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2. List of Superfund sites in Arkansas - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Superfund sites in Arkansas designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 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]

3. List of Superfund sites - Wikipedia

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   The NPL guides the EPA in "determining which sites warrant further investigation" for environmental remediation. [2] As of June 6, 2024 [update] , there were 1,340 Superfund sites in the National Priorities List in the United States. [ 2 ]

4. National Priorities List - Wikipedia

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   The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), also known as "Superfund", requires that the criteria provided by the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) be used to make a list of national priorities of the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants in the United States. [2]

5. United States Environmental Protection Agency - Wikipedia

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   The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. [2] President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order . [ 3 ]

6. List of health and environmental agencies in the United States

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   The exact duties of these agencies can vary widely and some are combined with or are part of a state's fish and wildlife management agency. Agencies created as a result of interstate environmental compacts also are included, at the bottom of the list.

7. List of ecoregions in Arkansas - Wikipedia

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   The task of defining and mapping these ecoregions was carried out by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6, EPA-National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (Corvallis, Oregon), and the Multi-Agency Wetland Planning Team.

8. Toxics Release Inventory - Wikipedia

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   The inventory was first proposed in a 1985 New York Times op-ed piece written by David Sarokin and Warren Muir, researchers for an environmental group, Inform, Inc. [2] Congress established TRI under Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA), and later expanded it in the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA).

9. State Implementation Plan - Wikipedia

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   A State Implementation Plan (SIP) is a United States state plan for complying with the federal Clean Air Act, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The SIP, developed by a state agency and approved by EPA, consists of narrative, rules, technical documentation, and agreements that an individual state will use to control and clean up polluted areas.