BUREAU PROGRAMS

• Analytical Environmental Epidemiology
• Asthma Program
• Aquatic Toxins
• Birth Defects Registry
• Chemical Disease Surveillance
• Environmental Public Health Tracking
• Food and Waterborne Disease
• Hazardous Waste Site Health Risk Assessment
• Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
• Pesticide Poisoning Surveillance
• Rabies Surveillance
• Toxicology
• Vector-borne Disease
• Zoonotic Disease

What is a Hazardous Waste Site?

An Emergency Response team from either the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the Florida Department of Environmental Protection are usually the first governmental agency staff to investigate a hazardous waste site in the state of Florida.  If the site fits certain criteria, it is called a Superfund site. The U.S. EPA decides which sites are on this list and how best to clean them up.  See the US EPA Superfund pages for more information.

As of December 2010, Florida has 55 hazardous waste sites on the National Priorities List (NPL).  The NPL lists the worst hazardous waste sites in the nation.  The NPL site listing process is available from the EPA. The US EPA also maintains a searchable database containing information on hazardous waste sites, potential hazardous waste sites, and remedial activities across the nation, including sites that are on the National Priorities List (NPL) or being considered for the NPL. This database is called the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS ).