EPA Adds Hazardous Waste Site to National Priorities ListMurray, Brittany
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has delivered an update onLibby, Montana. In August 2022, it removed another section of the Libby Superfund site from its National Priorities List (NPL). Libby is the site of a vermiculite mine that exposed residents toasbestos. Hundreds of...
EPA has formally added a contaminated Army Corps of Engineers site in Oregon to Superfund’s National Priorities List (NPL), taking a rare move of placing a federal facility onto the NPL -- an action infrequently taken in the past decade -- though in this case the agency faced considerable ...
September 9, 2021 Tweet EPA is moving to update its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) of contaminated sites, proposing 13 sites, including a rare federal facility site, to be added to the list while finalizing a rule that adds four other sites to the NPL. In aFederal Registernotice ...
In the mid-1990s, however, the EPA reported significant progress, reporting that by 1996, cleanup activities had been started at 95 percent of the Superfund sites listed on the EPA's National Priorities List (NPL). In addition, the EPA reported that it had completed cleanup at over 400 of...
The agency also maintains a National Priorities List (NPL) of known dangerous sites. Read More EPA Programs Members of the EPA and U.S. Coast Guard in Gulfport, Miss., after Hurricane Katrina Barry Williams/Getty Images The EPA initially focused on creating programs that enacted several...
EPA Adds Vapor Intrusion to Criteria Used to Score Potential National Priorities List Sites Contact Information: Jennah Durant or Joe Hubbard, R6Press@epa.gov or 214 665-2200(DALLAS – Sept. 16, 2014) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc... E Mctiernan 被引量: 0发表: 0年 EPA Adds ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which enforces CERCLA, places the most contaminated sites on its National Priorities List (NPL) and requires that they be cleaned up in accordance with CERCLA. EPA has placed 140 DOD sites on the NPL. Disputes have recently arisen between EPA and DOD...
One of the first sites in the EPA's crosshairs is the Scovill Industrial Site in Waterbury, Connecticut, which has been on the backlog since 2017 after originally being added to the National Priorities list in 2000. "Cleaning up the Scovill Landfill in Waterbury is long overdue, and it'...
17, includes funds to start construction at 49 sites in 24 states and territories that are on the Superfund National Priorities List and constitute the program's funding backlog. The $1 billion represents the first installment of $3.5 billion in funding provided for Superfund cleanups in the ...