January 5, 2007—The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continued to make significant progress in cleaning up America’s most contaminated hazardous waste sites over the past year, says the EPA. Superfund, the federal government program that cleans up these sites, completed work at 40 sites during fiscal year 2006 for a cumulative total of 1,006 sites with construction work completed.
EPA conducted 653 ongoing cleanup projects at 414 sites and funded new work at 18 projects across the country. Superfund also continued to prepare for future cleanup efforts by listing 11 new sites and proposing 10 sites to be added to the National Priorities List, the most serious sites across the country that have been identified for possible long-term cleanup by the Superfund program.
EPA also conducted or oversaw 294 emergency response and removal actions to address immediate threats to communities, cleaning up spills and accidental releases of hazardous material.
For more information on the Superfund program and ongoing projects, visit EPA’s Superfund site.
