Superfund
The United States federal Superfund law is officially known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).[1] The federal Superfund program is controlled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is designed to investigate and clean up sites contaminated with toxic waste.
Sites managed under this program are known as "Superfund" sites. There are 40,000 federal Superfund sites across the country, and about 1,600 of those sites have been listed on the National Priorities List (NPL).
Superfund Media
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Workers in hazmat suits check the status of a cleanup site
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PCB dredging operations on the Hudson River
- (Earlier photo) November 1999, 'Half mile' view from Newell Street (7984291745).jpg
Cleanup of the Housatonic River in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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A national map of Superfund sites. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). This map is as of October 2013.
Superfund site assessment process
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Polluted Martin's Creek on the Kin-Buc Landfill Superfund site in Edison, New Jersey
Notes
- ↑ United States. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Template:Uspl, approved December 11, 1980. 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.
