...grants to the states for this purpose have been increasing. In 1980 Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as the Superfund Program. It required EPA to compile a National Priorities list (NPL) of 400 sites that would qualify...

...area of spills and discharges, the concept is also codified in two federal statutes, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as the Superfund Law), and the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act covers discharges to surface and groundwater. CERCLA covers...

...massive publicity generated by the Love Canal incident to push through Congress 46 the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as the Superfund law). 47 CERCLA requires the use of a hazard ranking system to establish the National Priorities List (NPL),...

...underground storage of petroleum products and hazardous substances regulated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA; also known as the Superfund Act). These environmental regulations address the underground storage of hazardous raw materials but...

...large. For example, recent estimates suggest that the total transactions costs of the US Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA. also known as the Superfund) could exceed US$44 billion, out of a total cost of US$l00 billion (see Menell (l99l)). Secondly, attribution...

...public may rest secure in the knowledge that EPA, states and citizens have authority to take action if munitions pose a threat off-range or after a range is closed. We note, for the record, that in its history, EPA has in only one instance taken an enforcement action...

...Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as the Superfund Act. In hindsight, we can see clearly now the advantages of management by watersheds, not only for...

...public may rest secure in the knowledge that EPA, states and citizens have authority to take action if munitions pose a threat off-range or after a range is closed. We note, for the record, that in its history, EPA has in only one instance taken an enforcement action...

...public may rest secure in the knowledge that EPA, states and citizens have authority to take action if munitions pose a threat off-range or after a range is closed. CERCLA changes The Administration's bill proposes analogous changes to CERCLA. It would exempt from...

...knowledge that the EPA, States, and citizens will have the authority to take actions against the Department if munitions pose a threat off-range or after a range...Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or CERCLA, also known as the Nation's Superfund law. It would exempt from the definition of "release"...