Liability and RCRA Sites
When RCRA sites, or portions of RCRA sites, are being sold or transferred
to new owners for reuse, questions of liability for any further
cleanup actions
often arise. In some instances, States have issued "comfort
letters,"
identifying cleanup and liability issues at RCRA sites. Another
vehicle
related to liability that has been used at CERCLA sites is a prospective RCRA Items
Region 3 provides copies of examples of "no further action letters," Statements of Basis and the PPA related to the Genicom facility on its website: http://www.epa.gov/reg3wcmd/ca/ca_resources.htm# CERCLA itemsInformation on Superfund Comfort Letters http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/html-doc/comfplcy.htm Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative webpage information on Comfort Letters http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/liab.htm#cl Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative information on policy in issuing Comfort Letters http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/liab.htm#ci Information on Superfund Prospective Purchaser Agreements http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/pdf/purchase.pdf Guidance on Agreements with Prospective Purchasers of Contaminated Property (May 1995) http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/liab.htm#ap Information on Federal Facilities Comfort Letter http://www.epa.gov/swerffrr/documents/comfortr.htm |