| The Superfund program
is administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).
The EPA, through Superfund, seeks to clean up sites where toxic
and hazardous wastes have been deposited or spilled. The Service’s
Division of Environmental Contaminants provides information,
data, and guidance to the EPA to ensure that the cleanups protect
migratory birds, anadromous fish, marine mammals, and threatened
and endangered species.
The information provided by Service contaminants specialists
assists the EPA in ensuring that clean ups protect natural
resources and the environment, as well as human health, saving
money for EPA and the parties responsible for the sites, and
ensuring that public resources are protected. Some recent
Superfund sites in which the Service assisted the EPA include
Indiana’s Midco
I and II, Utah’s Sharon
Steel and Midvale Slag, and Vermont’s
Bennington landfill [pdf
files].
Links:
EPA, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response. Returning
Superfund Sites to Productive Use: Bowers Landfill, Pickaway
County, Ohio - http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/recycle/success/casestud/bowercsi.htm
EPA, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response. Chisman Creek,
York County, Virginia: A Superfund Redevelopment Success -
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/recycle/success/casestud/chiscsi.htm
Updated: March 15, 2004
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