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Explore Past Years of Campus RainWorks

Main page for EPA's Annual Campus RainWorks Challenge for undergraduate and graduate college students.

March—April 2017 Pacific Southwest Newsletter

EPA Pacific Southwest Newsletter for March—April 2017: Energy Conservation, Tribes, Superfund Cleanup, Earth Day, and More

Superfund Hazard Ranking System Training Course

Learn about the Superfund Hazard Ranking System Training Course, a 4.5 day intermediate-level course designed for personnel tasked to compile, draft, and review preliminary assessments (PAs), site inspections (SIs), and HRS documentation.

Superfund Site Assessment Activities

Learn about Superfund site assessment activities, including Pre-CERCLA Screening (PCS), Preliminary Assessment (PA), Site Inspection (SI), Expanded Site Inspection (ESI), Integrated ESI/Remedial Investigation (ESI/RI), Site Reassessment, and HRS.

Superfund Site Assessment Home

Learn about the site assessment process used by the Superfund program to evaluate releases of hazardous substances that may pose a threat to human health or the environment and select an appropriate program for sites needing cleanup.

Superfund Site Assessment Process

Superfund site assessments are a multi-step process that begin with site discovery and end with either a determination that no further Superfund site assessment is needed, a referral to another program for potential cleanup, or placement on the NPL.

Superfund: Remedial Action Project Completion and Construction Completions

Learn about the Superfund Remedial Action Project Completion and Construction Completion phases of site cleanup, milestones that indicate the incremental progress of cleanup efforts.

About the Superfund Cleanup Process

EPA follows a step-by-step process to determine the best way to clean up the site and protect human health and the environment.

EPA Awards $6 Million to the University of California, Davis to Support Pesticide Safety Outreach

The U.S. EPA has selected the Regents of the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to receive a total of $6 million over a five-year period to develop materials and projects that promote safe pesticide use

Genetically Modified Organisms

Overview of genetically modified organisms (GMO). OMO are plants, animal, or other microorganism that has bee generically changed.

Child-Resistant Packaging for Pesticides

To protect children from poisonings around the home, pesticide law requires that certain household pesticides be in child-resistant packaging.

EPA Releases Draft Assessment of Effects of Sulfoxaflor on Endangered Species for Public Comment

The Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft for Sulfoxaflor on endangered species.

EPA Issues Proposed Registration Review Decisions for Several Pesticides

The Environmental Protection Agency Proposes Registration decisions for several pesticides

EPA Issues Report Highlighting Actions Taken to Improve the Endangered Species Act Consultation Process for Pesticides

Collaboration with federal partners, submitting its second report to Congress highlighting the progress achieved to date with creating a more efficient and effective review process regarding pesticide impacts under the Endangered Species Act

Standardized Efficacy Study Report and Efficacy Study Summary

The study report form contains all of the required elements of a study report as found in 40 CFR part 160, and meets the requirements of PR Notice 2011-3. We encourage registrants to use this non-mandatory report format to facilitate the review process.