U.S. EPA Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery

Safeguarding from Combustion Residue
Nationwide
This initiative supports the EPA’s development of regulations for coal combustion residuals and addresses how to manage the material to protect human health and the environment.
This initiative supports the EPA’s development of regulations for coal combustion residuals and addresses how to manage the material to protect human health and the environment.
The EPA is evaluating how coal electric utilities manage residue and how states regulate that management activity.
The EPA is evaluating how coal electric utilities manage residue and how states regulate that management activity.
For each assessment, we review existing documentation including permits and records of previous release, perform a site visit, and prepare rating and recommendation reports.
For each assessment, we review existing documentation including permits and records of previous release, perform a site visit, and prepare rating and recommendation reports.

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CCR Management Units

In response to the failure of a coal combustion impoundment in 2008 that sent coal ash slurry over 300 acres damaging property, water wells, and the neighboring ecosystem, the U.S. EPA Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) asked us to assess the integrity of impoundments at coal fired electric utilities. We have supported the ORCR in surveying impoundments across the nation to assess and rate their stability and hazard potential.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery

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$1.4 million (fees)

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