E.P.A. Adds and Suggests 3 Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List in the Southeast

Category: Hazardous Waste
Type: News
Source: EPA
Date: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

(Atlanta, Ga. - Mar. 3, 2010) The E.P.A. (EPA) has added 3 and suggested 3 new hazardous waste sites in the southeast that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. The NPL is a listing of priority sites that E.P.A. investigates to determine if actions are needed to clean up the waste. Superfund is the federal plan that investigates and cleans up the most complex uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country - protecting the health of nearby communities and ecosystems from harmful contaminants.

The JJ Seifert Machine (Ruskin, Fla.), Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp - Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Fla.), and Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp - Navassa (Navassa, N.C.) sites have been added to the National Priorities List. Sanford Dry Cleaners (Sanford, Fla.), The Wright Chemical Corporation (Riegelwood, N.C.), and Smokey Mountain Smelters (Knox County, Tenn.) sites have been suggested for inclusion on the National Priorities List.

To date, there are 1,279 sites on the NPL (including the ten new sites added today). With the suggestion of the 8 new sites, there are 61 suggested sites awaiting final agency action. There are a total of 1,340 final and suggested sites.

Contaminants of concern found at the final and suggested sites include arsenic, benzene, chromium, copper, creosote, cyanide, dichloroethene (DCE), lead, mercury, perchloroethene, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and selenium, among others.

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

Sites may be placed on the NPL through various mechanisms:

� Numeric ranking established by EPA's Hazard Ranking System.
� Designation by states or territories of one top-priority site.
� Meeting all 3 of the following requirements:

� The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) of the U.S. Public Health Service has issued a health advisory that recommends removing people from the site;
� E.P.A. determines the location poses a significant threat to public health; and
� E.P.A. anticipates it will be more cost-effective to use its remedial authority than to use its emergency removal authority to respond to the site.

For Federal Register notices and supporting documents for these final and suggested sites, please visit http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/current.htm

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