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May 2006

EPA lists materials from April 2006 ICs Training Program --

December 2005

EPA Releases:

EPA Issues National Strategy to Manage Post Construction Completion Activities at Superfund Sites"
(October 2005) OSWER 9355.0-105, Institutional Controls Bibliography: Institutional Control, Remedy Selection, and Post-Construction Completion Guidance and Policy, OSWER 9355.0-110, December 2005 ,and Transmittal of Institutional Controls Bibliography

Week of November 22, 2005

OSRTI Issues Superfund National Accomplishments Summaryfor Fiscal Year 2005

Week of April 7, 2005

OSRTI Issues "Superfund Program Implementation Manual (SPIM), Fiscal Year 2006/2007.

Week of April 1, 2005

EPA's OSRE issues "Evaluation of Superfund Alternative Sites Approach" Memorandum, Outlining Evaluation Goals and Phases for 18-Month Pilot

Week of January 6, 2005

EPA's OSRE Issues "Model Administrative Order on Consent for Remedial Design" 

Week of January 10, 2005

EPA's SAB Releases Draft Superfund Benefits Analysis

Week of December 3, 2004

OSWER Issues "Cleaning Up the Nation's Waste Sites: Markets and Technology Trends, 2004 Edition" (EPA 542-R-04-015)

 Week of October 18, 2004

OSRTI and OSRE Issue "EPA Strategy to Evaluate the Implementation of Institutional Controls at Superfund Sites," OSWER No. 9355.0-106.

Week of September 13, 2004

OIG issues OIG Response to Congressional Response on Superfund Administrative Costs, Briefing Report No. 2004-S-00004.

Week of August 30, 2004

OIG Issues Some States Cannot Address Assessment Needs and Face Limitations in Meeting Future Superfund Cleanup Requirements, Report No. 2004-P-00027.

Week of August 23

EPA Issues "Action Plan for Ground Water Remedy Optimization," OSWER 9183.1-25

Week of June 14, 2004

EPA Issues "Revised Response Selection and Settlement Approach for Superfund Alternative Sites," OSWER 9208-0-18

Week of May 17, 2004

OSRE issues Interim Guidance on the Ability to Pay and De Minimis Revisions to CERCLA Section 112(g) by the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Act [guidance document and four model notice documents]:

    Interim Guidance

Attachment A:  Model Notice of Eligibility to Receive a De Minimis Settlement 
Attachment B:  Model Notice Approving Reduction in Settlement Amount Based on Inability to Pay
Attachment C: Model Notice of Ineligibility to Receive a De Minimis Party Settlement
Attachment D: Model Notice Denying Reduction in Settlement Amount Based on Inability to Pay

Week of May 10, 2004

OSRE Issues a Revised Model CERCLA Section 112(g)(4) De Minimis Landowner Consent Decree and Revised Model Landowner Administrative Order on Consent

The Superfund Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) releases its Final Report.

GAO Issues "Superfund Program: Breakdown of Appropriations Data,"GAO-04-787R,  on May 14, 2004, expanding February 18, 2004 "Superfund Program:  Updated Appropriation and Expenditure Data." 

Week of April 22, 2004

EPA OSWER issues a "120-Day Study," Superfund:  Building on the Past, Looking to the Future.

Week of April 5, 2004

OSRE Issues CERCLA Model Administrative Order Directing Compliance With Request for Access

Week of March 8, 2004

OSRTI Releases "Treatment Technologies for Site Cleanup Annual Status Report" (Eleventh Edition.)

Week of February 16, 2004

GAO issues report, "Superfund Program:  Updated Appropriation and Expenditure Data."(GAO-04-475R)

Week of February 9, 2004

OSTRI and OSRE issue Guidance for Preparing Superfund Ready for Reuse Determinations, OSWER 9365.0-33.

Week of February 2, 2004

EPA makes PRP Search Manual available.

Week of January 19, 2004

OSRE issues "Revised Model Administrative Order on Consent for Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study."

Week of January 12, 2004

OSRE issues Interim Enforcement Discretion Guidance Regarding Contiguous Property Owners (under the Small Business and Brownfields Revitalization Act).

Week of January 5, 2004

EPA's Office of Inspector General issues Special Report: Congressional Request on Funding Needs for Non-Federal Superfund Sites

EPA issues Ecological Soil Screening Levels (Eco-SSL)Guidance and Documents

Week of October 13, 2003

EPA issues "Updating Remedy Decisions at Select Superfund Sites, Summary Report FY 2000 and FY 2001"

Week of July 28, 2003

U.S. General Accounting Office issues report, "Superfund Program -- Current Status and Future Fiscal Challenges"

Week of July 14, 2003

EPA OSRE and the DOJ issue guidance under the Small Business Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, "Interim Enforcement Discretion Policy Concerning 'Windfall Liens' Under Section 107(r) of CERCLA"

April 2003

EPA issues Fact Sheets,"Comprehensive Five-Year Review Guidance" and "Transfer of Long-Term Response Action (LTRA) Projects to the States."

Week of March 10, 2003

EPA issues OSWER 9355.4-24, Supplemental Guidance for Developing Soil Screening Levels for Superfund Sites" , with accompanying documents (User's Guide, Technical Background Document, and Appendices).

OSWER issues Draft Guidance, "Institutional Controls:  A Guide to Implementing, Monitoring, and Enforcing Institutional Controls at Superfund, Brownfields, Federal Facility, UST and RCRA Corrective Action Cleanups," and requests comments by April 19, 2003.

OERR issues update to 1992 guidance supplementing RAGS Volume I -- Human Health Evaluation Manual:  OSWER 9285.6-10, "Calculating Upper Confidence Limits for Exposure Point Concentrations at Hazardous Waste Sites."

Week of March 3, 2003

EPA OSRE issues "Interim Guidance Regarding Criteria Landowners Must Meet in Order to Qualify for Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser, Contiguous Property Owner, or Innocent Landowner Limitations in CERCLA ('Common Elements') and "Regional Determinations Regarding Which Sites are Not 'Eligible Response Sites' Under CERCLA Section 101(4)(C)(i), as Added by the Small Business Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act"

EPA OIG releases Annual Superfund Report to Congress, Fiscal 2002

February 2003

EPA/OERR Issues Guidance, "Process of Handling Appeals of Permanent Relocation Claim Decisions," OSWER 9355.0-88 (January 29, 2003)

Week of February 2, 2003

OSRE issues Revised Model CERCLA Section 107 Consent Decree for Recovery of Past Costs and Revised Model Section 122(h)(1) Agreement for Recovery of Past Costs

January 2003

EPA Requests Comments on Draft "Contaminated Sediment Remediation Guidance for Hazardous Waste Sites" (comment period extended from March 3, 2003 to April 2, 2003)

December 2002

EPA Issued "Guidance for Comparing Background and Chemical Concentrations in Soil for CERCLA Sites," OSWER 9285.7-41 (Sept. 2002)

Week of November 4, 2002

OSRE, OERR and OCFO Release "Consolidated Guidance on the Establishment, Management and Use of CERCLA Special Accounts" (October 4, 2002)

Week of October 27, 2002

OERR and TIO issue "Fact Sheet," Elements for Effective Management of Operating Pump and Treat Systems

Week of October 21, 2002

OSWER Assistant Administrator Marianne Horinko issues a Communications Package (October 10, 2002)

EPA's Office of Inspector General Releases an Update to the June 24, 2002 letter to Congressman John Dingell regarding sites not receiving funding in 2002

Week of October 14, 2002

EPA's Office of Inspector General Releases Audit Report, "Information Technology: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) Data Quality" (September 30, 2002)

Week of September 23, 2002

OECA and OSWER issue memorandum, "Enforcement First for Remedial Action at Superfund Sites"

Week of July 1, 2002

EPA's Office of Inspector General released a June 24, 2002 letter to Congressman John Dingell identifying and summarizing "funding needs" of non-federal NPL sites.

Week of June 24, 2002

EPA issued OSWER 92-08.0-17, "Response Selection and Enforcement Approach for Superfund Alternative Sites" (June 24, 2002)

OSRE released "Bona Fide Prospective Purchasers and the New Amendments to CERCLA," which notes that, "in most cases, the Brownfields Amendments make PPAs [Prospective Purchaser Agreements] from the federal government unnecessary."

Week of May 27, 2002

EPA issued OSWER 9285.6-07P, "Role of Background in the CERCLA Cleanup Program" (April 26, 2002)

Week of May 6, 2002

OERR issues OSWER Directive 9230.0-97, "Superfund Response Actions:   Temporary Relocations Implementation Guidance,"; with Transmittal Memorandum (April 12, 2002).

EPA issues Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS), Volume III-Part A, Process for Conducting Probabilistic Risk Assessment

Week of April 1, 2002

ATSDR issues draft guidance for conducting public health assessments at Superfund sites, Public Health Assessment Guidance Manual (Update), Draft for Public Comment.   The comment period ends June 3, 2002.

EPA issues the Fiscal Year 2001 Annual Report, reporting its performance as required by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). This Report addresses reporting requirements under GPRA as well as under several other management statutes.

Week of March 15, 2002

EPA issues a Report to Congress, Progress Towards Implementing Superfund, Fiscal Year 1998

Week of February 18, 2002

OSWER Assistant Administrator Marianne L. Horinko issues OSWER Directive 9285.6-08, "Principles for Managing Contaminated Sediment Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites" (Signed February 12, 2002)

Week of December 10, 2001

OERR issues OSWER Directive 9230.0-99, Early and Meaningful Community Involvement

Week of December 3, 2001

EPA Publishes Draft Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Volume I Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part E, Supplemental Guidance for Dermal Risk Assessment) (RAGS Part E) and Requests Public Comment (until February 8, 2002)

Week of November 26, 2001

The TIO released a report, "Remediation Technology Cost Compendium -- Year 2000" detailing costs of six remediation technologies in 2000.

EPA's Office of Site Remediation Enforcement issued OSWER #9275.1-03, "Special Accounts:  Guidance on Key Decision Points in Using Special Account Funds," dated September 28, 2001.

Week of September 17, 2001

The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report, "Hazardous Waste:  EPA's National and Regional Ombudsmen Do Not Have Sufficient Independence," GAO-01-813.

Week of September 10, 2001

OSRE issued revised language for (1) the Model Removal UAO; (2) the Model RI/FS AOC; (3) the Model RI/FS SOW; and (4) the Model RD/RA UAO.

Week of August 20, 2001

The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report, "Human Capital:   Implementing an Effective Workforce Strategy Would Help EPA to Achieve Its Strategic Goals," GAO-01-812.

Week of August 13, 2001

OSWER issued Comprehensive Five-Year Review Guidance (OSWER 9355.7-03B-P) with Appendices and Transmittal Memorandum from Larry Reed (OERR) and James Woolford (FFRR Office).This guidance supersedes/replaces all previously-issued guidance on this topic.

OSWER issued a June 2001 "ECO Update," The Role of Screening-Level Risk Assessments and Refining Contaminants of Concern in Baseline Ecological Risk Assessments (Publication 9345.0-14).   This bulletin is one of a series of supplements to the document Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Process for Designing and Conducting Ecological Risk Assessments (EPA/540-R-97-006).

Week of July 30, 2001

EPA issued a revised Model RD/RA Consent Decree with Transmittal Memo (June 15, 2001)

OERR released Guidance for Characterization of Background Chemicals in Soil at Superfund Sites (External Review Draft), OSWER 9285.7-41, EPA 540-R-01-003 (June 2001)

Week of July 16, 2001

EPA issued Post Construction Activity Fact Sheets: Transmittal Memo, Superfund Post Construction Completion Activities, and Superfund Post Construction Completion: An Overview

Week of June 25, 2001

EPA issued a guidance, "Operation and Maintenance in the Superfund Program, OSWER 9200.1-37FS

EPA/OERR issued OSWER Directive 9355.7-06P, "Reuse Assessments: A Tool to Implement the Superfund Land Use Directive" (signed June 4, 2001)

Month of May 2001

EPA/OERR issued a memorandum, "Toxics Release Inventory Reporting for Superfund Sites," OSWER 9360.7-15P, signed April 19, 2001

Month of April 2001

EPA issued the March 30, 2001 "Superfund/Oil Program Implementation Manual, FY2002/2003"

EPA issued a January 11, 2001 Memorandum, "Issuance of 'Model CERCLA Peripheral Party Cashout Consent Decree' and 'Model CERCLA Ability to Pay Peripheral Party Cashout Consent Decree'; and the Model Consent Decrees (Cashout) (Ability to Pay)

Week of March 12, 2001

EPA issued OSWER Directive 9375-3-06P, "Evaluation of the Plan to Enhance the Role of States and Tribes in the Superfund Program,"; and memorandum, "Enhancing State and Tribal Role Directive."

Week of March 5, 2001

The U.S. General Accounting Office released "Superfund: EPA's Contract Cost-Estimating Initiatives Show Promise and Should Be Monitored."

Week of January 29, 2001

EPA/OSRE released "Support of Regional Efforts to Negotiate Prospective Purchaser Agreements (PPAs) at Superfund Sites and Clarification of PPA Guidance."

Week of October 30, 2000

EPA releases final Institutional Controls Guidance, OSWER 9355.0-74F8-P, including "Institutional Controls: A Site Manager's Guide to Identifying, Evaluating and Selecting Institutional Controls at Superfund and RCRA Corrective Action Cleanups"; Glossary; Checklist, and Matrix.

OERR and TIO release new guidance, "Superfund Reform Strategy, Implementation Memorandum:  Optimization of Fund-lead Ground Water Pump and Treat (P&T Systems), OSWER Directive 9283.1-13.

OERR releases "Direct Final Process for Deletions" (Streamlining the Delections Process -- Revised October 2000), OSWER Directive 9320.2-12-FS-P.

Week of September 11, 2000

OERR releases "Interim Guidance on Implementing the Superfund Administrative Reform on PRP Oversight" (OSWER Directive No. 9200.03-32P, Supersedes 9200.4-15, "Reducing Federal Oversight at Superfund Sites with Cooperative and Capable Parties").

Week of August 21, 2000

EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued guidance, "A Guide to Developing and Documenting Cost Estimates During the Feasibility Study," along with Appendix A, "Internet Resources," Appendix B, "Cost Adjustment Factors," Appendix C, "Cost Example Templates," and Appendix D, "Glossary."  The new guidance addresses cost estimates of remedial alternatives developed during the RI/FS and updates and clarifies previous guidance.  The new Guide supersedes Chapter 3 of "Remedial Action Costing Procedures Manual" (October 1987), and Section 6.2.3.7 of "Guidance for Conducting Remedial Investigations and Feasibility Studies under CERCLA" (Interim Final, October 1988).l

Week of August 7, 2000

EPA issued guidance, "Applicability of Policy Against 'No Action' Assurances to CERCLA"

EPA issued "Delinquent Accounts Receivable: Interim Guidance on the Referral Process and Timing for Collection of Delinquent Debts Arising under Superfund Judicial or Administrative Settlements"


Week of July 3, 2000

EPA issued a revised Model RD/RA Consent Decree


Week of June 5, 2000

The U.S. General Accounting Office released "Superfund: Extent to Which Most Reforms Have Improved the Program is Unkown"

The National Academy of Public Administration released "Reinventing Superfund -- An Assessment of EPA's Administrative Reforms"


Week of May 30, 2000

EPA published a new policy on recovery of indirect costs from PRPs, "Guidance on Exercising CERCLA  Enforcement Discretion in Anticipation of Full Cost Accounting Consistent With the 'Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards No. 4,'" 65 Fed. Reg. 35,339 (June 2, 2000).


Week of March 1, 2000

On March 1, 2000, the National Research Council released "Natural Attenuation for Ground Water Remediation"


Week of February 14, 2000

On Feb. 15, 2000, Rep. Tom Bliley (Chairman, House Commerce Committee) sent a letter to U.S. EPA Administrator, Carol Browner, requesting that EPA shut down its website until the security of the system can be demonstrated.


Week of January 24, 2000

On Jan. 27, 2000, EPA released "Placement of Proceeds from CERCLA Settlements in Special Accounts"


Week of January 1, 2000

On Jan. 3, 2000, EPA released"Close Out Procedures for National Priorities List Sites"


Week of December 27, 1999

Under grant from U.S. EPA, the Environmental Capital Network published "Perspectives on Private Investment in Innovative Remediation Technology Companies"

U.S. EPA issues draft guidance, Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Volume 3 - (Part A, Process for Conducting Probabilistic Risk Assessment (12/99)


Week of November 29, 1999

On Nov. 30, GAO released "Superfund: Information on the Program's Funding and Status" (10/29/99, 32 pgs.)


Week of October 25, 1999

U.S. EPA issues Improving Site Assessment: Abbreviated Preliminary Assessments (10/99, 9 pgs., OSWER No. 9375.2-09FS)

U.S. EPA issues Improving Site Assessment: Combined PA/SI Assessments (10/99, 7 pgs., OSWER No. 9375.2-10FS)

U.S. EPA issues Improving Site Assessment: Pre-CERCLIS Screening Assessments (10/99, 7 pgs., OSWER No. 9375.2-11FS


Week of October 4, 1999

U.S. EPA issues Regional Trends in Remedy Changes (8/99, 47 pgs.)


Week of September 27, 1999

U.S. EPA issues memorandum entitled "Expediting Requests for Prospective Purchaser Agreements," which revises model PPA. (10/1/99, 5 pgs.)

U.S. EPA issues "Reuse of CERCLA Landfill and Containment Sites" (9/99, 17 pgs.)

U.S. EPA issues "Superfund Reforms Overview FY99." (9/30/99, 1 pg.)

U.S. EPA issues report entitled "Groundwater Cleanup: Overview of Operating Experience at 28 Sites" (EPA 542-R-99-006, 9/99, 67 pgs.


Week of July 26, 1999

U.S. EPA issues final guidance entitled "A Guide to Preparing Superfund Proposed Plans, Records of Decision, and Other Remedy Selection Decision Documents" (9200.1-23P, 7/30/99)


Week of June 28, 1999

U.S. EPA OSWER issues memorandum, entitled Interim Policy on the Use of Permanent Relocations as Part of Superfund Remedial Actions (9355.0-71P, 6/30/99)


Week of June 14, 1999

U.S. EPA OECA issues memorandum, entitled Negotiation and Enforcement Strategies to Achieve Timely Settlement and Implementation of Remedial Design/ Remedial Action at Superfund Sites (6/17/99)


Week of April 19, 1999

U.S. EPA issues revised natural attenuation guidance, entitled Use of Monitored Natural Attenuation at Superfund, RCRA Corrective Action, and Underground Storage Tank Sites" (9200.4-17P, 4/21/99)

Week of March 15, 1999

U.S. EPA releases Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund Volume 1, Human Health Evaluation Manual (Supplement to Part A): Community Involvement in Superfund Risk Assessments

U.S. EPA ORD releases Waste Research Strategy (3/19/99, EPA/600/R-98/154)

U.S. EPA releases "Superfund Today" article highlighting risk assessment reforms


Week of January 25, 1999

U.S. GAO releases "Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Environmental Protection Agency"


Week of December 28, 1998

U.S. EPA posts "Superfund Environmental Indicators: Cleanup of Hazardous Waste Sites" (December 31,1998)


Week of December 1, 1998

U.S. EPA releases Proposed TSCA Section 403 Soil Lead Hazard and OSWER's Lead-in-Soils Policy (12/1/98)


Week of November 30, 1998

U.S. GAO releases Hazardous Waste: Unaddressed Risks at Many Potential Superfund Sites and Hazardous Waste: Information on Potential Superfund Sites


Week of November 1, 1998

U.S. EPA releases Interim Final Guidance on Disbursement of Funds From EPA Special Accounts to CERCLA Potentially Responsible Parties (11/3/98)

U.S. EPA releases Ensuring Potentially Responsible Party Compliance with CERCLA Obligations (11/3/98)


Week of September 28, 1998

U.S. EPA OIG releases "Region 1's Implementation of Superfund Administrative Reforms" audit report (September 29, 1998)


Week of September 21, 1998

U.S. EPA OIG releases Fiscal 1999 Office of Inspector General Audit Plan (September 21, 1998)


Week of September 7, 1998

U.S. EPA OIG releases "State Deferrals: Some Progress, But Concerns For Long-Term Protectiveness Remain" audit report (September 10, 1998)


Week of August 31, 1998

U.S. EPA OIG releases "Environmental Data Quality at Superfund Removal Actions in Region 9" (September 4, 1998)


Week of August 24, 1998

Chemical Manufacturers Association letter to Steven Herman, Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. EPA regarding Region VII "Continuous Release Reporting Initiative" (August 26, 1998)


Week of August 17, 1998

U.S. EPA OIG releases "Region 5 Oversight of PRP-Lead Remedial Design and Remedial Action" Audit Report (August 17, 1998)


Week of August 10, 1998

U.S. EPA OIG releases "Region 2's Billing of Superfund Oversight Costs" Audit report (August 13, 1998)


Week of July 13, 1998

U.S. EPA OECA issues Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Accomplishments Report (EPA-300-R-98-003)

U.S. EPA issues Municipal Sewage Sludge Under the Policy for Municipality and Municipal Solid Waste CERCLA Settlements at NPL Co-Disposal Sites (Memorandum, 7/15/98)


Week of June 15, 1998

U.S. EPA issues Transmittal of "EPA Guidance on the Transfer of Federal Property by Deed Before All Necessary Remedial Action Has Been Taken Pursuant to CERCLA Section 120(h)(3)" (June 16, 1998)

White House Council on Environmental Quality releases "Memorandum of Understanding among Environmental Protection Agency, United States Coast Guard, Department of Commerce, Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and Department of Justice concerning the exercise of authority under Section 106 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act" (6/18/98)


Week of March 23, 1998

U.S. EPA releases "Guidance on Innovative Technology Risk Sharing" (3/24/98)


Week of March 2, 1998

U.S. EPA releases "NRRB Fiscal Year 1997 Progress Report" (3/4/98)


Week of February 9, 1998

U.S. EPA releases Use of Soil Cleanup Criteria in 40 CFR Part 192 as Remediation Goals for CERCLA Sites (9200.4-25, 2/12/98)


Week of February 2, 1998

U.S. EPA releases Policy for Municipality and Municipal Solid Waste CERCLA Settlements at NPL Co-Disposal Sites (2/5/98)

U.S. EPA releases Superfund Reforms Annual Report FY97 (2/3/98)


Week of December 1, 1997

U.S. EPA releases "Use of Monitored Natural Attenuation at Superfund, RCRA Corrective Action, and Underground Storage Tank Sites (9200.4-17, 12/1/97)


Week of November 24, 1997

U.S. EPA releases "Withdrawal of Proposal: Final Draft Guidance for Developing Superfund Memoranda of Agreement concerning State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (11/26/97)

U.S. EPA releases "Superfund Reform: Scorecard of Third Round" and "Superfund Reform: Scorecard of Second Round"


Week of November 10, 1997

U.S. EPA releases "FY 1998 Superfund Reforms Strategy" (9200.0-28, 11/13/97)


Week of September 29, 1997

U.S. EPA releases "General Policy on Superfund Ability to Pay Determinations" (September 30, 1997)

U.S. EPA releases "Guidance on EPA Participation in Bankruptcy Cases" (September 30, 1997)

U.S. EPA releases "Issuance of the Interim Policy on Settlement of CERCLA Section 106(b)(1) Penalty Claims and Section 107(c)(3) Punitive Damages Claims for Noncompliance with Administrative Orders" (September 30, 1997)

U.S. DOJ releases "Transmittal of Addendum to the 'Interim CERCLA Settlement Policy' Issued on December 5, 1984" (September 30, 1997)


Week of August 18, 1997

U.S. EPA releases "Clarification of the Role of Applicable, or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements in Establishing Preliminary Remediation Goals under CERCLA" (August 22, 1997) (9200.4-23)

U.S. EPA releases "Establishment of Cleanup Levels for CERCLA Sites with Radioactive Contamination" (August 22, 1997) (9200.4-18) -- This document is accompanied by two attachments: A) "Likely Federal Radiation Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements," and B) "Analysis of what Radiation Dose Limit is Protective of Human Health at CERCLA Sites - Including Review of Dose Limits in NRC Decommissioning Rule" (August 20, 1997)

U.S. EPA releases "Rules of Thumb for Superfund Remedy Selection" (9355.0-69)


Week of August 1, 1997

U.S. EPA releases "Final Draft Guidance for Developing Superfund Memoranda of Agreement (MOA Language Concerning State Voluntary Cleanup Programs" (August 1, 1997)


Week of July 28, 1997

U.S. EPA releases "CERCLA Coordination with Natural Resource Trustees" (July 31, 1997) (9200.4-22A)


Week of July 7, 1997

U.S. EPA releases "EPA Proposal For Municipality And MSW Liability Relief At CERCLA Co-Disposal Sites" (July 8, 1997)


Week of June 2, 1997

U.S. EPA releases Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Process for Designing and Conducting Ecological Risk Assessments (June 5, 1997) (9285.7-25)


Week of May 12, 1997

Vice President Gore announces a new Brownfields Partnership effort -- the three-pronged proposal calls for: (1) a national partnership of more than 100 commitments from more than 25 organizations; (2) new pilot grants aimed at providing communities with "seed money" to fund redevelopment; and (3) a call to Congress to pass the Administration's brownfields legislative package (May 13, 1997)


Week of May 5, 1997

EPA Administrator Browner announces "Superfund Legislative Reform Principles" in a letter to Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.) (May 7, 1997)


Week of March 10, 1997

U.S. DOJ releases Defining "Matters Addressed" in CERCLA Settlements (March 14, 1997)


Week of March 3, 1997

U.S. DOJ released Superfund 1996: A Report to the Attorney General - Faster, Fairer and More Efficient Cleanups (March 6, 1997)

U.S. EPA Region I New England released Superfund/RCRA Reform Initiatives 2nd Annual Accomplishments Report (March 1997)


Week of January 27, 1997

The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management released "Framework for Environmental Health Risk Management: Final Report" (Volume I, January 29, 1997)


Week of January 13, 1997

EPA released National Remedy Review Board - Progress Report: Fiscal Year 1996


Week of December 16, 1996

The Superfund Settlements Project released its report, entitled EPA's Superfund Reforms: A Report on the First Year of Implementation

EPA released Superfund Administrative Reforms Annual Report Fiscal Year 1996 (December 20, 1996)


Week of November 11, 1996

EPA released a memorandum, entitled "Coordinating with the States on NationalPriorities List Decisions" (November 14, 1996)

EPA released Interim Approaches for Regional Relations with State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (November 14, 1996)


Week of November 4, 1996

EPA released Policy on the Issuance of Comfort/Status Letters (November 8, 1996)


Week of October 21, 1996

EPA released Presumptive Response Strategy and Ex-Situ Treatment Technologies for Contaminated Ground Water at CERCLA Sites 9283.1-12 (October 21, 1996)

EPA released Revised Guidance on Procedures for Submitting CERCLA Section 106(b) Reimbursement Petitions and on EPA Review of Those Petitions (61 Fed. Reg. 55298)


Week of October 14, 1996

EPA Administrator cites 400th Superfund Cleanup as sign of progress in speeding cleanups


Week of September 30, 1996

EPA released the following guidance:



Week of September 23, 1996

EPA released the following guidance:



Week of September 9, 1996

EPA released the following guidance:



Week of June 3, 1996

EPA released on June 4 four major Superfund policies, as follows:


Week of April 29, 1996

EPA Region 1, New England released "EPA New England Superfund/RCRA Reform Initiatives: 1st Annual Accomplishments Report"


EPA Region 1, New England released "EPA New England Superfund/RCRA Reform Initiatives: 2nd Year Goals 3/96 to 3/97"


Week of March 25, 1996

EPA released on March 29 a progress report, entitled "Common Sense Strategies to Protect Public Health: Reinventing Environmental Regulation"


Week of March 11, 1996

EPA released on March 13 the "FY1995 Superfund Reforms Semiannual Report"


Week of February 5, 1996

EPA Recently released OSWER directive 9835.15c, "Revised Policy on Performance of Risk Assessments During Remedial Investigation/Feasiblility Studies (RI/FS) Conducted by Potentially Responsible Parties



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