Federal obligations in remediation services (NAICS 562910)

What remediation services means on a federal contract

NAICS 562910 covers establishments that remediate contaminated buildings, soil, and similar sites: asbestos, lead, mine tailings, and other cleanup that restores or contains a location. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards classified as that cleanup work. It is not a count of Superfund sites, and it is not a list of every environmental statute. The NAICS follows the award file.

Hazardous-waste treatment and disposal (562211) is the ongoing handling of waste streams at treatment plants, not the same as remediating a site. Building construction (236220) puts up a new structure. Other heavy civil construction (237990) can include some environmental infrastructure but is not this cleanup-services code. The $50.6 billion figure is only awards tagged 562910.

Reading $50.6 billion in cleanup obligations

USAspending records obligations on contract awards tagged 562910. Multi-year cleanup vehicles, task orders, and modifications all feed $50,647,339,649.82. This packet has no fiscal-year split and no outlay total. A long-lived remediation contract can show a large obligation while work and invoices continue for years.

Outlays are the payments. Quote $50.6 billion as USAspending contract obligations coded to remediation services. Do not describe it as the EPA budget, as a Superfund appropriation, or as cash already spent.

8,982 awards, not 8,982 sites

The 8,982 award records include task orders and modifications on cleanup vehicles. One site can generate many awards over decades. The count is not a national inventory of contaminated locations. Use the industry page to see how those records concentrate among contractors.

Cleanup dollars get pulled into every environmental argument. This table will not follow them there. USAspending contract awards tagged 562910 show $50,647,339,649.82 in obligations on 8,982 records. Remediation is restoring or containing a contaminated building or site. Hazardous-waste treatment and disposal is 562211, a different verb and a different plant. New construction after a site is cleared is a construction NAICS if tagged that way. Engineering design of a remedy may sit on 541330. The 8,982 awards are task orders and modifications, not a national site list. Cite USAspending, obligations, and remediation services. Keep statute names out unless they appear in the award table you open next.

What 562910 excludes

Assistance awards—cleanup grants to states or tribes—often lack NAICS and are outside this total. Facilities support (561210) is operating a base, not remediating it. Engineering services (541330) may design a remedy without being tagged as remediation. Those neighboring tables are separate.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract data. The $50,647,339,649.82 total and the 8,982 award count can change after corrections. The live industry page is the table of record.

Using the remediation industry page

Open the REMEDIATION SERVICES industry page for the award list under the headline. Compare 562910 with 562211 and with construction codes on All industries. Cite obligations, not outlays, and keep the 8,982 award count with the dollar figure.

Citing cleanup without waste-plant operations

Cite $50,647,339,649.82 in USAspending obligations on 8,982 awards tagged NAICS 562910, remediation services. Say site and building cleanup, not hazardous-waste treatment and disposal, not new construction. Those are other NAICS lines.

The 8,982 award count is not Superfund sites. One location can generate decades of task orders. Outlays and grants are not in this packet. If a remedy was coded as engineering services at the design stage, those design dollars will not appear here. The industry page is the award-level view.

Cleanup contracting has a long memory. A single contaminated installation can generate task orders for decades, which is why 8,982 awards sit under $50,647,339,649.82 without meaning 8,982 sites. Remediation of buildings, soil, and similar environments is the NAICS idea. It is not the same as running a hazardous-waste treatment plant, which is 562211.

Environmental statutes and site names are not in this packet. Do not paste a Superfund narrative onto the industry total. Quote USAspending contract obligations coded 562910, keep the 8,982 count, and use the industry table for contractors. Design of a remedy coded as engineering services will not appear here. Construction of a new building after cleanup is 236220, not this services line.

Questions

How much is obligated on NAICS 562910 remediation services?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 562910 show $50,647,339,649.82 in obligations across 8,982 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, for remediation services. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 562910.

Is remediation the same as hazardous-waste disposal?

No. Hazardous-waste treatment and disposal is NAICS 562211. Remediation (562910) is cleanup of contaminated sites and buildings. The $50,647,339,649.82 figure is 562910 only. The packet total is $50,647,339,649.82 across 8,982 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Do 8,982 awards mean 8,982 Superfund sites?

No. The 8,982 figure counts contract award records tagged 562910, including task orders and modifications. It is not a site inventory. Treat the 8,982 figure as an award-record count, including orders and modifications, not as a physical inventory of products or sites.

Are environmental grants included?

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS and are generally outside this industry total. The $50,647,339,649.82 figure is USAspending contract obligations tagged 562910. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under REMEDIATION SERVICES.