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The National Contingency Plan

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The National Contingency Plan (NCP) is USEPA’s road map for Superfund. Its intent is to ensure high-quality, consistent studies and remedies throughout the USA. In addition to defining rules for studies, the NCP allows for two types of cleanups: removal actions (faster, shorter, simpler parts of the total remedy) and remedial actions (the full process, expected to lead to closure). Superfund allows for costs to be recovered by the original performing party depending on cost-sharing issues, but the law requires NCP consistency. The NCP delineates nine criteria for selecting appropriate remedies.

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    Neil Shifrin PhD

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Shifrin, N. (2014). The National Contingency Plan. In: Environmental Perspectives. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06278-5_11

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