The manager ensures that construction is not endangering public health, monitors quality assurance, coordinates remedial activities and promotes citizen participation. The RP's or DEC's consulting engineer and inspectors test and inspect the constructor's work and confirm that test data are properly recorded and validated. Their main responsibility is to verify that construction conforms to the approved design documents. DEC oversight ensures that the construction meets all the requirements of the approved design. No work is performed at a site until DEC has approved the workplan.
Oversight consists of two types - office and field.
Office oversight includes the review, evaluation and comment on all submittals, reports, data, etc. generated by remedial activities. Field oversight is site-dependent and includes consent order requirements, construction according to approved plan, public health and environmental concerns, public sensitivity and the potential for pollutant migration. Final inspection ensures that all aspects of the design have been met by the construction. Acceptance of the remedial work signals the next step in the remedial program - site reclassification. Sites are often reclassified after remedial construction.