CERCLA - the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act was designed to help clean up the nation's inactive hazardous waste sites. There are a variety of different requirements included in this sweeping legislation.
CERCLA also requires industries to disclose to their communities what hazardous substances they use and store. CERCLA authorized EPA to remediate polluted sites; for this purpose it created Superfund to pay for site cleanups when there is no clear-cut responsible party. EPA can also pursue potentially responsible parties to make them pay for response and remediation activities. SARA amended CERCLA in 1986.
Superfund, 40 CFR 302 to 310, authorized EPA to respond to and remedy polluted sites and created Superfund to pay for site cleanups when a responsible party could not be identified.
EPCRA, brownfields, and property transfers represent some of the other far flung responsibilities that are attached to CERCLA - all having to do with protecting the environment after hazardous waste problems.
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