MEMORANDUM TO: ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION The Honorable Jimmy Dixon, Co-Chairman The Honorable Chuck McGrady, Co-Chairman The Honorable Trudy Wade, Co-Chairman FROM: Mollie Young, Director of Legislative Affairs, NCDEQ SUBJECT: Inactive Hazardous Sites Program Annual Report Pursuant to G.S. 130A-310.10, “The Secretary shall report on inactive hazardous sites to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, the Environmental Review Commission, and the Fiscal Research Division on or before October 1 of each year.” If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact me by phone at (919) 339-9433 or via e-mail at
[email protected]. Cc: Don Van der Vaart, Secretary, NCDEQ Tom Reeder, Assistant Secretary for Environment, NCDEQ Michael Scott, Director of Waste Management, NCDEQ Lanier McRee, Fiscal Research Division, NCGA Report to the North Carolina General Assembly on the Division of Waste Management’s Inactive Hazardous Sites Program North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Waste Management http://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/waste-management/superfund- section/inactive-hazardous-sites-program October 2016 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The N.C. General Assembly created the Inactive Hazardous Sites Program in the Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) Division of Waste Management (DWM) to identify, investigate and clean up properties contaminated with hazardous substances. The program also manages the assessment and cleanup of old pre-regulatory landfill sites that have environmental contamination and that predate modern landfill standards designed to prevent contamination. This report satisfies the requirements, set out in G.S. 130A-310.10, for an annual report to the General Assembly.