The Administrative Record is a specialized file required under the Comprehensive Environmental Restoration, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and contains all information considered or relied upon for the environmental investigation and cleanup at the OMS-28 site. It also contains key technical reports and administrative guidance for the cleanup of this site.
The Administrative Record serves two primary purposes. First, the record contains documents which form the basis for selection of a response action. Section 113 (j)(1) of CERCLA and general principles of administrative law, limits the courts to the use of the Administrative Record to support judicial review when the adequacy of a response action is being challenged. Second, the record acts as a vehicle for public participation, thus ensuring that the government has considered the concerns of the public during the response selection process.
Contents of the Administrative Record include a variety of written material, such as pieces of correspondence, data reports, assessments, plans, newspaper articles, notices, and fact sheets. The Administrative Record may also include, but not limited to, applicable and available Archive Search Reports, site photographs and maps, site descriptions and chronologies, reference documents, sampling and analysis data and plans, work plans, site safety and health plans, Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements (ARARs), Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analyses (EE/CA), Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Studies (RI/FS), Health and Endangerment Assessments, Proposed Plans (PP) for remedial action, Decision Documents (DD), Community Relations Plans, public meeting minutes/transcripts, Environmental Baseline Studies, and Findings of Suitability to Transfer/Lease documents.
Administrative Record Index and available documents for OMS-28 can be accessed here: