The Challenge for Risk-Based Decisions
Non-technical issues
- stigma
- any amount of chemical(s) of concern is bad
- regardless of its impact on the use of the property
- if it wasn’t there before, it shouldn’t be there now
- variability in endpoints
- multiple regulatory programs
- potential re-openers for regulatory NFA
- risk assessment is more complicated
- qualifications of risk assessor
- restrictions on the use of the property