On May 6, 2011, the Indiana Department of Environmental
Management (IDEM) released its much-anticipated draft Remediation
Closure Guide (RCG). A copy of the RCG can be viewed and downloaded
at www.in.gov/idem/4694.htm. Barnes &
Thornburg will host a seminar on May 19 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. (ET) to
discuss the RCG that will include a panel of experts who have been
working on this guidance for many months. The purpose of this
Remediation Summit will be to discuss various important details
about the RCG including issues that might be worthy of comment. You
can obtain more information about our May 19 seminar by clicking here.
When finalized, the RCG will supersede IDEM's existing
guidance known as the Risk-Integrated-System-of-Closure (RISC)
Technical and Users Guides, which were published in 2001. Like
RISC, the RCG is being proposed as a "non-rule policy
document" and therefore IDEM must follow certain statutory
procedures, including a public comment period, before it
