United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
Green Remediation Best Management Practices:
Fact Sheets on Specific Remedies and Other Key Issues
Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
May 2010 Update
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is identifying opportunities to advance green remediation
strategies across cleanup programs. As part of this effort, the Agency is benchmarking and documenting best
management practices to be included in decision-making toolkits available to an expanding network of
practitioners.
EPA's Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology
Innovation currently is working with the Agency's Office
of Brownfields and Land Revitalization and other cleanup
program offices to develop a series of
quick-reference fact sheets describing
best management practices
for frequently used cleanup remedies, various field
stages, and other aspects posing significant opportunities
to reduce the environmental "footprint" of site cleanup.
The practices can be used for investigative and response
actions at contaminated sites under Superfund, corrective
action, brownfield, underground storage tank, and
federal facility remediation programs.
Each fact sheet addresses a cleanup project's (1) energy
requirements, (2) air emissions, (3) impacts on water, (4)
impacts on land and ecosystems, and (5) material
consumption and waste generation.
More Information and Future Announcements
Visit Green Remediation Focus online to access these
and other resources as they become available, view
site-specific profiles of green remediation applications,
or request technical assistance in implementing the
practices, http://cluin.org/greenremediation
Subscribe to monthly Tech Direct announcements
covering a range of cleanup topics (including green
remediation seminars) on EPA's CLU-IN web host.
http://www.cluin.org/newsletters/
To learn or share more information about green
remediation opportunities, contact Carlos Pachon
(pachon.carlos@epa.gov).
Topics and Tentative Timeline
December 2008:
• Excavation and Surface Restoration
(EPA542-F-08-012)
December 2009:
• Site Investigation
(EPA542-F-09-004)
• Pump and Treat Technologies
(EPA542-F-09-005)
March 2010:
• Bioremediation
(EPA 542-F-l 0-006)
• Soil Vapor Extraction & Air Sparging
(EPA 542-F-l 0-007)
May 2010:
• Clean Fuel & Emission Technologies
for Site Cleanup
(EPA 542-F-l 0-008)
June 2010:
• Landfill Covers & Containment
Technologies
July 2010:
• In Situ Thermal Technologies
Augusf20IO:
• Integrating Renewable Energy in Site
Cleanup
September 2010:
• Contracting Mechanisms for Site
Cleanup
October 2010:
• Environmental Footprint Analysis of
Site Cleanup
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