# National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1998-07-28 · Effective 1998-08-27 · 63 FR 40182
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-20154
- **Category:** hazardous-waste
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 40182
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 300
- **Publication date:** 1998-07-28
- **Effective date:** 1998-08-27
- **EPA docket:** FRL-6130-9
## 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 (``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. This rule adds 9 new sites to the NPL, 7 to the General Superfund Section and 2 to the Federal Facilities Section.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/07/28/98-20154/national-priorities-list-for-uncontrolled-hazardous-waste-sites)
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