These are the properties at which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is actively working or will take necessary cleanup actions to address Department of Defense generated contamination.

It means that the property has been evaluated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is eligible to be cleaned up under the FUDS program, and the estimated costs of cleaning up the property have been compiled. When work actually begins on the property depends on the type of risk, the hazards, the available annual funding, and funding priorities.

The first step would be to contact the closest U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) district office to find out if the property is eligible for cleanup due to Department of Defense contamination, and if so, its status. USACE prioritizes properties based on a worst first approach so those sites presenting the greatest risk to human health and safety are addressed first. USACE works with states and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop a management action plan for the properties within a state. Communities are encouraged to provide input to the planning process.

Contact the USACE district point of contact for that information. Some information also is available at a Public Information Repository usually at a local library near the project.

Please contact the USACE district's Public Affairs Office, which will be able to tell you if a Restoration Advisory Board exists as well as other important information about the property.

The scope and magnitude of the FUDS Program are significant, with more than 10,000 properties that have been evaluated to be included in the FUDS Program. As of Sept. 30, 2022, approximately 5,400 FUDS nationwide have been identified for investigation and cleanup. Of these sites, cleanup has been completed on 3,800 sites, leaving approximately 1,600 sites identified where cleanup actions still require a CERCLA response. We have included those properties that we thought would be of greatest interest to communities, since they are locations where we have done investigations and/or cleanup. Other properties may be added in the future.

Information for the FUDS GIS website comes from data released each year in the Defense Environmental Restoration Program Annual Report to Congress. When that report is released each year, the FUDS GIS website will be updated with the same data.

Contact the USACE district's point of contact listed on the website to check the status of the property. It may well be that the property is not eligible for the program, a property where USACE has completed cleanup actions, or it may be a property that the USACE district has little information on and you may be able to provide additional background material.

Please contact the USACE district that is listed as the point of contact for that property. USACE is always interested in learning more about FUDS properties and the activities that occurred on them.

We have discovered that often a FUDS property is known by several different names. Please try locating the property that you're interested in by the state and county location. If you discover that it is in the public website listed under a different name, please contact the USACE district point of contact and give them the name that you know the site by. This could aid the district in learning more about the property by searching records with different property names.