# 2025-12499: EPA Adds Three Polluted Sites to National Cleanup Priority List

2025-12499, National Priorities List, is a Federal Register rule from Environmental Protection Agency published 2025-07-03 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-12499
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-12499
- Title: National Priorities List
- Type: Rule
- Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency
- Citation: 90 FR 29491
- Published: 2025-07-03
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

EPA Adds Three Polluted Sites to National Cleanup Priority List

## Summary

The EPA just added three new sites to the National Priorities List, which means these places will get a closer look for pollution risks. This list helps decide where cleanup money and efforts go to protect people and the environment. If you live near these spots, changes could happen soon to make your community safer!

## Abstract

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 ("CERCLA" or "the Act"), as amended, requires that the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan ("NCP") include a list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants throughout the United States. The National Priorities List ("NPL") constitutes this list. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the Environmental Protection Agency ("the EPA" or "the agency") in determining which sites warrant further investigation. These further investigations will allow the EPA to assess the nature and extent of public health and environmental risks associated with the site and to determine what CERCLA-financed remedial action(s), if any, may be appropriate. This rule adds three sites to the General Superfund section of the NPL.

## Effects PRIA read

- Three Sites Added to Superfund List: benefit, medium. The EPA added three sites to the National Priorities List (the General Superfund section). These sites will get further investigation to assess public health and environmental risks and to decide whether they warrant cleanup.
- Possible CERCLA-Financed Cleanups: benefit, medium. For the three newly listed sites, the EPA will assess whether CERCLA-financed remedial action(s) are appropriate. If so, those sites may receive federal-funded cleanup actions to address hazardous substances and protect people and the environment.

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## Sources
- [2025-12499 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/03/2025-12499/national-priorities-list)
- [2025-12499 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-07-03/pdf/2025-12499.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-12499 (as of 2026-06-11).