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Uncategorized Document94-131891994-05-31

National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites

Environmental Protection Agency

Abstract

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (``CERCLA'' or ``the Act''), as amended, requires that the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (``NCP'') include a list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States. The National Priorities List (``NPL'') constitutes this list. This rule adds 42 new sites to the NPL, 18 to the General Superfund Section and 24 to the Federal Facilities Section. The identification of a site for the NPL is intended primarily to guide the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'' or ``the Agency'') in determining which sites warrant further investigation to assess the nature and extent of public health and environmental risks associated with the site and to determine what CERCLA-financed remedial action(s), if any, may be appropriate. This action results in an NPL of 1,232 sites, 1,082 of them in the General Superfund Section and 150 of them in the Federal Facilities Section. An additional 54 sites are proposed, 48 in the General Superfund Section and 6 in the Federal Facilities Section. Final and proposed sites now total 1,286.

Action & Dates

Action
Final rule.
Dates
The effective date for this amendment to the NCP shall be June 30, 1994. CERCLA section 305 provides for a legislative veto of regulations promulgated under CERCLA. Although INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919,103 S. Ct. 2764 (1983) cast the validity of the legislative veto into question, EPA has transmitted a copy of this regulation to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives. If any action by Congress calls the effective date of this regulation into question, the Agency will publish a notice of clarification in the Federal Register.
Effective Date
1994-06-30

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