# National Priorities List
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2022-03-16 · Effective 2022-04-15 · 87 FR 14805
## Document
- **Document number:** 2022-05397
- **Category:** superfund
- **Federal Register citation:** 87 FR 14805
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 300
- **Publication date:** 2022-03-16
- **Effective date:** 2022-04-15
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OLEM-2021-0454, 0456, 0457, 0458, 0459, 0460, 0461, 0462, 0464, 0465, 0466 and 0467
## Abstract

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 ("CERCLA" or "the Act"), as amended, requires that the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan ("NCP") include a list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants throughout the United States. The National Priorities List ("NPL") constitutes this list. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the Environmental Protection Agency ("the EPA" or "the agency") in determining which sites warrant further investigation. These further investigations will allow the EPA to assess the nature and extent of public health and environmental risks associated with the site and to determine what CERCLA-financed remedial action(s), if any, may be appropriate. This rule adds 12 sites to the NPL, 11 to the General Superfund section and one to the Federal Facilities section.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/03/16/2022-05397/national-priorities-list)
---
*AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*