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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 ...
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]
Under the Superfund program, the EPA and state agencies use the HRS to calculate a site score (ranging from 0 to 100) based on the actual or potential release of hazardous substances from a site through air, surface water or groundwater. A score of 28.5 places the site on the National Priorities List, making the site eligible for long-term ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Alaska 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 ...
New Mexico has 15 Superfund sites. There are 1,340 Superfund sites in the U.S. The EPA, to date, has removed five sites from New Mexico's list of Superfunds, meaning the sites should no longer ...
CERCLA, passed by Congress in 1980, authorized EPA to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous-material contamination. [1] These locations are designated as Superfund sites, and are placed on EPA's National Priorities List (NPL).
Despite being one of the smallest states, New Jersey has more Superfund sites than any other state in the country. Here is why. NJ has the most Superfund sites in the country.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Wednesday that it give the J.H. Baxter site in Eugene the EPA's "Superfund" designation. EPA Superfund sites are hazardous locations the federal agency ...