Community Involvement Tools and Resources

On this page:

• Community Involvement Toolkit
• Community Involvement Handbook
• Community Guides
• Other Resources

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Community Involvement Toolkit

The Superfund Community Involvement Toolkit provides Superfund site teams and community involvement staff with practical aids for designing and enhancing community involvement activities throughout the Superfund cleanup process. Each tool describes an activity or resource that a Superfund site team may use to involve and inform the community. 

The CI Toolkit  should be used in conjunction with the Superfund Community Involvement Handbook, which provides guidance to EPA staff on how to plan and implement community involvement activities at Superfund sites. 

Please see this overview for short descriptions of each community involvement tool.

Superfund Community Involvement Toolkit Files

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Community Involvement Handbook

The Community Involvement 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.

2020 Superfund Community Involvement Handbook (PDF)(156 pp, 3.52 MB, About PDF)

Updated Appendix C:  EPA Community Involvement Customer Satisfaction Survey (PDF)(13 pp, 676 KB, About PDF)

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Community Guides

The Community Guide series describes cleanup methods used at Superfund and other hazardous waste cleanup sites. Each guide answers six questions about the 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?
6. Why use it?

Each guide also contains information about how many Superfund sites have used the technology and a case study description.  These guides are available in English and Spanish.

Community Guides in English

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Guías Comunitarias en Español

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Other Resources

Community Resources

• Superfund Risk Assessment and How You Can Help 
• EPA Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center
• EPA Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act

Policies and Publications

• Superfund Today:  Focus on Five Year Reviews and Involving the Community (December, 2009) (PDF)(2 pp, 207 KB)
• Lessons Learned About Superfund Community Involvement (October, 2009)(26 pp, 283 KB)
• Identification and Evaluation of Community Involvement Activities in Abandoned Mine Land Communities (September, 2007)(21 pp, 432 KB)
• Assessing Social Impacts in the Superfund Process (January, 2004)(23 pp, 194 KB)
• Societal, Cultural and Economic Impacts and the Superfund Process Workshop, November 6-7, 2002, Meeting Summary (Final, December 2003)(16 pp, 92 KB)
• EPA's Public Involvement Policy (June, 2003)
• Social, Cultural, Economic Impact Assessments: A Literature Review (October, 2002)(24 pp, 219 KB)
• The Model Plan for Public Participation (February, 2000)(31 pp, 671 KB)
• Superfund Today: Focus on Risk Assessment -- Involving the Community (April, 1999)(6 pp, 68 KB)
• Superfund Today: Focus on Risk Assessment (February, 1999)(6 pp, 187 KB)
• Superfund Today:  Focus on Revisions to Superfund's Risk Assessment Guidance (February, 1999)(2 pp, 49 KB)