Green Remediation Best Management Practices: Mining Sites
Author:
US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
Date Published:
2012
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Principles for Greener Cleanups outline the Agency’s policy for evaluating and minimizing the environmental “footprint” of activities undertaken when cleaning up a contaminated site.1 Use of the best management practices (BMPs) recommended in EPA’s series of green remediation fact sheets can help project managers and other stakeholders apply the principles on a routine basis while maintaining the cleanup objectives, ensuring protectiveness of a remedy, and improving its environmental outcome. This fact sheet detailing BMPs at mining sites.
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