By Trista Talton | June 25, 2021 | Excerpt from Coastal Review Online
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A portion of a federal Superfund site in Navassa officially cleared for future residential use earlier this year will likely be removed from the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List this fall.
A little more than 20 acres referred to as operable unit 1 is expected to be deleted from the list in September. A site is deleted from the list when all cleanup has been completed and all cleanup goals have been achieved, according to the EPA.
“The deletion means that it is through the Superfund process,” Erik Spalvins, the EPA’s remedial project manager for the former Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. site, said during a Tuesday night meeting updating the public on the latest progress at the site.
The agency’s Record of Decision of the unit, released in early April, marks a major milestone in the ongoing, years-long process of determining how much contamination is on the overall site and how to remediate the land for future use.