What is the Superfund Redevelopment Program?
The Superfund Redevelopment Program is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) nationally coordinated effort to facilitate the return of the country’s worst hazardous waste sites to productive use, by selecting cleanup remedies that are consistent with the anticipated future use of the sites. While EPA’s primary mission is to protect human health and the environment, Superfund cleanups have also been instrumental in returning contaminated sites to productive use. The Agency has increasingly recognized the need to work with communities as part of the cleanup process to determine what the future use of the site is likely to be, EPA can then make the cleanup protective for that use. This will allow communities to reclaim these properties as valuable assets.
