ASTM E2541 PDF

Standard Guide for Stakeholder-Focused, Consensus-Based Disaster Restoration Process for Contaminated Assets (Withdrawn 2019)

ASTM E2541 – Standard Guide for Stakeholder-Focused, Consensus-Based Disaster Restoration Process for Contaminated Assets (Withdrawn 2019)

1.1 To ensure a publicly acceptable and timely restorationof an asset contaminated as a result of a natural or man-made disaster, includinga terrorist event, it is essential to have a pre-planned strategy developedand tailored at the community level and facilitated by the government whichadvocates the support and involvement of the affected community during sucha crisis period.This pre-planned strategy for restoration will need to be seamlessly incorporated into the overall emergency management process withinthe community.This guide presents a framework (that is, strategy) for involvingthe public in a stakeholder-focused, consensus-based event restorationprocess, for those situations where such involvement is essential to move a stalled (due to stakeholder issues) restoration process forward.This framework is designed to be an event-specific, community-specific process to help prioritize and consider actions necessary to optimize therestoration of an asset contaminated as the result of a disaster.

1.2 This guide is intended to describe a highly flexiblerestoration planning process, and therefore does not specify or recommend a specific course of action for this activity.

1.3 This guide is intended to assist in the implementation of a restoration planning process allowing a holistic assessment and balancing of the impacts associated with human health, ecology, socio-cultural values, and economic implications.It is intended to be used in alignment with current Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guidance and other guides andagency procedures and requirements to address specific stakeholder issues and concerns.

1.4 After completing the immediate response and stabilizationphase of a disaster that required Federal assistance through establishment of a Joint Field Office (JFO) in accordance with the National Response Plan,mitigation and recovery activities will need to be planned and initiated toaddress the significant long-term impacts for any contaminated assets in theaffected area.This guide provides a process that can be used by the JFO to gain stakeholder consensus on the restoration of these assets.

1.5 The user should consult other restoration-relatedstandards, regulations, and sources for specific methods in the utilizationof predictive models or other analysis tools that may be required under arestoration planning assessment.

1.6 Although the implementation of a restoration planningprocess is intended for use after a disaster occurs, it needs to be an integralpart of a community's pre-event planning activities and incorporatedinto appropriate community response plans.Identifying the important assetsof a community and key stakeholders associated with each respective asset,before an event occurs through a process such as Community Asset Mapping,will help ensure a more efficient restoration process following an actualcontamination of the asset in a disastrous event.

1.7 Since restoration planning as proposed in this guide follows a plan established prior to the event, it is important to coordinate asset restoration plans with event preplanning on how to minimize damages to significant assets from uncertain, low-probability, but potentially costly natural and man-made disasters.What will be required for asset restoration will be in part dependent on what measures have been taken to protect those same assets before the extreme event occurs.Guide E2506 provides a three-step protocol for formulating and evaluating risk mitigation strategies for constructed facilities.Assets identified for risk mitigation in the application of Guide E2506 prior to a disaster will likely be assets that the restoration stakeholders using this guide will want to consider restoring in the recovery phase following a disaster.

1.8 This standard guide does not purport to address allof the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibilityof the user of this standard guide to establish appropriate safety and healthpractices and to determine the applicability of regulatory limitations priorto use.