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Environmental Cleanup

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GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Search U.S. Government Publishing Office’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications for catalog records. Many records link to the full text.

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Open Educational Resources

All FDLP Resource Guides are open educational resources for anyone to share, copy, and reuse.

Overview

This guide looks at U.S. Government resources, regulations, and acts concerning environmental cleanup, including information from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Photograph of "Waste from the Weyerhaeuser Mill is discharged into the Whiteman River, which in turn flows into the nearby, and heavily, polluted, Nashua River" in June 1973

"Waste from the Weyerhaeuser Mill is discharged into the Whiteman River, which in turn flows into the nearby, and heavily, polluted, Nashua River" in June 1973 (Source: National Archives and Records Administration)

General Information

Featured U.S. Government Agencies

Click on each tab in this box to learn more about environmental information from the DOE, EPA, and USACE.

Screenshot of a search on RAIS toxicity values and physical parameters

Screenshot of a search on RAIS toxicity values and physical parameters (Source: Risk Assessment Information System)

U.S. Government Regulations and Acts Regarding Environmental Cleanup

Click on each tab in this box to learn more about the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).