This Guide provides abstracts of representative examples of over 110 physical/chemical treatment technology guidance, overview/program documents, studies and demonstrations, and other resource guides. The Physical/Chemical Treatment Technology Resource Matrix, which accompanies this Guide, identifies the technology type, media, and containments covered in each abstracted document. The included documents focus for the most part on soil, sludge, and sediment and on soil washing/flushing, solvent extraction, thermal desorption, and chemical dehalogenation. This guide is intended to support decision-making by Regional and State Corrective Action permit writers, Remedial Project Managers (RPMs), On-Scene Coordinators, contractors, and others responsible for the evaluation of technologies.

"This document was prepared by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under EPA Contract Number 68-W2-0004, Option 2, Subcontract No. 92-001-01"--Page ii. "This document was prepared under the direction of Mr. John E. Quander and Mr. Michael Forlini, work assignment managers for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Technology Innovation Office."--Page iv. "September 1994"--Cover. "EPA/542-B-94-008"--Cover. Includes fold-out "physical/chemical treatment technology resource matrix." Sponsored by United States Environmental Protection Agency Contract Number: 68-W2-0004

Abstracts of policy, guidance, and technical assistance documents; summaries of regulatory mechanisms that affect physical/chemical treatment technologies; descriptions of physical/chemical treatment technology-related databases, hotlines, catalogs/bibliographies, and dockets; easy-to-use- matrix that assists in identification of appropriate documents.