Office of Inspector General

Report: Progress Made, but Improvements Needed at CTS of Asheville Superfund Site in North Carolina to Advance Cleanup Pace and Reduce Potential Exposure

Report #16-P-0296, August 31, 2016

What We Found

EPA Region 4 can accelerate the cleanup and completeness of work, and improve public communications, to better control human exposure to unsafe industrial contamination at the CTS site.

Report Materials

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Report at a Glance (PDF)(1 pg, 141 K)
Full Report (PDF)(58 pp, 2 MB)
EPA Response to Report (PDF)(2 pp, 721 K)
IG Comment on EPA Response (PDF)(1 pg, 217 K)

Podcast: Report Overview with Kathy Hess Download audio Download transcript (7.34 KB)

Video: CTS of Asheville
EPA OIG Multimedia, 2:47

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video transcript(1 pg, 2 K)

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