# National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1995-09-29 · Effective 1995-10-30 · 60 FR 50435
## Document
- **Document number:** 95-24415
- **Category:** hazardous-waste
- **Federal Register citation:** 60 FR 50435
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 300
- **Publication date:** 1995-09-29
- **Effective date:** 1995-10-30
- **EPA docket:** FRL-5308-2
## 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'') which is appendix B of 40 CFR part 300, constitutes this list. This rule adds 8 new sites to the NPL, 6 to the General Superfund Section and 2 to the Federal Facilities Section. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'' or ``the Agency'') in determining which sites warrant further investigation 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.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1995/09/29/95-24415/national-priorities-list-for-uncontrolled-hazardous-waste-sites)
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