[CPEO-BIF] EPA evaluating CTS Asheville (NC) for Superfund

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State: EPA evaluating CTS site for National Priorities List

Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
July 29, 2009

The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources said today that 
it will allow the Environmental Protection Agency to make a decision 
about federal oversight of cleanup at up the former CTS of Asheville 
site before it acts on an proposed agreement for cleanup at the 
industrial site.

The EPA is currently conducting an investigation at the former CTS site 
and the surrounding community to determine of the site qualifies for the 
National Priorities List, or NPL.

Placing the site on the NPL would make federal funds available for site 
cleanup if responsible parties refuse the cleanup or don't have 
resources to complete the cleanup.

If responsible parties refuse an EPA cleanup order, the EPA can clean up 
the site with federal funds and then sue the responsible parties for up 
to three times the cleanup costs.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090729/NEWS01/90729026

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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