310 CMR 40.0445
Release Abatement Measure Status and Remedial Monitoring Reports
(1) Persons conducting Release Abatement Measures shall submit a Status Report 120 days
following receipt by the Department of the initial Release Abatement Measure Plan, and every
six months thereafter, until a Release Abatement Measure Completion Report, in accordance
with the provisions of 310 CMR 40.0446, has been submitted to the Department. Each Status
Report shall document Release Abatement Measure activities occurring over the period of time
since the previously submitted Status Report.
(2) Release Abatement Measure Status Reports shall contain, at a minimum, the following
information:
(a) the status of response operations;
(b) any significant new site information or data;
(c) details of and/or plans for the management of Remediation Waste, Remedial Waste
water and/or Remedial Additives;
(d) any other information that the Department during its review and evaluation of a Status
Report determines to be necessary to complete said Status Report, in view of site specific
circumstances and conditions; and
(e) an LSP Opinion as to whether the Release Abatement Measure is being conducted in
conformance with the Release Abatement Measure Plan and any conditions of approval
established by the Department.
(3)
Status Reports shall not be required for sites where a Release Abatement Measure
Completion Report or a Permanent Solution Statement is received by the Department prior to
the date on which the first Status Report is required pursuant to 310 CMR 40.0445(1). In the
case of a Release Abatement Measure conducted at a site alreadysubject to a Permanent Solution
Statement in accordance with 310 CMR 40.1067, a Release Abatement Measure Status Report
shall be required unless a Release Abatement Measure Completion Report or a revised
Permanent Solution Statement is received by the Department prior to the date on which the first
Status Report is required pursuant to 310 CMR 40.0445(1).
(4) Release Abatement Measure Status Reports shall be submitted to the Department using a
transmittal form established by the Department for such purposes.
(5) For a disposal site where Active Operation and Maintenance of a remedial action is being
conducted as part of a RAM, a Remedial Monitoring Report shall be submitted to the
Department on a form established by the Department for such purposes at a frequency of every
six months and concurrently with the submittal of the RAM Status Report. In such cases when
the Active Operation and Maintenance of a remedial action is initiated after the submittal of the
first RAM Status Report, the Remedial Monitoring Report shall be submitted concurrently with
the next RAM Status Report.