Superfund – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
superfund
large government trust fund that was established in 1980 to finance the cleanup of extremely polluted sites (U.S. Politics)
Superfund
Superfund or
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (
CERCLA) is a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants. It authorizes federal natural resource agencies, primarily the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), states and Native American tribes to recover natural resource damages caused by hazardous substances, though most states have and most often use their own versions of CERCLA. CERCLA created the
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). EPA may identify parties responsible for hazardous substances releases to the environment (polluters) and either compel them to clean up the sites, or it may clean up itself using the Superfund (a trust fund) and cost recovered from polluters by referring to the U.S. Department of Justice. The key difference between the authority to address hazardous substances and pollutants or contaminants is that the cleanup of pollutants or contaminants, which are not hazardous substances cannot be compelled by unilateral administrative order.
Superfund
Noun
1. the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationawide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency; "some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund"
(synonym) Superfund program
(hypernym) program, programme
Superfund
The program operated under the legislative authority of CERCLA and SARA that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions.
Superfund
The hazardous substance cleanup program created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA, P.L. 99-499, December 11, 1980), as amended. The normal application of fertilizer is explicitly excluded from the definition of "release" under CERCLA.