Soil Screening Guidance for Radionuclides: User's Guide

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>]

Here's a new guidance document for those of you concerned with environmental investigations and remediation:

Soil Screening Guidance for Radionuclides: User's Guide (EPA 540-
R-00-007) and Technical Background Document (EPA 540-R-00-
006).  This guidance document and Technical Background document
were published by the U.S. EPA Office of Emergency and Remedial
Response (OERR) and the Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (ORIA).
The guidance document sets forth recommended approaches for soil
screening for radionuclides, but DOES NOT establish binding rules.  It is
a tool to help standardize and accelerate the evaluation and cleanup of
soils contaminated with radioactive materials at sites on the National
Priority List with future land use (October 2000, 82 pages).  The
Technical Background Document provides the technical background for
the development of methodologies described in the Soil Screening
Guidance (October 2000, 151 pages).  View or download it in sections at
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/resources/radiation/radssg.htm .

Susan Gawarecki
ORR Local Oversight Committee


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