Guidance & Documents

ITRC publishes and produces documents that broaden and deepen technical knowledge and expedite quality decision-making when faced with environmental challenges. These include technical overviews, case studies, and technical and regulatory guidance documents.

These documents are written and reviewed by teams of environmental professionals, including state and federal environmental regulators, federal agency representatives, industry experts, community stakeholders, and academia.

With private and public sector members from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, ITRC documents provide a national perspective.

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10 years ago

2011-02-01

(CS-1)

This online guidance document assists state regulators and practitioners in understanding and incorporating the fundamental concepts of bioavailability in contaminated freshwater or marine sediment management practices.

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10 years ago

2010-12-01

(APMR-1)

Provides a decision framework incorporating key aspects of EPA’s three-volume technical background series on MNA for metals and rads in groundwater, guidance on approaches and key issues associated with evaluating attenuation-based remedies, and a process to incorporate enhanced attenuation.

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10 years ago

2010-08-01

(MASSFLUX-1)

Summarizes the concepts underlying mass flux and discharge, their potential applications, and case studies of the uses of these metrics.

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10 years ago

2010-08-01

(MW-1)

Helps regulators, consultants, industry, and stakeholders in selecting an applicable technology, or suite of technologies, which can be used to remediate mining sites. Decision trees guide users to a set of treatment technologies that may be applicable to a particular site situation. Each technology is described, along with a summary of the applicability, advantages, limitations, performance, stakeholder and regulatory considerations, and lessons learned. Each technology overview links to case studies where the technology has been implemented.

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11 years ago

2010-05-01

(UXO-6)

Provides information about the wide-area assessment (WAA) process and the tools currently available to conduct WAA within a munitions response area.

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11 years ago

2009-12-15

(LNAPL-2)

Provides a framework to help understand what technologies apply in different LNAPL site situations and how to select the best-suited remedial technology.

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12 years ago

2009-04-01

(LNAPL-1)

Provides a technical overview of natural source zone depletion for LNAPLs, addressing the processes involved, assessing their rates, and predicting long-term progress.

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12 years ago

2009-02-01

(PHYTO-3)

Updates and replaces PHYTO-1 and PHYTO-2, merging their concepts with new, practical information on the process and protocol for selecting and applying various phytotechnologies as remedial alternatives.

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12 years ago

2008-12-01

(BRNFLD-3)

An overview of the various available systems and programs that track, monitor, and/or inform about land use controls.

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12 years ago

2008-10-01

(UXO-5)

Warning! This document has not been amended since publication. Some content may be out of date and may no longer apply.

 

Provides guidance to environmental regulators on how to define quality, systematically plan for and achieve quality results, and apply these concepts to processes common to munitions response projects.

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