The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it is removing all or parts of eight contaminated locations from its National Priorities List and proposing partial deletions for three additional sites across the country.
The action marks a key milestone for the Superfund program, which oversees the nation’s most severely polluted land and water sources. Full or partial deletions from the National Priorities List occur after the EPA, state partners, and responsible parties complete the required environmental remediation work.
Six sites are slated for complete removal from the list: Diamond Shamrock Corp. Landfill in Cedartown, Georgia; Miami Drum Services in Miami, Florida; Pepper Steel & Alloys, Inc. in Medley, Florida; Caldwell Lace Leather Co., Inc. in Auburn, Kentucky; Kerr-McGee (Kress Creek/W Branch DuPage) in DuPage County, Illinois; and the Rowe Industries Ground Water Contamination site in Noyack/Sag Harbor, New York.
The agency is also removing portions of two other locations: Hastings Groundwater Contamination in Hastings, Nebraska, and Velsicol Chemical Corp. in Marshall, Illinois.
In addition to the completed cleanups, the EPA proposed partial deletions for three more properties: Fort Riley in Junction City, Kansas; Tippecanoe Sanitary Landfill Inc. in Lafayette, Indiana; and U.S. Smelter and Lead Refining Inc. in East Chicago, Indiana.
“Today, EPA is signaling to communities that significant cleanup progress has been made at 11 Superfund sites, leading to protection of human health and the environment across the country,” said EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi. “Since day one, the Trump EPA has been committed to getting the Superfund program back on track. Milestones like those we’re celebrating today show that our work to find concrete solutions to clean up sites effectively and efficiently is working. We look forward to growing the number of deleted sites over the next few years.”
According to agency figures, revitalized Superfund properties have generated more than $868 billion for local economies and supported hundreds of thousands of jobs over the past 15 years through conversions into commercial space, housing, parks, and wildlife reserves.
The move follows the launch of the administration’s “Superfund Solutions” initiative in May 2026, a program aimed at speeding up site reviews and cutting administrative delays.
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