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Draft Technical Guidance about Waste Sampling under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

Guidance document that covers the three components of a sampling and analysis program: planning, implementation, and assessment.
SW-846 Method Style Guide

This guide provides guidelines for method formatting to ensure high quality document conversion and electronic distribution.
Department of Transportation (DOT) Letter Regarding the Inconsistency Between EPA and DOT Requirements for Headspace in Volatile Organic Samples

DOT requires samples with volatile organic compounds to be shipped with free headspace while EPA requires containers holding volatile organic compounds to not have free headspace.
Guidelines for Preparing Sampling and Analysis Plans (SAPS) Using Systematic Planning and Performance-Based Measurement System (PBMS)

Article that provides guidelines on developing a sampling and analysis plan will be helpful for generating data sets for making environmental decisions.
Memorandum Regarding Use of Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) in Digests for Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) Analysis

This memo clarifies which version of Method 3050 to use based on the analysis technique.
Memorandum of Clarification Regarding Use of SW-846 Methods

Memo that clarifies several methods in SW-846 for reference and distribution to the States and to other interested parties, including laboratories and the regulated community.
Chapter One of the SW-846 Compendium: Project Quality Assurance and Quality Control

This document page displays the first chapter of SW-846 Test Methods
Interim Guidance: Enforcement Discretion Concerning Windfall Liens (CERCLA Section 107(r))

Guidance document and frequently asked questions fact sheet on windfall liens provisions under section 107(r) of CERCLA
What a Hazardous Waste Permit Is

Basic Information about RCRA permits
Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs)

Information in regard to responsible ways to manage CRTs. Includes regulation of the disposal of CRTs, CRT recycling, CRT rulemaking history.
Protecting the Nation’s Groundwater: EPA’s Strategy for the 1990s

The final report of the EPA Ground-Water Task Force
Progress Report - Ecosystem Response

EPA’s Progress Report provides annual updates on program implementation and resulting changes in emissions.
Methodology: EPA's Facts and Figures on Materials, Waste and Recycling

This page contains the methodology used to provide context and background on its statistics on materials, wastes and recycling in America.
Paper and Paperboard: Material-Specific Data

This page describes the generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of paper and paperboard materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.
Durable Goods: Product-Specific Data

This web page present EPA data on durable goods in our municipal solid waste. The numbers for each category cover recycling, generation, landfilling, composting, and combustion. These numbers are from 1960 to 2017.
Construction and Demolition Debris: Material-Specific Data

This page describes the generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of Construction and Demolition (C&D) materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.
Infographic about Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States in 2018

This document graphically explains how much waste was generated in the U.S. in 2018, and what happens to it (how much is sent to a landfill, how much is composted, how much is recycled, etc.).
A to Z Directory for the Facts and Figures Report about Materials, Waste and Recycling

This is a comprehensive list of the content available and maintained on the EPA's facts and figures web site, listed alphabetically.
Frequent Questions regarding EPA’s Facts and Figures about Materials, Waste and Recycling

This page has a list of frequent questions to serve as a resource for our stakeholders.
State and Local Data about Materials, Waste and Recycling

This page has links to EPA's pages on state and local waste characterization studies, and the data measurement sharing program.

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