Re: Uniting RABs

[don@eesi.org]

 In view of the current shift in DOD and EPA policy away from permanent
cleanup remedies to containment of contaminants in place with land use 
restrictions and institutional controls, along with DOD's apparent 
determination to disestablish RABS once a ROD has been agreed to, I 
think it is essential that there be some objective, financially 
disinterested body at each site, first to see to it that adequate land 
use restrictions and institutional controls, including the fixing of 
responsibility for their financing and implementation, are 
incorporated into the ROD and, secondly, to monitor their implementation 
until they are no longer needed, which could be many years in the 
future, if ever. The RABS or some type of successor organization, 
appear to be the most logical type of organization to perform this 
function and if so, some formal type of national organization to 
exchange information and experience and to affect national policies 
would appear ton be essential to their success.