CERCLA/Superfund

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The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, was enacted by Congress on December 11, 1980.

The law authorizes two kinds of response actions:

• Short-term removals, where actions may be taken to address releases or threatened releases requiring prompt response.
  
  
• Long-term remedial response actions, that permanently and significantly reduce the dangers associated with releases or threats of releases of hazardous substances that are serious, but not immediately life threatening. These actions can be conducted only at sites listed on EPA's National Priorities List (NPL).

The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) has been listed on the NPL since May 31, 1994.

Direct links to BA information on EPA Region III website:

http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/npl/MD0120508940.htm

 

http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/super/sites/MD0120508940/index.htm

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BARC Fact Sheets / Maps

• Screening Investigations of Potential Areas of Concern
  
  
• Areas of Concern Status Map
  
  
• Facility-Wide Ecological Risk Assessment
  
  
• Beaver Dam Road Landfill
  
  
• College Park Landfill
  
  
• Biodegradable Site
  
  
• Low-Level Radiation Site
  
  
• Chemical Pits
  
  
• Soil and Groundwater Factsheet
  
  
• Open Storage Area Factsheet
  
  
• PCB Cleanup
  
  
• Information Repository     Online Database
  
  
• Revised Removal Action (pdf)
  
  
• Status of Investigations (pdf)
  
  
• An innovative Approach to Landfill Capping - A joint Environmental Unit & Research Project at the College Park Landfill
  Poster 8.5" X 11" (pdf)