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EIGHT NEW SUPERFUND SITES IN EIGHT STATES ADDED TO NATIONAL PRIORITY LIST, 13 PROPOSEDFOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 2000 EPA today announced adding eight new Superfund hazardous waste sites to the National Priorities List (NPL) and proposing 13 others. Generally, a site is placed on the NPL if preliminary investigations indicate that it warrants further investigation and possible cleanup. Currently, there are a total of 63 proposed and 1,231 final sites on the NPL nationwide. The eight new final sites are: Alark Hard Chrome, Riverside, Calif.; Alaric Area Ground Water Plume, Tampa, Fla.; Indian Refinery-Texaco Lawrenceville, Lawrenceville, Ill.; Riverfront, New Haven, Mo.; Lockwood Solvent Groundwater Plume, Billings, Mont.; Portland Harbor, Portland, Ore.; Gilt Edge Mine, Lead, S.D.; and Naval Weapons Station Yorktown - Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, Va. The 13 new proposed sites are: Del Amo, Los Angeles, Calif.; Broad Brook Mill, East Windsor, Conn.; St. Maries Creosote, St. Maries, Idaho; Barker Hughesville Mining District, Barker, Mont.; Carpenter Snow Creek Mining District, Neihart, Mont.; Consolidated Iron and Metal, Newburgh, N.Y.; Taylor Lumber and Treating, Sheridan, Ore.; Bountiful/Woods Cross 5th South PCE Plume, Bountiful/Woods Cross Utah; Davenport and Flagstaff Smelters, Sandy City, Utah; Elizabeth Mine, Strafford, Vt.; Lower Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, Wash.; Ashland/Northland States Power Lakefront, Ashland, Wis.; and Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Ill. This action appears in today’s Federal Register, with a public comment period on the proposed sites until Jan. 30, 2001. Further information about these sites and the Superfund program is available at: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/index.htm#desnqry R-176 ### Release date:12/01/2000 Receive our News Releases Automatically by Email
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