DEP's Contaminated Soils Forum was established in 1998 to provide an open forum for interested parties. Although the forum is currently inactive, numerous meetings were held in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The meetings included discussions of a wide variety of topics relating to evolving policy, scientific, and application issues associated with contaminated site cleanup and the re-use of a variety of media, including soils, sludges, ash, and recovered screen material, using risk-based management principles. Various focus groups made recommendations on cleanup, re-use, environmental equity and justice, communications, methodology, ecological risk, peer review, street sweepings, and the application of engineering and institutional controls.