A performance-based exit strategy focuses on performance (i.e., progress toward achieving RAOs) in order to routinely optimize the selected remedy and RAOs as information improves. Such exit strategies are dynamic and explicitly incorporate the flexibility needed to refine the strategy as site and technical knowledge improve over time, and emphasize assessment and optimization of remedy performance to assure timely, cost-efficient protection of human health.

This paper will focus on how an exit strategy is effectively developed and executed through the PBM approach and inherent systematic project planning.