When SURF members get together, there’s always enthusiasm and synergy – the SURF member happy hour last month was no exception. SURFers attending the Battelle Remediation Symposium walked to a nearby Irish pub to meet each other in person (some for the first time!) and chat. After a couple of hours and a plate of nachos, a SURF technical initiative was born and was approved by the SURF board a couple weeks later. SURF members working on this initiative will create a SURF-owned tool for conducting simplified site impact assessments at remediation sites to quantify the resource, social, and economic impact of remedial actions, with an initial focus on electricity usage impacts. The Remedial Evaluation and Screening Tool for Optimization and Resource Efficiency tool (RESTORE) will provide practitioners with an objective, simple-to-use interface using the most current widely accepted quantitative methods. Interested? Click here to learn more.