Northwest RCRA corrective action strategy

Technical Report · Sun Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6186862

EPA estimates that 80% of the known RCRA-regulated facilities nationwide require clean-up of contamination. The Northwest RCRA Program has taken a progressive approach to protecting and restoring its environmental resources through aggressive clean-up of contamination at RCRA regulated facilities. The document details the Northwest RCRA Program's strategy for investigation and clean-up of contamination at or from facilities, including releases from past disposal practices. The document also describes the collective EPA/State principles guiding Northwest RCRA corrective action program and major clean-up decisions such as prioritization of the investigation and clean-up of the RCRA facilities and the identification of clean-up standards. The major principle guiding the program is to address the worst case first, based on a priority ranking scheme described in the strategy. Topics contained in the strategy include: the RCRA corrective action process, prioritization of facilities for corrective action, authorities for initiating corrective action, definition and management of the corrective action pipeline, clean-up and performance standards, corrective action oversight, owner/operator initiated corrective action, corrective action at Federal facilities, EPA/State partnership, corrective action resources, financial responsibility, and state/regional corrective action capability.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle, WA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6186862
• Report Number(s): PB-91-125856/XAB; EPA--910/9-90/016
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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