美国有毒有害物质防止和治理的超级基金简介
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Superfund 有毒有害物质防止与治理－超级基金
超级基金是1980年美国联邦政府为了清理被危险废弃物有毒有害物质污染尔专门通过的法案的缩写，
它的全称是；综合环境回应，补救，法律责任法案， 缩写是CERCLA.
超级基金同时也帮助建立了联邦政府下边的【有毒有害物质和污染疾病登记局－ATSDR】。
这个局和超级基金的主要任务就是帮助美国联邦政府清理和治理对美国公众健康和美国自然环境造成或者潜在造成影响的有毒有害物质。美国国家环保局被授以发现和督促排放有毒有害物质的责任方来清理其施害的影响。
当有毒有害物质的影响找不到施害方时，超级基金将被用来清理受影响的范围。
更多的内容请参看下边的具体内容。
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980
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| Full title |
An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and
emergency response for hazardous substances released into the
environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal
sites. |
| Acronym |
CERCLA |
| Colloquial name(s) |
Superfund |
| Enacted by the |
96th United States Congress |
| Citations |
| Public Law |
Pub.L. 96-510 |
| Stat. |
94 Stat. 2767 |
| Codification |
| Title(s) amended |
42 (Public Health) |
| U.S.C.sections created |
42 U.S.C.
§ 9601 et seq. |
| Legislative history |
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| Major amendments |
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of
1986;
Emergency
Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 |
| Relevant Supreme Court cases |
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None
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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.
[1]
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. The law authorized the
Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to identify parties responsible
for contamination of sites and compel the parties to clean up the
sites. Where responsible parties cannot be found, the Agency is
authorized to clean up sites itself, using a special trust
fund.
[edit]History
Workers in
hazmat suits check the status of a cleanup
site
CERCLA was enacted by
Congress in 1980 in response to
the threat of hazardous waste sites, typified by the
Love Canal disaster in
New
York, and the
Valley of the Drums in
Kentucky.
[2]
The EPA published the first
Hazard Ranking System (HRS) in
1981, and the first
National Priorities List
(NPL) in 1982.
[3]
The implementation during early years has been criticized as
being ineffective due to the Reagan administration's laissez-faire
policies. During his two terms, 16 of the 799 Superfund sites were
cleaned up, and $40 million of $700 million in recoverable funds
from responsible
