EPAÕs Contaminated Sediment Management Strategy


Entry_ID:  GCRIO 200
GCRIO_Inventory:  1
Entry_Title:  EPAÕs Contaminated Sediment Management Strategy
Document_Author: Sediment Steering Committee
Agency_Name: U.S. EPA>Environmental Protection Agency
Start_Date: 1994-08-00

Group:  Summary

	Audience_Interest_Guide:  Government

	Audience_Interest_Guide:  Science Institutes

	Audience_Interest_Guide:  Research Community



This management strategy describes specific actions that EPA will take 

to reduce environmental and human health risks associated with 

contaminated sediment. The strategy describes the cross-program policy 

framework in which EPA intends to promote consideration and reduction of 

ecological and human health risks posed by sediment contamination. The 

goals of the Strategy are: 1) to develop consistent methodologies for 

assessing contaminated sediments; 2) to prevent ecological or human 

health risks; 3) to clean-up existing sediment contamination that causes 

significant effects on human health or the environment; and 4) to ensure 

that sediment dredging and the disposal of dredged material continue to 

be managed in an environmentally sound manner.

End_Group

Group:  Data_Center

	Data_Center_Name:  U.S. EPA

	Dataset_ID:  EPA823-R-94-001

	Group:  Data_Center_Contact

		Last_Name:  Davies

		First_Name:  Tudor

		Email:  None

		Phone:  (202) 260-5400

		Fax:  None

		Group:  Address

		Contaminated Sediment Strategy Clerk

		Water Docket MC-4101, Room L102

		EPA

		401 M Street, SW

		Washington, DC  20460

		End_Group

	End_Group

End_Group

Storage_Medium:  130 pages of printed matter

Parameter:  Hydrologic Parameters>Sedimentation

Parameter:  Hydrologic Parameters>Contamination

Parameter:  Soil Types>Sediment

Parameter:  Land Processes>Sedimentation

Discipline: Life Sciences > Public Health > Environmental Health

Discipline: Applied Sciences > Public Health > Environmental Health

Discipline: Life Sciences > Human Ecology

Location: North America > United States

Location: North America > United States > Massachusetts

Location: North America > United States > California

Keyword: nonpoint sources

Keyword: contaminated sediment

Keyword: health risks

Keyword: research

Keyword: water resources

Keyword: water pollution

Keyword: remediation

Keyword: chemicals

Keyword: case studies

Keyword: environmental monitoring

Keyword: Great Lakes

Keyword: references

Keyword: Pago Pago

Keyword: Elizabeth River, Virginia

Keyword: EPA>Environmental Protection Agency

Keyword: National Sediment Inventory

Keyword: assessment

Keyword: dredged material