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Guidance Documents, Fact Sheets and Policies
Presented below are the EPA guidance documents, fact sheets and policies relating to contaminated sediments at Superfund sites.
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- Using Fish Tissue Data to Monitor Remedy Effectiveness -
Sediment Assessment and Monitoring Sheet (SAMS) #1 (2008) (PDF)
(14 pp, 391K) -
Response to Regional Request Regarding Sediment Cleanup at May 2008 Superfund Division Directors Meeting (PDF)
(25 pp, 4.2MB) - Contaminated Sediment Remediation Guidance for Hazardous Waste Sites (2005)
- Guidelines for the OSRTI Review of Consideration Memos on Tier 1 Sediment Sites (2004) (PDF)
(5 pp, 34K) - OSRTI Sediment Team and NRRB Coordination at Large Sediment Sites (2004) (PDF)
(3 pp, 116K) - Principles for Managing Contaminated Sediment Risks at
Hazardous Waste Sites (2002) (PDF)
(11 pp, 70K) - Ecological Risk Assessment and Risk Management Principles for
Superfund Sites (1999) (PDF)
(9 pp, 1MB) - Integrating Water and Waste Programs to Restore Watersheds: A Guide for Federal and State Project Managers
Other Relevant Documents Relating to Contaminated Sediment Sites
The documents or links to documents below are not necessarily Superfund or sediment specific, but they may be useful to the Remedial Project Manager working on a contaminated sediment site.
- The Four Rs of Environmental Dredging: Resuspension, Release, Residual, and Risk (PDF)
(64 pp, 634K) - Sediment Dredging at Superfund Megasites - Assessing the Effectiveness (PDF)
(316 pp, 9.8MB) - MOU Between EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, and Navy for Collaboration on Contaminated
Sediments Research (2007) (PDF)
(4 pp, 674K) - Guidance for Assessing Chemical Contaminant Data for Use in Fish Advisories
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Implementation Guide for Assessing and Managing Contaminated Sediment at Navy Facilities (March 2003) (PDF)
(153 pp, 2.2MB)
- Guidance Manuals to Support the Assessment of Contaminated Sediments
in Freshwater Ecosystems (2002)
- U.S. EPA Office of Water: Methods for Collection, Storage and Manipulation of Sediments for Chemical and Toxicological Analyses: Technical Manual (2002)
- U.S. EPA Office of Water: Methods for Sampling and Analyzing Contaminants in Fish and Shellfish Tissue (2000)
- Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (1997)
- Additional Tools for Ecological Risk Assessment
- Contaminated Sediment Management Strategy (1998)