Superfund

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-027265",
  "term": "Superfund",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The program operated under the legislative authority of CERCLA and SARA that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conduct and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions.\n\n2. Superfund is the trust fund that provides for the cleanup of hazardous substances released into the environment, regardless of fault. The Superfund was established under CERCLA and subsequent amendments to CERCLA. The term Superfund also is used to refer to cleanup programs designed and conducted under CERCLA and its subsequent amendments. See also Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.\n\n3. Federal authority, established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger health or welfare.\n\n4. Federal law which authorizes EPA to manage the clean-up of abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.\n\n5. The program operated under the legislative authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions.\n\n6. The program operated under the legislative authority of CERCLA and SARA that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions.\n\n7. A fund set up under CERCLA to help pay for cleanup of hazardous waste sites and to take legal action to force those responsible for the sites to clean them up. The Superfund consists of funds from taxes imposed upon the petroleum and chemical industries, an environmental tax on corporations, and from general tax revenues (also known as Trust Fund, and Hazardous Waste Superfund).\n\n8. The common name for the clean-up fund created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). It is often also used to refer to the clean-up process under CERCLA.\n\n9. The common name for CERCLA. Superfund refers to the entire CERCLA program as well as the trust fund established to fund cleanup of contaminated sites where potentially responsible parties cannot be identified, or are unwilling or unable to pay.\n\n10. The Hazardous Substance Superfund established by section 9507 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.\n\n11. Program, operated under the legislative authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions.\n\n12. An EPA program to remediate sites contaminated by release of hazardous substances. Activities include establishing a National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions. Superfund is operated under the legislative authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). Some remedial actions are funded directly by Superfund, through a tax on chemical feedstocks, but the majority are paid for by parties that are liable for the release of the hazardous substances.\n\n13. A program, operated under the legislative authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions. (See National Priorities List.)\n\n14. The common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Superfund refers to the entire CERCLA program as well as the trust fund established to fund cleanup of contaminated sites where potentially responsible parties cannot be identified, or are unwilling or unable to pay.\n\n15. The Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) provides information regarding sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation-and-liability-act) -- otherwise known as CERCLA or Superfund. CERCLA provides a Federal \"Superfund\" to locate, investigate, and clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. The National Priorities List (NPL) is the list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories.",
  "abbreviation": "SF",
  "subject": "Health and safety",
  "see_also": [
    "CERCLA"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Terms of Env",
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Glossary",
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms",
    "Childrens Health Protection Glossary",
    "Superfund Reforms Glossary; Terms of Environment; Region 5 Cleanup Site: Environmental Glossary",
    "Superfund Reforms Glossary",
    "Region 5 Cleanup Sites Glossary",
    "RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "40 CFR 305.3 (CFR 2013)",
    "Report on the Environment (ROE) Glossary",
    "ACE Glossary of Terms; America's Children and the Environment Terms",
    "DWMAPS Glossary",
    "EPA's Envirofacts"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/superfund/"
}