Revised Policy on Managing the Duration of Superfund Negotiations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recently released its “Revised Policy on Managing the Duration of Remedial Design/Remedial Action Negotiations” (Revised Policy). The Revised Policy contains the Office of Site Remediation Enforcement's (OSRE) procedures for reducing the duration of remedial design/remedial action (RD/RA) negotiations. The stated objective is “to strengthen our negotiation practice, shorten the duration of negotiations, and achieve timely settlements.”

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