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This Standard fills a gap for working across sites largely regulated under state and federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)/Superfund programs, to take them towards site closure. The new Standard also helps support US EPA’s Brownfields program and voluntary cleanup programs, by providing a systematic path forward to put sites to good use. For example, this approach will help reinvesting in areas where active development is needed, and advance affordable housing goals by hastening the return affected properties to productive reuse.