Particular risk analysis background

The technical staff of the Department became concerned that the proposed CERCLA lai uage would not only impose a greater burden on the Department s environmental restoration efforts, substantially raising the costs without commensurate benefit, but also that there may be no way to accurately verify that the cleanup standard had been reached. Two key factors, background radiation (including fallout) and laboratory or instrument capability were of particular concern. A study, entitled "Preliminary Analysis of the Technical Feasibility of Achieving Various Residual Risk Standards for Cleanup of Radionuclides in Soil" [6], was canied out to determine the scope of the problem. It had two principle objectives ... 

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