# National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1996-12-23 · Effective 1997-01-22 · 61 FR 67656
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-32353
- **Category:** hazardous-waste
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 67656
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 300
- **Publication date:** 1996-12-23
- **Effective date:** 1997-01-22
- **EPA docket:** FRL-5668-3
## 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. This rule adds 7 new sites to the General Superfund Section of the NPL. 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/1996/12/23/96-32353/national-priorities-list-for-uncontrolled-hazardous-waste-sites)
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