Guidance Documents

Remediation Standard Regulations

• Guidance Document for Pollutant Mobility Criteria Exception for Groundwater Infiltration (Nov 2013)
• Guidance Document for Exemptions for Incidental Sources (Nov 2013)
• Guidance for Calculating the 95% Upper Confidence Level for Demonstrating Compliance with the Remediation Standard Regulations (May 2014)
• Groundwater Compliance Monitoring Factsheet (Nov 2014, rev. Oct 2015)
• Method for Estimating the 7-Day, 10-Year Low Flow of Streams in Connecticut (1982)  
• Regulatory Clarification: Asphalt Millings are Not Clean Fill (Oct 2006)
• Environmental Land Use Restrictions  (Sept 2013)
• Engineered Control Guidance Document (Feb 2009, rev. Nov 2010, rev. Jan 2013)
• Guidance Document for Rendering Soil Inaccessible Using Pavement (Nov 2013)
• Technical Impracticability Variance (draft Feb 2014)
• DEEP Concurrence with ITRC Technical and Regulatory Guidance for In Situ Chemical Oxidation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater, Second Edition, January 2005 (Oct 2016)
• Green Remediation

Site Characterization

• Final Site Characterization Guidance Document (Sept 2007, rev. Dec 2010)
• Water Supply Well Receptor Guidance Document (Sept 2009, rev. Jan 2015)
• Use of Filters for Groundwater Sampling Technical Memorandum and Guidance (May 2012)
• Ecological Risk Assessment
• Trichloroethylene (TCE) Developmental Risks - joint guidance from DPH and DEEP (Feb 2015) 
• Guidance for Polychlorinated Biphenyls
• Emerging Contaminants
• Guidance for Collecting and Preserving Soil and Sediment Samples for Laboratory Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds (Feb 2006)
• Technical Support Document for Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbon Fractions Using the ETPH Analytical Method and Criteria Development 
• Laboratory Quality Assurance and Quality Control Guidance (May 2009, rev. Dec 2010)
• General Guidance on Development of Former Agricultural Properties (March 1999)

Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) Program

• Verification Report Guidance Document (Aug 2008, rev. Dec 2013, rev. Jun 2017)

Brownfields

• Targeted Brownfield Remedy Guidance Document (Feb 2012)
• Revitalizing Contaminated Lands: Addressing Liability Concerns (exit to EPA’s website) - The 2014 edition of the Revitalization Handbook assists developers, local governments, and the public understand how the EPA’s cleanup enforcement program facilitates the redevelopment and reuse of contaminated and potentially contaminated land.
• The PREPARED Municipal Workbook - virtual guide for Brownfields redevelopment

Property Transfer Program and Voluntary Remediation Program

• Guidance for Utility Company Excavation (Jan 2001)
• Guidance on Upgradient Contamination (Aug 1997)

RCRA Closure and Corrective Action Program

• Considerations for Assessing Ecological Risks (EPA, RCRA, March 2015)
• RCRA Corrective Action Ecological Receptor Exposure Pathway Scoping Checklist (Nov 2013)

Underground Storage Tank Clean-up

• Residential Home Heating Oil Tanks
• Sampling and Analytical Methods for Underground Storage Tank Closure (July 2012)

DEEP Concurrence with ITRC Technical Guidance Documents

• DEEP Concurrence with ITRC Technical and Regulatory Guidance for In Situ Chemical Oxidation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater, Second Edition, January 2005 (Oct 2016)
• DEEP Concurrence with ITRC Technical and Regulatory Guidance titled
  Vapor Intrusion Pathway: A Practical Guideline, January 2007 (Oct 2017)
• DEEP Concurrence with ITRC Technical and Regulatory Guidance titled Integrated DNAPL Site Strategy (IDSS-1); November 2011 and Integrated DNAPL Site Characterization and Tools Selection (ISC-1); April 2015 (Mar 2018)