EPA Superfund Site

GALEY AND LORD PLANT

SC | EPA ID SCD058189622

About this site’s exposure pathways: As of September 2024, the Galey and Lord Plant Superfund site is considered “Insufficient Data to make a Human Exposure evaluation” (HEID). Galey and Lord was recently finalized on the NPL in March 2022 and there has not yet been an evaluation of the human health exposure risks.

EPA uses this Human Exposure status when there is insufficient data/evidence to determine whether actual or reasonably anticipated human exposures are occurring, and/or whether those exposures are above acceptable risk-based levels. The planned activities to collect sufficient information to make a human exposure evaluation are anticipated to begin in early 2025 with the start of the Remedial Investigation. The EPA anticipates establishing five operable units to evaluate surface water, groundwater, sediments, surface soils, and subsurface soils. In November 2022, EPA coordinated with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to initiate the public health assessment, which is currently ongoing at this time.

EPA currently anticipates that there will be sufficient data to make a Human Exposure determination by December 2028 because the remedial investigation is anticipated to be completed in 2027 and will be followed by a sitewide Human Health Baseline Risk Assessment.