ITRC Project Teams produces guidance and documents to help the environmental community gain valuable technical knowledge and develop consistent regulatory approaches for reviewing and approving specific technologies. These documents are written and reviewed by teams of environmental professionals from ITRC’s diverse membership groups and affiliations.

All ITRC documents undergo an external review period. ITRC considers a lack of response during the 45-day external review period to signify no serious objection to the content within the product.

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Guidance Documents

Technical Guidance

Reuse of Solid Mining Waste

The ITRC Reuse of Solid Mining Waste training and guidance document is geared towards state regulators and environmental consultants, mining and manufacturing stakeholders, community and tribal stakeholders, and other who have in interest in the potential reuse of solid mining waste.

Technical Guidance

6PPD and 6PPD-q

This ITRC document provides information about 6PPD and 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-q) that can help inform future policies and regulations regarding these chemicals.

Technical Guidance

Passive Sampling Technology Update

The Passive Sampling Update Guidance Document combines the previous ITRC Passive Sampling documents (DSP-1, DSP-3. DSP-4, DSP-5) along with updates to the technologies into one comprehensive document that evaluates 24 passive sampling technologies.

Toolkit

Microplastics Outreach Toolkit

This toolkit is a companion to the ITRC Microplastics Guidance to help regulators and others explain issues surrounding microplastics to a variety of audiences. The toolkit includes general information on outreach along with fact sheets, presentations and other outreach items aimed at different audiences.

Technical Guidance

Contaminants of Emerging Concern Framework

This guidance will help environmental regulatory agencies and other stakeholders identify examples of CEC monitoring programs; evaluate potential hazards; communicate risk from CEC to the public; and understand how laboratory analytical methods can be used in the identification process.

Technical Guidance

Ethylene Oxide Emissions

This resource is intended to inform interested parties about important regulatory developments; technical issues surrounding sampling, measurements, and analysis; and effective communication of EtO-related issues.

Technical Guidance

Managed Aquifer Recharge Guidance

This Guidance provides a basic understanding of MAR and its applications.

Technical Guidance

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

This online resource includes the PFAS Technical and Regulatory Guidance Document, PFAS Fact Sheets and Explainer Videos, Training Module Videos and external tables of data and information prepared by the ITRC PFAS Team.

Technical Guidance

Sediment Cap Chemical Isolation

Provides more details regarding the design, construction, modeling, and long-term monitoring and maintenance of the chemical isolation.

Technical Guidance

Performance-Based Optimization of Pump & Treat Systems

Provides an understanding of adaptive management for optimization, presents a technical framework for P&T site optimization, and includes interactive checklists, detailed evaluation guidance, and supporting case studies of project implementation.