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The Environmental Protection Agency’s Use of Community Involvement to Engage Communities at Superfund Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund program was established to identify, assess and clean up the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites to protect human health and the environment. Community involvement is an important part of the Superfund program for at least three reasons. First,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6862660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31671731 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214166 |
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description | The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund program was established to identify, assess and clean up the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites to protect human health and the environment. Community involvement is an important part of the Superfund program for at least three reasons. First, involving communities in decision making at Superfund sites is a statutory requirement. Second, community involvement is important so that clean up decisions will support reuse in the surrounding community. Third, because even after cleanup many sites have residual contamination that warrants administrative and legal controls to protect health and the environment, community members should understand these controls to both help protect community members and any limitations on site reuse. Community feedback informs both proposed actions and local reuse decisions. While the EPA recognizes that the agency performs many activities that are helpful to support community involvement, there are areas in need of improvement and further research would be helpful for communities in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-68626602019-12-05 The Environmental Protection Agency’s Use of Community Involvement to Engage Communities at Superfund Sites Zaragoza, Larry J. Int J Environ Res Public Health Perspective The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund program was established to identify, assess and clean up the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites to protect human health and the environment. Community involvement is an important part of the Superfund program for at least three reasons. First, involving communities in decision making at Superfund sites is a statutory requirement. Second, community involvement is important so that clean up decisions will support reuse in the surrounding community. Third, because even after cleanup many sites have residual contamination that warrants administrative and legal controls to protect health and the environment, community members should understand these controls to both help protect community members and any limitations on site reuse. Community feedback informs both proposed actions and local reuse decisions. While the EPA recognizes that the agency performs many activities that are helpful to support community involvement, there are areas in need of improvement and further research would be helpful for communities in the future. MDPI 2019-10-29 2019-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6862660/ /pubmed/31671731 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214166 Text en © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Zaragoza, Larry J. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Use of Community Involvement to Engage Communities at Superfund Sites |
title | The Environmental Protection Agency’s Use of Community Involvement to Engage Communities at Superfund Sites |
title_full | The Environmental Protection Agency’s Use of Community Involvement to Engage Communities at Superfund Sites |
title_fullStr | The Environmental Protection Agency’s Use of Community Involvement to Engage Communities at Superfund Sites |
title_full_unstemmed | The Environmental Protection Agency’s Use of Community Involvement to Engage Communities at Superfund Sites |
title_short | The Environmental Protection Agency’s Use of Community Involvement to Engage Communities at Superfund Sites |
title_sort | environmental protection agency’s use of community involvement to engage communities at superfund sites |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6862660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31671731 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214166 |
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