Training Curriculum: Corrective Measures/Remedy Selection
This area includes training materials about site-specific remedial goals, cleanup standards, remedy selection, interim actions, and cleanup technologies and processes:
- Site-Specific Remedial Goals
- Cleanup Standards
- Interim Actions
- Remedy Selection
- Cleanup Technologies and Processes
Site-Specific Remedial Goals
- Preliminary Remediation Goals (PRGs) and Remediation Goals (RGs) (PDF) (42 pp, 285K)
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Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
Cleanup Standards
- Addressing Data Gaps That Remain Before the Remedy Can Be Selected: What Are Appropriate Media Cleanup Standards? (PDF) (11 pp, 291K)
- Alternate Concentration Limits/Groundwater Cleanup Levels (PDF) (25 pp, 587)
Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
- Handbook of Groundwater Protection and Cleanup Policies for RCRA Corrective Action (102 pp, 450K)
- Handbook of Groundwater Protection and Cleanup Policies for RCRA Corrective Action Fact Sheet (2 pp, 13K)
Non-RCRA Resources
- EPA List of Drinking Water Contaminants & MCLs
- EPA Region 9 Preliminary Remediation Goals Web Site
- National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Site Remediation (PDF) (56 pp, 374 K)
Interim Actions
- No recommended training resources available at this time
Advanced Training
- RCRA Corrective Action: Interim Measures/ Stabilization/ Notice of Proposed Rulemaking/ Technical Impracticability (PDF) (21 pp, 308MB)
- Corrective Measures Selection Process: Interim Measures as the Final Remedy, Koppers, Inc., Guthrie, KY (PDF) (38 pp, 4.1MB)
Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
- Interim-Final Guidance for RCRA Corrective Action Environmental Indicators (17 pp, 52K)
- RCRA Cleanup Reforms Web Site
Remedy Selection
- RCRA Corrective Action: Corrective Measures Study/Corrective Measures Implementation (PDF) (28 pp, 574K)
- Corrective Measures Selection Process: Overview of the Approach to Selecting Corrective Measures (PDF) (18 pp, 176K)
- Remedy Selection Process (PDF) (19 pp, 128K)
Advanced Training
- RCRA Corrective Action: Interim Measures/ Stabilization/ Notice of Proposed Rulemaking/ Technical Impracticability (PDF) (21 pp, 308K)
Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
- RCRA Orientation Manual
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- CFR Title 40: Protection of the Environment
- RCRA Rules, Regulations, and Policies
- Final Remedy Selection for Results-Based RCRA Corrective Action Fact Sheet (PDF) (10 pp, 64K)
Non-RCRA Resources
- Fundamentals of Superfund: Remedial Process—Intro-ROD (PDF) (31 pp, 1.5MB)
- Fundamentals of Superfund: Remedial Process--RD-RecordsMgmnt (PDF) (29 pp, 235K)
Cleanup Technologies and Processes
- Corrective Measures Selection Process: Remedial Technologies Overview (PDF) (95 pp, 2.0MB)
- Facilitating Reuse at RCRA Sites: Innovative Technologies for Groundwater Characterization and Cleanup (PDF) (16 pp, 490K)
- In Situ Thermal Approaches to NAPL Remediation for RCRA Corrective Action (PDF) (31 pp, 2.6MB)
- Innovative Approaches to PHC Remediation (PDF) (34 pp, 4.7MB)
- Environmental Remediation Technologies (165.3)
Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
Non-RCRA Resources
- Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN) Technology Focus Area
- EPA Remediation Technologies
- Selecting and Using Phytoremediation for Site Cleanup (EPA 542-R-01-006)
- Cleaning Up the Nation's Waste Sites: Markets and Technology Trends (2004 Edition) (PDF) (338 pp, 4.3MB)
- DNAPLs - Above-Ground (Ex situ) Chemical/Physical Remediation Methods (Archive of Sep 7, 2005 Seminar, 2hr 0min)
- DNAPLs - Biological Remediation Processes (Archive of Jan 25, 2006 Seminar, 2hr 0min)
- DNAPLs - Enhanced Remediation of DNAPL-Contaminated Subsurface Systems (Archive of Oct 26, 2005 Seminar, 1hr 0min)
- In Situ Treatment of Groundwater Contaminated with Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Contamination: Fundamentals and Case Studies [In Situ Chemical Oxidation] (Archive of Dec 11, 2002 Seminar, 4hr 0min)
- In Situ Treatment of Groundwater Contaminated with Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Contamination: Fundamentals and Case Studies [Opening Remarks and In Situ Thermal Treatment] (Archive of Dec 10, 2002 Seminar, 4hr 30min)
- In Situ Treatment of Groundwater Contaminated with Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Contamination: Fundamentals and Case Studies [Surfactant/Cosolvent Flushing] (Archive of Dec 11, 2002 Seminar, 3hr 0min)
- NIEHS/EPA Metals - Bioavailability (Archive of Apr 9, 2003 Seminar, 2hr 0min)
- NIEHS/EPA Metals - Remediation (Archive of May 14, 2003 Seminar, 2hr 0min)
- Advanced Techniques on Installation of Iron Based Permeable Reactive Barriers and Non-Iron Based Barrier Treatment Material (Archive of Mar 21, 2002 ITRC Seminar, 2hr 15min)
- Enhanced In Situ Bioremediation of Solvents in Ground Water (Archive of Jun 18, 2002 ITRC Seminar, 2hr 0min)
- In Situ Chemical Oxidation (Archive of Oct 7, 2004 Seminar, 2hr 15min)
- Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvents in Groundwater: Principles and Practices (Archive of Sep 23, 2003 Seminar, 2hr 15min)
- Permeable Reactive Barriers for Chlorinated Solvent, Inorganic, and Radionuclide Contamination (Archive of Mar 19, 2002 Seminar, 2hr 15min)
- Permeable Reactive Barriers: Lessons Learned and New Directions (Archive of Apr 26, 2005 Seminar, 2hr 15min)
- Phytotechnologies (Archive of May 2, 2002 Seminar, 2hr 15min)
- What's New with In Situ Chemical Oxidation? (Archive of Sep 20, 2005 Seminar, 2hr 15min)