Guidance & Documents

ITRC publishes and produces guidance documents and training courses that help state environmental agencies and others gain valuable technical knowledge and develop consistent regulatory approaches for reviewing and approving specific technologies. These include technical overviews, case studies, and technical and regulatory guidance documents. See the latest ITRC Product List, Updated August 2022, for a full list of all of ITRC's published products. 

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. All ITRC documents undergo a rigorous external review, and all external comments and team responses are captured and posted to the team ITRC Connect community. ITRC will consider a lack of response during the 45-day external review period to be an acceptance of the content within the product.


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Guidance Documents
142 Entries
 
 
11 years ago

2011-09-29

(BIOFUELS-1)

Provides a framework and recommendations for evaluating the causes and prevention of post-manufacture biofuel releases, environmental impacts, characterization methods, and remedial responses.
#Biofuels

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11 years ago

2011-07-19

(SS-1)

Presents an approach for identifying and selecting appropriate performance specifications for design, implementation, and monitoring of S/S remedies.
#Solidification/Stabilization

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11 years ago

2011-06-30

(PRB-5)

A comprehensive resource incorporating elements from previous documents and providing updates on additional types of reactive media, treatable contaminants, longevity issues, and new construction/installation approaches and technologies. Revised 11-30-11.
#PermeableReactiveBarriers(PRBs)

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11 years ago

2011-05-01

(GSR-1)

Presents GSR concepts to provide consistency in application and consideration of GSR during the site-management process.
#GreenandSustainableRemediation

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12 years ago

2011-03-10

(RRM-1)

Presents tools and processes to help remediation practitioners anticipate, plan for, and mitigate project risks.
#RemediationRiskManagement

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12 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.
#BioavailabilityofContaminantsinSediments

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12 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.
#AttenuationProcessesforMetalsandRadionuclides

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12 years ago

2010-08-01

Use and Measurement of Mass Flux and Mass Discharge was published as a web-document in June 2021. (MASSFLUX-1)

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

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12 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.
#MiningWaste

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12 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.
#UnexplodedOrdnance(UXO)

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