September 30, 2009—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding 11 new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites, and proposing to add 10 additional sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled, or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country.
The following 11 sites have been added to the National Priorities List:
- B.F. Goodrich (Rialto, CA)
- Lane Street Ground Water Contamination (Elkhart, IN)
- Southwest Jefferson County Mining (Jefferson County, MO)
- Flat Creek IMM (Superior, MT)
- Ore Knob Mine (Ashe County, NC)
- GMH Electronics (Roxboro, NC)
- Curtis Specialty Papers, Inc. (Milford, NJ)
- Little Scioto River (Marion County, OH)
- Salford Quarry (Lower Salford Township, PA)
- Papelera Puertorriquena, Inc. (Utuado, Puerto Rico)
- Amcast Industrial Corporation (Cedarburg, WI)
The following 10 sites have been proposed to the National Priorities List:
- Salt Chuck Mine (Outer Ketchikan County, AR)
- Millsboro TCE (Millsboro, DE)
- JJ Seifert Machine (Ruskin, FL)
- Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp—Jacksonville (Jacksonville, FL)
- Chemetco (Madison County, IL)
- Gratiot County Golf Course (St. Louis, MI)
- Kerr-McGee Chem Corp—Navassa (Navassa, NC)
- Newtown Creek (Brooklyn/Queens, NY)
- Black Butte Mine (Cottage Grove, OR)
- Van Der Horst USA Corporation (Terrell, TX)
To date, there have been 1,607 sites listed on the NPL, notes EPA. Of these sites, 336 sites have been deleted resulting in 1,271 final sites currently on the NPL, including the 11 new final sites added in this rulemaking. With the proposal of the 10 new sites, there are 66 proposed sites awaiting final agency action: 61 in the general Superfund section and five in the federal facilities section. There are a total of 1,337 final and proposed sites.
