Subpart H
Number of phases of Comprehensive Response Actions (following a Phase I initial site investigation)
FOUR
Phase II - Comprehensive Site Assessment; Phase III - Identification and Selection of Comprehensive Remedial Action Alternatives; Phase IV - Implementation of the Selected Remedial Action Alternative; and Phase V - Operation, Maintenance and/or Monitoring
A Method 1 risk assessment is applicable when OHM impact is limited to these media.
What are Soil and Groundwater?
The documentation required by the MCP when MCP requirements for a site or release have been completed and the site is “closed” (i.e., you are done with the MCP).
What is a Permanent Solution Statement?
REDUA
What is a Representativeness Evaluation and Date Usability Assessment?
The process by which the public is kept informed about risks posed by disposal sites and the status of response actions.
What is Public Involvement?
The response action performed during Phase II.
What is a Comprehensive Site Assessment?
An evaluation that supplies information about potential risks to human or ecological receptors due to exposure to identified hazards.
What is a risk assessment?
This is required at all disposal sites where a Permanent Solution is based upon the restriction or limitation of site activities and uses to achieve or maintain a level of No Significant Risk.
What is an Activity and Use Limitation?
UCL
What is an Upper Concentration Limit?
The one instance in which a public notice in a local newspaper is required.
What are Tier Classification or Recording of an AUL?
The report documenting the results of a Phase III evaluation
What is a Remedial Action Plan?
Concentrations below which OHM need not be included in the site risk characterization.
What are background levels?
MCP terminology that represents both a MCP site status and a response action that is designed to lead to a Permanent Solution.
What is a Temporary Solution?
CAM
What is the Compendium of Analytical Methods?
The two public officials/entities to which written notices must be sent pursuant to 310 CMR 40.1403.
Who are the Chief Municipal Officer and the Board of Health?
Any structure...or other...place or area where uncontrolled OHM has come to be located as a result of any spilling, leaking, pouring, abandoning, emitting, emptying, discharging, escaping...
What is a Disposal Site?
This soil category would apply to surface soil in a residential setting that is not in an area within 30 feet of an occupied building and not over a current or potential drinking water source area.
What is S-1/GW-3 ?
The period of time during which the conditions for achieving and maintaining a level of No Significant Risk upon which a Permanent Solution is based will remain in effect.
What is Any foreseeable period of time?
CEP
What is a Critical Exposure Pathway?
Subparts of the MCP that are no longer in existence.
What are Subparts F & G?
The term applied to active O&M of a remedial system or program that is being conducted to achieve a Permanent Solution and for which the deadline to achieve a Permanent Solution within five years of Tier Classification does not apply and Tier Classification Extensions are not required.
What is Remedy Operation Status (or ROS) ?
A discrete area where the concentrations of OHM are substantially higher than those present in the surrounding area.
What is a Hot Spot?
One of four situations where an AUL is not required for a PS with Conditions.
What are BMPs for gardening, anthropogenic background, OHM in public or rail right of way and absence of building in GW-2 area?
AEPMM
What is an Active Exposure Pathway Mitigation Measure?
A site requiring a written plan for public involvement, public meetings, public comment on MCP submittals, and written responses to public comments.
What is a Public Involvement Plan (or PIP) Site?