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Behavior of Metals in Soils

One of the major issues of concern to the Forum is the mobility of metals in soils as related to subsurface remediation.
For the purposes of this Issue Paper, those metals most commonly found at Superfund sites will be discussed in terms of the processes affecting their behavior in soils as well as laboratory methods available to evaluate this behavior.

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