2001 Survey of States' Soil and Groundwater Cleanup
Standards
by Marc A. Nascarella, M.S.,
Paul Kostecki, Ph.D., Edward Calabrese, Ph.D., and David
Click
Welcome to the Association for
Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS) 12th annual survey of
states' cleanup standards for hydrocarbon contaminated soils.
The first state-by-state cleanup standards survey was
conducted in 1990 following the release of EPA's final rules
for regulating underground storage tanks. We have conducted
this survey each year as a continuing service to environmental
professionals concerned with hydrocarbon-contaminated
groundwater and soils.
As in previous years regulators
in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia have
provided us with updated information on their regulatory
programs. Many of the states’ programs provided us with
updated information on their regulatory programs. Due to
the many variations between states’ programs, the format of
the summaries has become less standardized in the effort to
accurately reflect each state’s program. For example,
readers should note that, for some states, categories of
information no longer appear if the state does not provide
that information or require its usage in its regulatory
program.
While we publish these
summaries as a handy reference of cleanup standards in each
state, users should be aware of the limitations of summarizing
regulatory programs in a table format and should contact each
state for complete information. As in previous years,
Connecticut requests that interested parties call for
information because their program is not easily summarized in
a table format.
AEHS wishes to thank our state
contacts for their help in updating the information for these
2001 summaries. We greatly appreciate the time and effort
they put into working with us to make this information
available to readers. AEHS also wishes to thank the American
Petroleum Institute for its support of this survey.
For more information contact
AEHS by phone at 413-549-5170, by mail at 150 Fearing Street,
Suite 21, Amherst, MA 01002, by FAX at 413-549-0579 or visit
our Web Site at:
http://www.aehs.com.
Click on the map's
state abbreviations to view Cleanup Standards.
Individual state cleanup standards are reported yearly.
To view selected report, please click on a state from the
U.S. map below or by using the provided drop down menu.
Cleanup standards are available for the years 1998 - 2001.
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