Environmental Indicators
While the ultimate goal of the RCRA Corrective Action Program is to achieve final cleanups, we are measuring the intermediate success of the program against our GPRA goals. The program is monitoring intermediate progress by tracking two Environmental Indicators (EIs), the human exposure and groundwater EIs, which are the main focus of the corrective action GPRA goals. These indicators measure progress in environmental terms rather than the administrative process steps that were previously monitored. Measuring and recording our progress toward these goals will be a top priority for EPA and the States over the next several years.
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- Environmental Indicator Maps - National and Regional
- EPA Spotlights Companies Pledging to
Meet Corrective Action Environmental Indicators, October 14, 2003 (PDF) (1 pg, 21K)
- EI FAQs
- EI guidance (PDF) (17 pp, 52K)
- issued in February
1999; includes EI forms, flow charts and a memo signed by Elizabeth
Cotsworth, former Office Director, Office of Solid Waste (name changed to Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery on January 18, 2009).
- 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)
- OSWER Draft Guidance for Evaluating
the Vapor Intrusion to Indoor Air Pathway from Groundwater and
Soils (Subsurface Vapor Intrusion Guidance - November 29, 2002)
- RCRA Draft Supplemental Guidance
for Evaluating the Vapor Intrusion to Indoor Air Pathway (Vapor
Intrusion Guidance - December 2001)
- National and Regional EI Maps - plots
all RCRA Cleanup Baseline facilities where EI determinations have
taken place or will take place in the future.
- List of Baseline Facilities Meeting
Both EIs (PDF) (42 pp, 35K)
- Environmental Indicator
Forum 2000
(presentation slides and audio available)
- Completed Environmental Indicator Forms on Regional Websites
- Sample Environmental Indicator Determinations
- NY6276HG (PDF) (26 pp, 65K)
- NY6276HG (updated CA725
form) (PDF) (28 pp, 62K)
NY6276HG (updated CA725 tables) (PDF) (12 pp, 2.0MB) - NY6214HG (PDF) (16 pp, 2.0MB)
- Workshop Case Study (PDF) (19 pp, 48K)
- EI Training Slides
- Overview (PDF) (55 pp, 326K)
- Human EI (PDF) (18 pp, 190K)
- Groundwater EI (PDF) (18 pp, 136)