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Superfund sites in New York are designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA, a federal law passed in 1980, authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...
Pages in category "Superfund sites in New York (state)" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Dewey Loeffel Landfill is an EPA superfund site located in Rensselaer County, New York.In the 1950s and 1960s, several companies including General Electric, Bendix Corporation and Schenectady Chemicals used the site as a disposal facility for more than 46,000 tons of industrial hazardous wastes, including solvents, waste oils, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), scrap materials, sludges and ...
The New York City School Construction Authority is considering breaking ground on a new elementary school in Brooklyn – across the street from a state Superfund site with a history of carcinogens.
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYSDMV or DMV) is the department of the New York state government [1] responsible for vehicle registration, vehicle inspections, driver's licenses, learner's permits, photo ID cards, and adjudicating traffic violations. Its regulations are compiled in title 15 of the New York Codes, Rules and ...
According to the location map [6] (Superfund Site location map on the National Geographic website, accessed on September 27, 2017), Kauffman & Minteer Inc. (K&M) is still currently an active superfund site. Although many remediation actions have been conducted and there have been no reports of further contamination, the site is still closely ...
The New York City government feared that designating the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site would result in many potentially costly lawsuits against polluters. [70] Meanwhile, the area directly to the east of the Gowanus neighborhood was rezoned for high density residential use with a strong commercial component in 2003. [ 106 ]