The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it is removing three water-focused Superfund sites from all or parts of the worst-case National Priorities List (NPL).

The Kerr-McGee site at Kress Creek in Dupage County, Illinois was fully deleted from the NPL by the EPA. So was the Rowe Industries Groundwater Contamination site in Noyack/Sag Harbor, New York.

Partially deleted from the priorities list was the Hastings Groundwater Contamination site in Hastings, Nebraska. Those three are among 11 Superfund projects either fully, partially or proposed for removal from the NPL.

“Today, EPA is signaling to communities that significant cleanup progress has been made at 11 Superfund sites, leading to protection of human health and the environment across the country,” said EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi in a statement. “Since day one, the Trump EPA has been committed to getting the Superfund program back on track. Milestones like those we’re celebrating today show that our work to find concrete solutions to clean up sites effectively and efficiently is working. We look forward to growing the number of deleted sites over the next few years.”  

Other Superfund sites fully deleted from the NPL include Caldwell Lace Leather Co. in Kentucky, Diamond Shamrock Corp. Landfill in Georgia, Miami Drum Services in Florida, and Pepper Steel & Alloys in Florida.

Earlier this year, the Trump Administration DOE launched the Superfund Solutions Initiative aimed at accelerating cleanup of more than 1,300 environmentally damaging industrial sites across the nation. The EPA in Trump’s era has claimed to complete more than 290 cleanups.

The Kerr-McGee NPL site in the West Chicago region of Illinois stretched along seven miles of creek, river sediment and floodplain soils. The basin was contaminated by radioactive thorium waste material generated from a processing facility which operated there for 41 years ending in 1973.

Kerr-McGee was an Oklahoma-based energy company which was folded into Anadarko Petroleum in a $16.5 billion acquisition completed in 2006. The company also performed nuclear fuel processing operations in other plants and became known for the Karen Silkwood case, in which she was negligently contaminated in Oklahoma and eventually earned a $10 million settlement for her estate. Silkwood died in a controversial car accident in November 1974 before her lawsuit had concluded.

The Rowe Industries groundwater contamination was marked for Superfund priority designation in 1987 after health investigators discovered toxic chlorinated solvents leaking into private drinking water cells. The solvents were used at a nearby electric motor plant.

Superfund officials added Hastings Ground Water Contamination to the NPL in 1986. Seven subsites and 21 operable units were deemed as contaminated from groundwater plumes of carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethene, benzene, xylene and other chemicals.