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Training Curriculum: Facility/Site Assessment and Investigation
This area includes training materials about data quality, on-line assessment support tools, sampling, site characterization technologies, sampling, vapor intrusion issues, and selected media and contaminants:
- Data Quality
- Institutional Controls
- Online Assessment Support Tools
- Site Characterization Technologies and Tools
- Vapor Intrusion
- Selected Media and Contaminants
Data Quality
- Addressing Data Gaps That Remain Before the Remedy Can Be Selected: Determining If Data Are Adequate To Support Decisions (PDF) (9 pp, 178K)
- Addressing Data Gaps That Remain Before the Remedy Can Be Selected: Filling Data Gaps To Allow for Completion of the RFI (PDF) (12 pp, 122K)
- Addressing Data Gaps That Remain Before the Remedy Can Be Selected: Is the RFI Complete? (PDF) (24 pp, 1.4MB)
- Achieving Data Quality: Developing & Review of Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs)
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Advanced Training
- Targeted Data Collection (PDF) (51 pp, 579K)
Institutional Controls
- Institutional Controls (PDF) (19 pp, 117K)
- The Use of Institutional Controls under the RCRA Corrective Action Program (PDF) (21 pp, 222K)
- Corrective Measures Selection Process: Institutional Controls in the RCRA Corrective Action Process (PDF) (13 pp, 227K)
- Corrective Measures Selection Process: Institutional Controls Tracking (PDF) (16 pp, 333K)
Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
- Institutional Controls: A Guide to Implementing, Monitoring and Enforcing Institutional Controls at Superfund, Brownfields, Federal Facility, UST and RCRA Corrective Action Cleanups, (Draft) (PDF) (28 pp, 644K)
- Institutional Controls: A Site Manager's Guide to Identifying, Evaluating and Selecting Institutional Controls at Superfund and RCRA Corrective Action Cleanups (PDF) (32 pp, 220K)
Non-RCRA Resources
- Institutional Controls Bibliography (PDF) (9 pp, 109K)
- Superfund New Attorney Training: Institutional Controls (PDF) (24 pp, 120K)
On-Line Assessment Support Tools
- No recommended training resources available at this time
Advanced Training
Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
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Sampling For Hazardous Materials (165.9)
- Ground-Water Sampling Guidelines for Superfund and RCRA Project Managers (PDF) (53 pp, 631K)
Non-RCRA Resources
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Sample Acquisition & Handling Web Page
- Groundwater Sampling and Monitoring with Direct Push Technologies (PDF) (78 pp, 1.8MB)
Site Characterization Technologies and Tools
- Effective Characterization Technologies (PDF) (17 pp, 1.0MB)
- RCRA Corrective Action: RCRA Facility Investigation Work Plan and Report (PDF) (44 pp, 962K)
- Facilitating Reuse at RCRA Sites: Innovative Technologies for Groundwater Characterization and Cleanup (PDF) (16 pp, 490K)
Non-RCRA Resources
- EPA Brownfields Technology Support Center
- In Situ Treatment of Groundwater Contaminated with Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Contamination: Fundamentals and Case Studies [NAPL Characterization and Related Cleanup Issues] (Archive of Dec 12, 2002 Seminar, 3hr 30min)
- Real-Time Measurement Systems
- Site Characterization and Monitoring Technology Bibliography
- Resources for Strategic Site Investigation and Monitoring (PDF) (4 pp, 309K)
- Fundamentals of Superfund: Discover, Notification, and Initial Site Assessment (PDF) (12 pp, 2.0MB)
Vapor Intrusion
- No recommended training resources available at this time
Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
- VI Guidance (PDF) (178 pp, 2.0MB)
- VI Draft Supplemental Guidance
- VI Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 178K)
Selected Media and Contaminants
- The Basics: Understanding the Behavior of Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (LNAPLs) in the Subsurface (PDF) (36 pp, 867K)
Supplemental Training, Resources, and Links
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A Decision-Making Framework for Cleanup of Sites Impacted with Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (LNAPL)
- The Basics: Understanding the Behavior of Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (LNAPLs) in the Subsurface (April 12, 2006 Internet Seminar, 3hr)
- Cost and Performance Report for LNAPL Characterization and Remediation: Partition Interwell Tracer Testing (PITT) and Rapid Optical Screening Tool (ROSTTM) Characterization and Evaluation of the Feasibility of Surfactant Enhanced Aquifer Remediation (SEAR) at the Chevron Cincinnati Facility, Hooven, OH (PDF) (42 pp, 2.8MB)