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- 1,240 sites on registry
- Controlled by EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
- 10 regional offices
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Superfund, or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act as it's formally known, is a United States environmental policy enacted as a response to the Love Canal disaster.
The program was begun on December 11, 1980 by the United States Congress in an effort to protect people from abandoned toxic waste sites.
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National Priorities List
"The NPL is the list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation. From this web site, you can locate NPL sites, check their cleanup progress, and get information on new and proposed NPL sites." ~NPLPicher, Oklahoma
Picher, OK is the site of one of the most toxic locations in the United States.The town was once a booming lead and zinc mining location but has since become an environmental disaster and a Superfund site due to the leftover waste from the mines.
Picher was hit by a tornado on May 10, 2008 killing six people and bringing Superfund sites back to public attention.
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@jennlynnjones You need one of my Superfund Bloody Marys. They extinguish all GI ailments!
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MT Gov. Schweitzer requests federal Superfund Designation for former smelter site in Black Eagle MT http://bit.ly/4M53NX
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Navy's former ammo depot, site of tribe's settlement, needs Superfund cleanup http://bit.ly/60uSSi
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U.S. Navy agrees to consider more cleanup options at Kitsap County Superfund Site http://bit.ly/6N7DVg ^BiL
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Feds To Restore Bird Habitat Around Superfund Site http://bit.ly/7uxtXr
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