About: Superfund

Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), a United States federal law designed to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites Superfund created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and it provides broad federal authority to clean up releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment.

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dbpprop:abstract	Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), a United States federal law designed to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites Superfund created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and it provides broad federal authority to clean up releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. The law authorized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify parties responsible for contamination of sites and compel the parties to clean up the sites. Where responsible parties cannot be found, the Agency is authorized to clean up sites itself, using a special trust fund.
dbpprop:acronym	CERCLA
dbpprop:amendments	Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
dbpprop:citePublicLaw	P.L. 96-510
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dbpprop:enactedBy	96
dbpprop:fullname	Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
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dbpprop:introducedbill	H.R. 7020; S. 1480
dbpprop:introducedby	dbpedia:James_Florio dbpedia:John_Culver
dbpprop:introduceddate	April 2, 1980
dbpprop:introducedin	House
dbpprop:name	Superfund
dbpprop:passedbody	House Senate
dbpprop:passeddate	December 3, 1980 November 24, 1980 September 23, 1980
dbpprop:passedvote	274-94 351-23 Unanimous consent
dbpprop:publicLawUrl	http://epw.senate.gov/cercla.pdf
dbpprop:reference	nyt:2009/05/05/business/05bizcourt.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.pollutionissues.com/Re-Sy/Superfund.html http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/npl.htm http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ http://www.epa.gov/superfund/ http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cercla/ http://www.superfund365.org http://www.cluin.org nyt:2009/04/26/science/earth/26superfund.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/centers/core/index.cfm
dbpprop:sectionsCreated	et seq. dbpedia:Superfund/sectionsCreated/USC
dbpprop:signeddate	December 11, 1980
dbpprop:signedpresident	dbpedia:Jimmy_Carter
dbpprop:titleAmended	42 (Public Health)
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rdfs:comment	Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), a United States federal law designed to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites Superfund created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and it provides broad federal authority to clean up releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment.
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foaf:homepage	http://www.epa.gov/superfund/
foaf:page	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
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