1,207 hazardous waste sites - an average of 24 per state - are on the Environmental protection Agency's national priority list. No Intermountain state, however, has more than 16.
Hazardous Waste Sites on National Priority List
New Jersey 109*
Colorado 16
Utah 12
Arizonal 11
Montana 10
New Mexico 10
Idaho 9
Wyoming 3
Nevada 1
*Highest in nation
SOURCE: EPA, in 1991 Statistical Abstract of the United States