4.4.5.1   Overall Protection of Human Health and the Environment
-- Alternative 5

Alternative 5 would protect human health and the environment in
the long term primarily through treatment of PCB-contaminated
material using plasma torch technology.  PCB-contaminated
material at each of the sites would be excavated and transported
to the CTF, thereby reducing the potential for direct contact
with, ingestion of, or inhalation of contaminated materials at
the sites.  The PCBs in the contaminated materials would be
destroyed in the plasma torch treatment system, and inorganics
would be immobilized in the vitrified slag.  The short-term
protection of human health and the environment during waste
treatment is a primary consideration.  Human health and the
environment would be protected in the short term by implementing
strict engineering controls on emissions from the plasma torch
unit.