LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY | Secretary Aurelia S. Giacometto
A DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
The mission of the Remediation Program is to maintain and enhance the environment of the state in order to promote and protect the health, safety and welfare of the people of Louisiana. This program provides an efficient means to develop, implement, and enforce regulations. It also pursues efforts to prevent and to remediate contamination of the environment. This program pursues a unified approach to remediation, simplifies and clarifies the scope of the remediatial process, increases protection of human health and the environment by addressing remediation consistently, allows for fast track remediation, where applicable, reduces review time and labor, increases responsiveness to the public and regulatee, and increases accountability.
The Remediation Program meets its mission by performing the following duties: site investigations/evaluation, corrective action, corrective action monitoring, field verification, communication, documentation, training and research.
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ's) Risk Evaluation/Corrective Action Program (RECAP) regulation was promulgated and became final on October 20, 2003. This regulation establishes the Department's minimum remedial standards for present and past uncontrolled constituent releases. DEQ has established this web page as a venue to facilitate the implementation of the RECAP regulation. The Department will update this web page to ensure that the latest information regarding RECAP is available to interested parties. For this reason, we encourage you to visit this web site on a regular basis.
SUBMITTAL INFORMATION
Remediation Submittals Voluntary Remediation Services Single Point of Contact Procedures