Open AccessMaking Cleanup Decisions at Hazardous Waste Sites: The Clean Sites Approach
Author(s) -
Douglas J. Sarno
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of the air and waste management association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2376-6026
pISSN - 1047-3289
DOI - 10.1080/10473289.1991.10466911
Subject(s) - superfund , hazardous waste , clean up , waste management , site selection , clean air act , liability , agency (philosophy) , engineering , toxic waste , process (computing) , environmental planning , environmental science , law , air pollution , political science , computer science , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , epistemology , chromatography , extraction (chemistry) , operating system
This paper provides a summary of the results of an 18-month study conducted by Clean Sites, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia. The study was designed to take a critical look at the way remedies are selected for abandoned hazardous waste sites that are cleaned up under the authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) and to develop recommendations for improving that process. The recommendations were released in an October 1990 report entitled "Improving Remedy Selection: An Explicit and Interactive Process for the Superfund Program." Through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Sites is working to test these recommendations. At two actual Superfund sites, Clean Sites will assist EPA in performing the remedy selection in accordance with the process Clean Sites has developed.