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EPA Launches the Return to Use Initiative to Remove Barriers to Reuse at Superfund Sites

Communities and EPA are working together to turn cleaned up Superfund sites into recreational areas such as at the Fulbright Landfill site, a Return to Use Demonstration Project.
Communities and EPA are working together to turn cleaned up Superfund sites into recreational areas such as at the Fulbright Landfill site, a Return to Use Demonstration Project.
On November 10, 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new phase of the Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI) known as the “Return to Use” initiative (RTU or the Initiative). The Initiative is designed to remove barriers to reuse that are not necessary for the protection of human health, the environment, or the remedy at those sites where remedies are already in place.

In 1999, EPA inaugurated the SRI, with the goal of making sure that at every cleanup site, the Agency works with local stakeholders and partners to determine likely future uses of the site before the cleanup remedy is implemented. This gives the Agency the best chance of making its remedies consistent with the likely future use of the site and gives communities the best opportunity to productively use sites following cleanup. However, with its focus on sites where remedies were not yet implemented, SRI did not address the many communities that had sites that were already construction complete. There are over 500 construction-complete sites where remedies were implemented before 1999. Many of these construction-complete sites are cleaned up, but remain idle or underutilized and subject to damage through trespassing. The RTU initiative focuses on these sites. Read the entire story



 

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