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Appendix D Summary of Recent Stewardship Studies
Appendix D Summary of Recent Stewardship Studies
Pages 125-132
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Priorities List; other sites within state Superfund programs; and sites being cleaned up under voluntary programs, leaking underground storage tank programs, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (RCRA)
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(4) DOE amend the Oak Ridge Reservation Public Involvement Plan and Federal Facility Agreement to provide for public and local government involvement in the following activities: the Reservation Land Use Control Assurance Plan; each project Land Use Control Implementation Plan; the DOE Long-Term Stewardship Plan; and i.
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The goal of this report is to bring the issue of stewardship to the attention of key national, state, and local policy makers, particularly as it relates to public confidence in the reliability of present and future waste management strategies. The question the report poses to policy makers is what system of stewardship would be appropriate, given that sites requiring stewardship range from small, mildly contaminated brownfields to large and severely contaminated industrial and governmental sites.
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, but the views expressed are not necessarily those of EPA. The report investigates the effectiveness of institutional controls at four National Priorities List sites where there has been experience selecting and implementing various types of institutional controls: Cannons Engineering Corporation site in Bridegwater, Massachusetts, the Sharon Steel site in Midvale, Utah, the Cherokee Country site in Kansas, and the OronogoDuenweg Mining Belt site in Jasper County, Missouri.
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The stated goal of the workshop was to share ideas and evaluate solutions to problems associated with longterm custodianship of radioactive waste disposal sites. The proceedings of the workshop included eighteen papers, grouped into the following categories: regulatory perspectives, project management and records management, technical issues, performance monitoring and stakeholder issues, and site transfer protocols.
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; some data will be preserved adequately but may be forgotten, not be easily located, or accompanied with insufficient descriptive information to be usable; and even when knowledge is preserved and users know where information is located, it may take too long or be too expensive to gain access to stewardship data. Environmental Law Institute.
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Environmental Protection Agency's Of lice of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation but does not represent official EPA policy or guidance. The report focused on an evaluation of drivers for the public acceptability or non-acceptability of institutional controls at Superfund sites but included a preliminary assessment of the efficacy of institutional controls, based upon analyses in the legal and other literature.
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The authors provide a number of recommendations to facilitate more effective involvement of local governments in these decisions. The focus of these recommendations, on the one hand, is the need for federal officials to acknowledge that local governments have an important role to play and should be kept informed and involved, and, on the other hand, is the need for local governments to assume a more active and authoritative role in decisions concerning future land use restrictions, as well as in monitoring and oversight activities.
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