[CPEO-BIF] Missouri Superfund cleanups: Valley Park TCE Site and Vienna Wells Site

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA project manager discusses details of cleaning up two Missouri superfund waste sites

By Juliette Fairley
St. Louis Record
February 3, 2022

Several steps need to be taken before actual cleanup begins around two Missouri superfund waste sites that were included in a $1 billion funding package approved by Congress last year, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, according to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ).

The Valley Park TCE Site in Valley Park and the Vienna Wells Site in Vienna are the two sites targeted for cleanup.

“These two sites are within the category of what we call fund lead sites, which means the cleanups are paid through funds appropriated to the EPA,” said Hoai Tran, superfund remedial project manager for the two Missouri sites. “They then go through a priority panel process where eligible sites that are ready to be cleaned up are evaluated. The priority panel makes a decision on which sites get funded on a national basis. Both of these sites were presented to the priority panel.”

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For the entire article, see
https://stlrecord.com/stories/619263223-epa-project-manager-discusses-details-of-cleaning-up-two-missouri-superfund-waste-sites

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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