Identifying the extent of a Superfund site
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States)
- DynCorp, Alexandria, VA (United States)
There has been considerable misunderstanding regarding the extent of private and Federal facility sites listed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or Superfund program. This problem, which occurs primarily at the time of proposal or finalization of a site to the National Priorities List (NPL), seems to be due both to semantics and errors in perception. The term ``site`` has been used differently in performing CERCLA removal and remediation activities, in the installation restoration programs of various Federal agencies, and by the public when preparing comments on proposed NPL sites. It has been confused with the terms source, solid waste management unit, and facility. The most common interpretation by the public of the term ``site`` and its extent is that the site encompasses the property owned by the facility named in the NPL designation or at which a removal has occurred. However, based on the related definitions in CERCLA, a site is best defined as the location of a release (or releases) of hazardous substances and wherever the hazardous substances have come to be located. The extent of a site neither is limited by property boundaries, nor does it include clean areas within a facility`s boundaries. This paper will identify the basis for the Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA`s) definition of site for Superfund purposes, including aggregated sites, relevant court decisions and statements of EPA policy, and provide case histories of how this definition has been applied at both private and Federal facilities.
- OSTI ID:
- 205368
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951139-; TRN: IM9615%%148
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 16. hazardous waste conference and exhibition: new frontiers in hazardous waste, Washington, DC (United States), 6-8 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Superfund 16: Conference and exhibition proceedings. Volume 1; PB: 828 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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