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needed to document changes in these cleanup standards (this applies to SWMU 2 as well as SWMU 4) . 2 . [Response to EPA Comment No. G4 of October 15, 1997 on Day Care Center Site] This comment has been partially addressed. Although the title of Section 5 . 8 .1 refers to the Day Care Center Site as an excavation and disposal site under a time critical removal action, the text of that section refers to the site as no further action site. Please delete " . . .therefore, the site is recommended for no further action" in the second sentence. 3 . [Table 6-4 and 6-4; Section 6.5.10 on Human Health Risks] These tables summarize current and future human health risks. The "less than" symbols used in these tables are remnants of the Baseline Risk Assessment, and refer to bias in the calculation. The footnotes to these tables which address this bias state, "Values as calculated; bias likely will not change category. " Since bias will not likely change the risk category, it will be much less confusing if all reference to bias were eliminated from this ROD. As currently written, one could easily interpret the bias discussion in Section 6 to mean that risks were incorrectly calculated in the Baseline Risk Assessment for a number of sites . Section 6 . 5.10 should be revised to eliminate discussion that risks for SWMU 3, SWMU 4, and SWMU 1/Area 2 are likely to be one category high based on bias. Instead, for SWMU 4 and SWMU 1/Area 2, the text should explain that these sites are in the 10-4 to 10-6 risk management range. The text should then provide documentation to support why a risk management decision resulted in a determination that no remedial action is deemed warranted for human health risk. For SWMU 3, since future risks are outside of the risk management range (4 x10-4; HI=10) , a risk management decision cannot be applied. Additionally, the statement in Section 6 .3 . 10 that remediation to protect human health does not apply to SWMU 3 is incorrect . Table 10-16 shows a risk based cleanup concentrations for chlordane and DDX at SWMU 3 . Please revise Section 6. 5. 10 accordingly. (This concern was discussed at the January 9, 1998 conference call . ) 4. [Response to EPA Comment No. G5 of October 15, 1997 on Groundwater] This comment has been partially addressed. a. Section 7 .3 .2 (Remedial Action Objectives) should briefly summarize (from the text in Section 7.3 . 1) why RAOs for groundwater in this ROD are limited to dieldrin, i .e. , why they do not address VOC contaminants in groundwater. For example, Section 7.3 .2 could state, "As explained in Section A-3