500R05002
October 11,2005

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT   Long Term Stewardship Task Force Report and the Development of
             Implementation Options tor the Task Force Recommendations

t ROM       Thomas P Dunne, Acting Assistant Administrator /s/
             Barry N Brccn, Deputy Assistant Administrator /s/

TO          OSWER Office and Staff Directors
             Supcrfund, RCRA Tanks, and Brownfields Regional Directors
             Regional Counsels
             Susan Bromm, Office of Site Remediation and Enforcement
             Scott Sherman, Office of General Counsel

      The attached report, ' Long-Term Stewardship  Ensuring Environmental Site Cleanups
Remain Protective Over Time," is a result of a two-year effort by the Long-Term Stewardship
(LTS) Task Force established under the One Cleanup Program  The Task Force was comprised
of represcntatn cs from each of OSWER's program offices, OECA, OGC, Regions and the states
of Arizona Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey and Virginia  The Task Force was charged to identify
and examine the wide  spectrum of LTS issues, perspectives, and ongoing activities - and
recommend potential activities tor EPA to consider in its planning  We thank the Task Force
members tor their time and effort in producing this report We believe that this document will be
a good point  of departure in developing an implementation strategy for LTS issues

      LTS encompasses a broad range of complex issues and many State, Federal and local
programs are dealing \\ ith them  The Task Force suggests that EPA work with its regulatory
partners to determine the strategic priority for activities to be implemented Therefore, we have
asked the Land Rcvitahzation Office to work with your offices, Region  6 (as the sub-lead region
tor land rc\ italization), OECA, OGC, and the states to identity and analyze implementation
options to address the  LTS Task  Force recommendations  We would like to have the
implementation options available to share with ASTSWMO, ECOS and other Federal agencies
by January 31 2006   We have also directed the Land Rc\ italization Office to ensure that the
implementation options address LTS issues at federal facilities, as agreed to in the Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) between EPA, ECOS, the Department of Defense, the Department of
Interior, and  the  Department of Energy

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       We look forward to your continuing involvement in LTS planning and future
collaborative efforts  Please provide the name of your staff lead tor this project to Ellen Manges
(Land Revitahzation Otfice staft lead) by October 18
cc     Long-Term Stewardship Task Force,

       Jennifer Anderson OOC Solid Waste and Emergency Response Law Office
       Michael Bellot, OSWER, Office of Superfimd Remediation and Technology Innovation
       Erica Dameron, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
       Dan Forger, Region 2 Emergency and Remedial Response Division
       Robert Geller, Missouri  Department of Natural Resources
       Steven Hirsh Region 1  Hazardous Site Cleanup Division
       Tracy Hopkins, OSWER, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
       Gary King, Illinois Em ironmental Protection Agency
       Carlos Lago OSWER Office of Solid Waste
       Ellen Manges OSWER  Land Revitahzation Office
       Monica McEaddy, OSWER, Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Otfice
       Cindy Parker Region 6, Compliance Assurance and Enforcement Division
       Nancy Porter OSWER  Office of Brownfields Cleanup and Rede\elopment
       Bob Soboleski, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
       Amanda Stone Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
       Greg Sullivan  OECA, Office of Site Remediation and Enforcement
       Kristin Underwood, OSWER, Office of Underground Storage Tanks
       Joseph Vescio, OSWER, Office of Underground Storage Tanks
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                      Acknowledgments


For more information or questions concerning this report, contact the project leader

   Ellen Manges
   Land Revitalizetion Office
   Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
   U S Environmental Protection Agency
   Ariel Rios Building
   1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
   Washington, DC 20460
   (202) 566-0195
   manges ellen@epa gov

This report would not have been possible without the contribution of the many individuals listed
below who  participated in EPA's Long-Term Stewardship Task Force  The Task Force was
organized and chaired by EPA's Land Revitalization Office (Edward Chu, Acting Director) within
the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response

Jennifer Anderson,  OGC, Solid Waste and Emergency Response Law Office
Michael Bellot, OSWER, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
Erica Dameron, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Dan Forger, Region  2,  Emergency and Remedial Response Division
Robert Geller, Missouri Department of Natural  Resources
Steven Hirsh,  Region 3, Hazardous Site Cleanup Division
Tracy Hopkins, OSWER, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
Gary King, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Carlos Lago, OSWER, Office of Solid Waste
Ellen Manges, OSWER, Land Revitalization Office  (Task Force Chair)
Monica McEaddy, OSWER, Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office
Cindy Parker, Region 6, Compliance Assurance  and Enforcement Division
Nancy Porter, OSWER, Office of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
Bob Soboleski, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Amanda Stone, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Greg Sullivan, OECA, Office of Site Remediation and Enforcement
Kristin Underwood,  OSWER, Office of Underground Storage Tanks
Joseph Vescio, OSWER, Office of Underground Storage Tanks
This report was prepared for the U S  Environmental Protection Agency by SRA
International, Inc , under Contract No 68 W-01-048

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                               Disclaimer
This report is a work product of the Long-Term Stewardship Task Force  The report is intended
to provide information to EPA management, program staff, and other stakeholders for their
consideration and to inform and encourage discussion on the topic The statements in this
document do not constitute official Agency policy, do not represent an Agency-wide position, and
are not binding on EPA or any other party

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                    Table  of  Contents

Executive Summary                                                               1

  Task Force Recommendations Summary                                            2

Introduction                                                                     4

What is Long-Term Stewardship7                                                   6

Why is Long-Term Stewardship Important7                                          9

What Are EPA and Others Doing about Long-Term Stewardship7                       10

Challenges and Recommendations                                                 14

  Challenge-  Ensuring that Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities Are Clearly Understood
                                                                               14

    Recommendation #1  EPA should continue to review its decision documents,
    agreements, and other tools as appropriate, to ensure that site-specific Long-Term
    Stewardship (LTS) roles and  responsibilities are clearly delineated                   16

    Recommendation #2 EPA should continue to develop guidance addressing LTS
    implementation and assurance across its cleanup programs, as appropriate           17

    Recommendation #3  EPA, State, and Tribal cleanup programs and other Federal
    agencies should invest more time working with and building stronger relationships with
    local governments, and conduct more training and outreach to help them better define
    and understand their potential specific LTS roles/responsibilities                    17

    Recommendation #4 (Cross-Cutting)  EPA should partner with other Federal agencies
    and State, Tribal, and local government organizations to sponsor one or more "summits"
    in which representatives from Federal, State, Tribal and local agencies can share their
    perspectives and insights on LTS                                                18

  Challenge  Ensuring that LTS Information Is Managed and Shared Effectively         19

    Recommendation #5 EPA should continue to facilitate the maintenance and exchange
    of LTS information through existing grants and other resources, and by establishing and
    promoting data standards (e g , data element registries  and XML schema and tags)    20

    Recommendation #6  EPA should continue to support the development of mechanisms
    for sharing information to prevent breaches of institutional and engineering controls   20
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   Challenge*  Understanding and Considering the Full, Life-cycle Costs of Long-Term
   Stewardship When Making Cleanup Decisions                                      22

     Recommendation #7   EPA should evaluate current ITS costing guidance and, if
     appropriate, either revise them or develop new guidance to improve the Agency's ability
     to produce more consistent and reliable cost estimates  As appropriate, EPA should draw
     on existing governmental and non-governmental studies and information for estimating
     LTS costs                                                                     22

   Challenge*  Ensuring the Effective  Implementation of Institutional Controls           24

     Recommendation #8   EPA should develop mechanisms and criteria across its cleanup
     programs for evaluating the effectiveness of institutional controls (ICs) at sites       25

     Recommendation #9   EPA should support the development of an analysis of ICs to
     determine the reliance on  (and burden to) State, Tribal, and local governments       25

     Recommendation #10  To enhance the availability and reliability of ICs, EPA should
     encourage States to review and consider the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act or
     similar legal provisions for  potential State applicability                             26

   Challenge-  Ensuring the Effective  Implementation and Evaluation of Engineering
   Controls                                                                        27

     Recommendation #11   EPA  should adopt a flexible approach for re-evaluating the
     effectiveness of engineering controls (ECs) and, if appropriate, modifying ECs to optimize
     remedial system performance and minimize LTS costs                              28

   Challenge:  Ensuring that Funding and Other Resource Needs Are Adequate and
   Sustainable                                                                     29

     Recommendation #12  EPA  should work with outside organizations to explore adequate
     and sustainable funding sources and mechanisms at the  Federal,  State, and local level to
     monitor, oversee, and enforce LTS activities                                      30

     Recommendation #13  EPA  should continue to explore the role of the private sector in
     supporting the LTS of sites and  foster their involvement, as appropriate              30

Appendix A  Key Long-Term Stewardship Themes Gathered from Other Agencies and
Groups                                                                            31

Appendix B  Long-Term Stewardship  Studies and Initiatives                           34
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    Executive  Summary
The cleanup remedies for contaminated sites and properties often require the management and
oversight of on-site waste materials and contaminated environmental media for long periods of
time  Long-Term Stewardship (ITS) generally refers to the activities and processes used to
control and manage these material and media, and ensure protection of human health and the
environment over time  Clear and effective ITS allows for beneficial and protective use of these
properties  The EPA and its regulatory partners rely on ITS after construction of the remedy and
for as long as wastes are controlled on site  LTS can last many years, decades, or in some cases,
even longer LTS involves ongoing coordination and communication among numerous
stakeholders, each  with different responsibilities, capabilities, and information needs  The
importance of LTS is even clearer when you consider that thousands of contaminated sites
throughout the U S may now or in the near future require post-cleanup  monitoring and
maintenance

LTS is increasingly presenting challenges and  issues to EPA and other regulatory agencies
responsible for ensuring its implementation, oversight, and enforcement In response, EPA
identified and gathered State and EPA staff with a broad perspective of views to form the Long-
Term Stewardship Task Force in spring 2004  The LTS Task Force consists of representatives from
EPA and States in the Brownfields, Superfund, RCRA, Federal Facilities, and Underground Storage
Tank (UST) cleanup and enforcement programs   The Task Force was asked to identify and
examine the wide spectrum of LTS issues, perspectives, and ongoing activities - and recommend
potential activities for EPA to consider in its planning   LTS encompasses a broad range of
complex issues and many State, Federal and local programs are dealing with them  The Task
Force recognized that not all of the report recommendations may be acted upon or appropriate
for every program,  and suggests that  EPA work with its regulatory partners to determine the
strategic priority for activities to be implemented

The purpose of this report is to present the particular LTS challenges and opportunities for
improvement identified by the Task Force, and to make recommendations for how EPA and its
State, Tribal, and local partners should proceed in addressing them  This report also includes a
definition of long-term stewardship, why long-term stewardship is important,  and what EPA and
others are currently doing to address LTS issues

The Task Force addressed a variety of challenges facing EPA and its partners when they select,
implement, monitor, and enforce LTS responsibilities   These challenges generally fall into the
following six categories  roles and responsibilities, institutional controls (ICs), engineering
controls (ECs),  costing, funding and resources, and information management  Within these
categories, the Task Force identified  recommendations that EPA pursue  to respond to the
challenges most seriously impacting Federal,  State, Tribal, and local government abilities at LTS
sites  While these recommendations  are focused on EPA activities, many of them may be
beneficial to other  Federal, State, Tribal, and local program activities   In addition, the Task
Force recognizes that EPA's cleanup programs operate under different authorities, may approach
the cleanup and stewardship of sites differently, or may already be addressing the challenges
identified in this report  For this reason, certain challenges or recommendations may not apply
to every cleanup program
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Task Force Recommendations Summary

   Roles and Responsibilities (page 14)

   1   EPA should continue to review its decision documents, agreements, and other tools as
       appropriate, to ensure that site-specific LTS roles and responsibilities are clearly
       delineated  (pase 16)

   2   EPA should continue to develop guidance addressing LTS implementation and assurance
       across its cleanup programs, as appropriate  (page 17)

   3   EPA, State, and Tribal cleanup programs and other Federal agencies should invest more
       time working with and building stronger relationships with local governments, and
       conduct more training and outreach, to help them better define and understand their
       potential specific LTS roles/responsibilities  (page 17)

   4   EPA should partner with other Federal agencies and State,  Tribal,  and local government
       organizations to sponsor one or more "summits" in which representatives from Federal,
       State, Tribal and local agencies can share their perspectives and insights on LTS  (page
       18)

   Information Management (page 19)

   5   EPA should continue to facilitate the maintenance and exchange of LTS information
       through existing grants and other resources, and by establishing and promoting data
       standards (e g , data element registries and XML schema and tags) (page 20)

   6   EPA should continue to support the development of mechanisms for sharing information
       to prevent breaches of institutional and engineering controls  (page 20)

   LTS Costs  (page 22)

   7   EPA should evaluate current LTS costing guidance and, if appropriate, either revise  it or
       develop new guidance to improve the Agency's ability to produce more consistent and
       reliable cost estimates  As appropriate, EPA should draw on existing governmental  and
       non-governmental studies and information for estimating LTS costs (page 22)

   Institutional Controls JICs) (page 24)

   8   EPA should develop mechanisms and criteria across its cleanup programs for evaluating
       the effectiveness of ICs at sites  (page 25)

   9   EPA should support the development of an analysis of institutional controls to determine
       the reliance on (and burden to) State, Tribal, and local governments  (page 25)

   10  To enhance  the availability and reliability of ICs, EPA should encourage States to review
       the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act or similar legal provisions for potential state
       applicability  (page 26)

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Engineering Controls (ECs) (page 27)

11 EPA should adopt a flexible approach for re-evaluating the effectiveness of ECs and, if
   appropriate,  modifying ECs to optimize remedial system performance and minimize LTS
   costs (page 28)

LTS Funding and  Resources (page Z9)

12 EPA should work with outside organizations to explore adequate and sustainable funding
   sources and mechanisms at the Federal,  State, and local level to monitor, oversee, and
   enforce LTS activities  (page 30)

13. EPA should continue to explore the rote  of the private sector in supporting the LTS of
   sites and foster their involvement, as appropriate  (page 30)

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Introduction
Long-term stewardship (LTS) of contaminated
sites is taking on greater significance as an
increasing number of these sites are cleaned
up and put back into beneficial use  Many
sites cleaned up under Federal and State
programs involve restrictions or limits on their
use to ensure long-term protection of human
health and the environment  Long-term
cleanup requirements and any subsequent
restrictions at these sites should be monitored,
maintained, and enforced to ensure that the
integrity of the remedy is protected and the
site remains protective of people and the
environment  Federal, State, Tribal, and local
governments, responsible parties, and other
site stakeholders serve as long-term stewards
for many cleaned up sites

The U S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
formed the Long-Term Stewardship Task Force
to evaluate the current state of long-term
stewardship across its cleanup programs and to
make recommendations for where EPA should
focus its efforts to address particular issues or
opportunities for improvements  The Task Force
includes representatives from each of EPA's
cleanup programs, including the Superfund,
Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA),
Underground Storage Tank (UST), Brownfields,
Federal facilities, and enforcement programs,
and several State cleanup  programs  The Task
Force examined a variety of aspects associated
with LTS, with an emphasis on the following six
elements

   •   Roles and responsibilities—Who is or
       should be responsible for implementing
       and overseeing LTS activities, and  are
       these responsibilities understood and
       clearly communicated7

   •   Information management—Is there
       adequate information on LTS activities,
       is it effectively communicated, and is
       there a need for improved information
       and training7
•  Institutional Controls-Are there
   problems with implementation and
   effectiveness of ICs and are there
   opportunities for improving how they
   are selected,  implemented, monitored,
   and enforced7

•  Engineering controls/remedies - Are
   there problems with engineering
   controls and opportunities for re-
   evaluating them and the physical
   remedies to reflect changing  science
   and technology, improve performance,
   and optimize  operation and
   maintenance  without minimizing
   human health and environmental
   protection

•  Life-cycle costs-Are there  effective
   methods for determining the  costs of
   LTS activities and are cleanup programs
   consistently applying them when
   making cleanup decisions7

•  Resources and funding mechamsms-
   Are there adequate resources to
   effectively  carry out LTS activities and
   are there mechanisms to ensure
   funding is sustained over time7

The purpose of this report is to present
particular challenges and opportunities for
improvement identified  by the Task  Force
and to make recommendations that EPA
and its State, Tribal, and local partners
should consider in addressing them  This
report represents the first effort by the
Task Force to identify and address the
challenges that EPA's cleanup  programs are
facing As the  state of LTS evolves across
the different cleanup programs, new or
different issues may emerge that may
result in additional recommendations
Similarly, as the Task Force and EPA's
cleanup programs continue to address the
many issues inherent in LTS, lessons
learned and new  solutions may be
identified and shared with other  programs
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The remainder of the report provides the         currently doing to address it, and the
background or context of LTS (including a         specific ITS challenges and
definition and explanation of its                 recommendations of the Task Force
importance),  what EPA and others are
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   What  is  Long-Term  Stewardship?
The Task Force established the following
definition of ITS

   Long-term stewardship applies to sites
   where long-term management of
   contaminated environmental media is
   necessary to protect human health and the
   environment  Long term stewardship
   generally includes the establishment and
   maintenance of physical and legal
   controls, implementation entities,
   authorities, accountability mechanisms,
   information and data management
   systems, and resources that are necessary
   to ensure that these sites remain
   protective of human health and the
   environment '
ITS activities typically center on physical and
legal controls to prevent inappropriate
exposure to contamination left in place at a
site  Physical or "engineered" controls are the
engineered physical barriers or structures
designed to monitor and prevent or limit
exposure to the contamination  Certain
engineered cleanups will involve ongoing O&M,
monitoring, evaluation, periodic repairs, and
sometimes replacement of remedy
components  Legal or "institutional" controls
are non-engineered instruments, such as
administrative and/or legal controls intended
to minimize the potential for human exposure
to contamination by limiting land or resource
use  Institutional controls may be used to
supplement engineering controls and also must
be operated, monitored, and evaluated for
effectiveness as long as the risks at a site are
present Informational devices, such as signs,
state registries and deed notices, are
commonly used informational, non-
enforceable tools.
   Examples of Engineering Controls
      Landfill soil caps
      Impermeable liners
      Other containment covers
      Underground slurry walls
      Fences
      Bioremediation
      Groundwater pump and treat and
      monitoring systems
   Examples of Institutional Controls
      Zoning
      Notices and warnings
      Easements
      Restrictive covenants
      Other land or resource use restrictions
      Permits/Governmental Controls
      Administrative Orders
   1 This definition should not in any way infringe
   upon or limit the authority of any party to carry
   out its responsibilities under various Federal
   and State laws
The functions of institutional controls,
engineering controls, and other tools are to
protect human health and the environment
and to preserve the integrity of the selected
remedy

LTS helps ensure the ability of people to reuse
those sites in a safe and protective manner
While reuse of a site is beneficial to the
affected community, site reuse can also help
ensure the protection of the remedy itself
For example, sites with active users can help
ensure that LTS requirements or activities are
occurring, as well as ensure that inappropriate
uses of the site are not occurring (i e ,  vacant
sites that can be targets for trespass,
vandalism, or inappropriate uses that may
damage the remedies)   In addition, because
the use or condition of a site can change over
time, it is important that LTS activities adapt
to those changes and that adjustments to LTS
activities are made

LTS typically involves numerous public and
private stakeholders who are responsible for
implementing, monitoring, and enforcing the

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engineering and institutional controls  These
stakeholders may include government agencies
at the Federal, State, Tribal, and local levels,
private parties who either own the land or
otherwise have an interest in the property,
communities and local groups living near or
affected  by the site,  as well as a potential range
of other parties, such as land developers,
financial institutions, insurance companies, and
land or other third party trusts  Each
stakeholder involved  at a site plays a particular
role and has certain responsibilities for carrying
out stewardship activities

Even though the various cleanup programs have
different authorities and  mechanisms for
addressing LTS, there are common elements
inherent to all LTS efforts  As part of its
research,  the Task Force  has compiled a set of
themes/ideas that may be of interest to other
LTS programs (see Appendix A)
Because the authorities and responsibilities for
carrying out these activities vary across the
different cleanup programs, each program may
approach LTS differently and face different
types of issues  For example

    •  Under the Superfund program, LTS
       activities are performed as part of the
       operation and maintenance (O&M) of a
       remedy  Responsibility for O&M is
       contingent upon whether  the cleanup
       was conducted by a potentially
       responsible  party (PRP), including
       Federal facilities, or whether EPA
       funded the cleanup  For PRP-lead
       remedies, the PRP continues to operate
       and maintain the remedy  during O&M,
       and EPA provides oversight to ensure
       that it is being performed adequately
       At federal facilities, LTS may be
       transferred  to another entity,  such as
       another Federal agency, State, or
       Tribe  For fund-financed  remedies,
       States are required to pay for or assure
       that O&M is completed, EPA can only
       fund the oversight of O&M  EPA retains
       responsibility for determining when
O&M is complete and for conducting a
review and evaluation of the remedy at
least every five years  For fund-lead,
long-term response actions involving
treatment or other measures to restore
groundwater or surface-water quality,
EPA funds the operation of those
activities for a period up to ten years
after the remedy becomes operational
and functional  After ten years,
responsibility for 0&M is transferred to
the State   EPA requires five-year
review at sites that cannot support
unlimited use and unrestricted
exposure  In some cases, even sites
deleted from Superfund's National
Priorities List include an LTS
component

Under the RCRA program, cleanups are
conducted in connection with the
closure of regulated units and in
facility-wide corrective action either
under a permit, imminent hazard, or
other order or agreement  While not
all facilities are subject to the post-
closure requirements—only land
disposal facilities and any facility that
cannot  clean close  are subject to the
post-closure care requirements-LTS is
particularly important at those sites
during post-closure  For instance,
information submission requirements
for post-closure permits specify a
performance monitoring program to
include, among others information
regarding protection of groundwater
monitoring data, groundwater
monitoring system design, etc  If the
institutional control is being imposed
through a RCRA corrective action
permit, remedy performance
monitoring (often long-term) is
necessary to measure progress towards
remedial goals and ensure that
remedial objectives are met, especially
when waste is  left in place and
institutional and engineering controls
are employed to guarantee the
integrity of the final remedy
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   Responsibility for overseeing corrective
   action and post-closure activities
   belong to the authorized States  EPA
   maintains responsibility for monitoring
   and enforcing corrective action and
   post-closure activities in non-
   authonzed States, on Tnbal lands,  and
   where corrective actions are carried
   out under Agency enforcement
   authority  In terms of monitoring,  all
   RCRA permits allow authorized
   representatives to inspect the facility
   upon  presentation of credentials  They
   also require the  facility to report any
   non-compliance  that may endanger
   health or the environment within 24
   hours and to maintain and report all
   records and monitoring information
   necessary for compliance

   Under the Brownfields program, EPA
   provides cleanup grants to State and
   local  governments and non-profit
   organizations to  carry out cleanup
   activities, including monitoring and
   enforcement of institutional controls
   Specifically, a local government that
   receives a grant  for site remediation
   can use up to ten percent of that grant
   to monitor and enforce any
   institutional control used to prevent
   human exposure to any hazardous
   substance from a brownfield site
   States can use grant funds to establish
   or enhance their response program,
   including O&M or long-term monitoring
   activities  However, EPA does not  have
   direct responsibility for LTS activities
   at brownfield sites and its authority to
   oversee cleanups and collect
   information is subject to the terms and
   operating period of the grant
   mechanism

   Pursuant to the Underground Storage
   Tanks (UST) program, when a release
   has been detected or discovered at a
   UST, the UST owner/operator must
   perform a corrective action to clean up
   any contamination caused by the
release from the UST  Under
cooperative agreements between EPA
and States, States are largely
responsible for overseeing corrective
actions in connection with these USTs
EPA is generally responsible for
overseeing  the corrective actions,
including LTS activities on Tribal lands
Typically, UST owners/operators
prepare a corrective action  plan that
the State reviews and modifies and/or
approves   In some cases, the
corrective action approved for a
release at a UST may not achieve
complete cleanup (i e , a risk-based
corrective action is undertaken)
Depending  on known or anticipated
risks to human health  and the
environment, appropriate action may
include site closure, monitoring and
data collection, active or passive
remediation, or institutional controls
In these cases, residual contamination
may remain m the environment and
must be monitored and/or contained to
prevent further migration of the
contamination

Under EPA's Removal program, it is
estimated that over 7,000 removals
have occurred Because the overarching
premise of  the removal program is
stabilization, it  is likely that on-site
contamination remains and  that LTS is
key to the proper management of these
sites
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Why is  Long-Term  Stewardship
Important?
LTS activities are critical at sites with
contamination remaining and are used by
EPA and its Federal and State partners to
ensure

•  the ongoing protection of human health
   and the environment,

•  the integrity of remedial or corrective
   actions so they continue to operate
   properly, and

•  the ability of people to reuse sites in a
   safe and protective manner

With several decades of experience, EPA
and State cleanup programs have evolved
and matured to a point where LTS is an
ever increasing portion of their
responsibilities  The nation's cleanup
programs have cleaned up thousands of
sites  Many of these sites have on-site
contamination that requires
implementation, monitoring, and
enforcement of engineering and
institutional controls

LTS of contaminated sites also takes on
greater importance with the increased
demand for cleaned-up properties for
beneficial reuse The success of the
Brownfields program in responding to-and
even bolstering—market demand for
properties with known or suspected
contamination has led to increased  demand
for contaminated properties that are
cleaned up under the other EPA programs
(e g  , Superfund, Base Realignment and
Closure)  The demand and use of such
sites includes those properties where some
contamination is controlled on site and LTS
activities are needed to ensure the
continued protection of those land uses  In
fact, the Superfund program estimates that
approximately 80% of its sites entering the
construction completion universe will
require LTS  The BRAC program similarly
anticipates requiring LTS at an increasing
number of sites, while almost 400,000
acres have been transferred and put back
into use by others, only 30% is estimated to
be uncontammated

Site reuse and the implementation of
appropriate and effective LTS activities
(e g , institutional controls) are
complementary  When people look to
reuse sites, it prompts a close look at the
status of the site and  its remedy, including
LTS  This examination usually includes
local governments, who may be one of the
principal entities for tracking, maintaining,
and enforcing institutional controls The
people responsible for these controls want
to make sure they remain protective during
future use and future users want to make
sure that their activities are appropriate
and do not cause future problems  Thus,
all parties want to ensure continued
implementation of appropriate and
effective LTS

The importance of LTS has never been
greater with the maturation of EPA, other
Federal agency, and State cleanup
programs, the increasing number of sites
requiring ongoing monitoring and
maintenance, and the emphasis on reusing
sites following cleanup
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What  Are  EPA  and  Others  Doing
about Long-Term  Stewardship?
The Task Force recognizes that a
significant amount of work has previously
been undertaken within individual EPA
programs, other Federal departments and
agencies, States and State organizations,
and non-govern mental organizations  The
following provides a few highlights of these
efforts, and Appendix B provides a more
detailed description of  the studies that
have been prepared and the initiatives
underway

   Interagency Efforts

EPA has entered into a  Memorandum of
Understanding (MOD) on long-term
stewardship of Federal  facilities with the
Department of Energy (DOE), Department
of Defense (DoD), Department of Interior
(DOI), and the Environmental Council of
States (ECOS)  The MOU provides a
common understanding and agreement,
and basis for discussion and coordination,
among relevant Federal agencies and
ECOS  The MOU provides a definition of
ITS, a set of guiding principles, and the
key elements or components of LTS

The Environmental Financial Advisory
Board, a Federal  advisory committee
composed of public and private entities
that provides advice to EPA, is currently
working with EPA and The Association of
State and Territorial Solid Waste
Management Officials (ASTSWMO) to
address the issue of the reliability of
financial assurance for  environmental
stewardship of contaminated properties
The results of this effort will be
documented in a  report that should
supplement and educate the work of the
LTS Task Force
   EPA Activities

EPA's cleanup programs have been
addressing LTS for many years and are
increasingly addressing such matters
through new strategies, initiatives,
guidance, and pilot projects  Highlights of
several key efforts include

•  The Superfund program has developed
   a "National Strategy to Manage Post-
   Construction Completion at Superfund
   Sites," which provides a framework of
   initiatives to provide greater assurance
   that Superfund remedies remain
   protective over the long-term This
   strategy will help EPA focus efforts
   during the next five years on activities
   to ensure human health and the
   environment are protected at
   Superfund sites after construction is
   complete

•  The Superfund program has established
   a strategy for identifying, tracking, and
   evaluating institutional control
   effectiveness, developing an 1C tracking
   system, engaging other government and
   non-government organizations on
   institutional control data collection
   standards and systems, issuing cross-
   program  guidance on the full life-cycle
   of institutional controls,  and piloting
   one-call systems and other public-
   private partnership efforts

•  In 2000,  the Superfund program began
   an initiative to optimize Superfund-
   fmanced  ground water pump & treat
   (P&T) systems, which continues today
   Optimization is intended to encourage
   systematic review and modification to
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   continuous improvement and enhance
   overall remedy and cost effectiveness
   Optimization also plays a key role in
   ensuring smooth transfer of P&T
   remedies to States  In addition, the
   Interstate Technology and Regulatory
   Council has a Remediation Process
   Optimization Team that is developing
   various fact sheets and training
   modules on optimization

   The RCRA base program includes
   regulations that establish the post-
   closure permit and post-closure care
   requirements and has published
   guidance on completion of corrective
   actions,  including provisions for
   corrective  action complete with
   controls, when long-term stewardship
   is required  In addition, both OSW and
   OSRE are presently collaborating on a
   joint memorandum addressed to the
   RCRA Regional Divisional Directors and
   Enforcement Managers titled "Ensuring
   Effective and Reliable ICs at RCRA
   Facilities"  that includes advice on ITS
   issues and  presents key considerations
   on their  implementation

   The RCRA 1C tracking component of
   RCRAInfo asks for information from the
   regulated community to allow the
   Agency to keep track of sites with
   institutional and engineering controls in
   place  It provides dates when
   institutional and engineering controls
   are either projected to be or are
   actually  fully implemented

   The U5T program is currently
   developing a system for tracking
   institutional controls at sites for which
   they have oversight—those on tribal
   lands

   The Brownfields Program is providing
   contractor support to ICMA to continue
   to enhance the LUC5 org web site to
   serve as  a reference site for all
   information on institutional controls
   related issues, including State
   regulations, model laws, professional
   papers written on the issue, and other
   information related to the
   implementation and enforcement of
   institutional controls

•  The Brownfields Program collects
   institutional control information about
   certain brownfields sites in the
   Brownfields Property Profile Form,
   which are completed by cleanup and
   revolving loan fund  grantees  The
   grantee indicates if an institutional
   control was required and if so the
   grantee must identify the type of
   institutional control This information
   is available through Brownfields
   Envirofacts

   Other Federal Agency Activities

DoD and DOE have extensive experience
addressing ITS issues at their cleaned-up
sites  While they may face unique  issues
with respect to the cleanup of their sites,
both DOE's and DoD's efforts have broad
applicability to other contamination sites
requiring post-cleanup care  Several
noteworthy reports and initiatives are
summarized below Others are noted in the
appendix at the back

•  DOE prepared a comprehensive study
   on LTS in 2001 to identify
   programmatic and cross-cutting issues
   and information that DOE should
   consider while implementing its LTS
   activities

•  DOE established policy to guide DOE
   decisions related to planning,
   maintenance, and implementation of
   ICs when such controls are  used at DOE
   sites or utilized under a statutory
   program, and published a Long-Term
   Stewardship Planning Guidance for
   Closure Sites to provide a framework
   for planning LTS activities at DOE
   facilities
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•  DDE/Idaho National Engineering and
   Environmental Laboratory (INEL)
   developed an LTS national science and
   technology roadmap program to
   provide the context for making LTS
   R&D investment decisions and guide
   national research priorities for LTS

•  DoD developed  policy and guidance on
   implementing, documenting, and
   managing land use controls associated
   with environmental restoration
   activities

•  US  Navy developed a "point in time"
   land use control information system
   known as LUCIS, which is a Geographic
   Information System (GlS)-based
   database that houses environmental
   baseline surveys, CIS displays, site
   maps, deeds, and LUC summaries

   States and State Organizations

Highlights of several key State efforts to
address LTS issues include

•  ECOS established a Long-Term
   Stewardship Subcommittee and  is
   promoting an mteragency dialogue to
   improve consideration of LTS in the
   remediation process

•  National Association of Attorneys
   General (NAAG) is working on a  State-
   by-State analysis of statutory and
   common law in  each of the States,
   designed to evaluate whether existing
   mechanisms could be used to impose
   effective and enforceable institutional
   controls

•  The National Governors' Association's
   LTS Committee is conducting a study
   {drawing on NAAG research)  on  Federal
   and State statutory issues and LTS that
   will examine, among other issues, the
   adequacy of existing mechanisms for
   institutional controls, and the
   applicability of State 1C laws to Federal
   agencies

•  ASTSWMO has published several key
   documents, including a white paper on
   the future direction of institutional
   controls and LTS and a survey of State
   institutional control mechanisms

   Non-governmental Organizations

Several noteworthy initiatives and studies
by non-governmental organizations
include

•  The National Conference of
   Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
   (NCCUSL) has prepared and is actively
   supporting the Uniform Environmental
   Covenants Act, model legislation for
   States to adopt to  remove legal barriers
   to implementing institutional controls

•  Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and
   Energy Communities Alliance (ECA),
   prepared a joint study on the practical
   implementation of LTS

•  Resources for the Future has addressed
   LTS issues including, among other
   studies, preparing  a paper on the
   mechanisms for financing and oversight
   of long-term stewardship, with an
   emphasis on trust funds

   Private Sector

The private sector is increasingly playing a
role in several aspects of LTS  For
example, insurance companies and others
in the risk management field are
developing products and services that
provide the financial mechanisms and
address the liability concerns for those
with LTS  responsibilities at sites  Private
firms are also engaging landowners and
regulatory agencies, through  several pilot
projects, to establish not-for-profit trust
mechanisms that assume a direct property
interest in remediated sites and take over
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all LTS responsibilities for those sites,
including inspections, operation and
maintenance, monitoring, and tracking
implementation of institutional controls
Companies are also developing new or
improved methods of monitoring sites with
residual contamination and detecting
possible breaches of engineering or
institutional controls
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 Challenges and  Recommendations
The following presents a summary of the LTS
challenges, and recommendations for
addressing those challenges that the Task
Force identified and EPA's cleanup programs
should consider  Where appropriate, potential
recommendations for LTS implementation and
issues/concerns were identified and called out
in the report by the Task Force  In addition,
the Task Force recognizes that EPA's cleanup
programs operate under different authorities,
may approach the cleanup and stewardship of
sites differently, or may already be addressing
the identified challenge  For this reason,
certain challenges or recommendations may
not apply to every cleanup  program
Challenge: Ensuring that Stakeholder
Roles and Responsibilities Are Clearly
Understood

Although EPA cleanup programs frequently
select remedies that rely on LTS activities,
including ICs, the responsibility for
implementation, monitoring, and enforcement
is often  under the jurisdiction of other levels
of government and private parties  As such,
there are a variety of public and private
stakeholders that may be involved in selecting,
implementing,  monitoring, and  enforcing LTS
activities at a site  Each stakeholder has
specific  responsibilities for carrying out those
activities  To be effective, each stakeholder
needs to have a clear understanding of its
current  and future responsibilities, as well as
those of any other stakeholder  The roles and
responsibilities need to be clearly articulated
and accepted by all parties and well
documented through legal and other means
Also, involved parties need to be able to adapt
to changing site and site management
conditions  Appropriate mechanisms are
necessary to ensure continued performance of
these responsibilities, especially with the
          ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  Problem  Cleanup programs do not always clearly
  convey the appropriate LTS roles and
  responsibilities.
  Goal  Ensure stakeholder LTS roles and
  responsibilities are clearly communicated and
  understood
  Recommendations.
  • EPA should continue to review its decision
  documents, agreements, and other tools as
  appropriate, to ensure site-specific LTS roles and
  responsibilities are clearly delineated
  • EPA should continue to develop guidance
  addressing LTS implementation and assurance across
  its cleanup programs, as appropriate
  • EPA , State, and Tribal cleanup programs and
  other Federal agencies should invest more time
  working with and building stronger relationships
  with local governments, and conduct more training
  and outreach to help them better define and
  understand their potential specific LTS roles and
  responsibilities
  •  EPA should partner with other Federal agencies
  and State, Tnbal, and local government
  organizations to sponsor one or more "summits" in
  which representatives from Federal, State, Tnbal
  and local agencies can share their perspectives and
  insights on LTS
potential for change of stakeholders and site
conditions over time

The Task Force considered the following as
potential LTS challenges and opportunities for
improvement

•  Federal, State, Tribal, and local
   governments are not always clear on, or do
   not often specify, the appropriate roles
   and responsibilities for implementing and
   overseeing LT5 activities

          States often claim that land use
          controls and other types of
          institutional controls-a key
          element of LTS-are typically the
          responsibility of local governments
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       Local government officials often
       maintain that either the State or
       EPA has responsibility for assuring
       the protection at sites

       The transfer of sites between
       Federal agencies can also create
       questions of roles, responsibilities,
       resources, etc

       Local governments are not clearly
       assigned a role or responsibility
       under several statutes and
       regulations governing waste cleanup
       and management

       Local governments are typically not
       a party to the formal agreements
       that govern cleanup at waste sites

       Local government activities to
       support the LTS of sites (e g ,
       zoning and permitting) are typically
       not designed with environmental
       protection as an objective

       State or local governments may not
       always agree with the cleanup
       action selected for a site, yet may
       be responsible for either
       implementing or monitoring and
       enforcing LTS activities

       Sites located on Tribal lands
       present unique issues in
       determining the roles and
       responsibilities of EPA, States,  and
       Tribes

   At some sites, ft may not always be
   clear who has the responsibility or the
   ability and resources to effectively
   implement, monitor, and enforce LTS
   activities

       Decision documents and agreements
       do not always delineate
       responsibilities for specific LTS
       activities
   The LTS activities, such as
   institutional controls, may only be
   identified generally in a decision
   document and the responsibility for
   their implementation and oversight
   left vague or based on assumptions

   Mechanisms that ensure the
   transfer of information on roles and
   responsibilities to other
   stakeholders over time need to be
   evaluated and developed

   There is a need to ensure  that legal
   or other agreements specify the
   responsibilities of parties beyond
   the expiration or performance dates
   of key documents as reasonable

At many sites, the responsibility for
LTS falls to PRPs, however, there are
circumstances in which the roles and
responsibilities of PRPs are ambiguous

   PRPs are not always fulfilling their
   LTS responsibilities, particularly
   when planning and designing the
   remedy and its LTS needs

   It is not always clear what the
   responsibilities are for PRPs in the
   long-term, especially if the PRP
   goes out of business

   It is important to clarify the roles
   and responsibilities of PRPs that are
   small companies with limited
   resources

   It is unclear what the roles and
   responsibilities are of operators of
   facilities when they are not the
   facility owner (e g , gas station
   operators)   In RCRA corrective
   actions, owners and operators
   commonly share responsibility for
   cleanups

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       PRPs need to ensure that other
       stakeholders involved in the
       implementation of LT5  (e g ,
       insurance companies or third party
       trusts established by the PRP)
       understand and fulfill their
       responsibilities

      Almost all States are authorized for
       RCRA closure and  corrective action
       cleanups, so States typically have a
       responsibility in the selection,
       implementation, monitoring, and
       enforcement of institutional and
       engineering controls

   Future users can play an important
   role in the LTS of sites, but in order to
   do so effectively, need to be involved
   early and often in discussions with key
   players

       Future  users may take over certain
       0&M requirements, such as mowing
       or fence repair

      Future users should know any
       limitation associated with the
       property to ensure there is no
       unintentional damage done to the
       remedy

      Future users can discourage illegal
       activities that may damage
       remedies, such as all terrain vehicle
       racing on a cap

      Future users can help enforce
       institutional controls, or alert the
       appropriate authorities if there has
       been a  breach  This may be
       especially useful if the  regulatory
       agency is not expected  to visit the
       facility on  a regular basis
Recommendation #1  EPA should
continue to review its decision documents,
agreements, and other tools as
appropriate, to ensure that site-specific
LTS roles and responsibilities are clearly
delineated

Decision documents and legal agreements
(e g , consent orders, permits, grants, and
contracts) are often the tools that are used
to communicate LTS responsibilities at
specific cleanup sites   In some cases, such
as a RCRA permit, provisions specifying the
LTS responsibilities may be clear and
unambiguous  In other cases, a decision
document may not provide specific LTS
requirements or a clear delineation of who
has responsibility for each LTS component

To ensure that there is no ambiguity as to
the site-specific roles and responsibilities
of different stakeholders for implementing,
monitoring, and enforcing LTS, the cleanup
programs should consider reviewing
existing decision documents, legal
agreements, contract or grant provisions,
or other tools used to specify LTS
responsibilities   This review needs to
identify specific documents used to
establish  LTS responsibilities and ensure
that specific LTS responsibilities are clearly
identified  At a minimum, such documents
may require that information be included
on who specifically or what private party
or organization, or specific branch of
government, is  responsible for each LTS
activity needed, where they are to carry
out those responsibilities, and how often
and for how long they must do so  Where
third parties are expected to fulfill certain
LTS responsibilities (e g , a holder of an
easement,  a trust organization), or where
implementation depends on the actions of
those not a party to an agreement or
settlement (e g , a local government),
provisions should be included that identify
their responsibilities and  those of the
entity who will oversee and ensure that the
LTS activities are being properly earned
out  It is important to note that individual
programs will need to develop strategies to
address deficiencies in roles and
responsibilities that are identified in the
review of its documents
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To provide greater flexibility during the
cleanup process by ensuring that up to-
date information is available on the
operational aspects of a remedy, programs
should consider providing greater detail on
specific roles and responsibilities during
the design phase of the cleanup  In an
upcoming guidance on institutional
controls, the Agency asks that an
Institutional Controls Implementation Plan
(ICIP) be developed prior to, or at the
same time, as the design for the physical
remedy  The use of an Implementation
and Assurance (I&A) Plan for ITS
initiatives, together with inclusion of an
ICIP as part of the decision documents or
agreements  (see Recommendation #2)
could be the tools used to document full
site-specific LTS responsibilities, or
establish a process for doing so during the
design phase

Recommendation #2   EPA should
continue to develop guidance addressing
LTS implementation and assurance across
its cleanup programs, as appropriate

To ensure that adequate guidance is
available to EPA and State staff and other
stakeholders with LTS responsibilities, the
Agency should consider developing
guidance on LTS implementation and
assurance  Such guidance could establish
the expectations and provide the
guidelines for ensuring the specific
responsibilities, mechanisms, and
frequency for implementing, monitoring,
and enforcing LTS activities are clearly
identified and assigned at individual sites,
across multiple sites, or program-wide
The guidance should be  developed
according to the programmatic context of
each cleanup program and tailored to
complement existing policies, processes,
tools, and guidance  For example, cleanup
programs may rely on a  variety of
documents and tools that serve the
purpose of clarifying roles and
responsibilities at sites, including cleanup
decision documents, model agreements,
0£tM plans, and institutional control
implementation plans   New guidance on
implementation and assurance would
recognize these existing tools and
incorporate them into an overall strategy
or approach for ensuring that
responsibilities are clear and unambiguous,
and that assurance and accountability
mechanisms are integrated into their
implementation

As an initial effort, EPA could  identify the
core set of cross-program LTS-related
information that needs to be included in
LTS implementation and assurance
guidance regardless of cleanup program
The guidance may also provide guidelines
for developing LTS I&A plans or comparable
tools, where appropriate   I&A Plans are
tools that EPA's cleanup programs may
wish to consider adopting either on a site-
specific, multiple site, or program-wide
basis

For programs where EPA does not have
direct responsibility for LTS
implementation and assurance (e g , a
State VCP program, or a local government
grant recipient), EPA guidance could
encourage these other program
implementers to consider adopting similar
approaches and mechanisms for
delineating specific roles and
responsibilities at cleanup sites, ensuring
their implementation, and holding
accountable those responsible for LTS

Recommendation #3  EPA, State, and
Tribal cleanup programs and other Federal
agencies should invest more time working
with and building stronger relationships
with local governments, and conduct more
training and outreach to help them better
define and understand their potential
specific LTS roles/responsibilities

Local governments can, and often do, play
an important role in the implementation of
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LTS activities at a site  However, the
legal, administrative, and other tools of
local governments that EPA and others call
upon to protect people and the
environment often were not intended to
serve this purpose   Moreover,  local
governments often do not have the
necessary knowledge and expertise, nor
resources to gam such expertise, to carry
out LTS responsibilities  As a result, local
government resources (whether people or
processes) may not be adequate to fulfill
the growing LTS needs across the cleanup
programs   EPA, States and other Federal
agencies should work with local
governments-either individually at sites or
on a broader basis through such
organizations as The International
City/County Management Association
(ICMA)-to communicate LTS
responsibilities and needs, provide
guidance and training, and otherwise offer
assistance to enhance local government
capabilities  Generally, EPA and States
may consider working together to provide
training to local governments on  LTS and
on how local legal and other tools are used
at waste sites to protect remedies and
minimize possible exposure  At the site-
specific level, EPA needs to identify, if
present and available, specific
opportunities for involving local
governments in LTS  decisions, gauging
their capabilities, and taking steps to
enhance those capabilities through training
and other educational activities   EPA's
cleanup programs may consider tailoring
their outreach to local governments
according to their programmatic context
(e g , existing program authorities, or
current Federal-State-local  relationship)

Recommendation #4 (Cross-Cutting)
EPA should partner wtth other Federal
agencies and State,  Tribal, and local
government organizations to sponsor one
or more "summits"  in which
representatives from Federal,  State,
Tribal and local agencies can share their
perspectives and insights on LTS
The Task Force recognizes that various
public and private sector organizations
have undertaken a significant amount of
work to research and address LTS
challenges and opportunities  EPA sees a
distinct opportunity for LTS stakeholders to
convene one or a series of meetings to
open a dialogue on the LTS challenges
facing regulatory agencies  As LTS
challenges affect all levels of government,
a "summit" of officials representing
Federal, State, Tribal, and local
governments would  allow stakeholders to
share their insights and perspectives,
resulting in a  holistic view that is needed
to better understand and address the
issues involving LTS   Such a summit could
address the challenges posed in this report
—either individually or in a cross-cutting
manner-as well as other challenges that
may be considered a priority by other
stakeholders   Participants in the summit
could address whether and how best to
involve non-governmental and private
stakeholders to share their perspectives
and approaches that may help government
agencies improve their LTS responsibilities

Potential partner organizations identified
by the Task Force include ECOS, ASTSWMO,
ICMA, and the Energy Communities Alliance
(EGA)
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Challenge: Ensuring that LTS
Information Is Managed and Shared
Effectively

Without effective information
management, it is difficult for stakeholders
to understand and implement their LTS
responsibilities  effectively  Information is
best managed and coordinated across
different levels of government, and should
be widely distributed and accessible to all
stakeholders, including the public, to
communicate risks and safeguards,  support
accountability mechanisms, and augment
institutional memory  The Task Force
identified the following as potential areas
for concern

•  There may be a need to improve data
   sharing among stakeholders at sites
   requiring LTS

       For many cleanup  programs, LTS
       information may not be collected
       and managed systematically and
       provided to stakeholders in a timely
       or meaningful way

       EPA and States have expressed
       difficulty in obtaining local
       information about the
       implementation of LTS activities

       Local governments and communities
       have  difficulty obtaining
       information from State and Federal
       regulators on the status and
       effectiveness of LTS activities

       The need to communicate
       information to potential developers
       is increasingly critical to ensure the
       integrity of remedies and the
       protection of workers and nearby
       residents  EPA's Superfund and
       RCRA programs are in the process of
       making site information available to
       the public through the Internet's
      INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Problem4 LTS information is not always
easily and fully shared among relevant
stakeholders
Goal  Ensure that LTS information is
managed and shared effectively
Recommendations
 •  EPA should continue to facilitate the
maintenance  and exchange of LTS
information through existing grants and
other resources, and by establishing and
promoting data standards (e.g , data
element registries and XML schema and
tags)
• EPA should continue to support the
development  of mechanisms for sharing
information to prevent breaches of
institutional and engineering controls
       "Cleanups In My Community" (CIMC)
       Web site

       It is difficult for regulatory agencies
       to evaluate the effectiveness of LTS
       programs

    Current data management systems to
    support the maintenance, monitoring,
    and enforcement of LTS responsibilities
    are limited

       While information management
       systems to track and communicate
       information on LTS activities have
       been established,  data are not
       stored and communicated in a
       common way

       It is unclear if and how a central
       information management system for
       LTS should be developed, and who
       should be responsible for
       maintaining it

       A central and coordinated
       information management system
       would require extensive resources
       to develop and maintain

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       Electronically stored records will
       need to remain accessible over time
       even as information management
       technologies change

       Some Federal, State, Tribal, and
       local governments may not have
       adequate resources to develop,
       maintain, or support a system,
       especially now when their operating
       budgets are being reduced

       Local government involvement is
       critical to ensure data is current
       and accurate-yet their resources to
       exchange data may be limited

       To be most effective, information
       management systems (and those
       who develop and maintain them)
       need to use a universal set of terms
       and definitions

   Certain private sector organizations
   are developing systems that support
   the tracking of information on
   institutional and other LTS activities

       Market-based monitoring and
       information tracking services are
       being developed independently by
       the private sector  For example,
       Terradex Corporation's information
       tracking system allows it to offer
       proactive notification services
       when a potentially inappropriate
       land use is identified, because it
       may violate an 1C or an EC

   Other Federal agencies are developing
   innovative methods to preserve
   information For example, DOE is
   building monuments and museums at
   some sites helping  to maintain or
   create a "community memory" that
   wilt continue across generations
Recommendation #5  EPA should
continue to facilitate the maintenance and
                                              exchange of LTS information through
                                              existing grants and other resources, and by
                                              establishing and promoting data standards
                                              (e g , data element registries and XML
                                              schema and tags)

                                              Information management is central to
                                              properly communicating the
                                              responsibilities and environmental issues
                                              that exist when a site enters the world of
                                              LTS  EPA could consider continuing to fund
                                              the development of State and local
                                              information systems that track LTS data
                                              through such funding vehicles as the
                                              Brownfields program section 128(a) and
                                              OEI's grants  In addition, while there may
                                              be  difficulties in creating a central
                                              database of LTS information, the sharing of
                                              LTS data must continue to grow beyond its
                                              current partners and scope  EPA plans to
                                              continue its work on the development of a
                                              common LTS "language "  Using a common
                                              set of LTS terms and data names allows
                                              regulators, developers, prospective
                                              purchasers and the general public to
                                              exchange necessary site information  Data
                                              registries can be used to align and store
                                              this IC/EC/LTS terminology and thereby
                                              facilitate the exchange and communication
                                              of data

                                              It is worth noting that although it makes
                                              sense to have a common data standard,
                                              the States may already be comfortable
                                              with their own data standards, and may
                                              not want to change to  an EPA-designed set
                                              of data standards, especially if it costs
                                              them to implement

                                              Recommendation #6 EPA should
                                              continue to support the development of
                                              mechanisms for sharing information to
                                              prevent breaches of institutional and
                                              engineering controls

                                              EPA for example is currently supporting
                                              one-call pilots in  Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
                                              California, and New York  These pilots are
                                              based on the "Miss Utility" model of a free
                                              "one call  information exchange center for
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excavators, contractors and property
owners planning any kind of excavation or
digging   Several questions concerning the
pilots still need to be answered including
scope of activities to be carried out by the
one-call systems, required timing of calls
(proactive site planning vs day of the dig),
and resource needs to modify the one-call
system to include LTS data
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Challenge   Understanding and
Considering the Full, Life-cycle Costs
of Long-Term Stewardship When
Making Cleanup Decisions

The cost of LTS activities should be a key
factor when making cleanup decisions
Risk-based approaches relying on LTS
activities may appear as less expensive
alternatives  However, leaving waste
onsite may require long-term management
for years,  decades, or possibly even longer
Costs  associated with the LTS at these sites
include  implementing and maintaining
institutional and engineering controls,
oversight and enforcement by
governmental or other entities, and other
monitoring and administrative activities
These costs should be calculated and fully
considered when making remedial
decisions at a site  It is also important to
note the LTS costs to non-governmental
entities such as PRPs and future users

The Task Force identified the following as
potential areas for concern

•  A  consistent and reliable method for
   defining and estimating full life-cycle
   costs for LTS is needed to inform
   remedial or corrective action decision
   making

      There does not appear to be  a
      systematic method for,  or guidance
      to support, calculating the costs of
      institutional controls and other
      implementation, monitoring, and
      maintenance activities

      Site managers across the cleanup
      programs may be using different
      approaches to calculate estimated
      costs—some may employ standard
      engineering cost analysis while
      others may factor in discounting,
      opportunity costs, and costs of
      remedy failure
              LTS Costs
Problem* Accurate estimates of ITS costs
may not always be developed or available.
Goal  To ensure that the full, life-cycle
costs of LTS are understood and considered
when making cleanup decisions and
planning LTS implementation
Recommendation
•  EPA should evaluate current LTS costing
guidance and, if appropnate, either revise
it or develop new guidance to improve the
Agency's ability to produce more consistent
and reliable cost estimates As appropnate,
EPA should draw on existing governmental
and non-governmental studies and
information for estimating LTS costs.
  Accurate estimates of LTS may not
  always be developed and considered
  when evaluating the options for
  remedial or corrective actions

     At some sites, estimates of LTS
     costs rely on standard assumptions
     about ICs and other long-term
     management approaches

     LTS cost estimates are not always
     developed consistently across sites

  •  Accurate cost estimates are
     important to LTS implementers as
     they try to fully understand
     resource responsibilities
  Recommendation #7  EPA should
  evaluate current LTS costing guidance
  and, if appropriate, either revise it or
  develop new guidance to improve the
  Agency's ability to produce more
  consistent and reliable cost estimates
  As appropriate, EPA should draw on
  existing governmental and non-
  governmental studies and information
  for estimating LTS costs
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   While the Task Force is aware that
   costing guidance exists, this guidance is
   often not effective for developing
   accurate or reliable estimates of ITS
   Because costing guidance has been
   developed across multiple program
   areas, EPA should undertake an
   evaluation of current costing guidance
   to better tie together the elements of
   costing and to identify possible  gaps
   and inconsistencies  Specifically, EPA
   needs to gam a better understanding of
   such issues as the role  of discounting in
   developing cost estimates, as well as
   the use of net present  value-both
   areas have proved problematic  in the
   past and make  development of
   accurate long-term costs difficult to
   calculate  EPA may also explore
   working with other stakeholders to
   improve the guidance in these and
   other areas Task Force members
   suggested several possible sources of
   information that may help in
   understanding ITS costs, including  the
   State RCRA programs' annual
   corrective-action LTS costs, if
   available,  the work done by Resources
   for the Future regarding discounting,
   and ICAAA's expertise on costing ICs at
   the local  level
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Challenge.  Ensuring the Effective
Implementation of Institutional
Controls

Effective implementation of ITS activities
should

    Ensure that the institutional controls at
    a site remain in effect for as long as
    the contamination remaining poses a
    risk to human health and the
    environment

    Ensure that the restrictions on the land
    or resources are effectively
    communicated to  anyone who may
    come into contact with the  site

    Allow for re-evaluation of LTS needs to
    determine effectiveness and need for
    changes

    Enhance the overall protectiveness of
    institutional controls by using them in
    layers and/or in series

The Task Force considered the following as
potential LTS challenges and opportunities
for improvement

•   EPA's cleanup programs increasingly
    rely on State and  local governments to
    implement, monitor, and/or enforce
    ICs

•   Current property law is often
    inadequate to ensure the continuity
    and enforcement of institutional
    controls

       Institutional controls are effective
       tools for land use restrictions and
       requirements only if their legal
       status under State property law and
       their enforceability are assured
         Institutional Controls
Problem  Cleanup programs increasingly
rely on ICs and current property law is often
inadequate to ensure continuity and
enforcement
Goal  To ensure that ICs are effectively
implemented and evaluated to protect
remedies  and avoid inappropriate exposure
Recommendations
• EPA should develop mechanisms and
criteria across its cleanup programs for
evaluating the effectiveness of ICs at sites
• EPA should support the development of
an analysis of ICs to determine the reliance
on {and burden to) State, Tnbal, and local
governments
• To enhance the availability and reliability
of ICs, EPA should encourage States to
review the Uniform Environmental
Covenants Act or similar legal provisions for
potential  State applicability
     Archaic common law doctrine and
     other State property laws (such as
     tax lien foreclosure, adverse
     termination, and marketable title
     statutes) often work against long-
     term institutional controls,
     undermining their effectiveness and
     compromising the ability of
     government agencies to maintain
     and enforce them

     Current common property law can
     limit the long-term effectiveness of
     certain institutional controls
     because they attach those
     institutional controls to property
     ownership rather than to the
     property itself  Thus,  while
     property is transferred from one
     party to another, the control may
     fail to transfer with it

     Current State property laws often
     result in inconsistent application  of
     institutional controls across sites
     and present regulatory agencies
     with a significant burden for
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       frequent and ongoing monitoring
       and enforcement

•  Cleanup programs generally do not
   have specj/ic processes or performance
   standards in place to evaluate the
   effectiveness of jnstjtutional controls

       There are existing processes for
       evaluating whether ICs have been
       implemented (e g , Superfund has
       five-year reviews, RCRA uses its
       tracking system), however, they
       generally do not address whether
       they are effective or implemented
       correctly

       There may be opportunities to
       reduce the time and resources
       needed to implement institutional
       controls through an effective
       institutional controls evaluation
       process (i e ,  institutional control
       optimization)

Recommendation #8  EPA  should
develop mechanisms and criteria across its
cleanup programs for evaluating the
effectiveness of ICs at sites

EPA and State programs need  to ensure
that the effectiveness of ITS, and
institutional controls in particular, are
periodically evaluated  Such an evaluation
needs to go beyond simply determining
whether an institutional control has  been
implemented, but rather whether the
institutional controls are being
implemented effectively and accomplish
what they were intended to do   In other
words, the evaluation should focus on
determining whether the right information
is being communicated to the right people
at the right time

Each cleanup program is encouraged to
explore mechanisms for integrating the
evaluation  of institutional control
effectiveness into their existing program
operations   Likewise, to evaluate the
effectiveness of institutional controls, it is
necessary to know what to evaluate and
what questions to ask, for example, not
just that an easement or covenant was
recorded, but whether it was recorded
properly given the local laws and
processes Thus, a set of criteria or similar
device would assist programs in evaluating
the effectiveness of institutional controls
at both the site-specific level, as well as
for an entire program  The Superfund
program is developing a standard set of
questions for evaluating the performance
of institutional controls  The Superfund
program is encouraged to continue  its
development of institutional control
evaluation questions, and to share them
with other EPA, State, and Tribal cleanup
programs  The objective  is to ensure that
cleanup programs have the proper
mechanisms and tools available to
determine whether or not institutional
control implementation is effective or
whether additional steps are needed to
ensure their effectiveness  Such
evaluations should occur more frequently
than every five years, as many  things can
change with respect to whether and how
institutional controls are being
implemented at a site

Recommendation #9  EPA should
support the development an analysis of ICs
to determine the reliance on (and burden
to) State, Tribal, and local governments

Because many cleanups involve managing
wastes on site, restrictions on the use of
the site are necessary  Often,  EPA  must
rely on State, Tribal and local government
laws and processes to provide the
necessary restrictions, and on those
government agencies to monitor
restrictions to ensure that they are being
implemented properly  This reliance on
State, Tribal and local governments
appears to be resulting in a significant
burden that is only increasing as more sites
enter the post-cleanup stage  EPA  should
analyze the extent to which its cleanup
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programs rely on State and local
governments to implement, monitor, and
enforce institutional controls and the
extent to which these stakeholders are
incurring a burden that may affect their
ability to ensure the effectiveness of
institutional controls  Such an evaluation
should be conducted in concert with, and
inform decisions related to, the
recommendations provided under the
funding and resource challenge below

Recommendation #10  To enhance the
availability and reliability of ICs, EPA
should encourage States to review and
consider the Uniform Environmental
Covenants Act or similar /ego/ provisions
for potential State applicability

To address some of the shortcomings of
State and local property laws with respect
to institutional control implementation and
enforcement, the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Law
(NCCUSL) promulgated in 2003 the Uniform
Environmental Covenants Act (UECA)
NCCUSL is made up of lawyers chosen by
the States and oversees the preparation of
proposed uniform  laws, which the States
are encouraged  to adopt  UECA is
intended to provide a uniform set of
provisions that States could  adopt to
overcome the inadequate common law
rules affecting land use controls  it
provides clear rules for a  perpetual real
estate interest—an environmental
covenant—to regulate  the use of
contaminated properties when real estate
is transferred from one owner to another
By ensuring that institutional controls are
maintained and enforced, UECA would help
to fulfill the dual  purposes of such
restrictions—the protection of human
health and the economically viable reuse
of the property in question

It is advisable that EPA should support the
concepts or tenants of UECA or similar laws
that address the problems associated with
various archaic property law that govern in
numerous States  In supporting such
provisions that establish a legal basis for
environmental covenants or their
equivalent, EPA and States may be able to
better select, implement, monitor, and
enforce land use restrictions, resulting in
more  protective and cost effective
remedies  Support of legal provisions
comparable to UECA should come in the
form of senior management statements of
support (written  or during presentations),
dialogue with organizations representing
States (e g , ASTSWMO), Regional-State
dialogue, and other general support
through programmatic communications and
documents
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Challenge  Ensuring the Effective
Implementation and Evaluation of
Engineering Controls

Engineering controls used to clean up a site
may require ITS activities to ensure that
the remedy functions properly and remains
protective  To maintain the effectiveness
and operational integrity of the
engineering component of a remedy, LT5
activities typically involve ongoing O&M,
including performance monitoring, and
periodic reviews and inspections  In
addition, ITS activities may include
periodic reviews of the engineering
controls to improve  their performance
and/or reduce the annual operating cost of
remedies without compromising
protectiveness  Remedies involving
engineering controls, and using monitoring
networks, are designed and constructed
based on the best knowledge of site
conditions and technologies available at
the time of construction

The Task Force considered the following as
potential ITS challenges and opportunities
for improvement

•  There does  not appear to be a specific
   process or mechanism for evaluating
   the effectiveness of ECs and for
   determining whether changes are
   necessary

       Some remedies where
       contamination has been left in
       place are not reviewed periodically
       to ensure that the remedies are still
       protective

       Additionally, current Superfund EC
       evaluation guidance only covers a
       small subset  of sites- e  g , there is
       a universe of sites that  do not fit
       into the 5 year review cycle and
       that are not  being reviewed
         Engineering Controls
Problem  There does not appear to be a
specific process or mechanism for
evaluating the effectiveness of ECs and for
determining whether changes are necessary
if the ECs are not protective of human
health and the environment.
Goal- To ensure that ECs are effectively
implemented and evaluated to improve
their reliability and effectiveness over lime
Recommendation-
. EPA should adopt a flexible approach for
re-evaluating the effectiveness of ECs and,
if appropriate, modifying ECs to optimize
remedial system performance and minimize
LTS costs
     O&M plans do not always account
     for changes in science and
     technology, and how such changes
     could be factored into a remedy
     evaluation process

     Changes in site conditions or new
     science may alter the exposure
     assumptions and cleanup standards
     This could make existing ECs (and
     ICs) overly protective or
     inadequate

     Changes in cleanup or LTS
     technologies  may result in the
     identification of a more cost-
     effective remedy, or alternatives to
     the existing engineering controls,
     particularly as the life expectancy
     of those controls approaches

  Private sector firms may be developing
  new technologies (e g , materials
  engineering, remote sensors,
  computing  technology, and
  geochemistry) and methodologies to
  support the monitoring of ECs and
  other oversight responsibilities at
  sites
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Recommendation #11  EPA should
adopt a flexible approach for re-
evatuatm$ the effectiveness of ECs and, if
appropriate, modifying ECs to optimize
remedial system performance and
minimize LTS costs

A significant element in reducing LTS costs
may come from advancements in the fields
of science and technology  In some cases,
a new treatment technology may make
retrieval and treatment more cost
effective than ongoing long-term care and
thus alleviate the need for a site to remain
under long-term stewardship care  EPA,
State, and Tribal cleanup programs may
consider adopting a flexible approach and
continually work to identify where new
developments could be applied to LTS
activities, or where advancements are
desired  EPA and States may identify
opportunities to enhance LTS operations by
reducing risk, improving the reliability of
monitoring methods used or employing new
treatment technologies, or by reducing
cost This recommendation is not  intended
to create any new obligation for remedy
review by EPA or the States   However, it is
recommended that existing programmatic
remedy reviews and optimization  efforts
consider new technologies and activities
which would improve the effectiveness and
or reduce the cost of LTS activities

In order to provide new technologies for
monitoring sites and optimizing remedies,
the Federal Agencies and Departments
should continue their investment in
technology development
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Challenge   Ensuring that Funding
and Other Resource Needs Are
Adequate and Sustainable

A reliable funding source or mechanism is
needed to ensure that the LT5
responsibilities are fulfilled  For
responsible parties, operating facilities,
and new landowners, this may involve
securing funding or other financial
mechanisms  For government agencies
with oversight and enforcement
responsibilities, this  may involve obtaining
adequate funding through an annual
appropriations process  With a true
understanding of the life cycle ITS costs
and a reliable source and mechanism for
funding, sound  decision-making will lead to
cleanup actions that are both effective and
fiscally responsible

•  Given the fiscal constraints that
   Federal agencies, States, Tribes, and
   local governments are facing, funding
   to support LTS is uncertain and may
   impact their ability to effectively
   monitor and enforce such activities

       As more sites reach the post-
       cleanup stage, State governments
       are shouldering an increasingly
       large  burden  to carry out their LTS
       responsibilities

       State, Tribal, and local
       governments  currently face
       significant funding constraints as
       they are subject to  shrinking
       appropriations from their respective
       legislatures

       Local governments may also face
       similar funding constraints as States
       turn to them  for monitoring and
       enforcement needs
        LTS Funding and Resources
Problem  It is not clear that reliable funding
is available to ensure that LTS responsibilities
are fulfilled over the long term
Goal To ensure that LTS funding and other
resource needs are adequate and sustained so
that LTS activities are effectively earned out
for as long as necessary
Recommendations
•  EPA should  work with outside organizations
to explore adequate and sustainable funding
sources and mechanisms at the Federal,
State, and local level to monitor, oversee,
and enforce LTS activities
•  EPA should  continue to explore the role of
the private sector in supporting the LTS of
sites  and foster their involvement, as
appropriate
    Other Federal agencies, such as
    DOI, do not have adequate funding
    for LTS activities

State, Tnbal, and local governments
may have additional resource needs to
meet their LTS responsibilities

    State, Tribal, and local
    governments  need resources to
    develop and/or enhance their
    institutional and personnel
    capabilities (e g , to educate and
    train their staff)

    States and Tribes need additional
    resources to develop information
    systems to monitor sites, track
    activities, and share information
    among the stakeholders

State and local government funds
earmarked for LTS activities may be
re programmed to other activities
based on changing priorities

    Funds intended for LTS activities do
    not sit in escrow or other protected
    accounts and, therefore, may be
    directed for use by other
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       environmental, or non-
       environmental, programs if
       priorities change

•  New or alternative mechanisms for
   conducting and funding long-term
   stewardship activities (e g , insurance,
   trust funds) are increasingly becoming
   available

       States, such  as Wisconsin and
       Massachusetts, have developed
       their own programs where
       insurance companies take over the
       LTS management for a portfolio of
       sites

       Private sector firms  have
       demonstrated (through pilot
       projects with EPA and States) the
       viability of third-party trust
       mechanisms  to assume a direct
       property interest in  remediated
       sites  and take over all LTS
       responsibilities for those sites,
       including inspections, operation and
       maintenance, monitoring, and
       tracking implementation of
       institutional  controls

Recommendation #12  EPA should work
with outside organizations to explore
adequate and sustainable funding sources
and mechanisms at the Federal, State, and
local levels to monitor, oversee, and
enforce LTS  activities

Based on the current fiscal environment,
funding to support LTS is uncertain and
may be inadequate to implement necessary
LTS activities  EPA may work with State
and local organizations to conduct an
analysis of funding issues, needs, and
sources to determine whether adequate
funding is available to fully implement LTS
responsibilities across all sectors of govern-
ment   In addition, as environmental
budgets tighten at all levels of govern-
ment, the  governmental units responsible
for LTS are going to have to be more
creative in finding sources of funding for
these activities  Insurance programs m
States like Wisconsin, as well as activities
such as New Jersey's annual LTS manage-
ment fee program, and Federal tax
incentives need to be evaluated to
determine their potential for more wide-
spread use in the  LTS arena

Recommendation #13   EPA should
continue to explore the rote of the private
sector in supporting the LTS of sites and
foster their involvement, as appropriate.

Where there is a viable owner/operator or
other responsible  party, such as at many
RCRA, Brownfields, and UST sites, the
success of LTS depends on their
involvement and commitment
It is the responsibility of the viable
owner/operator to implement the selected
remedy and also to conduct LTS activities
at the cleaned-up site with engineering or
institutional controls in place  Performance
monitoring also belongs to the
owner/operator or other responsible party,
and is a critical aspect of remedial
alternatives that leave waste m place and
rely on engineering controls {e g , caps and
barrier walls)

Private entities developing innovative
approaches are another potential source of
LTS funding, and EPA should continue to
examine  these alternatives For example,
EPA should explore the viability of third
party trust organizations like the Guardian
Trust to determine the viability of its
program and the potential benefits of its
use to manage LTS sites  EPA might also
want to explore the viability of alternative
approaches that depend on the greater
involvement of non-governmental entities,
such as community or church groups to
provide certain oversight or watchdog
activities at LTS sites  These entities,
while not in the traditional chain of
government, might serve as a  low-cost
extra set of site monitors or historians
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                        Appendix A:


        Key  Long-Term  Stewardship


      Themes Gathered  from Other


               Agencies  and Groups


The following themes were compiled from various reports and studies conducted on Ions-
term stewardship and represent a collective set of goals or objectives from numerous public
and private organizations  Therefore, these themes reflect an ideal set of goofs that may
not be applicable for every situation under  each of EPA's cleanup programs

The full set of source information for the themes below can be found in Appendix B  Long-
Term Stewardship Studies and Initiatives


Roles and Responsibilities

Theme Long-term stewardship must be a part of the remedial decision making, planning,
design, and implementation processes (Memorandum of Understanding on Long-Term
Stewardship, April 9, 2003)

Theme A mechanism for re evaluating prior long-term stewardship decisions should be
incorporated into cleanup programs (Memorandum of Understanding on Long-Term
Stewardship, April 9, 2003)

Theme Roles and responsibilities of those funding, implementing, monitoring, and enforcing
LTS responsibilities must be clearly articulated, understood, accepted, and documented at
the outset Consideration should be given for succession of replacements should original
stewards no longer function (ASTSWMO White Paper, "Institutional Controls and Long-Term
Stewardship Where Are We Going?", May 20, 2004)

Theme State, Tribal, and local governments should be involved in decisions affecting their
roles and responsibilities in carrying out LTS activities, and evaluating the capabilities of
those who are expected to carry out LTS activities (Memorandum of Understanding on Long-
Term Stewardship, April 9, 2003)

Theme Members of the public and other affected stakeholders should be  meaningfully
involved in the planning and implementation of long term stewardship activities
(Memorandum of Understanding on Long-Term Stewardship, April 9, 2003)
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Information Management

Theme  Comprehensive information management systems are needed to effectively manage
long-term stewardship responsibilities (U S DOE Long-Term Stewardship Study, Volume 1
Report, October 2001}

Theme  Information on long-term stewardship needs to be managed and coordinated across
different levels of government  (U S  DOE Long-Term Stewardship Study, Volume 1 Report,
October 2001)

Theme  Information maintained on long-term stewardship responsibilities  should be widely
distributed and accessible to all stakeholders, including the public, to communicate risks and
safeguards, support accountability mechanisms,  and instill institutional memory (State and
Tribal Government Working Group Interim Report on Information Management for Long-Term
Stewardship, October 2001)


Institutional/Engineering Controls

Theme  Institutional and engineering controls must assure the ongoing protection of human
health and the environment for sites with residual contamination for as long as residual
contamination remains hazardous or until a reliable substitute can be implemented
(Memorandum of Understanding on Long-Term Stewardship, April 9, 2003)

Theme  Institutional controls should  be clearly defined and unambiguous  (ASTSWMO White
Paper, "Institutional Controls and Long-Term Stewardship Where Are We Going7", May 20,
2004)

Theme  Multiple levels of control and layers are desirable for any institutional control
program  {U S Army Corps of Engineers Guidance, "Recurring Reviews on  Ordnance and
Explosives Response Actions", October 2003)

Theme  Institutional controls should  have a firm legal basis that makes them enforceable by
persons responsible for and capable of enforcement (ASTSWMO White Paper, "Institutional
Controls and Long-Term Stewardship  Where Are We Going7", May 20, 2004)

Theme  Institutional controls should  run with the land  and be free from archaic common law
defenses (ASTSWMO White Paper, "Institutional Controls and Long-Term Stewardship  Where
Are We Going7", May 20, 2004)

Theme  Institutional controls should  be designed to allow maximum reuse of the land
consistent with protection of human health and the environment  (ASTSWMO White Paper,
"Institutional Controls and Long-Term Stewardship Where Are We Going7", May 20, 2004)

Theme  Systems should be in place that provide for regular monitoring and inspection to
ensure LTS mechanisms and activities work as designed  (ASTSWMO White Paper,
"Institutional Controls and Long-Term Stewardship Where Are We Going7", May 20, 2004)
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Theme  Long-term stewardship oversight functions should extend over the lifetime of the
contamination hazard and be able to span generations  (ASTSWMO White Paper, "Institutional
Controls and Long-Term Stewardship Where Are We Going'", May 20, 2004}

Theme  Long term stewardship programs should be dynamic and continually evaluate and
adjust based on new information on site conditions or new technologies for cleanup and
effectiveness of existing LT5 activities  (U 5  DOE, "Long-Term Stewardship Planning
Guidance for Closure Sites")

Theme  Assurance strategies and/or contingency plans should be considered and developed
in the event of long-term stewardship failure  (Environmental Law Reporter, "Institutional
Controls or Emperor's Clothes7  Long-Term Stewardship of the Nuclear Weapons Complex",
November 1998)

Costs and Funding

Theme  Comprehensive life-cycle costs for long-term stewardship should be identified,
understood, and incorporated into the remedy decision-making process  (Memorandum of
Understanding on Long-Term Stewardship, April 9, 2003)

Theme  The amount, source, and mechanism for securing the necessary funding to manage
long-term stewardship activities must be identified and found acceptable before selecting a
remedy (Memorandum of Understanding on Long-Term Stewardship, April 9, 2003)

Theme  The funding source for long-term stewardship responsibilities must be secure and
sustainable  (Environmental Law Reporter, "Institutional Controls or Emperor's Clothes7 Long-
Term Stewardship of the Nuclear Weapons Complex", November 1998)

Theme  Those entities with the financial capabilities and incentive to maintain, monitor, and
enforce ICs should fund them (U S  Army Corps of Engineers Guidance, "Recurring Reviews on
Ordnance and Explosives Response Actions", October 2003)
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            Appendix B:

      Long-Term Stewardship
       Studies and Initiatives
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                           One Cleanup Program Long-Term Stewardship Task Force:
                       Summary of Long-Term Stewardship Activities and Key Documents

The following is a compilation of studies  i epot ts and initiatives that wei e identified by the L TS Task FOJ ce diu ing its discuss ions on
long-teim stewardship challenges  The Ta\k l~o>ce recognizes that this list reflects only a pott ion of the entire body of \\ork that
government and non-gover nment organizations have developed to address the various aspects ofLTS Although this list may not be
complete, the intent is to identify some oj the key players and their ejforts to dale, which may lead to an increased undetstanding of,
andgieater collaboration to address,  the challenges associated with LTS
        Organization &
    In itiattve/S.tudy/Repo rt
 General/Cross-Cutting
                 Scop e & S u m m a ry
         Status/Contact
          Information
 / US EPA, DoD, DOE, DO/, and
 Environmental Council of States
 (ECOS)

 Memorandum of Understanding on
 Long-Term Stewardship
The purpose of this MOU is to provide a common
understanding and basis tor discussion and coordination
between LCOS and relevant Federal agencies regarding LTS
Given that there arc multiple Federal agencies conduetmg both
cleanup and stewardship activities a coordinated effort is
needed to address LTS at these sites Such a forum provides an
opportunity for the parties to discuss LTS issues policies,
procedures, coordination mechanisms, and generally applicable
tools tor LTS sites  The MOU provides a definition of LTS,
guiding principles, and key elements or eomponents of LTS
MOU signed by ECOS, CPA, DoD,
DOt and DOI on April 9 2001

Contact  TBD
 2 US  EPA/OSWER

 Post-Construction Completion
 Strategy tor Supertund Sites
Thi!> document outlines EPA Superfund's strategy for post-
eonstruelion completion (PCC) at NPL sites  The PCC Strategy
is a management framework to aid the Agency in resource and
work planning  It provides information to Agency staff, the
public, and the regulated community on how the Agency
intends to manage the PCC stage of the Supertund program
The PCC Strategy established five overarching goals under
which specific products are planned or underway, based on
need, potential impact, resources and other program priorities
Under development

Contact  Tracy Hopkins, (701) 601-
8788, hopkins tracy@epa gov
September 2005
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 3 US Department of Energy

 "Long-Term Stewardship Planning
 Guidance tor Closure Sites"
 4 US Department of Energy

 "Long-Term Stewardship Study
 Volume 1 - Report"
                  Scope & Summary
Guidance provides the rationale and framework for planning
LTS activities  The stated goals ot the LTS planning guidance
arc to focus management on post-closure requirements before
cleanup is complete facilitate development of a baseline scope,
schedule, and cost tor LTS, facilitate transition ot sites and LTS
responsibilities and provide a mechanism to ensure continued
proteetiveness of remedies

The study describes and analyzes issues and a variety ot
information associated with long-term stewardship, including
physical controls, institutions, information, and other
mechanisms needed to ensure protection of people and
environment The purpose of the study is to identity
programmatic and cross-cutting issues and information that
DOE should consider while implementing its LTS activities
Specific areas addressed in the study include  managing residual
site hazards managing land and real property, maintaining
sustamability of LTS over multiple generations  information
management funding and financial management  and public
involvement
         Status/Contact
           Information
Report completed

Contact  TBD
Final Study published October 2001

Contact TBD
 5  US Department of Energy

 Report "From Cleanup to
 Stewardship"
This background report provides a national summary ot the
nature and extent ot DOE's current and anticipated LTS needs
It also examines some of the issues, challenges, and barriers
associated with the transition from cleanup to long-term
stewardship
Final report published October 1999

Contact TBD
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 6 Rocky Flat* Stewardship
 Working Group

 The Rocky Flats  Stewardship
 Toolbox Tools tor Long-Term
 Planning
                  Scope <£ Summary
Report provides an analytical matrix designed to help
dccisionmdkers ensure thai long term stewardship requirements
are thoroughly considered during the remedy selection process
The toolbox is divided into six eomponents ot LTS analysis
physical controls, institutional or administrative controls,
operational and performance monitoring and maintenance,
information management, periodic assessment and maintenance
by a responsible controlling authority  Toolbox only marginally
addresses issue of cost, and recommends that Federal agencies
revisit and improve upon how lite-eycle costs are calculated
         Status/Contact
           Information
final Report issued June 2002
Contact TBD
 7 ECOS Long- Term Stewardship
 Subcommittee

 Interagency Dialogue  Improve
 Consideration ot LTS in the
 Remediation Process
The ECOS LTS Subcommittee has been charged with
addressing LTS issues tor ECOS across all relevant Federal
agencies and programs The Subcommittee is coordinating its
internal efforts among relevant CCOS Forums and Committees,
and is also coordinating with other State executive business
organizations  ECOS is interested in assuring that LTS issues
are identified early and considered throughout the remedial
planning, design, and implementation process ECOS has
proposed that a dialogue be held among interested governmental
partners to mutually define how the current processes for
considering LTS can be accelerated and improved
ECOS' LTS Subcommittee has been
inactive due to funding constraints
(currently waiting tor EPA funding) If
funding from EPA comes through, it
will work on a project to develop a case
study of sites to formulate LTS
standards  The Subcommittee will
primarily focus on Federal Facility
sites, but will also address non-Fed
Facility sites  (Sites have not been
selected yet)

Contact Carolyn Hanson LTS
Subcommittee, 202-624-3660, or
R  Steven Brown, Executive Director,
sbum , iAso orr

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 8. Resources far the Future

 Report "Long-Term Stewardship
 and the Nuclear Weapons Complex
 The Challenge Ahead"
                  Scope & Summary
The purpose ot the report is to stimulate discussion about the
need for long-term stewardship at the sites in the nuclear
weapons complex Included are the key functions ot a long-
term stewardship program and important institutional issues that
must be addressed to develop a successful LTS program
including a pros and cons discussion of several institutional
alternatives tor carrying out stewardship activities The report
also presents recommendations to address the challenge of LTS
at nuclear weapons sites
          Status/Contact
           [n formation
Final Report published

Contact  Kate Probst
 9 National Environmental Policy
 Institute

 Report "Rolling Stewardship
 Beyond Institutional Controls
 Preparing Future Generations for
 Long-Term Environmental
 Cleanups"
Report addresses issues affecting the long-term stewardship ot
contaminated waste sites by posing point-counterpoint
discussion ot issues, and suggests next steps tor policy makers
to consider as they formulate solutions at the national, State, and
local level  Key issues include national infrastrueture to
manage post-cleanup care, tailoring the Federal role, balancing
Federal mandates with local/private land use controls,
compiling stewardship sites and tools, funding, and identifying
the universe ot sites and matching solutions
Final Report issued December 1999

Contact TBD
September 2005
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 10 Environmental Law Institute
 (ELI) and Energy Communities
 Alliance (ECA)

 Study on Practical Implementation
 otLTS
                  Scope & Summarv
LLI and LC A have initiated a project to analyze the practical
implementation ot the legal authorities available to the local
governments  States  DOt EPA and citizens to implement
long-term stewardship activities at DOE facilities  tLl and EGA
will focus on the following issues Federal Statutes and
Regulations  Zoning Law and Procedures, State Constitutions
Title Insurance State Statutes and Regulations, Title Searches
and Reporting Procedures, Local Ordinances and Permits DOE,
LPA, NRC Guidance and Local Real Estate Practices ELI  and
LCA will review these specific issues and the legal tools
available to implement LTS at two DOE facilities  Further  LLI
and LCA will interview  key real estate professionals and State
and local government officials to develop a "how-to" guide for
eaeh site These two ease studies and the process utilized to
identity the tools available to implement LTS will be  instructive
tor local, State, and Federal governments and citizens and
ensure that eaeh party understands the authority, practical
implementation, and limits ot the legal tools when selecting
remedies at sites
          Status/Contact
           Information
Under development

Contact Seth Kirshenberg, Lxeeutive
Director, sethk(«,energyca org
 11.  Guardian Trust

 Pilot Study
The Guardian Trust is an outgrowth ot a pilot study funded by
the U S EPA and the Pennsylvania Department ot
Environmental Protection Also participating in the study were
the United States Navy, the Maryland Department ot the
Environment and the California Environmental Protection
Agency The pilot study looked at innovative approaches to
solving problems associated with land use and engineering
controls at sites where contamination remains behind after the
initial clean up The vast majority of all environmental clean ups
use risk-based methods
Guardian Trust Pilot Study issued
February 2002
                                                                                             Contact TBD
September 2005
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 12  Environmental Financial
 Advisory Board (EFAB)

 Report  "Protecting America's Land
 Legacy  Stewardship Policies,
 Tools  and Incentives to Protect and
 Restore America's Land Legacy'
                  Scope & Summary
This report discusses general land stewardship practices and
ethics in terms ot protecting "America's Land Legacy " In this
report, EF AB defines stewardship, lays out guiding principles
and a  framework for planning a nationwide approach to
stewardship  EFAB examines the tools and policies currently
affecting stewardship practices and ethics as well as the
economic incentives involved The report concludes with a
series  ot recommendations for the Administrator of EPA  The
report focuses primarily on pollution prevention and only
marginally addresses long-term stewardship issues
         Status/Contact
           Information
Final Report published February 2003

hUp  *\«w cp! ^m  hfij yi iM J) s x o\,
 13.  Environmental Law Reporter

 Article "Institutional Controls or
 Emperor's Clothes9 Long-Term
 Stewardship of the Nuclear
 Weapons Complex"
The article discusses the challenges that DOE races in
developing an effective LTS program, and presents Findings on
legal limitations and other barriers to effective LTS, including
the failure to establish the types of institutions needed to
manage long-lived wastes Article concludes that existing ICs
are not likely to be effective over time  and advocates the
development ot new legal instruments, procedures for current
deeisionmakmg, and stewardship institutions
Article published November 1998

Document reference 28 ELR 10631
 14. US Department of Energy

 "Legacy Management Strategic
 Plan"
This strategic plan explains the responsibilities of the DOE
Office ot Legacy Management and outlines a comprehensive
management plan tor all environmental and human legacy
                                   issues
Strategic plan completed July 2004

Contact TBD

NOTE Submitted by An/ona DEQ
September 2005

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 Roles and Responsibilities
                  Scope & Summary
         Status/Contact
           Information
 15  US EPA/OSWER
 Guidance for Community
 Involvement in Institutional
 Controls
EPA is developing guidance on the rolt ot communities in
monitoring and enforcing institutional controls implemented at
sites  EPA has held several workshops on 1C issues including
the topic ot community involvement in the 1C process
Workshop participants provided recommendations, which are
captured in the meeting summaries
Under de\ elopmenl

Contact  Mike Bellot, (701) 603-8905,
bellot michael@epa gov
 16 State and Tribal Government
 Working Group (STGWG)

 Study on Land Transfers in the DOL
STGWG's Long-Term Stewardship Committee (nicks DOE and
other efforts to address long-term stewardship issues and
contributes to the dialogue and information associated with
these issues on behalf ot STGWG and its members The
STGWG LTS Committee conducted surveys and investigations
ot selected land transfers  developed findings on such issues as
responsibility for long-term controls  and developed
recommendations tor DOE improvements in area ot land
transfer and long-term stewardship
Study completed October 2001

Contact TBD
 17 ELI and EC A

 The Role ot Local Governments in
 Long-Term Stewardship at DOC
 Facilities
In this report, ELI and LCA examine how local governments are
only beginning to develop the capacity to apply their experience
to the highly speciali/ed types of environmental ha/ards that
DOE leaves behind The report presents the results of in-depth
studies of the existing and planned roles and capabilities ot local
governments with respect to LTS at three DOE facilities  The
report provides recommendations tor how DOE and local
governments should work together to address LTS issues
Final report issued 2001

Contact TBD
September 2005
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 18 International City/County
 Management Association (ICMA)

 Report "Striking a Balance Local
 Government Implementation of
 Land Use Control"
                 Scope & Summary
This report highlights the best practices, strategics, and lessons
learned from a peer exchange between local government
officials trom Louisville- Jefferson County, Kentucky, and
Chautauqua County, New York, in which they shared
information about the challenges they face and the strategies
they employ to address land use controls in their communities
The report takes an m-depth look at land use controls and the
challenges and opportunities that local governments and other
public and private stakeholders face in maintaining them  It
also addresses such issues as design and implementation ot land
use controls, stakeholder coordination, information
management, enforcement, and funding
         Status/Contact
           Information
Final  November, 2003

Contact
Danielle Miller Wagner
Director, Brownfields Program
ICMA
777 North Capitol Street, Nt
Suite 500
Washington, D C 20002-4201

http //www2 icma org/mam/ld asp^fro
m-search&ldid=16738&hsid-l
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 19 Energy Communities Alliance
 (ECA)

 Interagency policy meetings
                  Scope & Summary
LCA members conduct peer meetings to discuss the potential
rok ot local governments in long-term stewardship at DOL
facilities  EGA held its first meeting in Grand Junction,
Colorado and plans to hold at least two additional meetings to
scope out the specific roles at specific sites This study should
educate local governments on long-term stewardship issues,
educate State and Federal government officials on the potential
role of local governments when selecting remedies, and ensure
that local, State and Federal government officials communicate
on these important issues that impact local communities  CCA
also believes that one of these meetings would be ajoint State
and local government meeting
         Status/Contact
           Information
ECA held a peer meeting in Santa Fe to
bring together local government and
DOE officials to voice concerns about
LM and LTS  A summary and next
steps are currently being developed
ECA is also holding an
intergovernmental meeting with DOE
officials in DC in early November  The
meeting will focus on LM and LTS,
although the product ot meeting is
uncertain considering possible
administration change  ECA's policy
statement on Lnvironmental
Remediation and Long-Term
Stewardship can be found at
h!t£i , WAV, i ! ( i^.tdor^P.)!  * t A '( 1
                                                                                                            pdt
                                                                                           Contact Sara S/ynw elski  Assistant
                                                                                           Program Manager,
                                                                                                     g\ v! e-rg
 Information Management
 20  US EPA/OSWER

 InMitutional Controls Tracking
 System (ICTS)
EPA is currently developing and populating ICTS, a web-based
system with a mapping component that tracks the life-cycle ot
ICs and allows tor data sharing with stakeholders The system is
being developed in two phases  with the first focusing on
collecting and maintaining basic 1C information and the second
expanding to include more detailed information and data
exchange capabilities
Under development

Contact  Mike Bel lot (703) 6CB-8905
bellot michael(o:epa gov
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 21  US EPA/OSWER

 1C Data Element Registry (DER)
                  Scope & Summary
EPA has drafted the 1C DER as a tool to facilitate the exchange
of information among existing tracking systems using common
language  EPA requested input from 300 organizations wilhm
various levels of government, and org
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 25  US Department of Energy

 Report  "Managing Data tor Long-
 Term Stewardship"
                  Scope & Summary
Report presents a preliminary assessment ot how successfully
information about the ha/ards that remain at DOL sites will be
preserved and made accessible tor the duration ot LTS  Report
addresses such issues as defining LTS data, how data will be
used tor future LTS activities, how data is managed and
preserved tor future generations consequences ot information
loss, organization and references tor stewardship data and
requirements tor developing a system to manage stewardship
data
          Status/Contact
           Information
Working draft report issued in 1998,
final report unknown

Contact TBD
 26 State and Tribal Government
 Working Group

 Interim Report on Information
 Management tor Long-Term
 Stewardship
STGWG's Long-Term Stewardship Committee tracks DOE and
other efforts to address long-term stewardship issues and
contributes  to the dialogue and information associated with
these issues on behalf of STGWG and its members The
STGWG I TS t ommittce conducted a survey ot state and tribal
governments to determine the scope of potential long-term
stewardship information needs including identifying and
ranking the  importance ot the types ot information needed
potential users ot information, and purposes tor \vhich
information would be needed
Survey completed and interim report
prepared October 2001  Tollow-up
study discussed to address data gaps

Contact TBD
 2 7 International City/Co unty
 Management Association

 Land Use Controls e-Library Web
 Site
ICMA has launched a Web site dedicated to the collection and
distribution ot information related to land-use controls (LLJCs)
at browntlclds, Supertund sites, military bases, or other
contaminated properties  As a clearinghouse ot information
related to LUCs, the electronic library (e-Library) represents a
tool and resource tor communities and local government
professionals The e-Library contains a wide variety ot
information  including public and private LUCs, model LUCs
zoning codes, restrictive covenants and easements, and site
reuse plans
Ongoing see xv .vv  i I v. >

Contact Joe Schilling
September 2005
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 28. American Society of Testing
 and Materials (ASTM)

 Workgroup for Identifying 1C
 Tracking Data Elements
                  Scope & Summary
ASTM has formed a workgroup to consider options tor
developing an industry standard of minimal 1C data elements to
ensure long-term stewardship at sites  Preliminary discussions
have identified the following six general categories ot
information  site identification/IC location 1C instruments  1C
objectives 1C restrictions/obligations location of other 1C
information  and 1C eontact information
          Status/Contact
           Information
Ongoing

Contact TBD
 Institutional and Engineering Controls
 29  US EPA/OSWER
 Report "Institutional Controls A
 Site Manager's Guide to Identifying,
 Evaluating, and Selecting
 Institutional Controls at Superfund
 and RCRA Corrective Action
 Cleanups"
Provides Superfund and RCRA site managers and other
decision makers with an overview of the types ot ICs that are
commonly available, including their relative strengths and
weaknesses, and to provide a discussion of the key factors to
consider when evaluating and selecting ICs in Superfund and
RCRA Corrective Action cleanups
Final Guidance, September 2000

Contaet  Mike Bellot, (703) 603-8905,
bellot miehacl@epa gov
 30.  U.S EPA/OSWER
 Report "Institutional Controls A
 Guide to Implementing, Monitoring,
 and Enforcing Institutional Controls
 at Superfund, Brownfields, I-ederal
 Facility, UST, and RCRA
 Corrective Aetion Cleanups"
Provides site managers and site attorneys with an overview of
responsibilities for the implementation, monitoring, and
enforcement of ICs at their sites, and discusses common issues
they may encounter when carrying out these responsibilities
Draft Guidance, February 2003

Contact  Mike Beiiot, (703) 603-8905
bellot michael(«)cpa gov
 31.  U.S EPA/OSWER

 1C Tracking/Monitoring Pilot
 Projects
EPA Superrund is sponsoring several pilot projeets in
conjunction with  State and local governments, industry, and
other NGOs to monitor sites and alert stakeholders ot possible
activities affecting established ICs Several pilots are exploring
the inclusion of information about waste sites in existing one-
call systems designed to prevent damages to utilities from
excavation and other development
Ongoing

Contact  Mike Bellot, (703) 603-8905
bellot michael@epa gov
September 2005
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 32 US EPA/OSWER

 The Comprehensive i i\c-Ycar
 Review Guidance
                  Scope & '.Summary
Document provides guidance for complying with requirements
to conduct a review of the remedy every five years to ensure
protection of human health and the environment tor remedial
actions that result in hazardous substances, pollutants, or
contaminants remaining at the site  Guidance is intended to
provide an approach for conducting five-year reviews, clarify
current policy provide consistency, and discuss roles and
responsibilities, including community involvement
         Status/Contact
           Information
final issued June 200!

Contact Rafael Gonzalez  LPA
gon/alez ratacl(«jepa gov
 33 US EPA/OSWER

 Guidance 'Operation and
 Maintenance in the Supertund
 Program"
Document provides guidance to site managers tor conducting
O&M activities at sites, including O&M considerations
throughout the life cycle of site cleanup and post-cleanup care
Guidance also provides information on the roles and
responsibilities of EPA, Slates, and PRPs throughout O&M
process, including EPA cnersight as O&M responsibilities are
transferred to States or PRPs
Final issued Mav 2001
 34 US  EPA/OSWER

 Guidance ' Transfer of Long Term
 Response Action (LTRA) Projects
 to States
Guidance provides key elements of the LTRA transfer process
and provides guidance to site managers concerning the transfer
of responsibilities from EPA to States tor O&M
1- mal issued July 200"}
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 35  US Department of Energy

 Policy Use of Institutional Controls
                  Scope & Summary
Policy delineates how DOE will use ICs in the management of
resources, facilities and properties under its control  The policy
also explains how DOE will use ICs to implement its
responsibilities pursuant to various statutes, such as the Nuclear
Waste Policy Act, the Atomic Energy Act, and the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act This pohey is intended to
guide DOE decisions related to planning, maintenance, and
implementation of ICs whc-n such controls are used at DOE sites
or utilized under a statutory program  The policy is also
intended to address DOE's responsibilities related to its role as a
steward of Tederal lands and properties and identify activities
that DOE needs to accomplish to ensure that ICs are properly
used and maintained
          Status/Contact
           Information
Hnal April 20(H

Contact TBD
 36. DOE Idaho National
 Engineering and Environmental
 Laboratory (INEEL)

 Technology Innovations
In support of DOE's perspective on long-term solutions, the
INEEL is concentrating considerable resources on its
Environmental Stewardship Initiative The INEEL will integrate
the best science and engineering talent into its stewardship
activities The major thrust is to coordinate investments in
science and technology that result in significant reductions of
risk and cost, and increased protection of human health and the
environment after cleanup activities have ended  Various
technological innovations are identified to reduce eosts of long-
term stewardship
Kevin Kostelmk
208-526-9642
Kvk@mel gov
September 2005

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 37  US Department of Defense
 ' Policy on Land Use Controls
 Associated with Environmental
 Restoralion Activities"
                  Scope &  Summary
Provides DoD components with environmental restoration and
land use management responsibilities an overall DoD
framework tor implementing, documenting, and managing land
use controls for real property being transferred out of federal
control and for active installations The intent of the policy is to
ensure land use activities in the future remain compatible with
the land use restrictions imposed on the properly during the
environ menial restoration process
         Status/Contact
           Information
Final issued
Contact TI3D
 38  US Department of Defense
 "Guidance on Land Use Controls
 Associated with Environmental
 Restoration Activities for Property
 Planned for Transfer Out of federal
 Control'
This document provides DoD Components with
environmental restoration and land use management
responsibilities guidance on dc\clopmg, implementing,
recording, and managing land use controls (LUCs) for
properly planned for transfer from Department of Defense
(DoD) to non-Federal entities This guidance is b ised on DoD
Polity on Land Use Controls Associated \\ith Environmental
Restoration Aclnities  This guidance provides a range of
options that may be used separately or collectively tor
incorporating land use controls into existing land use
management processes
Final issued March 2001
Contact TBD
 39  US Army Corps of Engineers
 Guidance "Recurring Reviews on
 Ordnance and Explosives (OE)
 Response Actions"
Guidance presents procedures for developing and implementing
recurring rev lew requirements for OE response actions  The
purpose of recurring reviews is to determine if a response action
continues to minimize explosive safety risks and continues to be
protective of human health, safety, and the environment
Recurring reviews are conducted under the long-term
management phase once a Formerly used Defense Site achieves
response complete  Recurring reviews satisfies CLRCLA five-
year review requirements
Final published October 2001
Contact TBD
September 2005
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 40  U S Army Corps of Engineers
 Guidance "Establishing and
 Maintaining Institutional Controls
 tor Ordnance and Explosives (OE)
 Projects"
                  Scope & Summary
Document provides an overview of ICs and guidance and tools
for establishing, implementing, and maintaining an 1C program
The guidance also provides key principles of an 1C program
         Status/Contact
           [nfornuUion
Final issued December 2000
                                                          Contact TBD
 41 National Governors
 Association Long- Term
 Stewardship Committee
 Report on Federal & State Statutory
 Framework for Effective LTS
An NG A Task Force, composed of State regulators and
Governors' policy advisors, established a Long-Term
Stewardship Committee  The NGA LTS Committee is
conducting a study (drawing on NAAG research) on Federal
and State statutory issues & long-term stewardship that will
examine, among olher issues, the adequacy ot existing
mechanisms tor institutional controls, and the applicability of
state 1C laws to federal agencies
NGA operates an LTS Subcommittee
under its Federal Facilities Task Force
NGA holds regular meetings and
conference calls primarily between
State and DOE representatives, and is
focusing on ICs and post-closure
agreements  NGA anticipates it will
produce a paper on post-closure
agreements and the role ot the States by
the end ot the year  NGA's policy
statement on Environmental
Compliance at Federal Facilities (NR-
8) can be found on its website at
                                                                                            Contact Kara Colton
                                                                                            kcolton@ngaorg
                                                                                            202-624-5300
September 2005
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 42 National 4ssot lation of
 Attorney* General fA'AAO)
 Legal Handbook of Institutional
 Controls
                  Scope &...Summary
NAAG is working on a state-by-statc analysis of statutory and
common law in cachot the states, designed to evaluate whether
existing mechanisms could be used to impost ettective and
entoreeablc institutional eontrols  The handbook will include a
general discussion of the common law in this area, the state-by -
state breakdown- charts and textual material- and probably a
discussion ot the legal issues, surrounding transfer ot federal
properties
          Status/Contact
           Information
Under development
                                                                                               Contact TBD
 43 National Association of
 Attorneys General
 In-Depth Analysis ot State
 Authorities tor Institutional Controls
In conjunction with ELI  NAAG is working on a detailed
review of legal authorities and processes that govern
institutional controls at three sites The LLI analysis will be a
detailed investigation ot the State laws* that attect land-use
restrictions at the sites For instance, the analysis will look at
/oning laws, Slate laws related to building codes  groutuiwater
laws, public health laws  and mining laws that might be used to
restrict certain types ot uses NAAG expects to contribute State
law research and analysis, descriptions ot environmental
regulation by the State and general review ot other taeets of the
in-depth analysis
Under development


Contact TBD
 44 National Association of
 Attorneys General
 Review ot Barriers to federal
 Transfer ot Land-Use Rights
NAAG expects to produce legal research related to the legal and
policy issues on the barriers to federal transfer of land-use
rights, but has not decided what format to use tor making the
research available to the larger community There may be  a
published colloquium, a law review style paper, or possibly a
conference among the various knowledgeable parties
Under development
                                                                                               Contact TBD
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 45 National Conference of
 Commissioners on Uniform State
 Laws (NCCUSL)
 Uniform Lnvironmental Covenants
 Act - Model Language
                  Scope & Summary
Developed at the request of EPA and DoD, NCCUSL has
developed standard statutory language tor consideration and
adoption by State legislature!) to facilitate the implementation
and enforcement of institutional controls at sites where residual
contamination exists
         Status/Contact
           In formation
                                                                                            http //www Uw upinn edu/bll/ulc/ueca/
                                                                                            2 003 final htm
 46 Association of State &
 Territorial Solid Waste
 Management Officials


 White Paper "Institutional Controls
 and Long Term Stewardship Where
 Are We Going9"
Paper identifies the present and future hurdles associated with
the use ot ICs, and what State and Federal programs should
consider in developing poliey to address these hurdles The
paper also provides guidance on principles that are important for
an effective 1C program, and should be included in any
institutional control or long-term stewardship policy or strategy
I mal issued May 20, 2004
Contact Gary King (IL) Chair,
CCRCLA Research Center
Subcommittee
 47. Association of State &
 Territorial Solid Waste
 Management Officials
 "Survey of Slate Institutional
 Control Meehamsms"
ASTSWMO conducted a survey of State cleanup programs to
determine to what extent ICs are used nationally, and to
determine the successes and issues surrounding their use
Specific elements addressed in the survey results melude the
frequency ot use in State programs and eommunity and local
government involvement in ICs
Survey results published in Deeember
1997
                                                                                            Contact TBD

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        Organization &
    Initiative/Study/Rcport
 48 Am eric an Society of TVs ting
 and Materials (ASTM)
 "Standard Guide for Use ot Activity
 and Use Limitations, Including
 Institutional and Engineering
 Controls" (L 2091-00)
 49  Environmental Law Institute
 Report  'Institutional Controls in
 Use'
                  Scope & Summary
This guide covers information tor incorporating activity and use
limitations that are protective ot human health and the
environment into Federal  Stale, Tribal or local remediation
programs using a risk-based approach to corrective action
Specifically, it identifies screening and balancing criteria that
should be applied in determining whether any particular activity
and use limitation may be appropriate  This guide identifies the
need to develop long-term monitoring and stewardship plans to
ensure the long-term reliability and entorceabihty ot activity
and use limitations  This guide explains the purpose of activity
and use limitations in the remedial action process and the types
ot actrv ity and use limitations that are most commonly
available

This report anticipates amendments to  Supcrtund and describes
in concrete terms how institutional controls have been used at
Superfund sites and in similar situations in the past  Experience
with past use of institutional controls provides Superfund
policymakers with valuable examples and knowledge about how
best to use these tools to protect humans tor as long as risk
remains at a site
          Status/Contact
           information
Guide published
http //www astm org/cgi-
bin/SoftCart exe/DATABASE CART/
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tore+ltwd2355+10881460]5
Final rcpoit published 1995
Contact TBD
 SO  Resources for the Future
 Report ' Linking Land Use and
 Supciiund Cleanups  Uncharted
 Territory'
This report describes the intersection between land use and
remedy selection and explores how these two processes become
interconnected when pressure's for site reuse and restricted
cleanups converge   A key chapter ot the report addresses ICs
and the entical role they play in linking land use and remedy
selection, including a. detailed analysis ot the reliability ot local
land use regulatory systems to maintain the viability of ICs
Final report issued June 1997
Contact Kate Probst

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        Organization &
    Initiative/Study/Report
 Cost and Funding
                  Scope & Summary
         Status/Contact
           Information
 5/.  U.S EPA/OSWER
 Guidance tor Estimating Costs tor
 Implementing Institutional Controls
EPA is planning to develop guidance tor estimating the costs of
implementing ICs  An October 2001 workshop addressed the
issues associated with estimating the costs of establishing and
maintaining institutional controls The discussion and feedback
was centered on five issue areas  (1) What costs should be
included in 1C cost estimates7 (2) When is the right time to
estimate/define the costs9 (3) Who should develop the cost
estimates and what tools ean be provided to assist them7 (4)
How should the out-year cost evaluation be performed7 and (5)
Who pays tor these costs in the future and what are the options
for financing ICs9
Under development


Contact Mike Bcllot (703) 603-8905
bellot michael@epa gov
 52  US DOE, National Energy
 Technology Laboratory
 LTS Cost Estimating Techniques
DOE/NETL is currently leading efforts to develop separate cost
estimating techniques for long-term stewardship and incorporate
these modules into the Environmental Cost Element Structure, a
cross-agency framework tor estimating and managing
environmental management costs
Status unknown
                                                                                           Contact TBD
 S3  US DOE, Rocky Flats,
 Environmental Technology Site
 Cost Estimation Methodology
DOE/RFETS developed an activity-based methodology to
estimate its annual stewardship costs based on the type, cost,
and duration of anticipated long-term stewardship activities
Completed 1999
                                                                                           Contact TBD

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        Organization &
    I nitiative/Stud y/Rcport
 54. State and Tribal Government
 Working Group
 Paper  "Long-Term Gobi Lstimation
 in the DOE"
                  Scope & Summary
STGWG conducted research on (he economics and cost
estimating literature .ind interviewed experts in these fields to
identity potential alternative methodologies to DOL cost
estimation methods using present worth analysis  The paper
makes several recommendations tor continuing to explore
alternative methods tor developing cost estimates ot LTS
commitments
         Status/Contact
           Information
Paper issued in October 2001, efforts
are ongoing


Contact TBD
 55 National Governors
 Association Long-Term
 Stewardship Committee
 Report on Federal & State Statutory
 Framework tor Lttective LTS
An NG A Task Force, composed ot State regulators and
Governors' policy advisors, established a Long-Term
Stewardship Committee  The NGA LTS Committee is
conducting a study on Federal and State statutory issues &. long-
term stewardship that will examine LTS handing mechanisms
and related issues
NGA operates an LTS Subcommittee
under its Federal Facilities Task Force
NGA holds regular meetings and
conference calls primarily between
State and DOL representatives  and is
tocusmg on ICs and post-closure
agreements  NGA anticipates it will
produce a paper on post-closure
agreements and the role ot the Stales by
the end ot the year  NGA's policy
statement on Cnv ironmcntal
Compliance at federal Facilities (NR-
8) can be tound on its website at
\v AW n'a orj
                                                                                            Contact Kara Col ton
                                                                                            kcolton@nga org
                                                                                            202-624-5300
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    1 nitiative/Study/Report
 56 National Governors
 Association Center for Best
 Practices
 Issue Brief  Funding Long-Term
 Stewardship ot DOE Weapons Sites
 Tennessee's Perpetual Care Trust
 Fund
                  Scope 4& Summary
Based on a 1999 agreement between DOE and Tennessee
Department of Environmental Conservation, DOE is funding a
trust fund to finance long-term stewardship (e g , annual O&M)
costs following the closure of an Oak Ridge disposal cell for
hazardous, radioactive, and mixed wastes  This issue brief
provides an overview of the trust fund approach, the ehallenges
it may faee rn the future, and possible solutions to those
challenges  It also provides next steps for State officials to
follow to pursue the establishment ot similar LTS trust funds
         Status/Contact
           Information
Status  Unknown
                                                                                             Contact  TBD
 57  Environmental Financial
 Advisory Board (EFAB)
 Guidebook  "A Guidebook ot
 Fmaneial Tools"
A Guidebook oj Financial Tools is a reference work intended to
provide an overview ot a wide range of ways and means that are
useful in paying for sustainable environmental systems The
document presents comprehensive financing tools that include
traditional means ot raising revenue, borrowing capital,
enhancing credit, creating public- private partnerships, and ways
of providing technical assistance The document also presents
financing tools that are, will, or might soon be, available to
address significant environmental priorities, including ways ot
lowering the costs ot compliance encouraging pollution
prevention, paying tor community-based environmental
protection, financing brownfields redevelopment, and
improving access to capital tor small businesses and the
environmental goods and services industry Each tool is
described along with its actual and potential uses, advantages
and limitations, and references tor further information
Latest Edition  April 1999
http //www epa gov/efmpage/guidbkpd
f htm
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        Organization &
    Initiative/Study/Report
    Resources for the Future
 Diseussion Paper "Long-Term
 Stewardship of Contaminated Sites
 Trust Funds as Mechanisms for
 Financing and Oversight"
                  Scope & Summary
RFF explores different mechanisms for financing and oversight
of LTS aetivilics at both private and 1 edera.1 contaminated silts,
focusing primarily on trust funds  The paper evaluates two
components of the issue (1) the finaneial aspect, so that funds
are available now and m the future, and (2) the legal and
institutional aspect, to ensure that LTS activities will m tact be
implemented in the future and that those commitments can be
enforced over time
         Status/Contact
           Information
Discussion paper issued December
2000
Contact Kate Probst
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