Remediation Site Clean Up

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• Covenant Not to Sue

  A Covenant Not to Sue is an agreement between DEEP and a prospective purchaser or owner of a polluted site that DEEP will not institute a claim against a party who has or will clean up that property.

• RCRA Corrective Action, Closure, and Stewardship

  Connecticut is authorized for RCRA Closure and Corrective Action, which requires facility owners and operators to clean up properties that have treated, stored, or disposed of hazardous waste. Information regarding financial assurance, ecological risks, RCRA closure, and various guidance documents.

• Licensed Environmental Professional Program

  The Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) Program was established to adopt regulations concerning the professional ethics and conduct appropriate to establish and maintain a high standard of integrity and dignity in the practice of an LEP and allowing LEPs to verify that an investigation has been performed at a specific property in accordance with the Remediation Standard Regulations.

• Transformation Materials

  Materials used in the evaluation and transformation of Connecticut's environmental cleanup laws.

• Remediation Committee

  The Remediation Committee was established by the Connecticut Interagency PFAS Task Force to assist with the development of the PFAS Action Plan and advise the Task Force on a comprehensive strategy to identify, assess, and clean up historic releases of PFAS to the environment.

• 2016 LEP Board Meetings

  CT LEP Board 2016 Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Minutes.

• Analytical Methods for Petroleum Releases

  The Extractable Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (ETPH), Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons (EPH), and Volatile Petroleum Hydrocarbons (VPH) are analytical methods that are commonly used in Connecticut to characterize petroleum releases.

• Guidance for Utility Company Excavation

  Department of Energy & Environmental Protection recommendations to be followed by utilities that encounter contaminated soil during repair or construction activities.

• Requesting Approval of Additional Polluting Substances and Alternative Criteria

  The Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs), contain numeric cleanup standards for 88 substances. When a contaminant at a site is not one of the 88 substances, Additional Polluting Substance (APS) criteria must be approved by the Commissioner to complete cleanup at the site under the RSRs. When the RSRs contain criteria for a substance but a party believes different numeric criteria are appropriate for a specific site, that party may request approval of Alternative Criteria.

• Wave 2 Revision Concepts and History

  The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) presented proposed concepts in the RSR Wave 2 Conceptual Language document, as well as at multiple question and answer sessions and accepted public feedback regarding revisions to the Remediation Standard Regulations.

• 1996 RSR Criteria Derivation

  The Remediation Standard Regulations that established the requirements for the remediation of contamination within Connecticut were organized by environmental media and relied, in part, on risk-based criteria that established remediation goals for various contaminants typically found at remediation sites.

• Removal from SEMS Potential Superfund List

  If remedial action has been completed through one or more DEEP Remediation Programs or an interested party has committed to remediate a site through a DEEP Remediation Program, DEEP can request that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) remove any active federal superfund site from the Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS), formerly CERCLIS or that EPA offer a "comfort letter" stating it will not take further action to list the site on the NPL.

• State Superfund Program

  The State Superfund Program oversees and provides funding for the remediation of contaminated sites. The use of State funds for remediation at hazardous waste sites is determined by calculating a superfund priority score in accordance with Connecticut Regulations.

• Federal Superfund Sites in Connecticut

  Information on the Federal Superfund sites in Connecticut.

• GAC Filter System for Private Wells

  GAC filter systems are used to remove semi-volatile and volatile organic compounds (such as those found in gasoline, heating oil, and chlorinated solvents), as well as some pesticides, from polluted drinking water. Explanation of how these systems work, maintenance, and monitoring of GAC systems.