Cost components of remedial investigation/feasibility studies

The Department of Energy (DOE) is beginning major environmental restoration projects of both active and inactive sites throughout the US. IT Corporation, under the direction of the Office of Independent Cost Estimating (OICE) of DOE, developed a list of environmental problems at the sites and probable cleanup technologies and techniques which could be used. Some procedures were identified that were common to many or all cleanup projects. These included site characterization, remedial investigation (RI) and feasibility studies (FS). This article focuses on the cost components of the RI and FS processes