Bayou State Oil Site is a superfund site located at Hwy 71. East Side, Hosston, LA 71043. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies sites such as Bayou State Oil Site because they pose or had once posed a potential risk to human health and/or the environment due to contamination by one or more hazardous wastes. Bayou State Oil Site is currently registered as an Active superfund site by the EPA. However, it is not on the NPL (National Priorities List), which means the EPA does not consider it one of the nation's most hazardous waste sites.