Learn the Issues
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Cleanups at Federal Facilities
Learn about contaminated federal facility sites in communities, access fact sheets and find tools and resources to help government agencies and their contractors fulfill cleanup obligations.
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Restoration & Reuse
Learn about restoration and reuse of legacy federal facilities.
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Assuring Quality in Federal Cleanups
This page contains links to quality-related policies, guidance, and worksheets.
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Site Spotlights
Gallery for the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Site Spotlight
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Federal Facilities Success Stories
This page contains links to stories describing EPA's successes in redeveloping federal facilities with the aid of public and private partners.
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Redevelopment at Federal Facilities
Reusing Federal Facility sites makes a visible difference in communities – enabling job opportunities, strengthening local economies and providing priority services.
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EPA Course: Planning and Management of Munitions Response Actions
Description of a course that provides technical training for those involved in the investigation and cleanup of unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, and munitions constituents
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Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket: Update No. 1
List of federal facilities, current as of November 16, 1988.
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Asbestos and 120(h) Transfers
How the presence of asbestos on closing bases affects the United States' ability to transfer under §120(h)(4) and §120(h)(3)
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Naval Training Center Orlando Site Spotlight
Monthly feature to highlight a superfund site that has been put in reuse.
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OPP Guidance for Submission of State and Tribal Water Quality Monitoring Data
This guidance describes the process to submit state and tribal surface and groundwater monitoring data for consideration in exposure characterizations for ecological and and human health risk assessments and in risk management decisions for pesticides.
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Bees and Wasps and Schools
There are more than 20,000 bee species. Some bees and wasps can be issues around schools. Learn about IPM strategies for bees.
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TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Establish Regulations Prohibiting the Use and Distribution in Commerce of Hevea Brasiliensis Baled Natural-Rubber for the Manufacture of Tires
This petition requests EPA to “establish regulations prohibiting the use and distribution in commerce of Hevea brasiliensis baled natural-rubber for the manufacture of tires.
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TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Regulate Lead in Fishing Tackle
This petition requests EPA to promulgate regulations under section 6 of TSCA to protect the "environment from fishing tackle containing lead including fishing weights, sinkers, lures, jigs, and/or other tackle.
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TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Take Action Concerning PCBs - Navy SINKEX
This petition requested EPA to take certain actions to protect human health and the marine environment from PCBs that leach from ships sunk through the U.S. Navy's sinking exercises (SINKEX) program.
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Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) Project Plan, March 2006
This Project Plan provides a brief summary of relevant information on PBDEs, and outlines the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s activities regarding PBDEs and related chemicals.
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TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Regulate Lead in Shot and Bullets
This petition requests EPA to regulate bullets and shot containing lead for use in hunting and shooting sports.
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Bisphenol A (BPA) Summary
A summary of EPA's review of Bisphenol A (BPA).
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TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Ban Lead for Shot, Bullets, and Fishing Sinkers
This petition requests EPA to promulgate regulations to "prohibit the manufacture, processing, and distribution in commerce of lead for shot, bullets, and fishing sinkers."
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EPA Letter Denying TSCA Section 21 Petition
Letter denying TSCA Section 21 petition requesting EPA to regulate Anthropogenic Emissions Carbon Dioxide.