Community Involvement Tools and Resources
On this page:
- General Community Involvement Toolkit Information
- How to Use the Toolkit
- Superfund Community Involvement Toolkit Files
General CI Toolkit Information
The Superfund Community Involvement Toolkit ("CI toolkit") provides Superfund Regional site teams, community involvement staff, and others with a practical easy-to-use aid for designing and enhancing community involvement activities. The CI toolkit helps users avoid some of the pitfalls common to the community involvement process. It enables them to quickly review and adapt a variety of community involvement tools to engage the community during all stages of the Superfund removal and remedial processes.
How to Use the Toolkit
Each community involvement tool in the toolkit describes an activity or resource that a Superfund site team may use to involve and inform the community. It explains how and when that activity or resource can be used in the Superfund process. It also provides tips for using the tool and notes whether or not it is required by law or regulation. Each tool cross-references other related tools and includes citations to additional reference materials or guidance. Note that multiple tools can be adopted, combined, or reinvented, as needed, to fit the specific needs of community involvement staff or the site team.
Superfund Community Involvement Toolkit Files
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CI Handbook
The revised Superfund Community Involvement Handbook (CI Handbook) is now complete and is posted below! The CI Handbook provides guidance to EPA staff on how EPA typically plans and implements community involvement activities at Superfund sites. This guidance document is intended to help promote consistent implementation of community involvement regulations, policies and practices.
2016 SUPERFUND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT HANDBOOK (PDF)(156 pp, 2.41 MB, About PDF)
Citizen's Guides
To access the documents listed on this page, please use the document search tool below. Searching by document title or Superfund terms will generate a table of relevant results.
Note: Not all documents may be available at this time. EPA continues to update its website to enhance public access to Superfund-related information.
Citizen's Guide Series to Cleanup Technologies (Summary) (PDF) (1 pg, 710 K)You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.
The Citizen's Guide series is a set of fact sheets that summarizes cleanup methods used at Superfund and other sites. The series was originally released ten years ago and was updated in 2012 to include information about new technologies and techniques. Each fact sheet is two pages long and answers six questions about the cleanup method: 1) What is it? 2) How does it work? 3) How long will it take? 4) Is it safe? 5) How might it affect me? and 6) Why use it? These guides are are currently being translated to Spanish. Until then, the Spanish versions of the 2001 guides are still available.
- Citizen's Guides in English
Search for Citizen's Guides (34744) Document Title Date Document ID Document Title Date Document ID - Guía del Ciudadano en Español
Buscar Guías de Ciudadano (35141) Document Title Date Document ID Document Title Date Document ID
Other Resources
- Community Resources
Other Policies and Publications
Superfund Job Training Initiative
Superfund Risk Assessment and How You Can Help Exit
EPA Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center
EPA Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
Community Relations: Use of Senior Environmental Employees in Superfund - August 31, 1990
Identification and Evaluation of Community Involvement Activities in Abandoned Mine Land Communities
Lessons Learned About Superfund Community Involvement
The Model Plan for Public Participation (February 2000)
Superfund Today: Focus on Five Year Reviews and Involving the Community (December 2009)
Superfund Today: Focus on Risk Assessment -- Involving the Community
Superfund Today: Focus on Risk Assessment
Superfund Today: Focus on Revisions to Superfund's Risk Assessment Guidance (February 1999)
Assessing Social Impacts in the Superfund Process
Social, Cultural, Economic Impact Assessments: A Literature Review