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Guidance
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- General Corrective Action
- Site Characterization/Monitoring
- Risk
- Remediation Waste
- Land Use
- Remedy Evaluation and Selection
- Environmental Indicators
- RCRA Institutional Controls
- Groundwater
- Public Involvement/Communication
- Land Revitalization and Brownfields
- Quality Assurance
RCRA Corrective Action Policy Memoranda
- Transmittal of Interim Guidance on Financial Responsibility for Facilities Subject to RCRA Corrective Action (PDF) (17 pp, 295K) - September 30, 2003
- Results-Based Approaches and Tailored Oversight (PDF) (18 pp, 587K)
- ANPR - Corrective Action for Releases from Solid Waste Management Units at Hazardous Waste Management Facilities (Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Subpart S)
- Use of the Corrective Action Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as Guidance
- RCRA Corrective Action News: A Record of Success
- August 2000 GAO Report on the Corrective Action Program (PDF) (32 pp, 441K)
- Post Closure Rule (PDF) (27 pp, 179K)
- Corrective Action for Solid Waste Management Units at Hazardous Waste Management Facilities; Partial Withdrawal of Rulemaking Proposal
- History of Corrective Action Fact Sheet (PDF) (10 pp, 46K)
- RCRA/CERCLA Coordination Memo (PDF) (6 pp, 33K)
- Risk Based Clean Closure, March 16, 1998 (PDF) (1 pg, 20K)
- RCRA Corrective Action Plan (PDF) (82 pp, 193K)
- Results-Based Approaches to Corrective Action (draft guidance)
- Managing the Corrective Action Program for Environmental Results: The RCRA Facility Stabilization Effort
Site Characterization/Monitoring
- RCRA Groundwater Monitoring Draft Technical Guidance (PDF) (236 pp, 2.0MB)
- RCRA Interim Facility Investigation Guidance, Interim Final
- RCRA Facility Assessment Guidance (PDF) (176 pp, 13MB)
- Groundwater Monitoring Statistics
- Soil Screening Guidance
- Technology Innovation Office Site Characterization Page
- Risk Based Clean Closure, March 16, 1998 (PDF) (6 pp, 20K)
- Superfund Risk Assessment Home Page
- Soil Screening Guidance
- EPA Region III Risk-Based Concentration Table
- EPA Region IX Preliminary Remediation Goals
- Site Conceptual Exposure Model Builder (PDF) (1 pg, 31K)
- Memo: Ecological Considerations of RCRA Corrective Action Remedies (PDF) (3 pp, 1.2MB)
- Management of Remediation Waste Under RCRA (PDF) (13 pp, 46K)
- Summary Chart of Management of Remediation Waste Under RCRA (PDF) (6 pp, 21K)
- Area of Contamination Policy (PDF) (42 pp, 3.0MB)
- Corrective Action Management Units (CAMUs) and Corrective Action Temporary Units (TUs) (PDF) (40 pp, 4.0MB)
- Determination of When Contamination is Caused by a Listed Hazardous Waste (PDF) (9 pp, 675K)
- Site-Specific LDR Treatment Variances (PDF) (26 pp, 2.0MB)
- Treatability Studies Exemption (PDF) (24 pp, 3.0MB)
- Exemption for Ninety Day Accumulation (PDF) (3 pp, 151K)
- Permit Waivers (PDF) (5 pp, 196K)
- Exemption from 40 CFR Part 264 Requirements for People Engaged in the Immediate Phase of a Spill Response (PDF) (13 pp, 909K)
- Changes During Interim Status to Comply With Corrective Action Requirements (PDF) (3 pp, 117K)
- Emergency Permits (PDF) (8 pp, 530K)
- Temporary Authorizations at Permitted Facilities (PDF) (5 pp, 357K)
- Contained-In Policy (PDF) (52 pp, 4.0MB)
- Soil Treatment Standards (PDF) (45 pp, 4.0MB)
- RCRA Section 3020(b) Exemption for Reinjection of Contaminated Groundwater
- LDR Treatment Standards for the Contaminated Debris (PDF) (30 pp, 3.0MB)
- Corrective Action Management Units: Proposed and Final Rule
- CAMU Settlement
- Land Disposal Restrictions, Phase IV Treatment Standards Set for Toxicity Characteristic (TC) Metal Wastes, Mineral Processing Wastes, and Contaminated Soil
- Hazardous Remediation Waste Management Requirements (HWIR-Media); Final Rule
- Clinton Administration's Remediation Waste Legislative Specifications, April 15, 1988 (PDF) (8 pp, 31K)
- Land Use in the CERCLA Remedy Selection Process
- Clarification to the 1994 Revised Interim Soil Lead Guidance for CERCLA sites and RCRA Corrective Action Facilities (PDF) (16 pp, 127K)
Remedy Evaluation and Selection
- Expectations for Final Remedies at RCRA Corrective Action Facilities (PDF) (2 pp, 12K)
- Final Remedy Selection for Results Based RCRA Corrective Action (PDF) (10 pp, 63K)
- Rules of Thumb for Superfund Remedy Selection
- Use of Monitored Natural Attenuation at Superfund, RCRA Corrective Action, and Underground Storage Tank Sites
- Technical Protocol for Evaluating Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvents in Groundwater (PDF) (248 pp, 3.0MB)
- Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Soil Treatment Technologies, May 1997 (PDF) (166 pp, 2.0MB)
- Clarification to the 1994 Revised Interim Soil Lead Guidance for CERCLA sites and RCRA Corrective Action Facilities (PDF) (16 pp, 127K)
- Risk Based Clean Closure, March 16, 1998 (PDF) (6 pp, 20K)
- Guidance for Evaluating the Technical Impracticability of Groundwater Restoration
- Presumptive Remedies
- Technology Innovation Office
Site Remediation Technologies Page
- Documentation of Environmental Indicator Determination (PDF) (17 pp, 52K)
- Corrective Action EI page
- Environmental Indicator Forum 2000 (Presentation Slides and Audio available)
- EPA Memo to RCRA Senior Policy Advisors Concerning Office of Inspector General Recommendations Pertaining to RCRA Corrective Action Environmental Indicators (September 25, 2002) (PDF) (2 pp, 18K)
RCRA Corrective Action Institutional Controls
- Memo: Ensuring Effective and Reliable Institutional Controls at RCRA Facilities (PDF) (9 pp, 351K)
- Long-Term Stewardship: Ensuring Environmental Site Cleanups Remain Protective Over Time
- Memo:
Transmittal of Final Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 9K)
- Fact
Sheet: A Site Manager's Guide to Identifying, Evaluating and Selecting
Institutional Controls at Superfund and RCRA Corrective Action Cleanups (PDF) (10 pp, 51K)
- Institutional
Controls Matrix (PDF) (16 pp, 39K)
- Checklist
for Implementing Institutional Controls (PDF) (2 pp, 6K)
- Glossary (PDF) (4 pp, 14K)
- Superfund Institutional Controls
- Examples of Groundwater Cleanup Approaches - Email from Robert Springer
- Handbook of Groundwater Protection and Cleanup Policies for RCRA Corrective Action - Final
- Guidelines for Ground-Water Classification Under the 1984 EPA Ground-Water Protection Strategy, Final Draft" - November, 1986
- Final Comprehensive State Ground Water Protection Program Guidance - December 1992
- Role of Comprehensive State Groundwater Protection Programs In OSWER Remediation Programs
- Status of Comprehensive State Ground Water Protection Programs (CSGWPP)
- State Source Water Assessment and Protection Programs Guidance
- Waste Management Area (WMA) and Supplemental Well (SPW) Guidance - June 1993
- Alternate Concentration Limit Guidance, Interim Final - July 1987
- Protecting The Nation's Groundwater: EPA's Strategy for the 1990s
- Applicability of RCRA Section 3020 to In-Situ Treatment of Groundwater (PDF) (6 pp, 549K) - December 27, 2000
Public Involvement/Communication
- RCRA Public Participation Manual
- RCRA Expanded Public Participation Rule
- RCRA Corrective Action Workshop Communication Tools
- EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Environmental Justice Page
Land Revitalization and Brownfields
- Guidance for Reporting Land Revitalization Indicators and Performance Measures at Corrective Action facilities (PDF) (19 pp, 88K)
- Brownfields Home Page
- RCRA Helps Turn Brownfields Green (PDF) (2 pp, 281K)
- Guidance for the Data Quality Objectives Process (PDF) (74 pp, 231K)