The Quarterly Report, which covers the end of the 1996-97 fiscal year, is devoted to the status of investigations and enforcement at all sites, the remedial schedule for sites, State funds expended for each site, and activities of the State Department of Health. These statistics do not include the 135 sites remediated and removed from the Registry. To date, there have been 532 enforcement proceedings aimed at obtaining agreements by responsible parties to participate in site cleanups. DEC has initiated 402 proceedings, the State Department of Law 37, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 57. Enforcement proceedings have produced 370 consent orders signed by responsible parties.
Some orders call for investigations, some for remedial programs and some for both.
A total of 591 preliminary investigations are under way or complete on Registry sites. The New York State Department of Health has conducted inspections at 1,258 sites, environmental exposure investigations at 487 sites, community outreach at 526 sites, and a range of studies, surveys, health interventions, medical consultations, and monitoring. A list of sites added to the registry in 1996-97 is attached.