Publications and Other Information
Related Web Sites
EPA Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
Provides information on a variety of brownfields topics,pilots/grants, liability and cleanup, partnership and outreach,and other topics.
EPA Dynamic Field Activities Internet Site
Provides information on the draft guidance for dynamic field activities and DFA case studies. For example, one case study provides cost and performance information for a soil and groundwater characterization at Hanscom Air Force Base. The site also provides additional information on systematic planning and dynamic work plans.
EPA’s Environmental Technology Verification Program
EPA’s ETV Program develops testing protocols and verifies the performance of innovative technologies that have the potential to improve protection of human health and the environment. ETV was created to accelerate the entrance of new technologies into the domestic and international marketplace.
EPA Field Analytical Technologies Encyclopedia
FATE is an online encyclopedia of information about technologies that can be used in the field to characterize contaminated soil and groundwater, monitor the progress of remedial efforts, and in some cases, for confirmation sampling and analysis for site closeout.
EPA ORD’s Office of Science Policy Hazardous Substances Technical Liaison Program
The program was created jointly by EPA ORD, EPA OSWER, and the regional offices to expand the technical support available to regional staff.
EPA Institutional Control Guidance
Various guidance documents that provide Superfund and RCRA site managers and other decision makers with an overview of the types of institutional controls that are commonly available and that provide community members with general information about the role of institutional controls in Superfund, Brownfields, Federal Facilities, UST, and RCRA cleanups occurring in their neighborhoods.
EPA Post Construction Completion Guidance
The goal of Post Construction Completion activities is to ensure that Superfund response actions provide for the long-term protection of human health and the environment. EPA's Post Construction Completion activities also involve optimizing remedies to increase effectiveness and/or reduce cost without sacrificing long-term protection of human health and the environment.
EPA Regional Brownfields Coordinators
Each EPA regional office has identified a central point of contact responsible for receiving and disseminating information about the region's brownfields activities. This link lists the central points of contact for each region.
EPA Remediation And Characterization Innovative Technologies (REACHIT)
EPA REACHIT is a system that lets environmental professionals search, view, download, and print information about innovative remediation and characterization technologies.
EPA Smart Growth Implementation Assistance
EPA offers opportunities to apply for free technical assistance that will help communities apply smart growth principles to a real challenge in their community. The Development, Community and Environment Division in U.S. EPA's Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation periodically seeks applications from communities that want to develop in ways that meet environmental and other community goals. A team of multidisciplinary experts will provide technical assistance to communities that are selected. EPA solicits applications from communities that want help with either policy analysis (e.g., reviewing state and local codes, school siting guidelines, transportation policies, etc.) or public participatory processes (e.g., visioning, alternatives analysis, build-out analysis, etc.). Selected communities will receive assistance from a team of experts organized by EPA and other national partners to work with local leaders.
EPA Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program
The SITE Demonstration Program encourages the development and implementation of innovative treatment technologies for hazardous waste site remediation, monitoring, and measurement. The site provides engineering and cost data gathered on innovative technologies so that potential users can assess the technology's applicability to a particular site.
EPA Technical Support Project (TSP) was established in 1987 by EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER), Office of Research and Development (ORD), and regional waste management offices to provide technical assistance to regional RPMs and OSCs. The project consists of a network of regional forums, specialized technical centers located in ORD laboratories, and OSWER's environmental response team.
Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR) provides more than 300 case studies concerning use of remedial technologies in site cleanup, as well as more than 100 case studies about site characterization and monitoring technologies, and 7 reports about optimization of long-term monitoring.
Hazardous Substance Research Centers (HSRC)
EPA has established the program to develop better, cheaper, faster, and safer methods of assessing and cleaning up hazardous substances. HSRCs conduct their activities on a regional basis through five multiuniversity centers that focus on different aspects of the management of hazardous substances.
International City/County Management Association (ICMA) sponsors, develops, and implements a number of programs that provide managers and administrators in local governments with expertise on a variety of topics. One area in which ICMA can offer expertise is the Brownfields/Superfund Consortium, which helps local governments address the financial, legal, technical, and public health concerns associated with brownfields and Superfund sites.
The Interstate Technology and Regulatory Cooperation (ITRC) promotes the use of innovative hazardous waste and remediation technologies. Brownfields decision makers who wish to obtain applicable guidance documents for the use of innovative technologies will find several guidance documents developed by the ITRC.
Remediation Technology Development Forum
Consists of six action teams, covering subjects such as bioremediation, NAPLs, permeable reactive barriers, phytoremediation, and sediments. These action teams publish materials including information about specific sites where technologies have been applied.
Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools - electronic (SMARTe)
SMARTe is a Web-based information source and decision support tool. The purpose of SMARTe is to aid stakeholders in identifying, applying, and integrating tools and technologies to facilitate the revitalization of potentially contaminated sites in the United States. SMARTe is intended to be a Web-based system that can be updated as new tools, technologies, and approaches become available for revitalization.
State Coalition for Remediation of Dry Cleaners
Provides more than 60 case studies covering a diverse set of innovative treatment technologies used at dry cleaner sites.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Identifies district-level points of contact to provide planning assistance; site assessment; remedial design and construction; economic analysis of design and construction alternatives for the reuse of brownfields; rapid-response removal of hazardous, toxic, and radioactive waste; habitat restoration; contract administration; and project management.
USACE Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Center of Expertise focuses on environmental remediation and other environmental compliance issues.
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