U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

EPA Adds Nine Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfunds National Priorities
List

EPA also proposes to add an additional 13 new sites to the NPL

 (Washington, D.C.  April 8, 2009) The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency is adding nine new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human
health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund
sites. Also, EPA is proposing to add 13 other sites to the list.
Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the
most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the
country.

To date, there have been 1,596 sites listed on the NPL. Of these sites,
332 sites have been deleted resulting in 1,264 final sites currently on
the NPL. With the proposal of the 13 new sites, there are 67 proposed
sites awaiting final agency action: 62 in the general Superfund section
and five in the federal facilities section. There are a total of 1,331
final and proposed sites.

Contaminants found at the final and proposed sites include arsenic,
asbestos, barium, cadmium, carbon tetrachloride, chloromethane,
chromium, copper, dichloroethene (DCE), lead, mercury, polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), selenium,
silver, sulfuric acid, tetrachloroethene (PCE), trichloroethane (TCA),
trichloroethene (TCE), vinyl chloride, and zinc.

With all Superfund sites, EPA tries to identify and locate the parties
potentially responsible for the contamination. For the newly listed
sites without viable potentially responsible parties, EPA will
investigate the full extent of the contamination before starting
significant cleanup at the site. Therefore, it may be several years
before significant cleanup funding is required for these sites.

Sites may be placed on the list through various mechanisms:

    Numeric ranking established by EPAs Hazard Ranking System:
    Designation by states or territories of one top-priority
   site
    Meeting all three of the following requirements:
         ؠ The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
         (ATSDR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has
         issued a health advisory that recommends removing people from
         the site;
         ؠ EPA determines the site poses a significant threat to
         public health; and
         ؠ EPA anticipates it will be more cost-effective to use
         its remedial authority than to use its emergency removal
         authority to respond to the site.

Federal Register notices and supporting documents for these final and
proposed sites: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/current.htm

The following nine sites have been added to the National Priorities
List:

Raleigh Street Dump (Tampa, Fla.)
Arkla Terra Property (Thonotosassa, Fla.)
U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery, Inc. (East Chicago, Ind.)
Fort Detrick Area B Ground Water (Frederick, Md.)
Behr Dayton Thermal System VOC Plume (Dayton, Ohio)
New Carlisle Landfill (New Carlisle, Ohio)
BoRit Asbestos (Ambler, Pa.)
Barite Hill/Nevada Goldfields (McCormick, S.C.)
Attebury Grain Storage Facility (Happy, Texas))

The following 13 sites have been proposed to the National Priorities
List:

General Dynamics Longwood (Longwood, Fla.)
Lane Street Ground Water Contamination (Elkhart, Ind.)
Southwest Jefferson County Mining (Jefferson County, Mo.)
Flat Creek IMM (Superior, Mont.)
Ore Knob Mine (Ashe County, N.C.)
GMH Electronics (Roxboro, N.C.).)
Raritan Bay Slag (Old Bridge/Sayreville, N.J.)
Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Little Scioto River (Marion County, Ohio)
Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation/Church Road TCE (Mountain Top, Pa.)
Papelera Puertorriquena, Inc. (Utuado, Puerto Rico)
Peck Iron and Metal (Portsmouth, Va.),
Amcast Industrial Corporation (Cedarburg, Wis.)

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