Adopted on Jan. 1, 1996, the Connecticut Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs), Sections 22a-133k-1 through 22a-133k-3 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, provide standards and guidance for determining “how clean is clean” at sites requiring remediation. The RSRs assist parties in determining whether clean-up is necessary to protect human health and the environment, and provide clean-up targets for the remediation of sites where hazardous wastes have been disposed of or other pollutants have been released to the environment.
Recently, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) gave notice of its intent to amend the RSRs, as well as the related environmental land use restriction regulations, for the first time since their original adoption. Despite a requirement in the RSRs for a review of the regulations every five years (with the first review to have been made within 18 months of the regulation’s effective date), this is the first time since their adoption that RSR amendments have been publicly noticed.
