EPA Programs Involved with Cleanup

Cleaning up active facilities, or abandoned hazardous waste sites and preparing the land for redevelopment or redeployment happens in a variety of programs. For information on an effort to better coordinate the various cleanup programs, please see the One Cleanup Program. For information about each of the cleanup programs, click on the following links:

Air Pollution Remediation and Treatment - Cleaning up air pollution
American Indian Environmental Office - Information on building Tribal capacity to facilitate Tribes to administer their own environmental programs.
Brownfields - Reuse of abandoned or underutilized property with real or perceived contamination. Information on Brownfields cleanup enforcement is also available
Environmental Justice - Fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
Federal Facilities - Cleanups at federal facilities, such as Department of Defense and Department of Energy properties, and information on cleanup enforcement at federal facilities.
Indoor Air Pollution - Cleaning up pollutants in our indoor air
Land Revitalization Initiative - Restore waste sites that have been cleaned up to productive economic and greenspace use.
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks - Release response and corrective Action for underground storage tank systems.
One Cleanup Program - The goal of the One Cleanup Program is to improve the coordination, speed, and effectiveness of cleanups at the nation's contaminated sites.
Pesticides
Pollutants and toxics
RCRA Corrective action - Cleanups of hazardous waste sites.
RCRA Non-Hazardous Wastes - Cleanups on non-hazardous waste sites.
Superfund - Cleaning up the nation's high priority contaminated Waste sites.
USTfields Initiative - Reuse of abandoned properties contaminated with petroleum from underground storage tanks.
Water Pollution Control - Cleaning up water pollution
Environmental Response Team
The ERT provides on- site national and international expertise; represents a vital link to the U.S. EPA's battle to remediate and limit environmental damage to air, land, and .water; and evaluates threats to human health. The ERT is comprised of a group of skilled experts in environmental emergencies who provide on-scene assistance on a "round the clock" basis to deal with environmental disasters.
Cleaning Up Our Land, Water and Air Section Removal Sites
This page contains information on sites in the Removal Program all across the country
Environmental Response Television ( E R T V )
This contains video programs about cleanup issues and sites.

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