CERCLA was enacted by Congress in 1980 in response to the threat of hazardous waste sites, typified by the Love Canal disaster in New York, and the Valley of the Drums 展开

Upon notification of a potentially hazardous waste site, the EPA conducts a Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection (PA/SI), which involves records reviews, interviews, visual … 展开

Federal actions to address the disproportionate health and environmental disparities that minority and low-income populations face through Executive Order 12898 required federal … 展开

While the simple and relatively easy sites have been cleaned up, EPA is now addressing a residual number of difficult and massive sites such as large-area mining and sediment sites, which is tying up a significant amount of funding. Also, while the federal … 展开

CERCLA authorizes two kinds of response actions:
1. Removal actions. These are typically short-term response actions, where actions may be taken to … 展开

As of December 9, 2021 , there were 1,322 sites listed; an additional 447 had been delisted, and 51 new sites have been proposed.
Historically about 70 percent of Superfund cleanup activities have been paid for by potentially responsible … 展开

The data in the Superfund Program are available to the public.
• Superfund Site Search
• Superfund Policy, Reports and Other Documents
• TOXMAP was a Geographic Information System (GIS) from … 展开