ARMY, EPA REACH TENTATIVE COMPROMISE OVER CLEANUP CRITERIA DISPUTE

EPA Region II and the Army appear poised to end a dispute over criteria for deciding when state and federal drinking water and other standards apply at a contaminated site under Superfund law, proposing a resolution that will still uphold the regulatory agency's groundwater cleanup policy and therefore avoid setting a possible national precedent, according to an EPA source. EPA had feared that a "risk based" approach advocated by the Army would lead to less strict cleanup standards. The nationally...