Local government and community activist sources are generally pleased with EPA's recently released guidance on planning, maintaining and enforcing institutional controls (IC), noting the document's encouragement of community input in IC planning and its discussion of the complexity in using such controls at contaminated sites that lack cleanup and are potentially open to unrestricted uses. "Everything I was looking for was in there," one activist source says. EPA Nov. 30 released its draft "Guidance on Planning, Implementing, Maintaining, and Enforcing Institutional Controls at Contaminated Sites," the second in a series of guidance documents on the use of ICs, and is seeking comment until Jan. 14 on whether the document adequately addresses ways EPA and site managers can generate local involvement in the process.
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