee comprises technical and policy experts drawn from private industry, academia, and state and federal governments. Their role is to examine the institute's progress and outline future directions. The committee members include Robert Fox, B & JF Associates, LLC; Charlie Bailey, Tennessee Eastman Division; David Conn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; T. Randall Curlee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Energy Division; G. Dodd Galbreath, Tennessee Dept of Environment and Conservation; Steve Hildebrand, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division; Roger Minear, University of Illinois Institute for Environmental Studies; and Frank Harris, University of Tennessee.

Projects. EERC Senior Research Associate Kim Davis, in her capacity as a principle investigator for the "Activated Sludge Data Base Project" funded by WMREI, is organizing industrial sponsors for this and similar projects under the auspices of the new Wastewater Treatment Consortium (WTC) led by Gary Sayler, who also directs UT's Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB). Researchers and industrial representatives will convene in December to suggest future directions for research under WTC. Davis, along with post-doctorate Research Associates Curtis Lajoie and Alice Layton and EERC Research Associate Steve Stamm, is constructing a data base of RNA sequences to identify the bacteria in waste-water treatment plant (WWTP) sludge. The management of sludge, a byproduct of the WWTP process, is an important determinant in water quality, and the data base will help reveal the types of bacteria that correlate with various WWTP operating conditions.

In conjunction with America Recycles Day, November 15, EERC Senior Research Scientist Rosalyn McKeown-Ice and Senior Research Associate Catherine Wilt released the results of a statewide solid-waste survey. The report confirms that Tennesseans strongly support solid-waste recycling and that there has been a significant rise in recycling activities since 1989. State calculations, however, still show Tennessee three percentage points shy of its 25-percent waste-reduction goal. McKeown-Ice and Wilt co-direct the Tennessee Solid Waste Education Project (http://www-tnswep.ra.utk.edu), which is sponsored by WMREI and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

Publications. EERC Research Associate Paul Tarrant, of EERC's Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program, co-authored the eighth annual edition of Software Directory of Automated Records Management with John Phillips of Cohasset Associates, Inc., in Chicago. The directory, which examines document-management software systems and lists basic product features along with vendor contact information, was published by ARMA International (Association of Records Managers and Administrators) in October. Tarrant, who served on ARMA's Information Technologies Committee for nine years, has recently been appointed referee for all ARMA publications and serves on the Publications Coordination Committee.

Conferences. Val Loiselle, executive director of the Association of Radioactive Metal Recyclers (ARMR), in cooperation with the EPA, has recently been working to establish scrap metal standards and regulations for fugitive sources recovery. ARMR addresses common industry problems relating to radiologically contaminated metals and comprises processor companies, engineers, demolition contractors, Department of Energy management and operating contractors, universities, and national laboratories. In August, ARMR and the EERC co-sponsored the Beneficial Reuse Conference in Knoxville, which drew 125 participants from across the nation. At the conference, Loiselle discussed the link between decontamination and decommissioning (D&D), beneficial reuse, and low-level waste disposal. Loiselle also serves on the Nuclear Energy Institute task force, which seeks to establish safe, equitable, and effective regulation of the nuclear energy industry for similar D&D and beneficial reuse/recycle activities.

The EERC conducts analytical, unbiased, and multidisciplinary research designed to promote real-world solutions to problems in the fields of energy, environment, technology, and economic development.

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