Green Remediation Best Management Practices: Fact Sheets on Specific Remedies and Other Key Issues August 2011 Update


            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
                         August 201 1 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 is working with other Agency offices involved in site
cleanup to develop a series of
        quick-reference fact sheets describing
          best management  practices (BMPs)
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 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/or  (5)   material
consumption and waste generation.
 More Information and Future Announcements
Visit Green Remediation Focus online to:
  • Access these BMP fact sheets and related  EPA materials as
   they become available
  • View site-specific profiles of green remediation strategies
  • Apply tools for  assessing the environmental footprint of
   cleanup and learn about EPA's  developing  methodology
   for footprint evaluation
  • Find related information about upcoming events or new
   documents issued by other government organizations
  • Learn  about  green  remediation provisions in  cleanup
   service contracts and administrative documents, and
  • Request technical assistance in implementing the practices.
       http://cluin.org/greenremediation

Subscribe to  EPA's  monthly TechDirecf announcements and
learn about green remediation seminars on the Agency's CLU-
IN Web host, http://www.cluin.org.

To obtain  more information about EPA's  green remediation
initiative,  contact Carlos  Pachon (pachon.carlos@epa.gov).
       Available Fact Sheets
  Excavation and Surface Restoration
  (EPA542-F-08-012, December 2008)
  Site Investigation
  (EPA542-F-09-004, December 2009)
  Pump and Treat Technologies
  (EPA542-F-09-005, December 2009)
  Bioremediation
  (EPA 542-F-l 0-006, March 2010)
  Soil Vapor Extraction & Air
  Sparging (EPA 542-F-l 0-007, March
  2010)
  Clean Fuel & Emission
  Technologies for Site Cleanup
  (EPA 542-F-l 0-008, August 2010)
  Integrating  Renewable
  Energy into Site Cleanup
  (EPA 542-F-l 1-006, April 2011)
  Sites with Leaking Underground
  Storage Tank Systems
  (EPA 542-F-l 1-008, June 2011)
        Upcoming Releases
September 201 1:
•  Landfill Covers & Containment
  Technologies
October 201 I:
•  Contracting Mechanisms for Site
  Cleanup
November 201 I:
•  In Situ Thermal Technologies
December 201 I:
•  Environmental Footprint Analysis
  of Site Cleanup

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