This environmental assessment report conveys the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) understanding of and perspective on oil shale development. For government agencies, private developers, and others involved in the oil shale industry, the report provides a source of basic information as well as a means of identifying EPA's concerns and interests relative to oil shale development. The report: Summarizes available information on oil shale resources; Summarizes major air, water, solid waste, health, and other environmental impacts; Analyzes applicable pollution control technology; and Provides guidance for sampling, analyzing, and monitoring emissions, effluents, and solid wastes from oil shale processes. The report emphasizes those environmental impacts and control technologies that EPA believes will be of major importance.

"Technology Transfer"--Cover. "EPA 625/9-81-005." "January 1981." "This report was developed by the EPA Oil Shale Research Group with assistance from the Centec Corporation for the Energy Pollution Control Division, Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati." "This report provides a brief summary of a more comprehensive report, Environmental Perspective on the Emerging Oil Shale Industry (EPA 600/2-80-205)"--Iii.