The RCRA Permit Policy Compendium is a compilation of reference documents for RCRA hazardous waste permitting policies and procedures. The Compendium consists of EPA's RCRA permitting policies and procedures, reference memoranda, letters, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) Directives, and other documents that are the cornerstone of implementation of the RCRA permit program. |
EPA 530-R-95-038A
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The Remediation Technologies Development Forum (RTDF) was established in 1992 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify what government and industry can do together to develop and improve the environmental technologies needed to address their mutual cleanup problems in the safest, most cost-effective manner. The RTDF fosters public and private sector partnerships to undertake research, development, demonstration, and evaluation efforts focused on finding innovative solutions to high priority problems. |
EPA 542-F-02-011
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This guide is intended to increase awareness about technical information and specialized resources related to phytotechnology, bioremediation and other technologies as they relate to radioactive materials. Specifically, this document identifies a cross section of information intended to aid users in remedial decision-making, including abstracts of field demonstrations, research documents, and information to assist in the ordering of publications. In addition, the cross reference and look-up format of this document allows the user to quickly scan available resources and access more detailed abstracts. |
EPA 905-B-04-001
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Environmental regulators from seven states and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and an industrial consortium to demonstrate the performance of an innovate environmental soil remediation technology, named Lasagna ™. To assess cost and performance for removing trichloroethylene (TCE) from low-permeability soils, the demonstration was at DOE's Paducah, KY site and it was successful. The states, EPA, DOE's Office of Science and Technology, and the industrial consortium led by Monsanto collaborated through the Rapid Commercialization Initiative (RCI), an interagency-interstate partnership. A resulting verification statement summarized the environmental problem set, technology performance, and cost data. A listing of participating regulators and other team members is included. |
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This report assists the remedy selection process by providing information on four in situ technologies for treating soil contaminated with metals. The four approaches are electrokinetic remediation, phytoremediation, soil flushing, and solidification/stabilization. This section on flushing includes 2 brief case studies. |
EPA 542-R-97-004
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The Recommendations from the EPA GWTF are the result of a three-year effort that was established under the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response's (OSWER) One Cleanup Program Initiative. The goal of the GWTF was to identify, prioritize, and make recommendations for ground water issues that will benefit multiple ground water cleanup and protection programs. The report focuses on two topics the GWTF selected for evaluation: cleanup goals appropriate for dense non-aqueous phase liquid source zones; and, ground water use, value, and vulnerability as factors in setting cleanup goals. It includes background information, options, and GWTF recommendations to address identified issues. The cover letter of the report includes the recommendations the EPA OSWER is currently pursuing. |
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This report is the second edition of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (US EPA's) 2005 report and provides a high level summary of information on the applicability of existing and emerging noncombustion technologies for the remediation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in soil. Since the publication of this report in 2005, nine (9) additional chemicals have been listed in the Stockholm Convention; this brings the total number of chemicals currently listed as POPs under the Stockholm Convention to twenty-one (21). In addition, three (3) POPs are currently under consideration. |
EPA-542-R-09-007
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This report highlights select mining-influenced water (MIW) treatment technologies used or piloted as part of remediation efforts at mine sites. It is intended to provide information on treatment technologies for MIW to federal, state and local regulators, site owners and operators, consultants, and other stakeholders. Included in the report are short descriptions of treatment technologies and information on the contaminants treated, pre-treatment requirements, long-term maintenance needs, performance, and costs. Sample sites illustrate considerations associated with selecting a technology. Website links and sources for more information on each topic are also included. |
EPA 542-R-14-001
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This report describes a natural attenuation field study conducted jointly by the U. S. EPA Region 5, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR), the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), and Amoco Corporation (Amoco) since October 1994. To obtain the appendices to this report, please contact alvarez.gilberto@epa.gov. |
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Provides an analysis of the regional market for innovative treatment technologies. This report, aimed at developers and vendors of site remediation services, provides information on potential markets for site clean-up technologies and services in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. |
EPA 542-R-95-010
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Provides an analysis of the regional market for innovative treatment technologies. This report, aimed at developers and vendors of site remediation services, provides information on potential markets for site clean-up technologies and services in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. |
EPA 542-R-96-007
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This report discusses the optimization review performed at the East 67th Street Ground Water Plume NPL Site in Odessa, Texas. The document includes site-specific background and remedy information; the optimization evaluation team's understanding of the conceptual site model; and optimization findings and recommendations related to improving effectiveness, reducing cost, technical improvement, site closure and green remediation. |
EPA 542-R-14-002
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This report discusses the optimization review performed at the Sandy Beach Road Ground Water Plume Superfund Site which is located within incorporated areas of Pelican Bay and Azle, Texas and an unincorporated portion of Tarrant County, Texas. The document includes site-specific background and remedy information; the optimization evaluation team's understanding of the conceptual site model; and optimization findings and recommendations related to improving effectiveness, reducing cost, technical improvement, site closure and green remediation. |
EPA 542-R-14-003
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This fact sheet concerns an emerging remedial technology that applies a combination of activated carbon (AC) and chemical and/or biological amendments for in situ remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated by organic contaminants, primarily petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents. The technology typically is designed to carry out two contaminant removal processes: adsorption by AC and destruction by chemical and/or biological amendments. With the development of several commercially available AC-based products, this remedial technology has been applied with increasing frequency at contaminated sites across the country, including numerous leaking underground storage tank (LUST) and dry cleaner sites. It also has been recently applied at several Superfund sites, and federal facility sites that are not on the National Priorities List. This fact sheet provides information to practitioners and regulators for a better understanding of the science and current practice of AC-based remedial technologies for in situ applications. |
EPA 542-F-18-001
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This fact sheet provides information on the remediation case studies and general technology assessment reports produced by the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable. |
EPA 542-F-06-004
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This fact sheet provides information on the remediation case studies and general technology assessment reports produced by the Federal Remediation Technology Roundtable. |
EPA-542-F-07-002
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This fact sheet provides information on the remediation case studies and general technology assessment reports produced by the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable. |
EPA 542-F-05-004
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This fact sheet provides information on the remediation case studies and general technology assessment reports produced by the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable. |
EPA 542-F-04-016
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This document provides a general definition, scope and approach for conducting optimization reviews within the Superfund Program and includes the fundamental principles and themes common to optimization. It should be noted that although this document has been developed for optimization support in the Superfund Program, OSRTI acknowledges that the content of the document can apply to optimization in other remedial programs or regulatory frameworks. |
EPA 542-R-13-008
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This document was produced by the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC). It provides practical information and guidance on how to systematically evaluate and manage uncertainty associated with the remediation process by using RPO as a tool. Its primary goal is to provide information and tools to help ensure that the remediation process is progressing toward site cleanup objectives that are both acceptable and feasible and that selected remediation approaches attain those objectives and remain protective of human health and the environment. This document provides guidance on what could and should be included in an effective RPO proposal or program, including what RPO is, the regulatory framework that RPO must operate within, and references that provide examples of successful RPOs and resources for further examination of RPO. |
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The Tutu Wellfield Superfund Site is a 1.5 square mile site located on the eastern end of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) within the upper Turpentine Run surface drainage basin in the Anna's Retreat area. It is bounded by steep slopes and surrounding hills and lies slightly east of the city of Charlotte Amalie. There are two comingled groundwater contamination plumes at the site. The higher concentration, northern and upgradient plume has a source near the Curriculum Center. The southern and downgradient plume has a source near the O'Henry Dry Cleaners. Chemicals of concern (COC) in groundwater are specific chlorinated volatile organic compounds (CVOCs). The groundwater remedy consists of two groundwater treatment facilities (GWTF). GWTF #1 includes groundwater extraction and treatment by air stripping near the Curriculum Center source and previously also included soil vapor extraction (SVE). GWTF #2 includes groundwater extraction and air stripping at the downgradient end of the Curriculum Center plume just upgradient of the O'Henry plume. This RSE focuses on these systems and associated monitoring program. |
EPA 542-R-11-008
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The Vineland Chemical Superfund Site is located in the northwestern portion of Vineland, in Cumberland County, south central New Jersey, in an area of mixed industrial, low-density residential and agricultural properties. The site is bordered immediately to the north by other industrial properties and the Blackwater Branch, a perennial stream that flows westward to the Maurice River. The site consists of several operable units. This RSE specifically addresses Operable Unit 2 (OU2), which manages migration of the groundwater contaminant plume. The OU2 remedy is in the seventh year of a Long-Term Remedial Action (LTRA). In 2014, the responsibility for the OU2 remedy will be transferred to the State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). |
EPA 542-R-11-007
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The remediation technologies screening matrix is a user-friendly tool to screen for technologies for a remediation project. The matrix allows you to screen through 64 in situ and ex situ technologies for either soil or groundwater remediation. Variables used in screening include contaminants, development status, overall cost, and cleanup time. In-depth information on each technology is also available, including direct links to over 209 cost and performance reports written by members of the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable. |
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This cost compendium captures current information about the costs of the following six remediation technologies: (1) bioremediation; (2) thermal desorption; (3) soil vapor extraction (SVE); (4) on-site incineration; (5) groundwater pump-and-treat systems; and (6) permeable reactive barriers (PRBs). Cost data were obtained from federal agency sources, including case studies and reports prepared by the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Center for Expertise; and the U.S. Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE). |
EPA 542-R-01-009
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This factsheet, published by the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR), identifies and summarizes selected reports prepared by federal and state agencies to assist project managers in selecting and designing remediation technologies. Remediation Technology Assessment Reports are based on practical field experience with either specific technologies (such as permeable reactive barriers) or, in a few instances, specific contaminants (such as arsenic). As of September 2005, the website provides access to 68 of these reports. The new factsheet highlights the Remediation Technology Assessment Reports that may be among the most useful to project managers |
EPA 542-F-05-006
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This fact sheet provides information on the Federal Remediation Technology Roundtable's website that provides a compilation of multi-site remediation technology assessment reports. The technology assessment reports contain information about the application at numerous cleanup sites of a specific technology, such as bioremediation, or about a contaminant, such as arsenic, and provide summary findings based on practical field experience. |
EPA 542-F-03-014
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The primary purpose of this Engineer Manual (EM) is to provide practical guidance for removal of underground storage tanks (USTs). The manual addresses site evaluation, monitoring, testing, removal, and site restoration. A secondary purpose is to provide information relative to remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. |
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in concert with other federal agencies and state organizations, is accelerating the development of policies and information to support Strategic Investigation and Monitoring activities at hazardous waste sites. These efforts are meant to assist site decision makers as they transition to newer, streamlined approaches. The educational, training, and guidance resources described in this fact sheet either already exist or are under development to support project managers seeking to apply these approaches. |
EPA 542-F-01-030b
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The objective of this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is to define the protocol for retrieving meteorological information to be used as inputs to categorize on-site field conditions in 'real-time.' |
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Communities throughout the country are turning to urban agriculture and gardening as a reasonable option to increase their access to healthy, nutritious, and low-cost produce. Some of the sites that communities are using for urban gardens were previously home to industrial and commercial operations. |
EPA 542-F-10-011
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI) is developing a series of fact sheets on ecological restoration and revegetation of contaminated sites. This fact sheet provides information on revegetation of landfill surfaces for EPA site managers, consultants, and others interested in the revegetation of landfill surfaces. |
EPA 542-F-06-001
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The clean-up may be complete, but the soils at clean-up sites are now devoid of vegetation. In the past, hydroseeding large areas was the accepted revegetation method. Today, incorporating regional expertise and scientific research, revegetation is done using native plant species, giving better erosion control, longer plant life spans, and greater drought tolerance. Jump-starting an open area with native vegetation keeps invasives out while attracting larger and more diverse populations of wildlife. In turn, the area becomes a richer, self sustaining habitat with each passing year. Native plants are the new standard for revegetation of former hazardous waste sites. Running time is 9 minutes. |
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In response to the need for future research and development on reducing high costs and uncertainties of VI assessment strategies, the objective of this report is to identify existing best practices, knowledge and data gaps, and future research into new strategies and techniques. This study was supported by the Navy Environmental Sustainability Development to Integration Program (NESDI) Program, as part of the study on Improved Strategies for Assessment of Vapor Intrusion, under direction by the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific. |
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The research in this report was conducted to capture the capabilities, efficiencies, technological and site-specific requirements, and lessons learned for technologies and methods used for mining site cleanup. EPA's goals for the work presented in this document were to 1) determine if there are any trends in treatments or methods used; 2) understand successes and failures of the technologies and methods to evaluate whether there are gaps where future technologies could be developed or current ones refined; and 3) provide information in one place to aid decision of whether a given technology or method might be appropriate for use at a particular site, based on information obtained from the case studies. |
EPA 542-R-20-002
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A document describing a project designed to share information among countries on innovative treatment technologies. |
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This guidance is the sixth annex of the Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS), Volume I, which address human health risk at Superfund sites. Parts A, B, C, D and E of Volume I addressed other aspects of human health risk. RAGS Part F was developed by a workgroup composed of toxicologists and risk assessors in the EPA Superfund Program and other hazardous waste programs in EPA regional offices, with significant involvement from the Office of Research and Development (ORD), the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS), the Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education (OCHPEE), and the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER), This guidance received internal EPA review in July 2007 and external peer review and state risk assessor review in April-May 2008. |
EPA-540-R-070-002
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The primary goals of this Roadmap are to assist site managers in: understanding the steps involved in conducting a long-term monitoring optimization (LTMO), determining whether a monitoring program could benefit from a LTMO assessment, identifying potential strategies for applying optimization techniques and evaluating which are appropriate for a program, and accessing more information and resources about LTMO tools, methods, and approaches. This roadmap focuses on optimization of established long-term monitoring programs for groundwater. Tools and techniques discussed concentrate on methods for optimizing the monitoring frequency and spatial (three-dimensional) distribution of wells (i.e., physical program optimization). The LTMO techniques discussed here can be described as qualitative or quantitative or some combination of these techniques. |
EPA 542-R-05-003
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Applicable to the determination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in water and soil/sediment matrices, using a gas chromatograph (GC) with a narrow-bore fused silica column and an electron capture detector (ECD). |
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Applies to the determination of organochlorine pesticides with the possible presence of PCBs or toxaphene in soil/sediment matrices using a gas chromatograph (GC) with a narrow-bore fused silica column and an electron capture detector (ECD). |
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Applies to the determination of organochlorine pesticides with the possible presence of PCBs or toxaphene in a water matrix, using a gas chromatograph (GC) with a narrow-bore fused silica column and an electron capture detector. |
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Outlines the preparation and analysis of base/neutral/acid extractable (BNA) compounds in soil/sediment matrices using a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS). |
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Outlines the preparation and analysis of base/neutral/acid (BNA) compounds in water matrices using a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS). |
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Applicable to the determination of toxaphene in water and soil/sediment matrices including treated bioremediation or other engineering processes samples. |
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Rutas fue creado para una amplia gama de usuarios como ayuda a partes interesadas en recuperar terrenos contaminados para facilitar su reutilización. Rutas ayuda a identificar y seleccionar tecnologías innovadoras en cada uno de los pasos de la recuperación de terrenos contaminados -- evaluación, investigación, estudio de opciones de recuperación y su diseño e implementación. Cada una de sus secciones identifica qué preguntas sueln surgir y qué información existe para ayudar a contestarlas y tomar la mejor decisión para cada sitio. Los apéndices incluyen, entre otras cosas, una lista de los contaminantes más comunes encontrados en terrenos contaminados típicos y las tecnologías cuyo uso puede resultar más apropiado, una guía detallada de los términos y un glosario de términos técnicos en español e inglés |
EPA 542-B-02-001
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