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Introduction
Note: State-by-state lists and polluter-by-polluter lists are only available in the printed version of this report.
Super Polluters contains a state-by-state list of the Superfund National Priority List (NPL) sites, including Federal Facilities, where at least one of the top 25 Superfund polluters has been identified as a potentially responsible party by EPA. The state-by-state list also shows which of the Top 25 Superfund polluters has been identified at each site, and the total number of Superfund sites in that state. The state-by-state list contains only sites classified as "Final" or "Deleted" by EPA.
Super Polluters also contains a polluter-by-polluter list of all the non-Federal Facility Superfund sites where each of the top 25 Superfund polluters has been named as a "potentially responsible party" by EPA. The polluter-by-polluter list is slightly broader, containing several other categories of sites in addition to Final and Deleted sites. The polluter-by-polluter list contains the name of the site and a letter code to indicate the site's status according to EPA. The letter codes and their meanings follow. "F" indicates that the site is on the Final "National Priority List" (NPL) of Superfund sites; ãDä means that a site has been deleted from the list National Priority List, probably because cleanup efforts have been completed, although the site might not necessarily be completely clean. "P" means that a site is currently proposed for the NPL and is undergoing review. "R" means that a site has been removed from the proposed NPL, while an "S" indicates a pre-proposal site. Finally, "N" sites are "non-NPL" sites. These are primarily "removal" sites where emergency cleanup measures are being taken under streamlined procedures to stabilize a site that poses an immediate threat to public health or the environment. In most instances, removal actions are taken when there is not enough time to classify the site through the normal NPL process.
EPA classifies "F" and "D" sites as "NPL" sites, while the total of all the categories of sites described above is listed separately as "ALL SITES." For example, General Electric has been identified as a PRP at 102 sites, 86 of which are classified as "NPL sites." The remainder are sites where EPA has taken some other kind of response action to address the contamination at the site.
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