The steps you must follow to implement a presumptive remedy are aspects of your daily job duties. In other words, these savings can be achieved without increasing your workload, and they may even streamline your workload. Are supported by experts RPMs can access presumptive remedy experts that will be able to provide support and information to assist you during implementation. Are NCP compliant The use of presumptive remedies advances the NCP remedy selection objectives in that they promote consistency in decision-making and carry out the screening step in a generic manner. This approach minimizes the steps needed to perform this analysis at a site-specific level.
Presumptive remedies are also Superfund policy.
EPA guidance states that presumptive remedies are expected to be used at all appropriate sites, except under unusual site-specific circumstances. This means that RPMs working at the types of sites discussed above should investigate the possibility of implementing a presumptive remedy. This website contains the current guidance, users guides, and supplemental information available on specific presumptive remedies. Presumptive remedies are not new. EPA has been using them since 1993.