Superfund Remedy Decisions
These web pages provide Superfund remedial project managers and other EPA staff with links to key EPA Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation guidance and other related documents used frequently during the Superfund decision-making process. These documents may also provide useful information for sites cleaned up under other authorities such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Superfund response actions are categorized as either removal actions – emergency, time-critical or non-time-critical – or remedial actions. In general, remedial actions are longer-term response actions. This web page provides information to inform the selection of both removal and remedial actions.
Remedy Overview, Key Principles and Guidance
- Basic information about remedies
- Key principles of remedy selection
- Non-time critical removal actions
- Cost in the remedy selection process
- Role of state and tribal governments
Regulatory Compliance
- Basic information about compliance
- Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements
- Superfund waste management
- Institutional controls
Remedy and NTCRA Decision Documentation
- Basic information about decision documentation
- Search for Superfund decision documents (RODs, ROD Amendments and ESDs)
- ROD of the year contest examples
Contaminant, Media, and Site Type-Specific Remedy Guidance
- Contaminant-specific remedy guidance
- Media-specific remedy guidance
- Site type-specific remedy guidance