Ordinance
on the Charge for the Remediation
of Contaminated Sites
(OCRCS)

In the case of sites in need of re­medi­ation, the costs of the fol­low­ing meas­ures are deemed to be chargeable re­medi­ation costs:

a.

a pre­lim­in­ary in­vest­ig­a­tion (Art. 7 CSO¹¹) and de­tailed in­vest­ig­a­tion (Art. 14 CSO) as well as mon­it­or­ing (Art. 13 para. 2 let. b CSO) in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 12 para­graph 2;

b.

pre­par­a­tion of a re­medi­ation pro­ject (Art. 17 CSO);

c.

de­con­tam­in­a­tion in­clud­ing dis­pos­al of waste (Art. 16 let. a CSO);

d.

con­struc­tion, op­er­a­tion, main­ten­ance and dis­mant­ling of in­stall­a­tions and equip­ment for the long-term pre­ven­tion and mon­it­or­ing of the dif­fu­sion of en­vir­on­ment­ally haz­ard­ous sub­stances (Art. 16 let. b CSO);

e.

proof that the re­medi­ation ob­ject­ives have been achieved (Art. 19 para. 1 CSO).