Fact Sheets
The DEQ has issued 29 Fact Sheets and continues to revise and update them, as necessary. Each Fact Sheet has gone through public comment and a review by the Water and Waste Advisory Board. Below are links to the current versions of the 29 VRP Fact Sheets.
| Fact Sheet Name | Fact Sheet Description | Last Revised |
| Fact Sheet #1: The Voluntary Remediation Program | This Fact Sheet provides basic information about the VRP. | 10/18/2011 – R3 |
| Fact Sheet #2: Public Participation | This Fact Sheet provides information about the public participation opportunities established by the VRP and the responsibilities Volunteers and DEQ have to involve the public in remediation activities and decisions. | 10/18/2011 – R2 |
| Fact Sheet #3: Application for the Voluntary Remediation Program | This Fact Sheet provides information on how to apply to the VRP. | 10/18/2011 – R7 |
| Fact Sheet #4: Administrative Processes | This Fact Sheet outlines the two administrative processes available under the VRP. | 05/14/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #5: Spill Response | This Fact Sheet outlines how the VRP relates to spill response activities under Chapter 4 of the Water Quality Rules and Regulations. | 03/01/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #6: Independent Cleanup | This Fact Sheet outlines the VRP's Independent Cleanup Process. | 05/25/07 – R2 |
| Fact Sheet #7: Property Transfers | This Fact Sheet provides information on how the VRP can be used to facilitate transfers involving properties with confirmed or suspected environmental contamination. | 05/14/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #8: Site Characterization | This Fact Sheet provides information about site characterization under the VRP. | 03/01/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #9: Grid Soil Sampling Outside of Source Areas | This Fact Sheet provides guidelines for grid soil sampling outside of known or suspected source areas. | 03/01/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #10: Soil Confirmation Sampling Guidelines | This Fact Sheet provides guidelines for soil confirmation sampling under the VRP. | 03/01/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #11: Risk Assessment | This Fact Sheet summarizes DEQ policy on the use of risk assessment in the VRP and describes guidance that has been developed by DEQ to assist site owners in using risk assessment to make cleanup decisions about their sites. | 05/22/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #12: Soil Cleanup Levels | This Fact Sheet provides the soil cleanup look-up table, describes how the values in the table were derived, and presents instructions for its use. | 06/30/09 – R4 |
| Soil and Groundwater Cleanup Level Tables Spreadsheet PDF | 6/30/09 | |
| Fact Sheet #13: Groundwater Cleanup Levels | This Fact Sheet contains information about groundwater cleanup levels under the VRP. | 06/30/09 – R4 |
| Spreadsheet Calculator for DWEL/ADWL Calculations | 06/05/09 | |
| Fact Sheet #14: Ecological Risk Assessment–Steps 1 and 2 Ecological Exclusion and Scoping Assessments | This Fact Sheet provides information about the ecological risk assessment screening process within the VRP. | 03/06/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #15: Liability Assurances | This Fact Sheet summarizes the types of liability assurances available under the VRP. | 03/06/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #16: No Further Action Letters | This Fact Sheet summarizes the requirements and procedures for one type of liability assurance: no further action letters. | 03/06/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #17: Covenant Not to Sue | This Fact Sheet summarizes the requirements and procedures for one type of liability assurance: covenant not to sue. | 03/06/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #18: Certificates of Completion | This Fact Sheet summarizes the requirements and procedures for one type of liability assurance: the certificate of completion. | 03/06/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #19: Ecological Risk Assessment–Steps 3 and 4 Screening and Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment | This Fact Sheet describes the procedures required for Steps 3 and 4 in the VRP ecological risk assessment process. | 05/14/07 – R1 |
| Memorandum on Use of VRP Fact Sheet #19 Technical Support Memoranda 3 and 4 | This Memorandum describes limitations on the use of numerical "guidance" in tables regarding Ecological Risk Based Screening Concentrations (ERBSCs), Toxicity Benchmark Doses (TBDs) and Chemical Specific Ecological Exposure Parameters. | 03/24/10 |
| Fact Sheet #20: Human Heath Risk Assessment | This Fact Sheet provides information on procedures for preparing a site-specific human health risk assessment under the VRP. | 10/15/08 – R2 |
| Fact Sheet #21: Remedy Selection | This Fact Sheet summarizes the process of selecting and implementing an appropriate remedy under the VRP, including DEQ's expectations for achieving the remediation standards and how to evaluate a range of alternatives using the balancing criteria.. | 05/14/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #22: Establishing Points of Compliance | This Fact Sheet summarizes the process of determining points of compliance and associated issues in the VRP. | 05/14/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #23: Institutional Controls, Engineering Controls, and Use Control Areas | This Fact Sheet addresses the use of institutional controls and use control areas as potential components of the voluntary cleanup process within the VRP. | 05/22/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #24: Establishing Site-Specific Background Metals Concentrations in Soil - Currently Rescinded | This Fact Sheet provides guidelines for soil sampling and data evaluation to establish site-specific background metals concentrations in soil. | 04/18/04 – R1 |
| Memorandum on Use of VRP Fact Sheet #24 | This Memorandum describes the reasons why the DEQ has discontinued use of VRP Fact Sheet #24. | 03/24/10 |
| Fact Sheet #25: Using Fate and Transport Models to Evaluate Cleanup Levels | This Fact Sheet provides guidance on the use of Fate and Transport models to establish alternative cleanup levels. | 05/16/07 – R1 |
| Spreadsheet Calculator for Appendix A Fate & Transport Models | 05/21/07 | |
| Fact Sheet #26: Monitored Natural Attenuation for Soil and Groundwater | This Fact Sheet provides general direction for evaluating monitored natural attenuation (MNA) as a remedy option and implementing MNA when it is selected as the remedy | 04/18/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #27: Technical Impracticability Determinations | This Fact Sheet provides general information related to how and when determinations of technical impracticability (TI) are made and what information DEQ needs in order to make TI determinations. | 04/18/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #28: Data Quality Objectives | This Fact Sheet provides general guidelines for developing data quality objectives. | 04/18/07 – R1 |
| Fact Sheet #29: Sampling and Analysis Plans | This Fact Sheet provides information on sampling and analysis plans. | 08/16/11 – R2 |
| Groundwater Sampling for Metals | 02/23/08 | |