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Regulatory Drivers

In 1975, the Department of Defense (DoD) began a pilot program to investigate past hazardous waste disposal at DoD facilities.
These are the regulatory and administrative programs that drive environmental cleanup at MCAS Cherry Point :

RCRA   CERCLA Process   SARA   RCRA vs. CERCLA Terminology   Navy IRP

Overview of SARA
 
In October 1986, Congress passed the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), which made changes to CERCLA.  An important provision of SARA included federal facilities in the Superfund process.  The Department of Defense set up the Defense Environmental Restoration Account (DERA) to fund studies and cleanups at military installations.
 

  For more information, please visit the EPA SARA webpage.

 

 

Last Modified: 11/01/2004