This is a list of Superfund sites in Missouri designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the

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(EPA) to create a list of

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locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations.P.L. 96-510, (), December 11, 1980. These locations are known as

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sites, and are placed on the

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(NPL). The NPL guides the EPA in "determining which sites warrant further investigation" for

environmental remediation Environmental remediation deals with the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water. Remedial action is generally subject to an array of regulatory requirements, and may al ...

. As of May 1, 2010, there were thirty Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in

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. One more site has been proposed for entry on the list and five others have been cleaned up and removed from it.

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