- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)
- Creator:
- Croy, Jonathan
- Contributor to Resource:
- Goldin, Marley
Hammond, Matthew D.
Kumar, Rachel
Sharma, Meenu
Wilson, Samuel - Date of Original:
- 2009-12-07
- Subject:
- United States. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Hazardous wastes--Law and legislation--United States
Pollution--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund). Superfund allows the federal government to clean up toxic-waste sites and pursue those responsible for dumping toxic substances. Toxic-waste sites subject to Superfund are placed on the National Priority List (NPL), which in 2009 included fifteen sites in Georgia, as well as one proposed site.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation-and-liability-act-superfund/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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