Explain National Contingency Plan (NCP)

- Provides detailed direction on the action to be taken at a hazardous waste site, including emergency actions and a method to rank sites to establish future actions

- NCP describes the steps to be taken for the detailed evaluation of the risks associated with a site, termed a remedial investigation(RI).  The process of selecting an appropriate remedy is termed the feasibility study(FS).

- Specifies the degree of cleanup to be selected in accordance with several criteria.

- There is no predetermined level of remediation that can be required or that must be achieved at a particular site.

- The degree of correction is established on a site-by-site basis.

- Upon completion and approval of the RI/FS, the preparation of the selected remedy is planned out in the remedial design.