Resource Type: Technical Guidance
Project Risk Management for Site Remediation
Presents tools and processes to help remediation practitioners anticipate, plan for, and mitigate project risks.
Incorporating Bioavailability Considerations into the Evaluation of Contaminated Sediment Sites
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.
A Decision Framework for Applying Monitored Natural Attenuation Processes to Metals and Radionuclides in Groundwater
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.
Mining Waste Treatment Technology Selection
Helps regulators, consultants, industry, and stakeholders in selecting an applicable technology, or suite of technologies, which can be used to remediate mining sites.
Use and Measurement of Mass Flux and Mass Discharge
Summarizes the concepts underlying mass flux and discharge, their potential applications, and case studies of the uses of these metrics.
Frequently Asked Questions about Wide-Area Assessment for Munitions Response Projects
Provides information about the wide-area assessment (WAA) process and the tools currently available to conduct WAA within a munitions response area.
Evaluating Natural Source Zone Depletion at Sites with LNAPL
Provides a technical overview of natural source zone depletion for LNAPLs, addressing the processes involved, assessing their rates, and predicting long-term progress.
Phytotechnology Technical and Regulatory Guidance and Decision Trees, Revised
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.
An Overview of Land Use Control Management Systems
An overview of the various available systems and programs that track, monitor, and/or inform about land use controls.
Quality Considerations for Munitions Response Projects
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.