The EPA will distribute $3.5 billion to clean up polluted sites, but the abandoned uranium mine sites in Arizona likely aren't eligible.
The hundreds of abandoned uranium mines on Indigenous lands, where residents have been waiting for the government to act for decades, will likely receive no funding from the Infrastructure bill because none are included on the National Priorities List.
"EPA is currently evaluating sites in Arizona for future inclusion on the Superfund: National Priorities List ," a spokesperson for the EPA's Region 9 wrote in an email to The Republic."Some sites in rural areas do not score high enough on the Hazard Ranking System for inclusion on the NPL because low human population nearby necessitates higher quantity and toxicity of wastes than in higher-population areas.
from abandoned uranium mines. The U.S. government obtained much of its uranium from tribal lands during the Cold War. The U.S. government has maintained that taxpayers shouldn’t bear the burden of paying for cleanup of abandoned mine sites on tribal lands. Instead, negligent companies who left without cleaning up after themselves, or “potentially responsible parties,” should pay.
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