21.   If this program works, Ruhl believes, the EPA fears every neighborhood bordering a contaminated site will insist on permanent relocation.

22.   It would depend on the size of the cuts, as well as what develops with the contaminated sites.

23.   Later, emergency crews douses the contaminated site with radiation-absorbing chemicals.

24.   Local companies have seen opportunities in converting contaminated sites as well.

25.   Now they hope to complete the relocation in the coming months, and then to return to the issue of dealing with the contaminated site.

26.   Panels installed on contaminated sites can be trucked away and set up elsewhere if a better use is found for the land, officials involved in the project said.

27.   Part of the income would be used to improve the safety of Russian nuclear facilities and clean up contaminated sites such as Muslyumovo.

28.   That would leave the company to focus on nuclear-waste management and contracts in the United States and elsewhere for cleaning up contaminated nuclear sites.

29.   The EPA Tuesday published a notice asking for comments on adding Libby to the Superfund list of contaminated sites.

30.   The GAO recommended that the EPA improve day-to-day operations and maintenance of contaminated waste sites.