Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act A Summary of Superfund Cleanup Authorities and Related Provisions of the Act

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law.

Government property.

Hazardous wastes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2011

Summary:

Summarizes major cleanup authorities and other relevant provisions of P.L. 96-510, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), which authorizes Federal Government to clean up contaminated sites and to make "potentially responsible parties" connected to those sites financially liable for the cleanup costs. Discusses overall scope and reach of these statutory authorities, the process under which cleanup actions are selected and carried out at individual sites, and the financial liability of potentially responsible parties for the costs of cleanup actions. Examines the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund that may pay for cleanup actions when the potentially responsible parties cannot pay or cannot be found, enforcement mechanisms, applicability of CERCLA to Federal facilities, and Federal assistance for cleanup of brownfields properties

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

Publisher Number:

CRS-2011-RSI-0406

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