Reducing cost is a critical challenge facing environmental remediation today. One of the most effective ways of … reducing costs is to improve decision-making. This can range from choosing more cost- effective remediation alternatives (for … best remedial design from a suite of possible ones, 2) estimate if additional data collection is cost-effective, and 3 …

Missile Defense (TMD) Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis (COEA) and to aid the COEA Study Director in making … management program. The process was expedient, efficient and proved to be an effective method of distilling essential information …

the sheer complexity of the modeling effort: Monte Carlo methods and the exhaustive evaluation of ``what if?`` scenarios …

the sheer complexity of the modeling effort: Monte Carlo methods and the exhaustive evaluation of what if '' scenarios …

completion of projects from a cost-plus Management and Operations (M and O) contract, to incentive-based contracts with the … slippage time. Fixed-price contracts encourage contractors to minimize schedule delays and cost overruns once the scope of a … project has been negotiated. Conversely, cost-plus contracting offers weak incentives for contractors to select cost …

program budget priorities. The purpose of the ER risk-based prioritization methodology is to provide ER management with the … remedial action, decontamination and decommissioning, and waste management activities. The methodology provides the ER Program …

and capabilities will be outlined in this paper. VSP can be downloaded at no cost from http://dqo.pnl.gov/vsp. …

Effective contaminated land management requires a number of decisions addressing a suite of technical, economic, and … environmental management that affects a significant economic activity. Although each environmental remediation problem is unique and … codifying procedures has also been found to be a useful activity for establishing and rationalizing management processes. This …

environment of sites under its control by the year 2019. Responsibility for accomplishing this goal is vested with the Office of … Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM). Concerns regarding the availability of workers with the necessary technical …

facilities to infer the marginal abatement cost. The initial stage of the project is to use data from an earlier published study … implementation to issues of cost-benefit analysis studies needed by the Department of Energy. The basis for this marginal abatement … cost estimation is a relationship between the outputs and the inputs of a firm or plant. Given a fixed set of input …