October 10, 2005—The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Superfund program has released its Fiscal Year 2004 Annual Report. The Superfund program is designed to increase community participation, enhance cleanup effectiveness, and encourage beneficial reuse and revitalization of brownfields sites following cleanup.
In 2004, the Superfund program spent $507 million to perform construction and post-construction activities and to conduct and oversee emergency response actions. EPA obligated $104 million of appropriated funds, state cost share, and responsible party settlement resources for 27 new construction projects.
Superfund accomplishments include:
- Completing construction at 40 sites across the country for a total of 926 sites or 61 percent of the sites on the National Priorities List (NPL);
- Conducting 678 long-term, ongoing cleanup projects at 428 sites;
- Securing $680 million in cleanup commitments and cost recoveries from the private parties responsible for toxic waste sites;
- Listing 11 new sites on the National Priorities List, and proposing 26 sites to be listed;
- Spending $228 million to conduct and oversee site assessments and investigations, selection and design of cleanup plans, support for state, tribal, community involvement activities, and other activities
- Selecting final cleanup plans at 30 sites, bringing the cumulative total of sites with final cleanup plans to approximately 66 percent of the 1,529 NPL sites.
For the complete report, visit EPA/Superfund.
