National Priorities List

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) list of hazardous sites that pose immediate threat to persons living or working near them due to the risk of release of toxic chemicals.

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In a recent case, a company involved an elected official in its efforts to keep a contaminated site off the National Priorities List.

Pruitt could turn to Superfund alternative

The balance of the Superfund trust fund available for future appropriations has decreased significantly since 1996, while highly contaminated hazardous waste sites continue to be added to the National Priorities List (NPL), EPA's list of the nation's most contaminated sites.

Superfund Program: Current Status and Future Fiscal Challenges

On average, one site is removed from the National Priorities List per week for every two that are added.

What to do about Superfund?

The National Priorities List is a roster of the nations most contaminated sites that threaten human health or the environment.

United States : EPA Removes C&D Recycling Site in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania From Superfund List

Mitguard said it is likely the site will be eligible to be considered for the agency's national priorities list.

TOXICS FOUND AT PLASTICS SITE SOIL, WATER AT SAUGUS PLANT COULD QUALIFY FOR EPA CLEANUP

The tribe met firm resistance from authorities when it asked for the site to be included on the National Priorities List (NPL) for Superfund status.

The Paiute mining disaster

It was this contamination with white phosphorus, which can damage bones and major internal organs, that in 1994 landed Eagle River Flats on the Superfund National Priorities List, a U.

The price of preparing for war

These are: (1) agreements specifically required by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to address cleanup of federal sites on EPA's national priorities list or by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 to address the management of mixed radioactive and hazardous waste at DOE facilities, (2) court-ordered agreements resulting from lawsuits initiated primarily by states, and (3) other agreements, including state administrative orders enforcing state hazardous waste management laws.

Waste Cleanup: Implications of Compliance Agreements on DOE's Cleanup Program

To be eligible, the applicant must be a political subdivision, a federally recognized tribe or a state, and have a site within its jurisdiction that is proposed or final on the National Priorities List (NPL), and where construction of the remedy is not yet complete.

In an effort to get Superfund sites into productive reuse

While the thought has surely occurred to those unlucky few who own a Superfund site on the federal National Priorities List or the State list of hazardous waste sites, the market value of many other properties is also impaired by environmental problems that could entitle the owner to a real property tax reduction.

Tax assessment of contaminated properties addressed

EPA expected later this month or in early March, he is prepared to endorse a recommendation from the EPA that the former Shafer Equipment site in the Fayette County community of Minden be added to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites.

United States : Gov. Justice says he is prepared to endorse EPA recommendation that Minden site be placed on National Priorities List of Superfund sites