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Public Record

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is pleased to have the Public Record for your review. The purpose of this database is two-fold. First, it will provide to communities another form of notice of cleanup activity, allowing them to have more information about assessment and cleanup activities in their area and in the State. Second, it can assist those seeking to redevelop brownfield properties within South Carolina.

What are Eligible Response Sites?
The Department defined eligible response sites as:

• Responsible Party - Voluntary Cleanup Program Sites
• Non-Responsible Party - Voluntary Cleanup Program (Brownfields) Sites
• State Superfund Sites
• State Consent Agreement Sites
• State Consent Order Sites
• Dry-cleaning Sites
• Certain Regulated Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)
• Formerly Used Defense Sites

How do I use the Public Record?
Click on the "Search" button below. You may search the Public Record by Site Name, Address, City, County, District, Project Completed, or any combination of these. If you search without entering anything, you will get a listing of all of the sites in the Public Record. Once your find your site, you may click on the site's name to obtain more information on this site. This information consists of the site name, address, city, zip, impacted media and nature of contamination, location information, land use controls, and status information.

What are Land Use Controls?
The term Land Use Controls or "LUCs" encompass institutional controls, such as those involved in real estate interests, governmental permitting, zoning, public advisories, deed notices, and other legal restrictions. The term also includes restrictions on access, whether achieved by means of engineered barriers (e.g., fence or concrete pad) or by human means (e.g., the presence of security guards). Additionally, the term includes both affirmative measures to achieve the desired restrictions (e.g., night lighting of an area) and prohibitive directives (e.g., restrictions on certain types of wells for the duration of the corrective action). Considered altogether, the LUCs for a facility will provide a tool for how the property should be used in order to maintain the level of protectiveness that one or more corrective actions were designed to achieve.

The Department was required to meet this element as mandated in the Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act of 2001 otherwise known as 128a funding or Brownfields legislation.