Contamination Cleanup

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Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) in response to a growing desire for the federal government to ensure the cleanup of the nation's most contaminated sites in order to protect the public from potential harm. Since then, several other laws have amended CERCLA for specific purposes, such as relief from cleanup liability for certain persons who were not involved in actions that led to contamination, or who contributed only very small quantities or certain types of waste to a site. This book summarises selected statutory provisions of CERCLA, issues concerning Superfund program funding, the EPA's Brownfields Program, and information on site cleanup and cost issues to estimate future program funding requirements.

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Preface; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, & Liability Act: A Summary of Superfund Cleanup Authorities & Related Provisions of the Act; Superfund: Implementation & Selected Issues; Superfund Taxes or General Revenues: Future Funding Issues for the Superfund Program; The Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields Program: Scope, Authorities, & Implementation; Testimony of Mathy Stanislaus, Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste & Emergency Response, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, & Environmental Health; Superfund: EPA's Costs to Remediate Existing & Future Sites Will Likely Exceed Current Funding Levels; Superfund: EPA's Estimated Costs to Remediate Existing Sites Exceed Current Funding Levels, & More Sites are Expected to Be Added to the National Priorities List; Superfund: Litigation Has Decreased & EPA Needs Better Information on Site Cleanup & Cost Issues to Estimate Future Program Funding Requirements; Superfund: Information on Cost & Other Issues Related to the Cleanup of the Federal Creosote Site; Index.