# National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1997-04-01 · Effective 1997-05-01 · 62 FR 15572
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-8086
- **Category:** hazardous-waste
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 15572
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 300
- **Publication date:** 1997-04-01
- **Effective date:** 1997-05-01
- **EPA docket:** FRL-5805-2
## 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'') constitutes this list. This rule adds 5 new sites to the NPL, 3 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/1997/04/01/97-8086/national-priorities-list-for-uncontrolled-hazardous-waste-sites)
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