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EPA Names New Superfund Sites
The immediate solution is for EPA to manage these cleanups. But the long term solutions are deeper than that. How do you as a citizen, and you as a green professional envision a better solution? Identifying Hazardous Waste SitesThe National Priority List is a listing of priority sites that EPA investigates to determine if actions are needed to clean up the waste.Superfund is the federal program that cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country – protecting the health of nearby communities and ecosystems from harmful contaminants. In addition to the final sites added to the list, EPA is also proposing to add eight sites to the NPL. Contaminants found at these sites may pose a wide range of health effects. The contaminants found include arsenic, benzene, chromium, copper, creosote, cyanide, dichloroethene (DCE), lead, mercury, perchloroethene, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and selenium, among others. With all Superfund sites, EPA tries to identify and locate the parties potentially responsible for the contamination to pay for the clean up. For the newly listed sites without viable potentially responsible parties, EPA will investigate the full extent of the contamination before starting significant cleanup at the site. Therefore, it may be several years before significant cleanup funding is required for these sites.
The 10 sites added to the Superfund National Priorities List
The following eight sites have been proposed to the National Priorities List
For Federal Register notices and supporting documents for these final and proposed sites: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/current.htm
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