ROD Amendment for Upper Basin and Box

Interim Record of Decision Amendment

Interim ROD Amendment for Upper Basin Available
The final version of the cleanup plan for the Upper Coeur d’Alene River Basin is now available. The cleanup plan is called a Record of Decision Amendment - or RODA. In response to public comments, EPA reduced the scope of the RODA from the Proposed Plan issued in July 2010. The cleanup is now estimated to cost about $635 million. The cleanup timeframe has been shortened to about 30 years.

The RODA lays out an ambitious plan to reduce risks to people’s health and the environment from heavy metals. In short, the cleanup will:

• Improve surface water quality
• Protect earlier cleanup work from recontamination
• Clean up contamination sources
• Help prevent contamination from moving downstream

Learn More

• ROD Amendment Fact Sheet (PDF) (12 pp, 1.3MB) - August 2012
• Interim ROD Amendment (PDF) (488 pp, 16.8MB)
• Part 3: Responsiveness Summary (PDF) (43 pp, 436K)
• Response to Comments
• Attachment A: Index of Commenters and Responses (PDF) (58 pp, 339K)
• Attachment B: Master Comment List (PDF) (20 pp, 276K)
• Attachment C: Responses to Federal Comments (PDF) (13 pp, 1MB)
• Attachment D: Responses to State Agency Comments (PDF) (37 pp, 3.4MB)
• Attachment E: Responses to Native American Tribe Comments (PDF) (20 pp, 1.2MB)
• Attachment F: Responses to Local Jurisdiction Comments (PDF) (173 pp, 17.3MB)
• Attachment G: Responses to Local Community/Special Interest Organization Comments (PDF) (198 pp, 11.1MB)
• Attachment H: Responses to Business Comments (PDF) (194 pp, 17.5MB)
• Attachment I: Responses to Individual Comments (PDF) (1226 pp, 53.1MB)
• Final Focused Feasibility Study
• Final Focused Feasibility Study Report Volume 1: Addendum to the Draft Final Report, Executive Summary, and Main Text (PDF) (628 pp, 16.4MB)
• Final Focused Feasibility Study Report Volume 2: Figures and Tables Accompanying Main Text (PDF) (574 pp, 53.6MB)
• Final Focused Feasibility Study Report Volume 3: Appendices A through D (PDF) (668 pp, 24.5MB)
• Final Focused Feasibility Study Report Volume 4: Appendices E through G (PDF) (688 pp, 42.6MB)

Fact Sheets

• ROD Amendment Fact Sheet (PDF) (12 pp, 1.3MB) - August 2012
• Water treatment: A smart way to address serious contamination (PDF) (1 pg, 150K) - November 2010
• Mining and environmental cleanup can happen together (PDF) (1 pg, 115K) - October 2010
• Funding the Proposed Cleanup (PDF) (1 pg, 131K) - October 2010
• Why is more cleanup needed now? (PDF) (1 pg, 124K) - September 2010
• Get involved in the cleanup process! (PDF) (1 pg, 126K) - September 2010
• Goals of the cleanup plan (PDF) (1 pg, 103K) - September 2010
• Upper Basin ROD Amendment and Proposed Cleanup Plan Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) (8 pp, 53K) - July 2010

Meetings

The following links will take you to EPA's file sharing site where you can download presentations and other materials from public meetings.

• April 18, 2012 - Citizen's Coordinating Council
• February 29, 2012 - Upper Basin Project Focus Team
• February 15, 2012 - Basin Commission
• January 18, 2012 - Citizen's Coordinating Council
• November 29, 2011 - Silver Jackets
• November 16, 2011 - Basin Commission
• October 6, 2011 - Technical Leadership Group
• September 22, 2011 - Upper Basin Project Focus Team

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Documents Supporting the ROD Amendment

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