EPA Announces Vision and Goals for RCRA Cleanups for the Next 10 Years
Posted by [email protected] on Nov. 23, 2020
In September, EPA announced the 2030 Vision and Goals for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action hazardous waste facility cleanup program at the Association of State And Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials 2020 RCRA Corrective Action Virtual Conference. EPA also celebrated the immense progress made toward the program’s 2020 Cleanup Goals for cleaning up contaminated facilities.
New Vision: RCRA Corrective Action cleanups support healthy and sustainable communities where people and the environment are protected from hazardous contamination today and into the future. The new vision provides inspiration and overall direction for the program. The new goals provide expectations and objectives for the RCRA Corrective Action Program to strive for and complete over the next ten years. EPA has laid out five goals for the program for this ten-year timeframe, related to:
- Ensuring that RCRA Corrective Action cleanups are initiated and completed expeditiously.
- Eliminating or controlling adverse impacts beyond the facility boundaries.
- Ensuring land within the facility boundaries will be safe for continued use or reasonably foreseeable new uses.
- Identifying and implementing the key elements of effective Long-Term Stewardship for Corrective Action.
- Regularly adjusting the universe of facilities in the cleanup pipeline to reflect current program priorities.
