He told Bloomberg BNA the
Superfund Alternative Approach has been efficient in a few instances.
Sites perceived to be the most threatening to both surrounding populations and the environment can be placed on the National Priorities List (also known as NPL or
Superfund list; U.S.
For fiscal year 2004, more than 52% of
Superfund obligations went to clean up just nine sites.
The 1986
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) provided a broad refocus to the program.
In an effort to get
Superfund sites into productive reuse, EPA plans to award each of 40 pilot projects $100,000 in money or services under its
Superfund Redevelopment Initiative.
And if you want to know if the Republican-led Congress has any backbone, pay attention to two items that will be reauthorized:
Superfund and the federal highway bill.
Included in the list is the
Superfund Cleanup Acceleration Act of 1997 (S.8).
Most observers would agree that the current
Superfund law is among the most poorly crafted and counterproductive statutes of recent years.
Confronting wide ranging issues such as
superfund, nuclear waste, and airport noise pollution, the Energy, Environment.
Remediation liabilities generally arise as a result of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or
Superfund), the corrective action provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or analogous state and non-U.S.