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About Superfund Redevelopment
Superfund Redevelopment at EPA helps communities return some of the nation's worst hazardous waste sites to safe and productive uses. In addition to cleaning up these Superfund sites and making them protective of human health and the environment, the Agency is working with communities and other partners in considering future use opportunities and integrating appropriate reuse options into the cleanup process. The Agency is also working with communities at sties that have already been cleaned up to ensure long-term stewardship of the sites remedies and to promote reuse. More about the program...
Superfund Redevelopment in the News
Program Related News
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Top-10 Questions to Ask When Buying a Superfund Site (PDF) (12 pp, 780K,
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Superfund Redevelopment, in collaboration with the Office of Superfund Remediation Enforcement, has recently issued a fact sheet that provides answers to a range of questions that a prospective purchaser may have when considering whether to purchase property at a privately owned Superfund site. - Return to Use Demonstration Projects
Through its Return to Use (RTU) Initiative, EPA has selected demonstration projects that highlight how EPA continues to work with communities to return sites to productive use(s). These demonstration projects are located in eight of the 10 EPA regions. - Ready for Reuse Determinations
Superfund Redevelopment has worked with six EPA Regional offices to issue a total of fifteen RfR Determinations for sites in their Regions.
Site-Specific News
- Reuse of the Florida Steel Superfund Site
A Houston firm is seeking to build a natural gas storage tank on the Florida Steel Superfund site to help utility companies throughout Florida hedge against hurricane-related fuel supply disruptions and seasonal fuel price spikes. - Douglas Little League Removal Site
During 2007, EPA Region 5, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, and Exxon Mobil held a media event to talk to the local community about cleanup activities at the site, which is a removal action site. EPA is working with the site owner to ensure safe cleanup and to facilitate reuse of the site as a little league field.
Measuring Superfund Redevelopment
New EPA Land Revitalization Performance Measure for Superfund
Superfund Redevelopment Spotlight
FMC Corporation site (Fridley, Minnesota)
Once a disposal area for industrial solvents, the FMC Corporation site is now being used as a model airplane flying field by a local aeromodeling club. After ensuring that aeromodeling use would not interfere with the remedy, EPA Region 5 worked with the local club and the site owner in order to facilitate the reuse process. The aeromodeling club has permission to use the site for a limited time - the property is currently for sale and will be sold and redeveloped in the future. In return for using the site any day of the week, the aeromodeling club keeps the field clean and neat and mows the grass regularly. The presence of aeromodelers has the added benefit of keeping trespassers off the site and helping to combat any lingering stigma associated with the property's past contamination.