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The DNREC Remediation Section protects public health, welfare, and the environment in Delaware by identifying and cleaning up releases of hazardous waste, petroleum and other hazardous substances in the environment to an acceptable level of human-health and environmental risk, and supporting the continued safe use, re-use or enhanced productive use of remediated properties.
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The 
Delaware Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act
 (HSCA) gives DNREC the authority to ensure cleanup of facilities with a release or imminent threat of release of hazardous substances.
The law and associated regulations govern several key programs:
HSCA Enforcement and HSCA Lead
Brownfields
Voluntary Cleanup
 (
Fact Sheet
)
Long-Term Stewardship
Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration
The DNREC Division of Waste and Hazardous Substances sets 
standards for assessing risks
 to human health and ecological health.
Over 1,100 hazardous substance release sites are currently managed by the section.
The section administers the 
Storage Tank Corrective Action
 and 
Hazardous Waste Corrective Action
 programs. It also helps administer several federal programs through 
cooperative agreements and grants
.
The section certifies consultants to work under HSCA and maintains a list of 
HSCA-certified consultants
. Consultants and contractors can apply at any time using the 
application to become a certified consultant
 under the HSCA pr