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Effective Application of Guidance Documents to Hydrocarbon Sites

A training site with interactive workshops and tools to help users apply petroleum guidance to build site models, assess risk, and manage sites.

Technical Guidance

Soil Background and Risk Assessment

This guidance document provides a comprehensive defensible framework for establishing and using soil background in risk assessments.

Technical Guidance

Integrated DNAPL Site Strategy

Guidance to develop a structured approach for managing sites contaminated with chlorinated solvents and dense nonaqueous-phase liquids.

Technical Guidance

Implementing Advanced Site Characterization Tools

Helps regulators and other practitioners select the appropriate advanced site characterization tools to support their conceptual site model and remedial planning.

Technical Guidance

TPH Risk Evaluation at Petroleum-Contaminated Sites

Provides tools and recommendations for evaluating risks, assessing human health and ecological impacts, and making cleanup decisions at petroleum-contaminated sites.

Technical Guidance

LNAPL Site Management: LCSM Evolution, Decision Process, and Remedial Technologies (LNAPL-3)

Provides a systematic framework for managing light non-aqueous phase liquid sites of any size, including conceptual site model development, remediation planning, technology selection, and performance evaluation.

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

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.