The Superfund cleanup of the Consolidated Iron & Metal site was completed in 2011.
This does not mean that Superfund cleanups are about to come to a halt.
Some pieces of the plan other than the Superfund cleanup are already falling into place.
The E.P.A. is overseeing the last phases of a $20 million Superfund cleanup project there.
As part of the Superfund cleanup, the tanks have been drained, cut up and shipped to a waste center in Hanford, Wash.
And he has struggled to reform and revive the Superfund cleanup of toxic dumps.
But she said the testing was also a part of the Superfund cleanup.
But the town and the county, after considering purchases using money from voter-approved environmental bond acts, are unlikely to pursue ownership while the Superfund cleanup progresses.
The agency's budget for Superfund cleanups has not changed in the last few years.
"In general, any Superfund cleanup is going to take a number of years," he said.