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Enforcement

Guidance: Owners of Property Containing Contaminated Aquifers

Memorandum addresses the Agency's position regarding the cleanup of hazardous substances have come to be located on or in a property solely as the result of subsurface migration in an aquifer. Issued 5/24/1995.  

A November 1995 fact sheet, issued to provide additional information on the policy, is able below as well.

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