Document Overview

Model document comfort/status letter for use when the EPA regional office involvement at the impacted property or site has concluded, but for possible operation and maintenance (O&M), institutional controls, or land use controls maintenance, and 5-year reviews, and the site has been either archived in SEMS; deleted from the NPL; situated near, but not within, the defined boundaries, if any, of a site found in SEMS; or that additional federal Superfund response action is not warranted. Superfund comfort/status letters are provided solely for informational purposes and the EPA regional office is not planning to take any additional federal Superfund response action and provide a summary of the basis for its decision based upon the information presently known to EPA about the property.

Supporting Documents

Transmittal of the 2019 Policy on the Issuance of Superfund Comfort/Status Letters (31 pp, 566.0 K)
Date: 08/21/2019
Transmittal memorandum, guidance, and model comfort/status letters for parties interested in reusing and/or redeveloping contaminated, potentially contaminated, and formerly contaminated properties. The policy discusses the background of EPA’s issuance of Superfund comfort/status letters, describes the purpose and intent of these letters, and includes four updated model letters.

Revision History

08/21/2019

• This model replaces the Federal Superfund Interest and No Current Federal Superfund Interest Comfort/Status Letter issued in 2015.

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