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FY 2025 ARC Grant Guidelines in Region 7
FY 2025 Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund (RLF), and Cleanup (ARC) Grant Guidelines Now Available
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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.
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SW-846 Method Style Guide
This guide provides guidelines for method formatting to ensure high quality document conversion and electronic distribution.
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Chapter Thirteen of the SW-846 Compendium: Incineration
This document page displays chapter thirteen of the SW-846 Test Methods Compendium
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Guidance for Methods Development and Methods Validation for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Program
This document explains the SW-846 methods development process, including proof of concept and formal validation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Basic Information about Electronics Stewardship
Important information on electronics stewardship and how careful management of electronic wastes can have a positive impact on the environment.
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Chapter Twelve of the SW-846 Compendium: Monitoring Land Treatment Units
This document page displays chapters 12 of the SW-846 Test Methods Compendium
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Federal Register Notices for the SW-846 Third Edition Manual Update
Proposals to revise certain testing methods that are approved or required under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
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SW-846 Test Methods Policy Memoranda
Information on SW-846 Test Methods Policy Memoranda.
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Department of Transportation (DOT) Letter Regarding Samples Preserved According to EPA Requirements
February 2003 letter that responds to an EPA letter regarding the applicability of the Hazardous Materials Regulations to certain environmental standards.
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Chapter Nine of the SW-846 Compendium: Sampling Plans
This document page displayse chapter nine of the SW-846 Test Methods Compendium
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Guidance for the Sampling and Analysis of Municipal Waste Combustion Ash for the Toxicity Characteristic
Guidance to assist generators of ash from municipal waste combustion facilities in determining whether their ash is hazardous because it exhibits the Toxicity Characteristics (TC).
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Federal Register Notices that Proposed Adding Methods 4010, 9040B and 9045C to the SW-846 Compendium in Updates IIA and IIB
Federal Register notices for Updates II and IIB Proposed Rule and Update IIA Proposed Rule from 1993.
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Chapter Eleven of the SW-846 Compendium: Ground Water Monitoring
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Chapter Five of the SW-846 Compendium: Miscellaneous Methods
This document page displays chapters five of the SW-846 Test Methods Compendium
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Chapter Two of the SW-846 Compendium: Choosing the Correct Procedure
This document page displays the guidance chapters for SW-846 Test Methods