Contaminated Site Locations and Contact Information
EPA Oversight/Cleanup Programs
Many sites, particularly the largest and most contaminated, are managed at the national level, but other sites are managed at state or local levels. EPA and its state, Tribal and local partners oversee the cleanup and management of various types of contaminated sites. This page provides links to EPA's cleanup and response programs along with various mapper viewers that allow viewers to locate each type of land cleanup action:
- Cleanups in My Community
- Superfund
- Resource Recovery and Conservation Act Corrective Action
- Underground Storage Tanks
- Brownfields Sites
- Natural Disasters and Emergency Response including oil spills
- Military Bases and Defense Sites/Federal Facilities
- PCB Cleanup and Disposal
- Abandoned and Inactive Mine Lands
Cleanups in My Community
The Cleanups in My Community map shows sites assessed and cleaned up under legal authorities implemented by EPA or its state/territorial and tribal partners, as well as sites where EPA has issued grants under the Brownfields program.
Website: Cleanups in My Community
This map contains information about cleanup status, what has been done to clean up the site, and other information including contacts who can provide additional information. The amount of information available varies depending on the nature of the site and the scope of the cleanup assessment, cleanup, or grant associated with it. If you can’t find the information you are looking for or have more questions, contact us.
Contact Info: Office of Site Remediation Enforcement
Superfund
This program is responsible for cleaning up some of the nation’s most contaminated land and responding to environmental emergencies, oil spills and natural disasters.
Program Website: Superfund
Site Mapper: Cleanups in my Community Map: Superfunds Sites
Contact Info: Contact Community Involvement Coordinators, Remedial Project Managers or On-Scene Coordinators by searching for specific Superfund sites. This webpage has EPA site contacts and information on cleanup activities, health, and environment, "how to stay updated and get involved," redevelopment, site data and a map of contaminated sites.
Tip: You can also Google search "EPA" and the Superfund site name to directly access site information online.
Site Mapper: Superfund Work through Enforcement Agreements and Orders
This map highlights the current cleanup work at privately- and federally owned Superfund sites across the country. Data in this map provide information on potentially responsible parties, the type of settlement agreement or order, and the value of the agreement or order. These cleanups are the result of the Agency’s enforcement work with responsible parties and federal entities to negotiate cleanup settlement agreements or issue orders to get the work done.
Contact Information: Contact Community Involvement Coordinators, Remedial Project Managers or On-Scene Coordinators by searching for specific Superfund sites on the map above.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Corrective Action
The RCRA Corrective Action Program requires facilities that treat, store or dispose of hazardous wastes to investigate and clean up contaminated soil, groundwater, and surface water.
Program Website: Learn About Corrective Action
Site Mapper: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act corrective action sites
Contact Information: Most corrective action sites are managed by state agencies.
Underground Storage Tanks
Approximately 542,000 USTs nationwide store petroleum or hazardous substances. EPA, states, territories, and tribes work in partnership with industry to protect the environment and human health from potential releases from underground storage tanks.
Program Website: Underground Storage Tanks
Site Mapper: Underground Storage Tanks Finder
Contact Information: UST Contacts by State
Brownfields Sites
EPA's Brownfields Program provides grants and technical assistance to communities, states, tribes and others to assess, safely clean up and sustainably reuse contaminated properties.
Program Website: Brownfields
Site Mapper: Cleanups in my Community Map: Brownfields
Contact Information: Brownfields near you
Brownfields sites often are cleaned up in accordance with and under the oversight of state "voluntary cleanup programs," or state response programs.
Natural Disasters and Emergency Response including oil spills
EPA responds to oil spills, chemical, biological, radiological releases, and large-scale national emergencies. EPA may collect samples or monitor conditions in or near disaster areas. EPA may also be called upon to provide support to initial responders for any type of natural disaster.
Program Websites:
Contact Information: For emergencies and other sudden threats to public health, such as: oil and/or chemical spills, radiation emergencies, and biological discharges, call the National Response Center at 1-800-424-8802.
Military Bases and Defense Sites/Federal Facilities
EPA manages the national Federal Facility Superfund Program. Its mission is to facilitate faster, more effective and less costly cleanup and reuse of federal facilities while ensuring protection of human health and the environment from releases of hazardous substances.
Program Websites:
Site Mappers:
Contact Information: Improving Communities Through Restoration and Reuse, under the section "Stay Updated, Get Involved"
Polychlorinated Biphenyls Cleanup and Disposal
PCB remediation waste is waste containing PCBs from a spill, release or other unauthorized disposal of PCBs, depending on the concentration of the source of PCBs, the date of release, the current PCB concentration in the materials, and whether the original source was authorized for use
Program Website: Managing Remediation Waste From Polychlorinated Biphenyls Cleanups
Contact Information: EPA Regional PCB Coordinators
Abandoned and Inactive Mine Lands
Abandoned mine lands are those lands, waters and surrounding watersheds where extraction, beneficiation or processing of ores and minerals has occurred. AMLs can pose serious threats to human health and the environment. The EPA conducts and supervises investigation and cleanup actions at a variety of mine sites.
Program Website: Abandoned Mine Lands
Locations and Contact Information: Abandoned Mine Lands: Site Information
For general questions about any of these programs, please contact OLEM.cleanup@epa.gov.