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Sediment Managment Annual Review Meeting (SMARM)

The 28th SMARM was held on May 4, 2016.

SMARM is a joint meeting of the Dredged Material Management Program (DMMP) and the Washington Department of Ecology's Sediment Management Standards (SMS) program. SMARM is always a public meeting with anyone interested invited to attend. It is held annually on the first Wednesday of May.

No comments were received on any SMARM papers this year. All papers have now been finalized and implemented. See below for finalized papers, or see all programs clarifications over the years on the Program Updates page.

SMARM 2016: Finalized Clarification Papers

The following proposals were presented at SMARM 2016. No comments on the proposed updates were submitted by the closing date of June 3, 2016. All papers were thus implemented as originally written. Links below are to finalized papers.

SMARM 2016 - Agenda and Presentations

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Expand for agenda with links to PDFs of PowerPoint presentations.

8:30	Coffee and Registration
9:00	Welcome	Justine Barton, EPA
9:05	Opening Remarks	Amy Reese, Chief Operations Division, USACE
Session 1: State of the DMMP – Management Discussion
9:15	Origin and Evolution of DMMP	Justine Barton, EPA & David Fox, USACE
9:55	Legislative Proviso for Management Review of DMMP	Jim Pendowski, Ecology
10:30	Break
Session 2: Dredging Year 2016: Agency Actions and Updates
10:50	Updates on Toxics Cleanup Program’s Budget, Policy and Cleanup Site Developments, and SCUM II revisions.	Chance Asher, Ecology
11:20	Update on 2015 DMMP Clarification and Issue Papers	Kelsey van der Elst, USACE
11:30	DMMP Project Evaluation Activities – Dredging Year 2016	Heather Fourie, USACE
11:50	Lunch – on your own
Session 3: Disposal Sites, Projects and Issues
12:50	Disposal Site Management and Monitoring, A/K Trawl Study Results, and ESA Consultation	Celia Barton, DNR & David Fox, USACE
1:10	Public Issue Paper: Bulk sediment TBT trigger – Basis?	Susie McGroddy, Windward Environmental
1:25	Mukilteo Multimodal: Dredging of Site with Extensive Debris	Marsha Tolon, WashDOT
1:35	Applying 2013 SMS Rule to the DMMP: PAHs as an Example	Laura Inouye, Ecology
2:05	Break
Session 4: Proposals, Clarifications and Updates
2:25	Proposed Clarification: Updated Dioxin Testing Requirements for Dispersive Disposal Sites in Puget Sound	Kelsey van der Elst, USACE
2:40	Puget Sound Sediment Reference Material Update	Kelsey van der Elst, USACE
2:45	Proposed Clarification: Revised Evaluation Guidelines for Benzyl Alcohol in Marine Sediments	Heather Fourie, USACE
3:05	Proposed Clarification: Adoption of Elements of SEF for Use in DMMP	David Fox, USACE
3:15 - 3:30	Summary & Adjourn Meeting	Justine Barton, EPA

SMARM Definitions

SMARM Definitions: All changes to the DMMP program since its inception have been through the SMARM process: papers proposing updates are presented, public comments are taken, and proposals are then adopted as originally presented, modified based on comments, or not implemented at all.

DMMP identifies three kinds of papers: Issue, Clarification and Status.

Issue papers propose program-level changes that require approval by all four DMMP agencies in order to implement.
Clarification papers propose updates and modifications to existing guidance that do not substantively change program or policy.
Status papers are for information only. Status papers may report on current investigations that may eventually result in an Issue or Clarification, or they may simply be information of interest to stakeholders.

ARM and SMARM Meeting Summaries

Summaries from all Annual Review Meetings (all in PDF format). In 1995 the Annual Review Meetings (ARM) were combined with Ecology's Sediment Management Program to become Sediment Management Annual Review Meeting (SMARM).

These links download large PDF files.

Contact the DMMO

Mailing Address	Seattle District
	Dredged Material Management Office
	PO Box 3755
	Seattle, WA 98124-3755
E-mail	DMMOteam@usace.army.mil
Phones	206-764-6083
	206-764-6945
	206-764-6550
	206-764-6713