Pollution Engineering - September 2008 - (Page 30) The authors interview two environmental experts to gain a better understanding of what really happens in the field with modern XRF analysis instruments. By JOHN PESCE and JIM MARTIN, Thermo Fisher Scientific 30 Pollution Engineering SEPTEMBER2008 I n 1980, Congress responded to a growing problem of abandoned factories and other polluted sites by passing the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as “Superfund.” Its intent was to improve the environment and assist in the cleanup of sites that were contaminated by hazardous materials. It was reauthorized by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) in 1986. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) passed in 1976, and amended in 1984, delineated the priority heavy metal pollutants and defined regulations for site remediation. (see: http://www.epa.gov/superfund). The EPA’s Office of Solid Waste publishes and updates SW-846, titled Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/ Chemical Methods, which is the office’s official compendium of analytical and sampling methods that have been evaluated and approved for use in complying with RCRA regulations. Among these methods is EPA Method 6200 Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry for the Determination of Elemental Concentrations in Soil and Sediment. Originally published in 1998 and updated in 2007, this method standardized the use of field-portable x-ray fluorescence (FPXRF) technology. http://www.epa.gov/superfund
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