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Enforcement

Guidance: 2016 RI/FS ASAOC and UAO

Transmittal memorandum announcing the issuance of the revised Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) model administrative settlement agreement and order on consent (ASAOC) and the new RI/FS model unilateral administrative order (UAO) under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Issued 9/29/2016.

The models documents included with the transmittal memorandum are available in Word format from the Cleanup Enforcement Model Language and Sample Documents Database:

The transmittal memorandum also explains that these models introduce several changes to the financial assurance and insurance provisions of all of our CERCLA response action settlement and unilateral administrative order models.

The transmittal package, including the memorandum and two models is available in PDF format below.

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