Document Category: Research Reports

Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) Annual Reports to Congress

Each year, the Department of Defense (DoD) submits an annual report to Congress (ARC) on its Defense Environmental Programs (DEP). The Report describes the Department’s accomplishments during the past year in its restoration, conservation, compliance, and pollution prevention programs by addressing plans and funding needs for protecting human health, sustaining the resources DoD holds in the public trust, meeting its environmental requirements, and supporting the military mission.

2012-06 Summary of CERCLA Cleanup Authorities and Provisions

The following sections of this report summarize the major cleanup authorities of CERCLA and other relevant provisions of the act. The topics discussed herein include the overall scope and reach of these statutory authorities, the process under which cleanup actions are selected and carried out at individual sites, the financial liability of potentially responsible parties for the costs of cleanup actions, the Superfund Trust Fund that may pay for cleanup actions when the potentially responsible parties cannot pay or cannot be found, enforcement of cleanup liability against the potentially responsible parties to minimize the need for federal tax revenues to finance the cleanup of contaminated sites, the applicability of CERCLA to federal facilities, and federal assistance for the cleanup of …

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1998 Evaluating MNA of Chlorinated Solvents in GW

The information in this document was developed through a collaboration between the U.S. EPA (Subsurface Protection and Remediation Division, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center, Ada, Oklahoma [SPRD]) and the U.S. Air Force (U.S. Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas [AFCEE]). EPA staff were primarily responsible for development of the conceptual framework for the approach presented in this document; staff of the U.S. Air Force and their contractors also provided substantive input.

Final Report Of The Federal Facilities Environmental Restoration Dialogue Committee Consensus Principles And Recommendations For Improving Federal Facilities Cleanup

In 1992, the Federal Facilities Environmental Restoration Dialogue Committee (“the Committee”) was federally chartered under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address these and other issues. The goal of the Committee was to develop consensus policy recommendations aimed at improving the process by which federal facility environmental cleanup decisions are made, such that these decisions reflect the priorities and concerns of all stakeholders. This Final Report sets forth the Committee’s consensus recommendations. Committee members included individuals from EPA, USDA, DOI, DOE, DOD (and its Military Services), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR); state, tribal and local governments; and numerous other nationally, regionally and locally based environmental, community, environmental …

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