Środowisko i energia · 19.07.2004

Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket

Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket. The docket is to contain certain information about Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or from which hazardous substances have been or may be released. (As defined by CERCLA section 101(22), a release is any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment.) CERCLA requires that the docket be updated every six months, as new facilities are reported to EPA by Federal agencies. The following list identifies the Federal facilities to be included in this nineteenth update of the docket and includes facilities not previously listed on the docket and reported to EPA since the last update of the docket, 68 FR 69685, December 15, 2003, which was current as of August 14, 2003. SARA, as amended by the Defense Authorization Act of 1997, specifies that, for each Federal facility that is inc