Cleanup

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-005187",
  "term": "Cleanup",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Actions taken to deal with a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance that could affect humans and/or the environment. The term \"cleanup\" is sometimes used interchangeably with the terms remedial action, removal action, response action, or corrective action.\n\n2. Cleanup is the term used for actions taken to deal with a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance that could affect humans and or the environment. The term sometimes is used interchangeably with the terms remedial action, removal action, response action, or corrective action.\n\n3. The process of removing, treating, or disposing of contaminants at a site and restoring the site to a condition that is not dangerous to people or the environment.\n\n4. Actions taken to deal with a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance that could affect humans and/or the environment. The term \"cleanup\" is sometimes used interchangeably with the terms remedial action, removal action, response action, or corrective action. (See: Response Action (2))\n\n5. Actions taken to deal with a release or threatened release of hazardous substances that could affect public health or the environment. The term is often used broadly to describe various response actions or phases of responses, such as the remedial investigation/feasibility study.\n\n6. The term \"cleanup\" or the phrase \"cleaning up\" refers to the range of activities that could occur in the context of addressing environmental contamination at RCRA facilities. For example, cleanup activities could include removing waste or contaminated media (e.g., excavation, pumping groundwater, etc.), in-place treatment of the waste or contaminated media (e.g., bioremediation), containment of the waste or contaminated media (e.g., barrier walls, low-permeable covers, liners, etc.), or various combinations of these approaches. The term cleanup is often used interchangeably with the term remediate.\n\n7. The removal or control of hazardous materials at the site.\n\n8. Action taken to deal with a release (or threat of release) of a hazardous substance that could affect humans and/or the environment. This term is sometimes used interchangeably with the terms “remedial action,” “removal action,” “response action,” and “corrective action.”",
  "synonyms": [
    "Site Cleanup"
  ],
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "see_also": [
    "Corrective Action",
    "Remedial Action",
    "Removal Action",
    "Response Action"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Terms of Env; RCRA Glossary of Terms; Region 5 Cleanup Site: Environmental Glossary",
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Region 5 Cleanup Sites Glossary",
    "RCRA Corrective Action Terms and Acronyms",
    "Brownfields Profile Glossary",
    "EPA Report on the Environment Glossary at http://www.epa.gov/ncea/roe/glossary.htm; Report on the Environment (ROE) Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/cleanup/"
}