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

¹ If the re­quire­ments for the sub­sidy are ful­filled, the FOEN shall con­firm that the sub­sidy will be paid with­in the scope of the avail­able re­sources and shall in­dic­ate the prob­able amount of the sub­sidy.

² It shall or­der that the sub­sidies be paid if:

a.

it has re­ceived a sum­mary audited by the can­ton of the total of the chargeable costs of the meas­ures ac­tu­ally in­curred;

b.

the in­come from the charge cov­ers the re­sources re­quired.

³ If the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the meas­ures has be­gun be­fore con­firm­a­tion is is­sued, the FOEN may in ap­plic­a­tion of Art­icle 26 para­graph 3 second sen­tence of the Sub­sidies Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1990¹² grant a sub­sidy in par­tic­u­lar if:

a.

the in­vest­ig­a­tion, mon­it­or­ing or re­medi­ation meas­ure costs less than 250 000 francs; or

b.

new in­form­a­tion comes to light dur­ing the im­ple­ment­a­tion of struc­tur­al meas­ures or oth­er meas­ures un­der the CSO¹³ about the level of pol­lu­tion at the site or about the costs of the meas­ures re­quired.

⁴ If the in­come from the charge does not cov­er all the re­sources re­quired, the FOEN shall when pay­ing sub­sidies con­sider as a pri­or­ity pro­jects that were ur­gently re­quired for reas­ons of en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion or in which a sub­stan­tial eco­lo­gic­al be­ne­fit was achieved when com­pared to the cost. Pro­jects that have been post­poned shall be giv­en first pri­or­ity in the fol­low­ing years.