HB 6115 Summary

• Modifies the "no further action report" process by requiring documentation that remedial actions have been completed, rather than requiring proof that actions are protective of public health and the environment.

• Expands the response activity review panel's authority to advise on technical and scientific disputes, including those regarding assessment of risk, response activity plans, no further action reports, and certificates of completion.

• Removes detailed requirements for how the department must develop and promulgate cleanup criteria, including specific rules about toxicity values, chemical data selection, exposure scenarios, and carcinogenic risk calculations.

• Simplifies cleanup criteria provisions by requiring the department to evaluate and revise criteria periodically based on new research and best practices, and to report revisions to the legislature.

• Eliminates provisions that specified how revised cleanup criteria apply to previously submitted and approved remedial action plans, response activity plans, and no further action reports.