Underground Storage Tanks

NOTE: QA documents referred to in some of the following publications may be outdated. Visit The EPA Quality System web site for the latest version of EPA's QA documents.

EPA Research

• Monitoring and Assessment of In-Situ Biocontainment of Petroleum Contaminated Ground-Water Plumes EPA/600/R-98/020.
  U.S. EPA, ORD, NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC.
  Dupont, R. R., D. L. Sorensen, M. Kemblowski, M. Bertleson, D. McGinnis, I. Kamil, and Y. Ma. 1998.
  (*NOTE: Link takes you to the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS) where you can do a "Simple Search" with the EPA Report number (600R98020) as the search term. From the results page, click on the document link and then click on the Adobe PDF logo near the top left of the next page to retrieve a PDF copy of the document).
  Also available at http://www.p2pays.org/ref%5C07/06450.pdf (PDF). (10 pp, 119K, About PDF)
• Natural Attenuation of Organic Contaminants in the Subsurface
  EPA ORD, National Center for Environmental Research
• Monitored Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvents (PDF) (3 pp, 82K, About PDF)
  (EPA/600/F-98/022). May 1999. This fact sheet was developed by the EPA Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory. It explains what the term Monitored Natural Attenuation means when the term is used to describe a potential strategy to remediate a contaminated site. The fact sheet is written for an audience with little or no scientific background and was prepared to assist Federal and State regulators to educate the general public on complex environmental issue.
• Monitored Natural Attenuation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons (PDF) (3 pp, 74K, About PDF)
  (EPA/600/F-98/021). May 1999. This fact sheet was developed by the the EPA Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory. It explains what the term Monitored Natural Attenuation means when the term is used to describe a potential strategy to remediate a contaminated site. The fact sheet is written for an audience with little or no scientific background and was prepared to assist Federal and State regulators in educating the general public on this complex environmental issue.

Non-EPA Research

• Sediment-Based Remediation of Hazardous Substances at a Contaminated Military Base
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• Investigations of Natural-Attenuation Processes of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons, Fort Wainwright, Alaska
  University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Water and Environmental Center (WERC), and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U.S. Army Environmental Center (AEC)

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