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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 ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in the U.S. State of Colorado designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term ...
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]
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 ...
These locations are known as Superfund sites, and are placed on the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL guides the EPA in "determining which sites warrant further investigation" for environmental remediation. [2] As of May 1, 2010, there were 48 Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in Washington. [2] Seventeen others have been ...
The EPA designated the base a Superfund site in 1990 due to toxic chemicals found in the soil and water. ... said more than 1,500 people who believe their health was put at risk on the base have ...
On this list are the most polluted sites requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1] The NPL guides EPA in "determining which sites warrant further investigation" for significant environmental remediation. [2] As of April 2010, there were thirteen Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in Oregon. [2]
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 ...