On December 9th the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released for comment the Integrated Cleanup Initiative (ICI) Draft Implementation Plan, a three-year strategy to focused on the agency’s land cleanup programs. Sites covered under the cleanup programs include Superfund, federal facilities, brownfields, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act corrective action, and underground storage tanks sites.

The goal of the initiative is to accelerate cleanups of contaminated sites where possible, address a greater number of contaminated sites, and put the sites back into productive use while protecting human health and the environment.  The initiative also seeks to provide communities with greater accountability and transparency on EPA’s land cleanup programs.  While many actions identified in the ICI are underway, EPA will use the comments received to further evaluate and refine the draft plan.

If you would like to provide comments on the draft plan, please submit them by January 10, 2011, to: Becky Brooks (brooks.becky@epa.gov)