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TECHNICAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENT: INSPECTION TECHNIQUES FOR THE FABRICATION OF GEOMEMBRANE FIELD SEAMS
Citation:
Landreth*, R. E., D A. Carson*, AND R. M. Koerner. TECHNICAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENT: INSPECTION TECHNIQUES FOR THE FABRICATION OF GEOMEMBRANE FIELD SEAMS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/530/SW-91/051 (NTIS 92-109057), 1991.
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Description:
Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a Federal hazardous waste management program. This program must ensure that hazardous wastes are handled safely from generation until final disposition. EPA issued a series of hazardous waste regulations under Subtitle C of RCRA that are published in Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR). The principal 40 CFR Part 264 and 265 regulations were issued on July 26, 1982 for treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities and establish performance standards for hazardous waste landfills, surface impoundments, land treatment units, and waste piles. The regulations have been amended several times since then. In support of the regulations, EPA has been developing three types of documents to assist preparers and reviewers of RCRA permit applications for hazardous waste TSO facilities. These include RCRA Technical Guidance Documents, Permit Guidance Manuals, and Technical Resource Documents (TRDs). RCRA Technical Guidance Documents, such as this one, present design and operating parameters or design evaluation techniques that generally comply with, or demonstrate compliance with, the Design and Operating Requirements and the Closure and Post-Closure Requirements of 40 CFR Part 264. The Technical Resource Documents present summaries of state-of-the-art technologies and evaluation techniques determined by the Agency to constitute good engineering designs, practices, and procedures. They support the RCRA Technical Guidance Documents and Permit Guidance Manuals in certain areas (i.e., liners, leachate management, final covers, and water balance) by describing current technologies and methods for designing hazardous waste facilities, or for evaluating the performance of a facility design. Although emphasis is given to hazardous waste facilities, the information presented in these TRDs may be used for designing and operating nonhazardous waste TSD facilities as well. Whereas the RCRA Technical Guidance Documents and Permit Guidance Manuals are directly related to the regulations, the information in these TRDs covers a broader perspective and should not be used to interpret the requirements of the regulations. This document is a Technical Guidance Document prepared by the Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory of EPA's Office of Research and Development in cooperation with the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. The document has undergone extensive technical review and has been revised accordingly. With the issuance of this document, all previous drafts are obsolete and should be discarded.