Technical and Guidance Documents

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General Information

Radionuclides Commonly Found at Contaminated Sites

Guidance on Setting Cleanup Levels for Radiation

The following OSWER (Superfund) Directives provide guidance on establishing cleanup levels for CERCLA sites with radioactive contamination. 

Directives 9200.4-18 and  9200.4-23 82 kBytes 8/22/97 [about pdf format]

Addresses the establishment of cleanup levels for CERCLA sites with radioactive contamination.

Directive 9200.4-25 2/22/98

Provides guidance regarding the circumstances under which the soil cleanup criteria in 40 CFR Part 192 should be considered an ARAR in developing a response action under CERCLA.

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Technical Documents

Fry Canyon Demonstration Project

Field Demonstration of Permeable Reactive Barriers to Remove Dissolved Uranium from Groundwater, Fry Canyon, Utah (September 1997 through September 1998, Interim Report) [about pdf format]

In this report, you will find out much more about the Fry Canyon Permeable Reactive Barrier Demonstration Project:

• site selection process and criteria
• material selection and use
• barrier monitoring
• uranium removal rates
• changes in uranium removal rates during the year
• geochemical conditions
• lessons learned

How to obtain this document

Online:

Field Demonstration of Permeable Reactive Barriers to Remove Dissolved Uranium from Groundwater, Fry Canyon, Utah

On CD:

Contact Ed Feltcorn     
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Radiation and Indoor Air
Radiation Protection Division
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW  (MC 6608J)
Washington, DC 20460-0001

Phone: 202.343.9422
FAX:   202.343.2306

Technical Support Document for the Development of Radionuclide Cleanup Levels for Soil [EPA 402-R-96-011 A] 

Introduction and Table of Contents (75,304 bytes) 1/2/97[about pdf format]

Document Chapters ( 3,280,292 bytes 1/2/97 [zip format]

Appendices A-J and O (2,007,172 bytes 2/20/98) [zip format]

Appendix K (11,199,927 bytes 1/2/97)[zip format]

Appendix M (10,439,551 bytes 1/2/97) [zip format]

Errata and Revised and Supplementary Data Tables (157,383 bytes 3/3/99) [zip format]

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