Hazardous waste site remediation cost savings using technical impracticability and intrinsic remediation guidance
- Blasland, Bouck and Lee, Inc., Syracuse, NY (United States)
- Square D Co., Schaumburg, IL (United States)
The application of recent USEPA guidance and regulations pertaining to the technical impracticability (TI) of ground-water contamination sources areas and intrinsic (natural) remediation of aqueous contaminant plumes at hazardous waste sites can (and has) result(ed) in significant cost savings for industry and utilities. The USEPA (and certain state programs) now allow potentially responsible parties (PRPs) to implement these alternative restoration methods which are practical, implementable, and cost-effective. TI determinations involve a regulatory process to: (1) document that it is not practical in many cases to comply with certain applicable and appropriate requirements (ARARs) (i.e., ground-water standards); and (2) establish an alternative strategy while still meeting the requirements of the NCP. Additionally, the USEPA supports intrinsic remediation or natural attenuation as a restoration method through the NCP, various CERCLA, RCRA, and Leaking Underground Storage (LUST) guidance, and as encouraged at recent USEPA-sponsored conferences.
- OSTI ID:
- 319030
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980426-; TRN: IM9909%%174
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American power conference, Chicago, IL (United States), 14-16 Apr 1998; Other Information: PBD: 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the American Power Conference: Volume 60-1; McBride, A.E. [ed.] [Illinois Inst. of Tech., Chicago, IL (United States)]; PB: 613 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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