New Mexico
Superfund Oversight
Superfund Oversight is the Ground Water Quality Bureau's part in the federal Superfund program in New Mexico. Working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) looks for sites that may call for removal or remedial action under CERCLA, assesses inactive or abandoned hazardous waste sites to see whether Superfund action may be warranted, and gives management help and oversight of the cleanup at New Mexico sites on the National Priorities List.
In a Phase I ESA
The lists themselves are federal. They are described on the NPL page and the SEMS page. What NMED adds is a state view of the sites in New Mexico.
- The page carries its own table. The Superfund Oversight page says New Mexico currently has 15 listed Superfund sites and 5 deleted ones, at stages ranging from investigation and remediation to monitoring after remediation. The page carries no date, so check the count against EPA's own list. Its table gives each site's status and county and links the site's EPA profile.
- Deleted does not always mean finished with. The table gives two kinds of deleted status: deleted from the National Priorities List, and deleted with the note that the site repository still calls for five-year reviews. Four of the five deleted sites carry that note. For a property near one of them, the five-year reviews are worth reading.
- The pages read name no separate state Superfund list. NMED describes this work as carried out through the federal program. For cleanups under state authority, see the State Cleanup Program (SCP) and Neglected Contamination Sites.
NMED's Laws and Regulations page lists a 1987 Superfund Memorandum Of Agreement among its federal delegation agreements, which this handbook did not open.
Where to look a site up
- The Superfund Oversight page lists the New Mexico sites with their status and county, each linked to EPA.
- The Bureau's Clean-ups page lists among its cleanup resources an EPA page it labels SEMS (CERCLIS), Superfund Enterprise Management System.
- Questions about the program go to sos.general@env.nm.gov or 505-827-2900.
Getting the file
The table links each site's EPA profile. For NMED's own files on a site, NMED takes records requests under the Inspection of Public Records Act through its Public Records Requests page: by its online portal, which needs no account, by mail to P.O. Box 5469, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502, or by telephone at (505) 827-2855. The Public records requests page here gives what a request must hold and the fees.
Sources
New Mexico Environment Department pages, read October 13, 2026, no modified date shown: