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CHARACTERIZING SOILS FOR HAZAROUDS WASTE SITE ASSESSMENTS
Citation:
Breckenridge, r. P., J. Williams, AND j. F. keck. CHARACTERIZING SOILS FOR HAZAROUDS WASTE SITE ASSESSMENTS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/540/4-91/003, 1991.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance to Remedial Project Managers (RPM) and On-Scene Coordinators (OSC) concerning soil characterization data types required for decision-making in the CERCLA RI/FS process related to risk assessment and remedial alternative evaluation for contaminated soils. Many of the problems that arise are due to a lack of
understandng the data types required for tasks 2 and 3 above.
This paper describes the soil chactererization data types required
to conduct model based risk assessment for task 2 and
the selection of remedial design for task 3. The information
presented in this paper is a compilation of current information
from the literature and from experience combined to meet the
purpose of this paper.