President Biden’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency office responsible for Superfund sites says the administration will take a “whole of government” approach to cleaning up contaminated lands conveyed to Alaska Native corporations.
Carlton Waterhouse, EPA deputy assistant administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management, at the BP Energy Center in Anchorage on June 7, 2022.
Some 44 million acres have been conveyed to Native corporations as part of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. That includes more than 900 sites contaminated with military and civilian dump sites, heavy metals, PCBs and buildings containing asbestos. Several hundred sites have been cleaned up, but there are many more to go.
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