Document Overview

For use when a party is interested in an impacted property at which the Agency has no previous, or had previous but has no current, involvement. Superfund comfort/status letters are provided solely for informational purposes and discuss the potential for or actual EPA involvement under Superfund based upon the information presently known to EPA about the property.

Supporting Documents

Transmittal of Updated and New Model Comfort/Status Letters (2025) (49 pp, 632.0 K)
Date: 09/30/2025
Memorandum transmits updated and new model comfort/status letters and language inserts for EPA Regions to use when responding to interested parties who may want to acquire “impacted properties.” The updated and new 2025 model letters and language inserts reflect the Agency’s 2019 Comfort/Status Letter Policy and the Agency’s experience in issuing comfort/status letters.

Transmittal of the 2019 Policy on the Issuance of Superfund Comfort/Status Letters
Date: 08/21/2019
Transmittal memorandum, guidance, and model comfort/status letters for parties interested in acquiring contaminated, potentially contaminated, and formerly contaminated properties for reuse and redevelopment. The policy discusses the background of EPA’s issuance of Superfund comfort/status letters, describes the purpose and intent of these letters, and includes four updated model letters.

Revision History

02/05/2026

• The 2025 model No Federal Superfund Interest Comfort/Status Letter supersedes the 2019 version of the model No Previous Superfund Interest Comfort/Status Letter and the 2019 version of the model No Current Superfund Interest Comfort/Status Letter.

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