EPA Waste Official Calls For ‘Subdividing’ Superfund List To Aid Cleanups

BOSTON -- A top EPA waste official says the agency should be breaking down the National Priority List (NPL) of Superfund sites based on site-specific factors, such as the type of contamination involved, in order to develop better cleanup strategies, as one way to “evolve” the program based on advice from the just-concluded Superfund Task Force. “We need to quit thinking of the National Priorities List as just a single list. We need to break it up . . ...