The agency chose to move on those sites first because cleanup plans were in place.
A final order on the cleanup plan is expected in June, after the public comment period.
The base had already proposed a cleanup plan, though one the environmental agency deemed inadequate.
Most insurers will issue policies only after the state approves a cleanup plan.
Then, he said, it took time to design a cleanup plan.
He added that if a company failed to meet standards set in a cleanup plan, it lost the advantages offered under the new law.
But is there a cleanup plan for all those dead bodies?
The final cleanup plan for the site was issued September 29, 2006.
Sugar companies intervened, and a settlement that included a cleanup plan was reached in 1994.
The cleanup plans, to the extent they have been disclosed, stretch credibility.