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Long-Term Contaminant Management Using Institutional Controls

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Introduction
Introduction Overview
Land Use Controls
Institutional Controls
Survey Results: Sources of Failure and Keys to Success
About This Guidance
Planning ICs
Planning ICs Overview
The IC Life Cycle
Planning for the IC Life Cycle
Developing a Long-Term Stewardship Plan
Implementing IC Registries
Implementing IC Registries Overview
Developing IC Registries
Maintaining IC Registries
Representative IC Registries
Evaluating IC Registries
Model Program and Best Practices for IC Registries
Monitoring and Performance
Monitoring and Performance Overview
Current Practices for IC Monitoring Programs
Improving and Optimizing IC Monitoring Programs
Evaluating IC Performance
Best Practices for IC Monitoring and Performance Evaluations
Enforcement
Enforcement Overview
Purpose of a Compliance and Enforcement Program
Challenges to IC Compliance and Enforcement
Compliance and Enforcement Options
Optimizing Enforcement and Construction of a Basic Model
Stakeholder Perspectives
Stakeholder Perspectives Overview
Purpose of Outreach
Outreach Communication Methods
Costs
Costs Overview
Estimating the Costs of ICs
Current State Practices for Collecting IC Fees
Financial Assurance and Using Insurance for IC
Model Best Practices for Estimating IC Cost, Fees, and Financial Assurances
Case Studies
Case Studies Overview
California
Washington
Hawaii
Michigan
New Jersey
New York
Tennessee
Utah
Omaha, NE: RCRA Closure
Navy IC Program Overview
Additional Information
Survey Summaries
State-Specific Survey Response
Data Management
Examples of State, Federal and Commercial Registries
Acronyms
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Team Contacts
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Long-term Contaminant Management Using Institutional Controls
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C

corrective action
Activities taken to restore integrity of institutional or engineering control.

D

data base management system
Systems of software tools including databases and geographic information systems that allow a registry, monitoring, outreach, and enforcement.

E

engineering control
Physical modifications to a site or facility to reduce or eliminate the potential for exposure to residual contamination (for example, slurry walls, capping, or vapor intrusion liner).

environmental management system
Broad data management system used by state and federal agencies.

H

Hewlett Packard TRIM
An HP records management system.

I

institutional control
LUC, AUL, LUR: A legal or administrative restriction on the use of, or access to a site or facility to eliminate or minimize potential exposure to chemicals of concern (such as proprietary controls or governmental controls).

O

obligated party
The party who fulfills institutional control obligations, for example, the grantee in the case of the proprietary control, or county in the case of groundwater ordinance.

P

proprietary control
Controls based on the rights associated with private ownership, particularly ownership of a limited interest in real property as specified in legal instrument such as an easement or a restrictive covenant.

R

RestFul
A systems architectural style consisting of a coordinated set of components, connectors, and data elements within a distributed hypermedia system, where the focus is on component roles and a specific set of interactions between data elements rather than implementation details.

responsible party
The entity that is required to ensure that selected institutional controls are properly applied and maintained.

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