Bufkin Store Lead Site is a superfund site located at Main Street & 8th Street, Tabor City, NC 28463. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies sites such as Bufkin Store Lead 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. Bufkin Store Lead 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.