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EPA announces additional $11.5M for Superfund site in Oregon
SEATTLE (February 29, 2024) — Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency announced more than $1 billion for cleanup projects across the
country, including Oregon.
An additional $11.5 million is now available to address the 53-acre Northwest
Pipe & Casing/Hall Process Company Superfund site located in Clackamas,
Oregon. The site is the source of a persistent plume of chlorinated solvent
contaminated groundwater. The original cleanup plan for groundwater included a
remedy that was found to be ineffective after several years of operation. In
the years since the original cleanup plan, groundwater cleanup technologies
have progressed and new approaches are now viable. New funding from the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will be used to support the design and
implementation of one of these newer approaches, and ultimately reduce the
size of the contaminated groundwater plume and the areas subject to
restrictions.
“Yesterday’s funding announcement is the latest example of how the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is enabling EPA to address legacy pollution in
communities across the Pacific Northwest,” said EPA Region 10 Administrator
Casey Sixkiller. “With this funding EPA will be able to deploy new
technologies, reduce ongoing impacts to the area, and accelerate cleanup of
the site.”
“The EPA’s major investments to clean up Superfund sites across the
nation—including federal funding needed to help address soil and groundwater
contamination at the Northwest Pipe & Casing/Hall Process Company Superfund
site in Clackamas County—is a win to protect our natural resources,
community members’ health, and the local economy,” said Senator Jeff
Merkley, Chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, which oversees
annual funding for the EPA’s Superfund program. “Funding projects like
these that clean up enduring pollution, advance environmental justice, and
invest in the long-term health, safety, and revitalization of our communities
is just what the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was intended to
do.”
Today’s investment is the final wave of funding from the $3.5 billion
allocated for Superfund cleanup work in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. So
far, EPA has deployed more than $2 billion for cleanup activities at more than
150 Superfund National Priorities List sites. In 2023, EPA continued to fund
Superfund pre-construction activities such as remedial investigations,
feasibility studies, remedial designs, and community involvement at double
pre-Bipartisan Infrastructure Law levels.
EPA is committed to continuing to carry out this work advancing environmental
justice and incorporating equity considerations into all aspects of the
Superfund cleanup process. More than one in four Black and Hispanic Americans
live within three miles of a Superfund site. These investments are restoring
the health and economic vitality of communities that have been exposed to
pervasive legacy pollution.
In 1980, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act, known as Superfund. The law gave EPA the
authority and funds to hold polluters accountable for cleaning up the most
contaminated sites across the country. When no viable responsible party is
found or cannot afford the cleanup, EPA steps in to address risks to human
health and the environment using funds appropriated by Congress, like the
funding provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
To see a list of the 25 sites nationwide receiving funding, visit EPA’s
Superfund webpage.
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