[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: "Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine Removed from EPA Superfund List"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
U.S. EPA Region 1
February 16, 2024

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine Removed from EPA Superfund List


BOSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is deleting the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, located in Kittery, Maine, from the National Priorities List (NPL), commonly referred to as Superfund.

While EPA has determined that site cleanup work at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard site is complete, with no further site remediation activity required, ongoing operation and maintenance, land use controls, and monitoring activities will continue at the site as needed. Further, the Navy will continue to conduct comprehensive follow-up reviews every five years and submit them to EPA – even after NPL deletion – to ensure the Superfund remedies continue to protect human health and the environment.

"This is a day to celebrate the combined persistence and hard work of the Navy, EPA, and Maine! EPA deletes sites or parts of sites from the Superfund list when no further construction is required to protect human health or the environment," said EPA New England Regional Administrator David W. Cash. "EPA is very pleased that after many years of working with the Navy and other parties on this complex investigation and cleanup work, we've achieved a major milestone to get this site where it is today and remove it from the National Priorities List."
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For the entire release, see
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/portsmouth-naval-shipyard-kittery-maine-removed-epa-superfund-list

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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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