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Recent Additions
March 2009
- How Does Your Garden Grow? Brownfields Redevelopment and Local Agriculture (PDF) (4 pp, 1.3M, About PDF)
This fact sheet explains how communities nationwide use brownfields funding to assess and clean sites for a variety of uses, including community gardens and farmers markets.
February 2009
- Region 5 Success Story: South Point Plant, South Point, Ohio (PDF) (68 pp, 725K , About PDF)
This fact sheet explains how EPA, in collaboration with the Lawrence Economic Development Corporation (LEDC) and local governments, has provided support for the redevelopment of the South Point Superfund Site located in South Point, Ohio.
January 2009
- Guidance for Superfund Volume I: Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part F, Supplemental Guidance for Inhalation Risk Assessment) (PDF) (68 pp, 725K , About PDF)
This guidance document explains EPA's Superfund Program updated approach for determining risk from inhaled chemicals.This document outlines recommended processes consisting of a series of steps as well as recommended equations for EPA Regions to consider when estimating inhalation exposure and risk at CERCLA sites. - Revised Assessment Guidelines for Perchlorate (PDF) (2 pp, 71.2KB , About PDF)
This guidance replaces previous OSWER guidance from 2006 regarding perchlorate and the clean up of sites under CERCLA and the National Contingency Plan. The previous guidance used a preliminary remediation goal (PRG) for perchlorate of 24.5 parts per billion (ppb or micrograms per liter [µg/L]) in water when making site-specific cleanup decisions. The Agency has now issued an Interim Drinking Water Health Advisory (Interim Health Advisory) for exposure to perchlorate of 15 µg/L in water.
December 2008
- Frequently Asked Questions on the Update to the ATSDR Policy Guideline for Dioxins and Dioxin-Like Compounds in Residential Soil (PDF) (6 pp, 38.3KB , About PDF)
The purpose of these frequently asked questions is to explain this ATSDR update in relation to EPA's activities at CERCLA sites and RCRA corrective action sites. The purpose of the update is to eliminate confusion regarding interpretation of ATSDR's "evaluation," "screening" and "action" levels for dioxin. - Five-Year Addendum Sample (PDF) (2 pp, 41KB , About PDF)
This document provides progress since the Five-Year Review and protectiveness determinations for the remedies where the statement was deferred in the previous Five-Year Review. A Five-Year Review addendum is generally completed for remedies where the protectiveness determination is deferred until further information is obtained.
November 2008
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Funding Guidance for State and Tribal Response Programs Fiscal Year 2009 (PDF)
(19 pp, 118KB, About PDF)
This document provides guidance that will enable states and tribes to apply for and use Fiscal Year 2009 CERCLA §128(a) funds. These response programs address the assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of brownfields sites and other sites with actual or perceived contamination. -
Revitalizing Mothballed Properties: Challenges, Success Stories and Solutions (PDF)
(32 pp, 9.4MB, About PDF)
This document explains the redevelopment of potentially contaminated properties known as “mothballed property” that owners are unwilling or unable to transfer or put into productive reuse.This report describes a few examples of projects where stakeholders established effective partnerships to remedy properties that were previously mothballed and returned them to productive use. -
Nanotechnology for Site Remediation Fact Sheet (PDF)
(17 pp, 1.66MB, About PDF)
This fact sheet discusses nanotechnology and its current uses in remediation. It presents information to help site project managers understand the potential applications of nanotechnology and remediation. The fact sheet also identifies contacts, such as vendors or project managers with field experience, to facilitate networking. -
State Coalition for Remediation of Drycleaners (SCRD) 10-Year Accomplishments Report (PDF)
(6 pp, 925K, About PDF)
This report discusses SCRD’s work since 1998 in fostering collaboration among the states to improve and ensure the effectiveness of the cleanup of environmental contamination from drycleaner sites. SCRD is composed of 13 states — Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin — that have enacted formal drycleaner remediation programs with the help of state programs, brownfield programs, EPA’s Technology Innovation and Field Services Division, and the National Ground Water Association. -
Framework for Investigating Asbestos-Contaminated Superfund Sites (PDF)
(71 pp, 849K, About PDF)
This document presents a recommended framework for investigating and characterizing the potential for human exposure from asbestos contamination in outdoor soil and indoor dust at Superfund removal and remedial sites.
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