Under the auspices of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the EPA's Office of Solid Waste administers the Corrective Action Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program. The Corrective Action Program encompasses active, or soon to be active facilities, where hazardous waste pollutants have been released into soil, ground water, surface water, and air. As a condition for obtaining RCRA operating permits, these active facilities are required to clean up contaminants that are released or have been released in the past. RCRA promotes the proper reuse, recycling and reclamation of such items, as well as the safe management of containers and storage tanks. At present there are approximately 3700 facilities in the corrective action workload.

Recommended EPA Web pages

• Corrective Action
  Provides information about hazardous waste corrective action.
• Cleanup Enforcement: RCRA Cleanup
  Provides information on the RCRA corrective action cleanup enforcement program.

Brownfields
Partnerships, Sustainable Redevelopment, Targeted Brownfields Assessments

Cleanup Legal Aspects
Cases and Settlements, Compliance, Enforcement, Guidance, Legislation, Liability, Public Comment, Regulations, Tax Incentives

Cleanup Technology
Characterization and Monitoring, Remediation

Storage Tanks
Abandoned Properties, Leaks and Spills

Superfund
Community Involvement, Cost Recovery, National Priorities List (NPL), Potentially Responsible Parties, Records of Decision (RODs), Remedy Decisions, Risk Assessment, Sites, Superfund Cleanup Process