The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public meeting on Wednesday to discuss the Federated Metals superfund site, which sits on the border between Hammond and Whiting.
The 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, informally referred to as Superfund, allows EPA to clean up sites designated as contaminated and compels the parties responsible for the contamination to either perform or fund cleanup efforts. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at in the Whiting High School cafeteria.
In 1992, FMC and its parent corporation, ASARCO, entered into a federal consent decree to settle a lawsuit brought by the agency stemming from alleged violations of environmental regulations. The company agreed to construct a landfill on the site and cover lead-contaminated soil with trees. Problems have persisted in the decades since.
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