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Policy and Guidance
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
Policy and Guidance
Enforcement
and Compliance Docket and Information Center (ECDIC)
The ECDIC is a policy and guidance database that is searchable by topic.
Brownfields Cleanup Enforcement Policy & Guidance page
Guidance
on Windfall Lien Provisions under the Brownfields Law, July 2003 (PDF)
(32 pp, 395K, About PDF)
EPA/DOJ interim guidance on how they generally intend to exercise their
enforcement discretion in the context of the new windfall lien provision
of the Brownfields Law.
Interim
Enforcement Discretion Guidance Regarding Contiguous Property Owners,
January 2004 (PDF) (11 pp, 89K, About PDF)
Guidance on how enforcement discretion may be applied to landowners whose
property may be contaminated by a neighbor's actions.
Interim
Guidance Regarding Criteria Landowners Must Meet in Order to Qualify for
Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser, Contiguous Property Owner, or Innocent
Landowner Limitations on CERCLA Liability (PDF) (22 pp, 375K, About PDF)
Interim guidance discussing the criteria and obligations that must be
met to obtain landowner liability protection under CERCLA and the Brownfields
law.
Interim
Guidance Regarding Liability Limitations in the Brownfields Law (Common
Elements Guidance), March 2003 (22 pp, 375K, About PDF)
Interim guidance regarding the elements common to several liability limitation
provisions in the Brownfields Law: bona fide prospective purchasers, innocent
landowners, and contiguous property owners.
Policy on the Issuance of Comfort/Status Letters
Policy designed primarily as a liability relief tool to assist parties
who seek to cleanup and reuse brownfields. More information is available
from the guidance
and a model comfort/status letter.
Policy
on Regional Determinations Regarding Which Sites Are Not Eligible Response
Sites under CERCLA Section 101(41)(C)(i), March 2003 (PDF) (11 pp, 394K, About PDF)
Guidance document regarding determining which properties should be excluded
from the eligible response sites definition under the Brownfields Law.
Prospective
Purchasers Agreements Guidance
Guidance providing information about EPA's approach to developing prospective
purchaser agreements and covenants not to sue under the new Brownfields
law.