Recommended Resources

The links below will guide you to websites we find helpful. Please email us if you have other sites that you that you would like to recommend to other community groups.

These links were last checked and updated on 9/13/2002.

Regulations and the Cleanup Process

SiteName: Superfund Program
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/index.htm
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: This is the main website for  Superfund (also called CERCLA)  -- the program responsible for cleaning up abandoned hazardous waste sites.  It has a lot of information on all aspects of Superfund, from regulations to community involvement.
Audience: general

SiteName: Information Sources on Environmental Regulations
SiteAddress: http://clu-in.com/reg1.cfm - link_to_reg
Organization: CLU-IN, US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: CLU-IN is USEPA's central website about hazardous substance cleanup methods, this page lists other websites with information about environmental regulations.
Audience: environmental professionals

SiteName: USEPA Terms of the Environment
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: Definitions of technical words the USEPA uses in its regulations and publications.
Audience: general

SiteName: RCRA Public Participation Manual
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/permit/pubpart/manual.htm
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: This manual was published in 1996 as a guide for how the public can be involved in the RCRA permitting and corrective action process.  RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) is the law that governs how solid and hazardous wastes are tracked and disposed.
Audience: general

SiteName: Hazardous Waste Fact Sheet
SiteAddress: http://www.asce.org/reportcard/index.cfm?reaction=factsheet&page=10
Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers
Comments: This fact sheet reviews the Superfund program and the law that created it (CERCLA). The fact sheet's information about brownfields is out of date but the review of how Superfund works and its successes and failures is useful.
Audience: general

SiteName: USEPA's Mixed Waste Website
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/radiation/mixed-waste/
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: Mixed wastes are ones that contain both radioactive materials and other types of hazardous waste.  This website has resources for people working with mixed waste sites.
Audience: general

SiteName: USEPA Region 10 Homepage
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/r10earth/
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: Website for USEPA's office for the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Native Tribes).
Audience: general

SiteName: USEPA Region 9 Homepage
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/region09/
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: Website for USEPA's office for the Pacific Southwest (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and Native Tribes).
Audience: general

SiteName: National Center for Environmental Publications and Information (NCEPI)
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/
Organization: US Enviromental Protection Agency
Comments: A website for ordering copies of EPA publications.
Audience: general

SiteName: The Art of Commenting, How to Influence Environmental Decisionmaking with Effective Comments
SiteAddress: http://www.elistore.org/books_detail.asp?ID=107
Organization: The Environmental law Institute
Comments: A step-by-step approach to help non-scientists comment on federal environmental regulations.
Audience: general

Cleanup Methods

SiteName: Citizen's Guides to Cleanup Methods
SiteAddress: http://www.cluin.org/products/citguide/
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: Fact sheets that answer five questions about different clean up approaches: What is it?, How does it work?, Is it safe?, How long will it take?, and Why use it?. Available in English and Spanish.
Audience: general

SiteName: Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN)
SiteAddress: http://clu-in.com/
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: A comprehensive website with information about cleanup methods, online seminars, and databases of demonstration sites.
Audience: parts for environmental professionals, parts more general

SiteName: Technology Tree
SiteAddress: http://www.cpeo.org/techtree/
Organization: Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO)
Comments: Explanations of different cleanup methods.  Site is a little hard to use.
Audience: general

SiteName: EnviroTools
SiteAddress: http://www.envirotools.org/index.shtml
Organization: Michigan State University
Comments: Educational materials on Superfund and Brownfields sites such as presentation visuals, fact sheets, web links, a glossary and an annotated bibliography of other outreach resources.
Audience: general

SiteName: National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI)
SiteAddress: http://www.nemi.gov
Organization: USEPA and the U.S. Geological Survey
Comments: The NEMI database contains method summaries of laboratory and field protocols for regulatory and non-regulatory related water-quality analyses. NEMI users can compare methods at a glance, find the method that best meets their needs, and share monitoring data among different agencies, using different methods at different times.
Audience: environmental professionals

SiteName: Pump and Treat Ground-Water Remediation: A Guide for Decision Makers and Practitioners
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/ORD/WebPubs/pumptreat/
Organization: USEPA and the U.S. Geological Survey
Comments: This guide describes the pump and treat method for cleaning up contaminated groundwater and discusses some of the considerations that must be made when applying the technology.
Audience: environmental professionals

SiteName: Introduction to Bioremediation
SiteAddress: http://www.cwest.orst.edu/nabir/about_bioremediation.pdf
Organization: Oregon State University
Comments: This guide describes bioremediation, the technology that uses microbes to cleanup soil and groundwater contamination. It was written by TOSC staff for a project studying public perceptions of bioremediation. It focuses on the use of bioremediation at Department of Energy sites.
Audience: general

SiteName: Groundwater Primer
SiteAddress: http://www.cee.vt.edu/program_areas/environmental/teach/gwprimer/gwprimer.html
Organization: Virginia Tech University
Comments: A series of student paper that review different ways groundwater can become contaminated and different technologies for cleanup. Its not clear whether these have been updated since 1998.
Audience: general

SiteName: Environmental Sampling and Monitoring Primer
SiteAddress: http://www.cee.vt.edu/program_areas/environmental/teach/smprimer/smprimer.html
Organization: Virginia Tech University
Comments: A series of student paper that review the statistics and sampling methods used in environmental assessments. Its not clear whether these have been updated since 1998.
Audience: general

Community Organization

SiteName: Tools for Organizing
SiteAddress: http://citizenworks.org/tools/town/tools-town-intro.php
Organization: Citizen Works
Comments: A guide for how to organize a community group.  This is written by political activists but has some helpful information about things to think about when forming a neighborhood group.
Audience: general

SiteName: Center for Community Change Homepage
SiteAddress: http://www.communitychange.org/default.asp
Organization: Center for Community Change (CCC)
Comments: CCC helps low-income communities organize and develop by providing assistance with fundraising, leadership training, management and other needs.
Audience: general

SiteName: Community Advisory Groups (CAGs)
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/tools/cag/index.htm
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: CAG's are community groups set up as a way for USEPA to exchange information with a community near a Superfund site.
Audience: general

Environmental Justice

SiteName: USEPA Environmental Justice Homepage
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/oswer/ej/index.html
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: This site explains how the USEPA defines environmental justice and what they are doing to achieve it.
Audience: general

SiteName: Environmental Justice Resource Center
SiteAddress: http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/
Organization: Clark Atlanta University
Comments: This site has a lot of EJ information including a link to the recently released "Unequal Exposure Report" by Daniel Faber. The report investigates whether hazardous sites are more likely to be located near minority and low income communities.
Audience: general

Contaminants

SiteName: ToxFAQs
SiteAddress: http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/toxfaq.html
Organization: Center for Disease Control, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Comments: This website has comprehensive fact sheets on specific chemicals.
Audience: general

SiteName: National Pesticide Information Center
SiteAddress: http://npic.orst.edu
Organization: Cooperative effort between Oregon State University and the US EPA
Comments: This Center provides a toll-free telephone service for pesticides information (1-800-858-7378). Their website has fact sheets on many pesticides and contamination topics.
Audience: general

Health Concerns

SiteName: A Primer on Health Risk Communication
SiteAddress: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/primer.html
Organization: Center for Disease Control, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Comments: Information about communicating health risks from hazardous substances.
Audience: environmental professionals


SiteName: Risk Assessment: A Citizen’s Guide
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/air_risc/3_90_024.html
Organization: US Enviromental Protection Agency
Comments: Good information on health risks, risk assessments, dose-response, and risk characterization.
Audience: general

SiteName: Ozone: Good up High, Bad Nearby
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/gooduphigh/
Organization: US Enviromental Protection Agency
Comments: Explains all about ozone, human health, and what’s happening to the natural ozone layer in our Earth’s atmosphere.
Audience: general

SiteName: Smog -- Who Does It Hurt?
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/airnow/health/index.html
Organization: US Enviromental Protection Agency
Comments: Detailed information about ozone and smog.
Audience: environmental professionals

SiteName: EPA Environmental Education Center
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/teachers/
Organization: US Enviromental Protection Agency
Comments: Designed for teachers and students but has great links and information.
Audience: general

SiteName: Toxicological Profile Information Sheets
SiteAddress: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html
Organization: Center for Disease Control, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Comments: Documents that summarize health effects and exposure information about toxic substances.  ATSDR also produces also produces shorter, less technical fact sheets called ToxFAQs (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html).
Audience: environmental professionals

Brownfields

SiteName: The Brownfields Technology Support Center
Site Address: http://www.brownfieldstsc.org/
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency and other cooperators
Comments:
Audience: general

SiteName: The Northeast-Midwest Institutes Brownfields Webpage
Site Address: http://www.nemw.org/brownfields.htm
Organization: The Northeast-Midwest Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Washington, DC
Comments: This website has great information about brownfields legislation and the redevelopment process.
Audience: general

SiteName: EPA Brownfields News and Events
Site Address: http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/announcg.htm
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: A site to help keep up to date on latest brownfields news at EPA.

SiteName: EnviroTools
SiteAddress: http://www.envirotools.org/index.shtml
Organization: Michigan State University
Comments: Educational materials on Superfund and Brownfields sites such as presentation visuals, fact sheets, web links, a glossary and an annotated bibliography of other outreach resources.
Audience: general

Grants

SiteName: Assistance and Grants, USEPA Superfund
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/resources/assistance/index.htm
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: USEPA's list of grants for communities affected by Superfund sites.
Audience: general


SiteName: EPA Summary of Federal Assistance to Communities
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/ecocommunity/matrix.htm
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: List of EPA grant sources for community based environmental projects. Limitted usefulness since it doesn't have links to each program's website.
Audience: general

SiteName: Technical Assistance Grants (TAG)
SiteAddress: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/tools/tag/whatis.htm
Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency
Comments: Information about USEPA grants for communities near hazardous waste sites on the National Priority List (the list of sites identified for cleanup by USEPA).  Initial grants are up to $50,000.
Audience: general

Affiliated Groups

SiteName: The National TOSC program
SiteAddress: http://www.toscprogram.org
Organization: Universities around the Country
Comments: This is the national website for TOSC and TAB, the outreach programs of the Hazardous Substance Research Centers.  It provides overview information and links to regional programs.
Audience: general


SiteName: The National Hazardous Substance Reseach Centers
SiteAddress: http://www.hsrc.org
Organization: Universities around the Country
Comments: The HSRC's are a group of five university-based research centers that research and develop new ways to clean up hazardous substance contamination. The HSRC's also operate regional outreach programs Technical Outreach Service for  Communities (TOSC) and Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities (TAB). This website describes the HSRC's and provides links to regional centers.
Audience: general

SiteName: Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center
SiteAddress: http://wrhsrc.oregonstate.edu
Organization: Oregon State University; Stanford University
Comments: The WRHSRC is the parent organization of the Western Region TOSC Program. It is made up of researchers from Oregon State and Stanford Universities and develops treatment methods for cleanup of groundwater contamination.
Audience: general

Definitions

SiteName: HSRC Glossary
SiteAddress: http://wrhsrc.oregonstate.edu/glossary.htm
Organization: Hazardous Substance Research Centers
Comments: A glossary of environmental engineering and hazardous substance cleanup definitions, put together by the South and Southwest HSRC.
Audience: general

SiteName: Dictionary of Superfund Acronyms
SiteAddress: http://cfpub.epa.gov/superapps/index.cfm/fuseaction/acronyms.viewLetter/alpha
Organization: US Enviromental Protection Agency
Comments: Definitions of the abbreviations people often use when talking about Hazardous Substance Cleanup and the Superfund program.  It also has links to websites with more information about each entry.
Audience: general

SiteName: Environmental Cleanup Terms
SiteAddress: http://www.etd.ameslab.gov/etd/library/infopages/cleanup.html
Organization: U.S. Dept. of Energy's Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA
Comments: Definitions of words used in site cleanups hazardous substance regulations.
Audience: general