(a) The EPA regional office award official for your grant may waive your group's $50,000 limit if your group demonstrates that:

1. (1) If it received previous TAG funds, you managed those funds effectively; and

2. (2) Site(s) characteristics indicate additional funds are necessary due to the nature or volume of site-related information. In this case, three of the ten factors below must occur:

   1. (i) A Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (“RI/FS”) costing more than $2 million is performed;
   2. (ii) Treatability studies or evaluation of new and innovative technologies are required as specified in the Record of Decision;
   3. (iii) EPA reopens the Record of Decision;
   4. (iv) The site public health assessment (or related activities) indicates the need for further health investigations and/or health promotion activities;
   5. (v) EPA designates one or more additional operable units after awarding the TAG;
   6. (vi) The agency leading the cleanup issues an “Explanation of Significant Differences” (ESD);
   7. (vii) A legislative or regulatory change results in new site information after EPA awards the TAG;
   8. (viii) EPA expects a cleanup lasting more than eight years from the beginning of the RI/FS through construction completion;
   9. (ix) Significant public concern exists, where large groups of people in the community require many meetings, copies, etc.; and
   10. (x) Any other factor that, in EPA's judgment, indicates that the site is unusually complex.