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The Division of Waste Management has taken comments from a stakeholder stating that, for closure of a soil remediation permitted facility, having a closure/cleanup based on a non-detection level of soil contamination is unreasonable. Changing the closure/cleanup to a risk-based closure/cleanup requirement requires rule changes to modify certain closure/cleanup requirements applicable to the soil remediation permitting.

NC Session Law 2015-241 Section 14.16B requires the amendment of rules that directed the owner or operator of a noncommercial UST to immediately respond to any release by trying to recover all accessible contamination. The Session Law directs the DEQ to classify the risk posed by a noncommercial UST discharge before the UST owner or operator is required to perform any cleanup actions.