Superfund and Enforcement Program Publications Update
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Government publications
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Government publications
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Page : 17 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Hazardous substances
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Hazardous waste sites
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Author : General Accounting Office
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Page : 29 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 1988
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This report reviews the efficiency and effectiveness of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund enforcement program. It concentrates on the following issues: (1) Is EPA using its enforcement tools to accomplish the goals and requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980? (2) Can EPA do a better job of recovering cleanup costs from potentially responsible parties? (3) Does EPA have the necessary framework to plan, manage, and oversee the Superfund enforcement program?
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Hazardous waste sites
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Hazardous waste site remediation
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Author : John B. Stephenson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437909132
One in four Americans lives within 3 miles of a hazardous waste site (HWS). To clean up the highly contaminated sites, the Congress established the Superfund program in 1980. EPA has identified more than 47,000 HWS potentially requiring cleanup actions and has placed more than 1,500 of the most seriously contaminated sites on its National Priorities List (NPL). Cleanup efforts at NPL sites are expensive and can take many years. To fund program activities, a trust fund was financed by taxes on crude oil and certain chemicals, as well as an environ. tax assessed on corp. This report examines the: (1) sources of funding for the Superfund trust fund; and (2) allocation of these resources to Superfund program activities. Illustrations.
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 1989
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Cleaning up the nation's most dangerous hazardous waste sites will require the help of the parties responsible for the contamination. Federal funding alone, though substantial, is insufficient to tackle this serious and costly pollution problem. To obtain these responsible party cleanups in a timely and efficient manner, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs to have a vigorous and effective enforcement program. Concerned that this has not been the case, the Chairman, Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean and Water Protection, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, asked GAO to review EPA's enforcement program. jg.
Author : Thomas W. Church
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2001-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815723066
The federal Superfund program for cleaning up America's inactive toxic waste sites is noteworthy not only for its enormous cost - $15.2 billion has been authorized thus far - but also for its unique design. The legislation that created Superfund provided the Environmental Protection Agency with a diverse set of policy tools. Preeminent among them is a civil liability scheme that imposes responsibility for multimillion dollar cleanups on businesses and government units linked - even tangentially - to hazardous waste sites. Armed with this potent policy implement, the agency can order the parties who are legally responsible for the toxic substances at a site to clean it up, with large fines and damages for failure to comply. EPA can also offer conciliatory measures to bring about voluntary, privately financed cleanup; or it can launch a cleanup initially paid for by Superfund and later force the responsible parties to reimburse the government. In this book, Thomas W. Church and Robert T. Nakamura provide the first in-depth study of Superfund operations at hazardous waste sites. They examine six Superfund cleanups, including three regions and both 'hard' and 'easy' sites, to ask 'what works?' Based on detailed case studies, the book describes various strategies that have been applied by government regulators and lawyers and the responses to those different strategies by businesses and local government officials. The authors characterize the implementation strategies used by the EPA as prosecution, accommodation, and public works. They point out that the choice of strategy involves setting priorities among Superfund's competing objectives. They conclude that the best implementation strategy is one that considers the context of each site and the particular priorities in each case. Looking toward the reauthorization of Superfund, they also offer recommendations for improvements in the organization of the program and discuss proposals for change in its