Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9108 – Certification of completion of remedy
(a) Upon completion of a remedy at a facility, or an operable unit thereof, the Department may issue, or the owners, parties to the settlement agreement or parties responding to an order, may apply for a certification of completion of remedy from the Secretary pursuant to regulations promulgated under § 9104 of this title. For the purposes of this section, the Secretary may consider a remedy complete when the remedial action is operational and functional; provided, however, that the Secretary may place conditions or limitations in the certification of completion of remedy which identify those portions of the final plan of remedial action, including but not limited to operation and maintenance, and compliance monitoring, which must continue to be performed, and which provide for the performance of additional remedies in the event that the remedial goals contained in the final plan of remedial action are not achieved as required by the plan and the regulations promulgated under § 9104 of this title.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9108
- Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Facility: means any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, vessel, aircraft, or any site or area where a hazardous substance has been generated, manufactured, refined, transported, stored, treated, handled, recycled, released, disposed of, placed or otherwise come to be located. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Operable unit: means any subdivision of a facility in terms of area or environmental media or any other manner approved by the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Plan of remedial action: means a detailed plan describing cleanup actions and related information for the containment or permanent removal and disposal of hazardous substances from a facility. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Remedial action: means the containment, contaminant mass or toxicity reduction, isolation, treatment, removal, cleanup or monitoring of hazardous substances released into the environment, or the taking of such other actions as may be necessary to prevent, minimize or mitigate harm or risk of harm to the public health or welfare or the environment which may result from a release or an imminent threat of a release of hazardous substances. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Remedy: means any action, response or expenditure consistent with the purposes of this chapter to identify, minimize or eliminate any imminent threat posed by any hazardous substances to public health or welfare or the environment including preparation of any plans, conducting of any studies and any investigative, oversight of remedy or monitoring activities with respect to any release or imminent threat of release of a hazardous substance and any health assessments, risk assessments or health effect studies or natural resource damage assessments conducted in order to determine the risk or potential risk to public health or welfare or the environment. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Secretary: means Secretary of the Department or the Secretary's designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
(b) The Secretary shall grant or deny an application for a certification of completion of remedy within 180 days of the application with stated reasons.
67 Del. Laws, c. 326, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 218, § ?24; 74 Del. Laws, c. 409, § ?5; 80 Del. Laws, c. 359, § 2;