Recently remediation goals (or site cleanup standards) based on the future land use anticipated at the site has been paid more attention to as one of the cost-effective ways to reduce environmental risks from contaminated sites, though originally were not introduced into the Japanese site cleanup law (the Soil Contamination Countermeasures Law; Dojo Osen Taisaku Ho). This article focuses on the U.S. legislations, CERCLA and some state laws supplementally, and analyzes how future land use is considered in the process of site cleanup, and how the cleanup liabilities are allocated among the relevant parties. This article then examines some implications the U.S. legal scheme would have for the discussion on the review of the Japanese law.
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