Cleanup Laws, Regulations and Guidance
RCRA Corrective Action
RCRA is the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act - a state delegated program that includes solid and hazardous waste management and corrective action when hazardous waste accidents occur.
- Summary of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Regulatory Information: RCRA corrective action
- RCRA Online - RCRA policies and guidances
Superfund
Superfund is the program for cleaning up abandoned hazardous waste sites.
- Summary of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)
- Regulatory information: Superfund
- Policy, guidance and laws
Federal Facilities
The Federal Facilities program supports hazardous waste cleanups at federal facilities.
- Enforcement and Compliance Resources - includes statutes and executive orders, policies and guidance for environmental enforcement at federal facilities
Brownfields
Brownfields grants include those that address assessments and cleanups on potentially usable property.
- Summary of the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act
- Regulatory Information: Brownfields
- Laws and Regulations - Brownfields and Land Revitalization
Underground Storage Tanks
The Underground Storage Tanks (UST) program oversees the state delegated program that addresses USTs and Leaking USTs.
- Underground Storage Tanks Laws and Regulations
- Regulatory Information: Underground Storage Tanks
- UST Policy and Guidance
Emergencies
This program addresses all kinds of emergencies including oil spills on land and inland waters.
Legacy Hardrock Mines
The Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains oversees the legacy hardrock mine cleanup program.
- Legacy Hardrock Mine Cleanup Program
- Good Samaritan Hardrock Mine Cleanups
Enforcement and Compliance
- Cleanup Policy and Guidance, Models and Publications
- Enforcement policy, guidance and publications
- Waste, chemical and cleanup enforcement policy, guidance and publications