After the Sierra Club sued in 1993, EPA agree to promulgate the regulations. According to EPA, the regulations are intended to impose only the statutory minimum requirement so as to reduce the cost to the regulated community. The regulations include location restrictions, ground water monitoring and corrective action, and recordkeeping requirements.
Common sense is evident at several points in the rule.
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