EPA proposes 22 additional sites to NPL:

Haznews, September, 1991

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed that a further 22 sites be added to the National Priorities List (NPL) of those hazardous waste sites posing the greatest threat or potential threat to human health and the environment. The 22 sites are the first to be proposed to the NPL using the Agency's revised Hazard Ranking System (HRS), which became effective in March 1991.

The EPA says that the new HRS "is a more accurate and comprehensive system", which may "add new types of sites to the NPL". The total number of final sites on the NPL is now 1,188. Sites on the NPL are eligible for remedial action funded under the Superfund programme. However, of the 22 proposed sites, three are federal facilities and are not therefore eligible for EPA Superfund aid....

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