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Incorporating Sustainability Principles in Cleanup Enforcement Actions Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - (9/29/23)
Memorandum reinforces EPA’s positions on sustainability by encouraging cleanup enforcement staff to collaborate with their program office counterparts to incorporate applicable principles in CERCLA and RCRA cleanup enforcement work and includes a compendium of case examples and a resource library.
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/incorporating-sustainability-principles-cercla-and-rcra-cleanup-enforcement-actions (PDF 315K)
Advanced Monitoring Technologies and Approaches to Support Long-Term Stewardship - (7/20/18)
Memorandum provides information about the potential uses of specific advanced monitoring technologies and approaches for monitoring and maintaining institutional controls and engineering controls at sites and facilities addressed under federal and state cleanup authorities.
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/use-advanced-monitoring-technologies-and-approaches-support-long-term-stewardship (PDF 312K)
Ensuring Effective and Reliable Institutional Controls at RCRA Facilities - (6/14/07)
Memorandum emphasizes the need for effective and reliable institutional controls at RCRA facility cleanup, corrective action and closures.
https://www.epa.gov/hw/guidance-long-term-care-corrective-action-sites (PDF 350 K)
Transmittal of Institutional Controls: Third-Party Beneficiary Rights in Proprietary Controls - (4/19/04)
Transmittal memorandum and document address information on designating third-party beneficiaries in proprietary institutional controls
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/guidance-third-party-beneficiary-rights-proprietary-institutional-controls (PDF 123 K)
Transmittal Memorandum for Institutional Controls: A Site Managers Guide to Identifying, Evaluating and Selecting Institutional Controls at Superfund and RCRA Corrective Action Cleanups - (9/29/00)
Transmittal memorandum and fact sheet intended to provide Superfund and RCRA site managers and other decision makers with an overview of the types of institutional controls that are commonly available. OSWER Dir. No. 9355.0-74FS-P.
https://semspub.epa.gov/src/document/HQ/175447 (PDF 96K)

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