SUPERFUND
Superfund
Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances, as well as "pollutants or contaminants" which are defined more broadly. Superfund also gives authority to federal natural resource agencies, states and Indian tribes to recover natural resource damages caused by releases of hazardous substances, and created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CERCLA's broad cleanup authority, to clean up releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Superfund
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