EPA puts site of Colo. mine disaster on Superfund list

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The Environmental Protection Agency added the mine where it caused a major toxic wastewater spill last year to a new list of Superfund sites.

The important designation opens the mine and nearly 50 others in its vicinity to a multimillion-dollar, federally backed cleanup effort.

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