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Best Practices to Minimize Laboratory Resources for Waste Characterization During a Wide-Area Release of Chemical Warfare Agents
Citation:
Willison, S., M. Magnuson, E. Silvestri, P. Lemieux, T. Boe, S. Hines, AND R. James. Best Practices to Minimize Laboratory Resources for Waste Characterization During a Wide-Area Release of Chemical Warfare Agents. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-18/254, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
The purpose of this document is to present best practices to minimize resources needed for determination of waste characterization strategies, sample collection techniques, and analytical approaches for characterization of waste materials contaminated by an urban wide-area release of chemical warfare agents. The best practices discussed in this document might be applicable to consequence management activities that EPA will be involved with and will require waste characterization. This document is intended to be general and all-hazards in nature, applicable to a multitude of settings, and to provide information on techniques and approaches that efficiently optimize sampling and analytical resources associated with the response to a wide-area incident. The material presented has value for pre-incident planning and use during an incident. The processes described in this document do not rely on and do not affect authority under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the NRF, the National Contingency Plan (NCP), or any other statute.
Description:
The report is intended to be applicable to consequence management activities that EPA will be involved with and will require waste characterization. This best practices document is intended to be general and all-hazards in nature, applicable to a multitude of settings, and to provide information on techniques and approaches that efficiently optimize sampling and analytical resources associated with the response to a wide-area incident. The material presented has value for pre-incident planning and use during an incident.