An ever-growing supply of information is available today on the world wide web. Following is an abbreviated list of useful links for obtaining information on a variety of environmental topics:

Emergency Response Resources and Databases

The following links provide databases and resources that are useful in making decisions during Hazardous Material incidents.

2004 Emergency Response Guidebook

Wireless Information System for Emegency Responders (WISER)

DuPont^TM SafeSPEC^TM

SIRI Material Safety Data Sheet Search Engine^TM
Cole-Parmer^® Chemical Compatibility Database

NIOSH Pocket Guide

NIOSH Emergency Response Resources

NIOSH/WHO/IPCS International Chemical Safety Cards
Chemical safety information provided by NIOSH, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Chemical Reactivity Worksheet

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - National Weather Service

U.S. Coast Guard - Chemical Hazards Response Information System (CHRIS)

Pocket Mobility, Inc. - Hazmat Toolkit
Contains the latest ERG 2004 + NIOSH databases and more for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices.

Emergency Response Organizations

These organizations provide information about the proper handling of hazardous materials and networking opportunities to their members.

CHEMTREC^®

CANUTEC

National Fire Protection Association

TRANSCAER^®

U.S. Fire Administration

Bureau of Dangerous Goods

Government Agencies

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

State Environmental Agencies
A list of state environmental agencies with links to their home pages

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

OSHA Substance Specific Standards

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Searchable access to the Code of Federal Regulations

Federal Register Access
Searchable access to the Federal Register beginning with Volume 60, 1995

EPA Federal Register Environmental Documents
The Federal Register Table of Contents provided with hot-links to each notice that was selected for inclusion in the daily Environmental Documents section.

Right to Know (RTK) Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets
Provides basic information about hazardous substances in an MSDS type format to meet New Jersey Worker and Community Right to Know Act requirements.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

U.S. EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
IRIS is a database containing information on human health effects that may result from exposure to various chemicals in the environment.

U.S. EPA Superfund Site Information
Information about the nation's hazardous waste sites including RODS abstracts.

Unified Air Toxics Website
Health Effects Notebook for Hazardous Air Pollutants. These fact sheets describe the effects on human health of substances that are defined as hazardous by the 1990 amendments of the Clean Air Act.

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals) and other related databases.

Ecological Risk Analysis Tools and Applications
Information provided by Department of Energy (DOE) that can be used to conduct ecological screening and baseline risk assessments and guidance documents for evaluating ecological risk assessment data.

Triad Website
The Triad is an innovative approach to decision-making for hazardous waste site characterization and remediation. The Triad approach proactively exploits new characterization and treatment tools, using work strategies developed by innovative and successful site professionals. The Triad Resource Center provides the information hazardous waste site managers and cleanup practitioners need to implement the Triad effectively.

U.S. EPA Environmental Response Team
The EPA’s Environmental Response Team, part of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, is recognized as a vehicle for the rapid generation of topic specific standard operating procedures (SOPs),technical bulletins, fact sheets; and analytical method development and evaluation, which are maintained by and available from the team's Environmental Response Center.

Hazardous Waste Clean-up Information
The Hazardous Waste Clean-up Information (CLU-IN) Web Site provides information about innovative treatment technology to the hazardous waste remediation community. It describes programs, organizations, publications, and other tools for federal and state personnel, consulting engineers, technology developers and vendors, remediation contractors, researchers, community groups, and individual citizens. The site was developed by the U.S. EPA but is intended as a forum for all waste remediation stakeholders.

Field Analytic Technologies Encyclopedia (FATE) Website
This online encyclopedia is intended to provide information about technologies that can be used in the field to characterize contaminated media, monitor the progress of remedial efforts, and in some cases, for confirmation sampling and analysis for site close out.

U.S. EPA Method SW-846
This website contains over 200 documents, including the Table of Contents, Disclaimer, Preface, Chapters One through Thirteen, and many different methods for the sampling and analysis of wastes. All of the documents found in the Third Edition of SW-846, as updated by Updates I, II, IIA, IIB, III and IIIA, are located at this site.

DISCLAIMER:
The material on this web site and the links provided above are a public service generated for informational purposes only. CTEH^® is not responsible for the content of these sites, nor does it necessarily agree with or condone the information found within them.