E.P.A. Declares Superfund Cleanup Progress for FY 2009
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Category: Hazardous WasteType: News
Source: EPA
Date: Thursday, March 4th, 2010
WASHINGTON - The E.P.A. released today the yearly summary of the Superfund program's fiscal year (FY) 2009 progress. The report shows that the plan continues to make significant progress in achieving its mission of cleaning up the country's most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites and protecting the health of nearby communities and ecosystems from harmful contaminants.
In FY 2009, which ended on Sept. 30, E.P.A. completed all of its construction plans at 20 sites, for a cumulative total of 1,080 sites with construction completed - 67 percent of the top priority sites ranked on the National Priorities List (NPL). Superfund has continued to protect communities and the environment by listing 20 new sites and proposing that 23 sites be added to the NPL in FY 2009.
"Protecting human health and the environment, and restoring contaminated properties to environmental and economic vitality are E.P.A. priorities," said Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. "EPA gives top priority to cleaning up sites that pose the greatest risk to human health and to the environment while engaging communities throughout the location decision-making process."
With $582 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, E.P.A. began new construction at 26 Superfund sites and provided additional support to ongoing construction activities at 25 other sites. The recovery act backing is supporting local economies by creating and maintaining jobs, and is increasing the speed in which Superfund sites are cleaned up and returned to productive use. When a Superfund location is cleaned up and redeveloped, it can offer significant economic benefits to local communities, including future job creation.
E.P.A. conducted or oversaw in excess of 368 emergency response and removal actions to address immediate threats to communities, such as cleaning up spills and accidental delivers of hazardous material in FY 2009.
Underscoring EPA's commitment to the "polluter pays" principle, the agency secured commitments from potentially responsible parties to conduct in excess of $1.99 billion in future response work, and to reimburse E.P.A. for $371 million in past costs.
In 2010, E.P.A. launched the Integrated Cleanup Initiative, which represents a commitment to enhance plan performance and provide communities with accountability and transparency. As a 1st step, E.P.A. has developed a new publicly reported performance measure, an increase in the completion of Superfund remedial action projects. The new measure will provide more information regarding the actions necessary to bring location cleanups to completion and reuse.
More on the Superfund National Accomplishments Summary: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/accomp/numbers09.html
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