EPA Releases Funds For More Superfund Cleanups

Date: July 18, 2002

Source: News Room

The Environmental Protection Agency has cleared payments to clean up a third of the toxic waste sites for which financing had been delayed this year. Agency officials said $27 million was made available in June to clean up 11 of 33 Superfund sites in 18 states that an EPA inspector general's report identified as having received no money as of May. The 11 sites that received the latest money are the Combe Fill South Landfill site, Chester Township, N.J., $1.4 million; the GCL Tie and Treating site, Sidney, N.Y., $2.5 million; the Tutu Wellfield site, Tutu, V.I.; $5.6 million; the American Creosote Works site, Pensacola, Fla., $2.7 million; the Ross Metals site, Rossville, Tenn., $3 million; the Aircraft Components site, Benton Harbor, Mich., $1.5 million; the Hudson Refinery site, Cushing, Okla., $3 million; the Sprague Road site, Odessa, Texas, $4 million; and the 10th Street site, Columbus, Neb., $1 million; and two mining areas in Montana, one near Basin, $1.3 million, and the other, Upper Ten Mile Creek, near Helena, $1 million. Another five of the 33 sites do not currently need more money, EPA officials said.

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