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ARTICLE · 15 JULY 2020

Alberta Issues Guidance On Site-specific Risk Assessments For Contaminated Sites

Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) has published a draft Supplemental Guidance for Site-Specific Risk Assessments in Alberta for public comments...

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Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) has published a draft Supplemental Guidance for Site-Specific Risk Assessments in Alberta for public comments. It provides important clarification and guidance on AEP's requirements for site-specific risk assessments (SSRAs) for managing contaminated sites.

An SSRA is an assessment of human health and ecological risks posed by contamination. An SSRA may enable a person responsible for contamination to efficiently focus and prioritize their delineation, monitoring, management and cleanup efforts on specific risks and areas of a contaminated site and, in some cases, may demonstrate that leaving contamination in the ground poses an acceptable risk, thereby mitigating costly cleanups altogether. As such, the Guidance is a welcome and important document to anyone responsible for a contaminated site in Alberta. It explains the regulator's expectations for assessing risks.

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