Environmental Due Diligence & Risk Management

The Indiana Department of Environmental (IDEM) has created a process to independently achieve closure on some cleanup sites. This process became available on April 15, 2010 and is referred to as the Independent Closure Process (ICP). The ICP offers a number of benefits to IDEM and responsible parties. Throughout the past several years, IDEMs State Cleanup Program (State Cleanup) has experienced flat or decreasing revenues while the number of State Cleanup sites increases. IDEM does not receive sufficient funding to assign IDEM staff to all State Cleanup sites. As a result, most low priority sites receive little or no attention while IDEM appropriately focuses on medium and high priority sites. The ICP provides a mechanism for closure with very little IDEM involvement or expense.

For further details and to see if your site qualifies, check out Michael Schutz's full length newsletter article at: www.augustmack.com/Newsletter/2010/May/Article0245.html