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Actuarial Risk Analysis to Promote National Contingency Plan (NCP)‐Consistent Remediation
Author(s) -
Herman Kurt
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
remediation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6831
pISSN - 1051-5658
DOI - 10.1002/rem.21392
Subject(s) - contingency plan , compensation (psychology) , contingency , liability , plan (archaeology) , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental remediation , selection (genetic algorithm) , business , actuarial science , computer science , environmental planning , environmental economics , environmental science , economics , accounting , computer security , psychology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , contamination , artificial intelligence , biology , psychoanalysis , history
This article provides a case study of how green and sustainable remediation (GSR) concepts (including, but not limited to, worker risk) can be incorporated into the existing National Contingency Plan (NCP)/Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) remedy selection framework. The occupational risks of worker fatalities and injuries associated with two site remediation alternatives were calculated and compared. The results demonstrated that the increased worker risks associated with one of the remedy alternatives rendered it inferior based on the NCP “Balancing Criteria” of short‐term effectiveness. This type of approach is implementable at many sites by leveraging readily available information at the remedy selection stage using published methods and data sources. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.