EPA's Final VI Guidance

EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) has long promised the release of the Final VI Guidance (FVIG) on November 30, 2012, exactly 10 years after issuing the draft guidance. We've learned that the draft guidance was sent to EPA's regional offices for review. We have a copy and will report on it in our December Focus on the Environment Newsletter. OSWER's Richard Kapuscinski recently said that the FIVG would not be complete by the end of November, but we understand that it's expected in the second quarter of 2013, following a presentation at the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS) VI conference in March. Craig Cox of Cox-Colvin will be presenting at the conference regarding the issues of spatial heterogeneity. We'll keep you informed on the FVIG and the AEHS conference in future issues of our newsletter.