A commonly used name for the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) - related to the cost and cleanup of hazardous waste sites (EPA's National Priorities List).
See the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
a special trust fund, established by a federal law passed in 1980, modified in 1986 (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act, CERCLA), to help finance the investigation of waste sites
The common name used for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, also referred to as the Trust Fund.
The Superfund is money collected from a special tax on chemical feedstocks and raw petroleum. When a responsible party can not pay, Superfund money can be used by EPA to investigate, evaluate, and cleanup the hazardous waste sites identified on the NPL.
the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationawide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency; "some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund"
The common name for the Federal program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended in 1986. The Superfund Law authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to investigate and clean up sites nominated to the National Priorities List.
A governmental program under the auspices of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), set up to identify toxic and hazardous waste dump sites. Once the sites are identified, an attempt is made to identify the responsible parties, effect the clean up of the sites, and assess the responsible parties with the costs incurred.
An EPA program to remediate sites contaminated by release of hazardous substances. Activities include establishing a National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions. Superfund is operated under the legislative authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). Some remedial actions are funded directly by Superfund, through a tax on chemical feedstocks, but the majority are paid for by parties that are liable for the release of the hazardous substances.
An economic fund of the Environmental Protection Agency intended exclusively for clean-up of major hazardous waste sites.
Formally known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), a program that outlines processes for cleaning up hazardous waste sites. See the Background FAQ for more information.
The program operated under the legislative authority of CERCLA and SARA that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising the cleanup and other remedial actions.
Federal and state laws designed to clean up sites where past, improper disposal of hazardous substances caused soil and ground water contamination.
Superfund is federal legislation that deals with actual or potential releases of hazardous materials that have the potential to endanger people or the surrounding environment at uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the U.S. The Superfund Act requires principal responsible parties or the government to clean up the waste sites.
A nickname for legislation which identified hazardous waste sites (the National Priorities List) and the funds for their clean-up.
A fund established by Congress to pay for containment, cleanup, or remediation of abandoned toxic waste sites. The fund is financed by fees paid by toxic waste generators and by cost-recovery from cleanup projects.
A federal program that requires polluting industries to pay part of the cost of cleaning up polluted sites.
Another name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).
The common name used for CERCLA. Sites listed on the NPL are called Superfund sites.
A federal fund created in 1980 to pay for the investigation and cleanup of the largest and most contaminated sites in the country (i.e. sites on the National Priorities List or NPL). EPA administers the Superfund program.
Popular name of the hazardous waste cleanup fund established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) as amended by the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA). Superfund focuses on the cleanup of releases of hazardous substances on property. It creates significant legal exposure based on strict liability for owners, landlords and, sometimes lenders. EPA—Superfund Homepage
Congress established the Superfund program in 1980 to locate, investigate, and clean up the worst uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites nationwide. The Environmental Protection Agency administers the Superfund in cooperation with individual states and tribal governments. The office that oversees management of the program is the Office of Emergency and Remedial Response.
Federal authority, established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger health or welfare.
The better-known name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) passed by Congress in 1980. Under this law, parties found responsible for polluting a site must clean up the contamination or reimburse the EPA for doing so. Liability is strict, retroactive, joint and several.
Federal law which authorizes USEPA to manage the cleanup of abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
This federal fund was created to clean up the nation's most severely contaminated industrial and toxic waste sites.
The commonly used name for CERCLA, the federal environmental cleanup law. If a site is on the Superfund list, it is required to be cleaned up by any and all previous owners, operators, transporters and disposers of waste to the site. The federal government will clean such sites, requiring the responsible parties to pay the cleanup costs. Imposes strict liability.
A federal law enacted in 1980 to initiate cleanup of the nation's abandoned hazardous waste dump sites and to respond to accidents that release hazardous substances into the environment. The law is officially called the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
The Superfund collection contains photos of ten Superfund sites plus the 20th anniversary of Superfund (see also the Emergency Response collection, above). http://www.epa.gov/superfund/action/process/sfgallry.htm