Cleaning Up the Mid-Atlantic | Mid Atlantic Cleanup

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Current Issues

Mid-Atlantic Green Cleanup Symposium: Integrating Green Approaches for Site Cleanup and Sustainable Reuse CANCELLED - Severe weather forced the cancellation of the Green Cleanup Symposium originally scheduled for February 10-11, 2010, at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Partners are currently working on possible dates to reschedule the event.
Final phase of cleanup at Havertown underway (PDF) (2 pp, 105K)
EPA investigating vapors at Georgia Avenue PCE site (PDF) (2 pp, 196k)
View Region 3's new Greener Cleanup & Sustainable Reuse Policy. (PDF) (2 pp, 392K) EPA Region 3 Hazardous Site Cleanup Division and Land and Chemicals Division Directors have signed the Greener Cleanup and Sustainable Reuse Policy. The policy is based on the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) Principles for Greener Cleanups, issued by Mathy Stanislaus, Assistant Administrator for OSWER, in August 2009. It applies to Superfund, Federal Facilities, Brownfields, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action, and Leaking Underground Storage Tanks.
EPA Region 3's Quarterly Land Revitalization Update e-newsletter, Winter 2010 Edition, now available on-line (PDF) (1 p, 108K)

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RCRA & Superfund Cleanup Sites		State Maps of the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL)
RCRA	Superfund	State Maps of the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL)
All RCRA Sites	All Superfund Sites
Delaware	Delaware	Delaware
District of Columbia	District of Columbia	District of Columbia
	Federal Facilities
Maryland	Maryland	Maryland
Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania
Virginia	Virginia	Virginia
West Virginia	West Virginia	West Virginia

CERCLA or Superfund: highly contaminated abandonded sites and federal facilities
RCRA Corrective Action: active facilities that generate hazardous wastes
Brownfields: sites with marginal contamination or perceived contamination
Oil: spills that occur in and around inland waters
Land Revitalization: restoring contaminated, and potentially contaminated, sites to productive economic and greenspace use
Underground Storage Tanks: sites with petroleum contamination
Toxic Substances Control: sites with PCB contamination
Risk Assessment: nature and extent of human health and ecological contamination