NAD has the largest Superfund program in the Corps with 60 % of the funding.

Most of the waste disposed of in the United States, due to the Superfund removal program, ended up at the landfill between 1984 and 1987.

Under the Superfund program, the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and state agencies use the HRS to calculate a site score ( ranging from 0 to 100 ) based on the actual or potential release of hazardous substances from a site through air, surface water or groundwater.

A score of 28. 5 places the site on the National Priorities List, making the site eligible for long-term remedial action ( i. e., cleanup ) under the Superfund program.

Kerry advocates removal of toxins from communities, bolstering the Superfund cleanup program, and reducing sprawl and traffic congestion.

He also was an architect of the 1980 Superfund program to clean up hazardous waste sites as well as the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.

In the Superfund program, the existence of a contaminant concentration in the environment high enough to warrant action or trigger a response under SARA and the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Contingency Plan.

The National Priorities List ( NPL ) is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action ( cleanup ) financed under the federal Superfund program.

Also, sites where a remediation was completed through the Superfund program are typically deleted from the list.

The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 ( SARA ), made several important changes and additions to CERCLA including increasing the funding of Superfund to $ 8. 5 billion and providing for studies and the use of new technologies.

The primary contribution of CERCLA was to create a " Superfund " and provided for the clean-up and remediation of closed and abandoned hazardous waste sites.

According to United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) records, the mine is listed as a Superfund Alternative Site for acid mine drainage and groundwater contamination.

Monsanto has been identified by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency as being a " potentially responsible party " for 56 contaminated sites ( Superfund sites ) in the United States.

Monsanto has been sued, and has settled, multiple times for damaging the health of its employees or residents near its Superfund sites through pollution and poisoning.

In a January 16, 2011 news story featured in the online edition of the Peoria Journal Star, Associated Press reporter Tammy Webber reported that the oxbow lake, surrounded by a Superfund site, is polluted by high levels of metals such as zinc, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and chromium because of activity there by the smelting for the automotive and appliance industries, chiefly by ExxonMobil and CBS Corp ..

In 1983 the Acton W. R. Grace site was placed on the list of United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Superfund sites as a National Priority for cleanup.

In the mid-1980s, Swartz Creek was the " report from " for articles covering the Superfund clean up of Berlin and Farro toxic waste dump for national audiences.

According to United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) records, the mine is listed as a Superfund Alternative Site for acid mine drainage and groundwater contamination.

In 2000, to avoid designation as a Superfund site, the landmark ASARCO Smelters were imploded, and Intermountain Healthcare purchased the site for its Intermountain Medical Center.

The smelter and its landmark smokestack have been gone for years, and a massive Superfund cleanup at the former site has been underway since the early 1990s.

Colgate-Palmolive, as a successor to The Mennen Company, is one of about 300 companies held potentially responsible for hazardous waste at the Chemsol federal Superfund site in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Overall, Chevron is listed as potentially liable for 95 Superfund sites, with funds set aside by the EPA for clean-up.

She was responsible for both the Superfund Settlements Project and the Information Network for Superfund Settlements, a policy group of over 120 companies, law firms, and other organizations headquartered in ML & B's Washington office.

In that capacity she was responsible for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( RCRA ) regulatory issues and Superfund reauthorization.

The agency conducts public health assessments for all current or proposed sites on the National Priorities List ( commonly known as Superfund sites ).

Another major responsibility of ATSDR is producing toxicological profiles for the most common substances that are found at Superfund sites.

It also placed part of the blame on the deadlines and requirements that Congress imposed with SARA: " SARA ’ s requirement that ATSDR quickly assess 951 Superfund sites came at a time when the agency was still relatively new and ... not staffed or organized for the job.

Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 ( CERCLA ), a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances.

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.

ATSDR is charged with assessing the presence and nature of health hazards at specific Superfund sites, as well as helping prevent or reduce further exposure and the illnesses that can result from such exposures.

The former wood-treating plant operated by Wheeler Lumber within the city limits has been designated a Federal Superfund site, due to soil and groundwater contamination by the wood treating compounds creosote, pentachlorophenol, and ammoniacal copper arsenate.

These successes were followed by the enactment of a whole series of laws regulating waste ( Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ), toxic substances ( Toxic Substances Control Act ), pesticides ( FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ), clean-up of polluted sites ( Superfund ), protection of endangered species ( Endangered Species Act ), and more.

Glynn County is home to seventeen identified hazardous waste sites, six actively polluting industries, and four Superfund sites.

* Kin-Buc Landfill, former landfill and Superfund site site where of hazardous waste was dumped.

An industrial area in Castanea Township adjacent to Lock Haven was placed on the National Priorities List of uncontrolled hazardous waste sites ( commonly referred to as Superfund sites ) in 1982.

Land that is more severely contaminated and has high concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution, such as a Superfund site, does not fall under the brownfield classification.

Horinko was an attorney at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, involved in the areas of pesticides and hazardous waste counseling, Clean Water Act and Superfund litigation, and environmental audits in connection with business transactions.

Superfund toxic waste sites.

An " orphan share " is the share of waste at a Superfund site that cannot be collected because the PRP is either unidentifiable or insolvent.

For those sites, the Superfund law originally paid for toxic waste cleanups through a tax on petroleum and chemical industries.

The Center for Public Integrity has reported that Phelps Dodge is named as a potentially responsible party in at least 13 Superfund toxic waste sites.

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ( CERCLA ), also known as " Superfund ," was enacted in 1980 to address the problem of remediating abandoned hazardous waste sites, by establishing legal liability, as well as a trust fund for cleanup activities.

The 1986 Superfund Act imposed taxes on polluting industries such as chemical and petroleum companies to finance the cleanup of toxic waste sires and leaking underground storage facilities.

Progress has also been named a potentially responsible party at the Carolina Transformer Co. Superfund toxic waste site, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

* Waste management ( recycling, municipal solid waste salvage, brownfield land remediation, Superfund cleanup, sustainable packaging )

On June 26, 1995 the United States Environmental Protection Agency, having designated Hahn's mother's property as a Superfund hazardous materials cleanup site, dismantled the shed and its contents and buried them as low-level radioactive waste in Utah.

The Superfund Amendment and Re-authorization Act title III mandated that all first responders to a hazardous waste or hazmat emergency would be trained in accordance with 29 CFR 1910. 120 ( q ).

The corporation has also been identified as a potentially responsible party in at least ten Superfund toxic waste sites.

For example, Allegheny Ludlum's Natrona and Brackenridge, Pennsylvania plants contributed to the waste at the ALSCO Park Lindane Dump — an EPA Superfund site.