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Technical Guidance

Remediation Management of Complex Sites

Provides practical steps for managing the remediation process at complex sites where progress is uncertain and achieving regulatory closure or long-term management within a reasonable timeframe is not expected.

Technical Guidance

Long-Term Contaminant Management Using Institutional Controls

Provides best practices for managing long-term institutional control programs, including stewardship, monitoring, tracking, and a downloadable tool for developing site-specific stewardship plans.

Technical Guidance

Geospatial Analysis for Optimization at Environmental Sites

Explains how geospatial analysis can be used to optimize environmental projects throughout the entire site life cycle, from release detection and site characterization to remediation, monitoring, and closure.

Technical Guidance

Geophysical Classification for Munitions Response

This document explains the process of geophysical classification, describes its benefits and limitations, and most importantly discusses the information and data needed by regulators to monitor and evaluate the use of the technology.

Technical Guidance

Integrated DNAPL Site Characterization and Tools Selection

This ITRC resource guides environmental professionals through selecting and applying tools for integrated site characterization and remediation at DNAPL-contaminated sites.

Technical Guidance

Decision Making at Contaminated Sites: Issues and Options in Human Health Risk Assessment

This document assists effective decision-making among state, local, and federal project managers and decision makers tasked with developing or reviewing risk assessments for contaminated sites using site-specific approaches, scenarios, and parameters.

Technical Guidance

Petroleum Vapor Intrusion

This guidance document provides an eight-step process for the effective assessment and management of vapor intrusion at sites contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons.

Technical Guidance

Remedy Selection for Contaminated Sediments

The objective of this guidance document is to assist decision-makers in identifying which contaminated sediment remedial technology is most favorable for a site based upon an evaluation of site-specific physical, sediment, contaminant, and land and waterway use characteristics.

Technical Guidance

Groundwater Statistics and Monitoring Compliance

The Groundwater Statistics and Monitoring Compliance (GSMC) web-based guidance helps users without statistical expertise understand groundwater cleanup techniques and apply them throughout all project stages: release detection, site characterization, remediation, monitoring, and closure.

Technical Guidance

Biochemical Reactors for Treating Mining-Influenced Water

This web based guidance document provides a format that is easy to navigate through an in-depth analysis and overview of Biochemical Reactors (BCRs) for mining influenced water (MIW).