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Technical Support Center for Monitoring and Site Characterization
There are five Technical Support Centers (TSC), in five laboratories, operated and funded by EPA. Each TSC is dedicated to serving the EPA by supplying high-quality, quick-response technical support services when the scope of work is beyond that which is available to the Regions. EPA’s Environmental Sciences Program in Las Vegas, NV operated the TSC until October 1, 2007. Updates of the TSC can be now found at http://www.epa.gov/osp/hstl/tsc/tsc.htm. These updates include ProUCL (4.1 as of March 2011), and Annual Reports from Fiscal Year 2008 forward.
EPA’s Environmental Sciences TSC began in 1987 and specialized in Superfund support to EPA's Remedial Project Managers (RPMs) and On-Scene Coordinators (OSCs). Since 1991, limited RCRA technical support is also available. When on-site work is required, the TSC mobilizes specialized teams of field scientists equipped with portable or deployable instruments to aid the Regions with screening and site characterization. The diversity of expertise available through our TSC allows us to work with the RPMs and OSCs throughout a site characterization event, i.e., from planning and design to analysis and data interpretation. Often these projects lead to identification of further research needs or development of protocols for experimental or sampling design.
Technical Focus
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Soil-gas
Measurement |
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Fingerprinting
of Wastes |
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Special Analytical
Services |
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Geophysics |
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GIS and Data
Interpretation |
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Quality Assurance |
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Site Characterization
Technologies (e.g., field-portable X-ray fluorescence) |
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Geostatistics,
Statistical Design/Analysis |
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In addition to direct technical support, the TSC facilitates technical communication to the Regions through the Technology Transfer Project. Fact sheets and issue papers help to keep EPA up-to-date with the services available through the TSC and the scientific community apprised of technology innovations. Team efforts between the TSC, EPA’s Environmental Sciences researchers, and the Region result in better technology, quicker response, and greater legal defensibility.
| Issue Papers | |
| Monitoring/Site Characterization Fact Sheets | |
| ProUCL Software |