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Technical Guidance

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.

Technical Guidance

The Use of Direct-Push Well Technology for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring in Groundwater Investigations

Provides guidance concerning the use of Direct Push wells for long-term environmental groundwater monitoring.

Technical Guidance

Geophysical Prove-Outs for Munitions Response Projects

Provides information on GPOs and the broader topics of geophysical surveys, equipment, and methodologies currently used in munitions response actions.

Technical Guidance

An Introduction to Characterizing Sites Contaminated with DNAPLs

A primer discussing scientific approaches and strategies used to characterize sites known or suspected to be contaminated with DNAPLs.

Technical Guidance

Characterization and Remediation of Soils at Closed Small Arms Firing Ranges

Assists practitioners in formulating a proper strategy for removing the threat that metal, particularly lead, presents at closed small arms firing ranges.

Technical Guidance

Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPLs): Review of Emerging Characterization and Remediation Technologies

Review of three general types of emerging DNAPL characterization technologies—including geophysical, cone penetrometer, and in situ tracers— and two categories of emerging DNAPL remediation technologies—thermal enhanced extraction and in situ chemical oxidation.

Summary Report

Interstate Technology and Regulatory Cooperation Work Group (ITRC) / US Environmental Protection Agency Consortium for Site Characterization Technology (CSCT) Partnership - FY-97 Summary Report

State participation in the USEPA verification of PCB field analytical and well-head monitoring and soil and soil-gas sampling technologies.

Technical Guidance

Multi-State Evaluation of the Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System - Volatile Organic Compounds (SCAPS-VOC) Sensing Technologies (ASC-4)

Evaluation and approval of SCAPS-deployed hydrosparge VOC sensor for real-time in situ detection of VOCs below the water table.

Summary Report

Interstate Technology and Regulatory Cooperation Work Group (ITRC) / American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Partnership for Accelerated Characterization - FY-97 Summary Report (ASC-1)

ITRC review and input on ASTM Guide for Expedited Site Characterization of Hazardous Waste and report on the options for future collaboration between ITRC and ASTM.

Technical Guidance

Multi-State Evaluation of an Expedited Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System - Laser-Induced Fluorescence (SCAPS-LIF) (ASC-3)

California Certification, USEPA Verification, and multi-state acceptance of the SCAPS sensor for in situ subsurface field screening method for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).