AbstractThe Army environmental cleanup program is largely governed by the Superfund process established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). This article examines relevant Superfund reform legislative proposals and their potential impact on future Army cleanup efforts. The provisions that are likely to have the greatest impact on the cleanup and transfer of Army properties are those that streamline the remedy selection process and allow greater flexibility in determining cleanup targets and types of remedies selected, expand state authorization, increase public participation in remedy and land‐use decisions, and confine the natural resource damage program. Funding impacts of these changes are difficult to estimate with precision but could be significant depending on implementing regulations and guidance. Although the enactment of comprehensive Superfund reform seems likely to be a casualty of Presidential election‐year politics, the Army may benefit from a number of piecemeal changes incorporated into the fiscal year 1997 National Defense Authorization Act that should facilitate the cleanup and economic reuse of base closure property.