EcoZone Blog: Guidance on Planning, Implementing, Maintaining, and Enforcing Institutional Controls at Contaminated Sites

EPA's interim final guidance on Institutional Controls: A Guide to Planning, Implementing, Maintaining, and Enforcing Institutional Controls at Contaminated Sites addresses some of the common issues that may be encountered during the cleanup process and provides recommendations on how ICs can complement other response actions (such as engineered response action components) at a site. This interim final guidance also provides an overview of EPA's policy regarding the roles and responsibilities of the parties involved in the various aspects of planning, implementing, maintaining, and enforcing institutional controls. The guidance is available at www.regulations.gov.

Document ID: EPA-HQ-SFUND-2010-0894-0001