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__________. 2009d. Phase 1 Remedial Action Monitoring Program Quality Assurance

Project Plan. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. May 2009.

__________. 2009e. Hudson River PCBs Site Remedial Action Work Plan Appendix D:

Phase 1 Performance Standards Compliance Plan. Prepared for General Electric by Arcadis.

May 2009.

__________. 2009f. Habitat Assessment Report for Phase 2 Areas. Prepared for General

Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. June 2009.

__________. 2009g. Phase 1 Data Compilation Report. Prepared for General Electric

Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. November 2009.

__________. 2010a. 2009 Data Summary Report, Hudson River Water and Fish, Hudson

River PCBs Superfund Site. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC.

May 2010.

__________. 2010b. Supplemental Engineering Data Collection Work Plan for Sediment

Sampling in Certification Units 09-16 and 19-30. Prepared for General Electric Company by

Anchor QEA, LLC. September 2010.

___________. 2010c. Phase 1 Evaluation Report, Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site.

Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA and ARCADIS. March 2010.

__________. 2011a. Phase 2 Performance Standards Compliance Plan For 2011. Appendix D

to Remedial Action Work Plan for Phase 2 Dredging and Facility Operations in 2011,

Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site. Revised April 2011

__________. 2011b. Wetland Delineation Report for Phase 2 Areas. J Prepared for General

Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. January 2011.


__________. 2011c. 2010 Supplemental Engineering Data Collection Data Summary Report.

Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. February 2011.

__________. 2011d. 2010 Data Summary Report Hudson River Water and Fish, Hudson


April 2011.

__________. 2011e. Hudson River PCBs Site 2011 Remedial Action Monitoring Quality

Assurance Project Plan. Revision 1. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor

QEA, LLC. May 2011.

__________. 2011f. Supplemental Engineering Data Collection Work Plan for Sediment

Sampling in Certification Units 31 through 70. Prepared for General Electric Company by

Anchor QEA, LLC. July 2011.

__________. 2011g. Technical Memorandum: Dam Volatilization Special Study Results.

Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. November 2011.

__________. 2011h. Technical Memorandum: Results of Special Study on Tributary Inputs

of Solids and PCs. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. November

2011.

__________. 2011i. Technical Memorandum: EoC, Residuals, and Missed Inventory Special

Study Results. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. December

2011.

__________. 2011j. Addendum to 2011 Supplemental Engineering Data Collection Work

Plan. Prepared for GE by Environmental Standards, Inc. September 28, 2011


_________. 2011k. Remedial Action Work Plan for Phase 2 Dredging and Facility

Operations in 2011. Revision 1 – April 2011. Prepared for the General Electric Co. by

Parsons Corp.

_________. 2011l. Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site Operation, Maintenance, and

Monitoring Plan for Phase 1 Caps and Habitat Replacement/Reconstruction. Prepared for

the General Electric Co. by Parsons Corp. September 2011.

__________. 2011m. Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site Phase 1 Construction Completion

Report. Prepared for the General Electric Co. by Parsons Corp. October 2011.

__________. 2011n. Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2011. Prepared for General Electric by

Arcadis. Revised April 2011.

_________. 2011o. Corrective Action Memorandum (CAM) No. 3 – Modification of

Sediment Residual Monitoring Program – Discontinuing mGBM Analysis of Sediment

Samples and Updates of the Regression Coefficients. Memorandum from Emily Chen,

Anchor QEA, to Bob Gibson, General Electric. August 15, 2011.

__________. 2012a. Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2012. Prepared for General Electric by

Arcadis. May 2012.

__________. 2012b. Addendum #1 to Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2012: West Griffin

Island Area. October 2012. Prepared for General Electric by Arcadis.

__________. 2012c. Phase 2 Year 1 Cap Survey Results and Reference Surfaces. Prepared

for General Electric by CLE Engineering. November 2012.

__________. 2012d. Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site Phase 2 Year 1 Annual Progress

Report. Prepared for General Elecric by Parsons Corp. February 2012.


_________. 2012e. Post-Closure Inspection Summary Report for Fort Edward PCB Remnant

Site Remediation Project Sites 2, 3, 4, and 5. Prepared for General Electric by O’Brien &

Gere. January 2012.

__________. 2012f. Technical Memorandum: Results of Diagnostic Testing Special Studies.

Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. January 2012.

__________. 2012g. 2011 Supplemental Engineering Data Collection Data Summary Report

on Sediment Sampling. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC and

ESI. January 2012.

__________. 2012h. 2011 Data Summary Report Hudson River Water and Fish, Hudson


April 2012.

__________. 2012i. Supplemental Engineering Data Collection Work Plan for Sediment

Sampling in Certification Units 71-100. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor

QEA, LLC. April 2012.

__________. 2012j. Technical Memorandum: Using an Aroclor Method to Quantify Total

PCB Concentrations and Calculate Tri+ PCB Concentrations in Water. Prepared for

General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. May 2012.

__________. 2012k Technical Memorandum: Refinement of Water Column Tri+ PCB

Regressions for Far-field. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA, LLC.

August 2012.

__________. 2012l. Technical Memorandum: Evaluation of Buoy-based Far-field

Monitoring Station in Stillwater. Prepared for General Electric Company by Anchor QEA,

LLC. December 2012.


__________. 2012m. Hudson River PCBs Site Phase 2 Remedial Action Monitoring

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ESI. May 2012.

_________. 2012m.Operation, Maintenance, and Monitoring Plan for Phase 2 Year 1 Caps

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__________. 2013a. Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site Phase 2 Year 2 Annual Progress

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__________. 2013b. Remedial Action Work Plan for Phase 2 Dredging and Facility

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Corporation by Parsons Corp. February 2013.

___________. 2013c. Post-Closure Inspection Summary Report for Fort Edward PCB

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__________. 2013f. Technical Memorandum: Sample Preparation Error for Total Organic

Carbon (TOC) in Sediment. Prepared for GE by Environmental Standards, Inc. May 2013.

__________. 2013g. 2012 Supplemental Engineering Data Collection Sediment Sampling

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January 2013.

__________. 2013h. Phase 1 Adaptive Management Report for 2012. Prepared for General

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__________. 2013i. 2012 Data Summary Report, Hudson River Water and Fish, Hudson


March 2013.


__________. 2013k. PCB Loads and Percent Release. Prepared for General Electric

Company by Anchor QEA, LLC. July 2013.

__________. 2013l. MVP Sub-Area Delineation. Prepared for General Electric Company by

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__________. 2013l. Technical Memorandum, Remnant Deposits Annual Sumary Report..

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__________. 2013n. Operation, Maintenance, and Monitoring Plan for 2012 Caps and

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QEA, LLC. August 2013.

__________. 2013o. Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013. Prepared for General Electric by

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__________. 2013p. Addendum No. 1 to Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013. Prepared for

General Electric by Arcadis. May 2013.

__________. 2013q. Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 Addendum No. 4 – CU76 Design

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__________. 2013r. Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 Addendum No. 5 – CU79 through

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__________. 2013s. Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 Addendum No. 2 – Reaches 1 and

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__________. 2013t. Addendum No. 6 to Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 – Drawings

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__________. 2014a. Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 Addendum No. 3 – CU60 Design

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__________. 2014b. Addendum No. 8 to Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 – CUs 97

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__________. 2014c. Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 Addendum No. 5 – CU79

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__________. 2014d. Revised Addendum No. 7 to Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 –

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__________. 2014e. Phase 2 Final Design Report for CU85 through CU96. Prepared for

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__________. 2014f. Phase 2 Final Design Report for Reach 7 (the Landlocked Area).

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__________. 2014g. Addendum No. 1 to Revised Phase 2 Final Design Report for CU85

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__________. 2014h. Addendum No. 9 to Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013. Prepared for

General Electric by Arcadis. October 2014.

__________. 2014i. Revised Addendum No. 6 to Phase 2 Final Design Report for 2013 –

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Arcadis. December 2014.


__________. 2014j. Hudson River PCBs Site Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive

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Parsons. January 2014.

__________. 2014k. Phase 2 Year 3 Annual Progress Report. Prepared for General Elecric

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___________. 2014l. Post-Closure Inspection Summary Report for Fort Edward PCB


O’Brien & Gere. January 2014.

___________. 2014m. Post-Closure Inspection Summary Report for Fort Edward PCB


O’Brien & Gere. September 2014.

___________. 2014n. Post-Closure Inspection Summary Report for Fort Edward PCB


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__________. 2014p. 2013 Data Summary Report, Hudson River Water and Fish, Hudson


March 2014.

__________. 2014q. Technical Memorandum: Annual Summary Report for the Post-

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for 2013 Caps and Habitat Replacement/Reconstruction. Prepared for General Electric by

Anchor QEA and Parsons.March 2014.


__________. 2015a. 2014 Data Summary Report. Prepared for General Electric Company by

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__________. 2015d. Phase 2 Year 4 Annual Progress Report. Prepared for General Electric

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__________. 2015e. Technical Memorandum, Annual Summary Report for the 2014-Post-

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__________. 2015f. Hudson River PCBs Site Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive

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__________. 2015g. Hudson River PCBs Site Revised Operation, Maintenance, and

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__________. 2015h. Supplemental Design Revision for 2015. Prepared for General Electric

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__________. 2015i. Supplemental Design Revisions for 2015. Prepared for General Electric

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__________. 2015j. Addendum No. 1 to Final Revised Supplemental Design Revisions for

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__________. 2015k. Supplemental Design Revisions for 2015. Prepared for General Electric

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__________. 2015l. Sediment Processing Facility Demobilization and Restoration Plan.

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__________. 2016a. Phase 2 Year 5 Annual Progress Report. Prepared for General Electric

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__________. 2016e. Dredging Project Design Drawings and Specifications for 2016 Habitat

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__________. 2016h. Addendum to 2015 Data Summary Report – Fish Sampling Data.

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__________. 2016k. Hudson River PCBs Site Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive

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