Remediation Site Clean Up

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• Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) Verification Audit Program

  The purpose of the Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) Verification Audit Program is to ensure that the opinions ("verifications") of the LEP are based on an appropriate understanding of the environmental conditions of the site and that the verification is in compliance with all applicable statutes and regulations, including the Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs).

• Release Based Topical Subcommittee Meetings

  Release Based Regulations Topical Subcommittee Meetings lists the meeting dates, links, and associated materials.

• Guiding Principles

• Release-Based Cleanup Legislative Authorization and Background

• 2023 LEP Board Meetings

• 2021 LEP Board Meetings

  2021 LEP Board Meetings Agendas and Minutes

• Environmental Land Use Restrictions

• 2024 LEP Board Meeting

  2024 LEP Board Meeting

• Notices of Activity and Use Limitation

  A Notice of Activity and Use Limitation (NAUL) is a type of Environmental Use Restriction (EUR) that complies with the requirements of section 22a-133o of the Connecticut General Statutes, section 22a-133q of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, and the RSRs.

• Emergency and Non-Emergency EUR Releases

  Provides information on obtaining Emergency and Non-Emergency Releases from Environmental Land Use Restrictions and Notices of Activity and Use Limitation.

• 2022 LEP Board Meetings

• 2022 LEP Board Meetings

• Reducing and Preventing Releases of PFAS-Containing Firefighting Foam

  One of the key pollution prevention recommendations in the State’s PFAS Action Plan was to discontinue use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam where possible. This page describes requirements of the 2021 Act Concerning the Use of Perfluoroalkyl or Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Class B Firefighting Foam, which includes efforts to develop a 'take back' program to recover PFAS-containing firefighting foam from municipalities, to identify PFAS-free foam replacements, and to develop guidance for decontaminating fire apparatus that previously contained PFAS-containing foam.

• PFAS Minimizing Environmental Exposure

  A summary of DEEP's efforts to protect human health by minimizing environmental exposure to PFAS.

• Prevention of PFAS Pollution by Minimizing Future Releases

  Information about Connecticut's efforts to minimize future releases of PFAS to the environment including implementation of a firefighting foam take back program and decontamination pilot project, efforts to understand PFAS in consumer packaging, and legislation to limit PFAS in food packaging.