The document summarizes Finland's national program for managing contaminated land sites. It describes Finland's database of over 25,000 contaminated or potentially contaminated sites. It outlines Finland's regulations and guidelines for soil contamination assessment, risk management, and remediation that have been established over the past 25 years. It also describes Finland's national strategy for controlling health and environmental risks from contaminated land by 2040 through systematic identification, investigation, and remediation of risk sites.

1. Mr. Laitinen, Jarno
M.Sc., Project Manager
Finnish Contaminated Sites Demonstration Program
Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment
Finnish Clean Soil Program
Finnish National Risk Management Strategy
for Contaminated Land and the National Investigation
and Remediation Program

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Finnish Clean Soil Program
Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment
Contaminated sites in Finland
 National database for contaminated sites
holds an entry for over 25 000 contaminated
or potentially conminated sites.
– 20 % are located on a classified groundwater
area or in close proximity
– 12 % are located on a shoreline area or in
close proximity
– 3 % are located on a protected habitat area or
in close proximity
Fuel distribution
Waste management
Vehichle maintenance
Shooting ranges
Metals industry
Saw and timber industry
Greenhouse agriculture
Other industry
Other acitivites
In operation
Investigation need
Remediation need
No activity required

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A quarter century of contaminated sites management
 1988, Government Policy Review
 1994, First national inventory of potentially contaminated sites
 1993, Waste Act
 1994, Generic/land-use related guideline values
 2000, Environmental Protection Act
 2007, Decree on Assessment of Soil Contamination and Remediation
Need, with separate guidelines
 2007, Soil Status Database
 2014, New Environmental Protection Act
 2014, Updated Guidelines Sustainable Risk Management
 2015, National Risk Management Strategy for Contaminated Land
 2017, Decree on reuse of excavated contaminated soil (pending)
Finnish Clean Soil Program
Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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Environmental Protection Act
 Most important regulations concerning contamination (e.g. soil and
groundwater prohibitions) and remediation (e.g. duties and permit
requirements), are included in the renewed Environmental Protection
Act 527/2014 (EPA), which is common legislation for environmental
protection.
 The central sections in the EPA are:
– Soil and groundwater pollution prohibition
– Duty to notify
– Duty to investigate
– Duty to treat soil and groundwater
– Reporting duties concerning a polluted area
Finnish Clean Soil Program
Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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Relevant guidelines for risk assessment and management
Guidelines
 National risk management
strategy for contaminated land
(Suomen Ympäristö 10/2015)
 Contaminated land risk
evaluation and sustainable risk
management (Ympäristöhallinnon
ohjeita 6/2014)
 Contaminated land risk
management eco-efficiency
(Suomen ympäristö 33/2009)
Objectives
1) More consistent and justified
site specific assessments
2) More sustainable risk
management/remediation
i.a. Providing necessary risk
reduction while minimizing
the overall negative
impacts of the selected
actions
Finnish Clean Soil Program
Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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National Risk Management Strategy for Contaminated Land
Strategy actions
1. Risk sites are to be identified, investigated and
remediated systematically.
2. Land use and risk management of contaminated
land support each other in the achievement of
sustainable, overarching solutions.
3. Data systems support planning and decision
making in a user-oriented way.
4. Remediation methods are cost effective, save
natural resources, minimise harmful environmental
impacts and promote circular economy.
5. Methods, division of work between the operators,
responsibilities and obligations are clear and
standardised.
6. Operations and communications are open,
transparent and interactive.
Strategy
objective
The significant risks
posed to health and
the environment by
contaminated land
are controlled in a
sustainable way by
2040.
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Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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Implementation of the Risk Management Strategy for CL
National Risk Management Strategy for
Contaminated Land
Guidance tools
Regulatory
Financial
Information
Education
Guidance
Co-operation
National
Investigation
and Remediation
Program
Contaminated Sites
Demonstration
Program
Finnish Clean Soil Program
Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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National Investigation and Remediation Program overview
1. National database for contaminated land
2. Prioritisation for the national investigation program
3. Site investigations and risk assesments
4. Prioritisation for the national risk management program
5. Sustainable site risk management and remediation
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Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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Process for compiling national investigation program
1
• Orphan / unmaged site / State finance necessary
• Must be verified by competent authority
2
• Excecutability (Risk vs. Cost vs. Resources)
• Possible partnership or large risks
3
• Site Prioritisation (Site Risk Index: 0-100 p)
• GIS/Database based automated site risk evaluation
4
• National factors (High: 30%, Mid: 20% Low: 0%)
• National comparison of the site risks
5
• Local factors (High: 20%, Mid: 10%, Low: 0%)
• Local comparison of the site risks
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• Compiling the program (Risk Index x National x Local)
• Score based division to annual investigation prof
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Site prioritisation model for the national program
T1 Economic activity classification
T2 Extent of economic actity
P1 Distance from groundwater
P2 Groundwater classification
P3 Groundwater formation area
P4 Distance to water extraction
P5 Groundwater flow direction
V1 Distance to surface water
V2 Surface water use
M1 Distance to human activities
M2 Distance to protected habitats
M3 Current land use class
M4 Land use development
• The model has four (4) separate
parts: economic activity,
groundwater, surface water and
land use.
• The total score of all parts is 100,
except gorundwater which is
prioritised to 115.
• The total score is an arithmetic
mean with a maximum score of 100
A1 >= 75 p; High priority
A2: >= 70 p; Medium priority
B: >= 55 p; Low priority
C: < 55 p; No priority
D: Active site
E: No investigation need
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Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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Contaminated Land Demonstration Program
 Contaminated Land Demonstration Program forms a part of the National Risk
Management Strategy for Contaminated Land and is implemented as part of the
government strategic reform projects in “Circular Economy and Clean Solutions”.
 Objective of the Contaminated Land Demonstration Program is to advocate
sustainable contaminated land risk management and remediation practices and
processes, advance cleantech entrepreneurship and international co-operation.
 The program is coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment and executed by the
Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment
Demo Application ProjectR&D&I Scale up Multiply International
INNOVATION COMMERCIALISATION
TEKES
Innovation and research
finance
PIR ELY
Contaminated Land
Demonstration Program
PIR ELY
Investigation and
Remediation Program
TEAM FIN.,
FINPRO,
FINNVERA,
TEKES, …
DEMONSTRATION
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Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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Strategy for the Contaminated Land Demonstration Program
EXPERIMENTATIONS
•Research and development
•Business driven projects
•Open calls for proposals
•Lean, ”creative destruction”
DEMONSTRATIONS
•Risk management /
remediation
•Public projects
•Public tendering process
•Combines experimentations
COMMUNICATION
•Influencing
•Strategy centred
•Joint development oriented
•”doing together”
•Transition management
 Implementation of the Contaminated Land Demonstration Program is divided in
three themes: experimentations, demonstrations and communication
 Focus is on sustainability, international co-operation and entrepreneurship.
 Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment is supported
in the implementation by the Finnish Environmental Protection Agency (SYKE),
Ministry of the Environment and the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation.
Finnish Clean Soil Program
Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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Key tasks supporting the three strategy themes
Int’l projects
Integration
R&D calls
Demon-
strations
Transition
manage-
ment
Communi-
cation
Innovation
plantform
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Mr. Jarno Laitinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

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Advancing sustainability in every step of the process
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