Download or read book Superfund and the Brownfields Issue written by Mark E. Anthony Reisch and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Superfund program is the principal federal effort for cleaning up hazardous waste sites and protecting public health and the environment from releases of hazardous substances. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) established the program, and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorisation Act of 1986 (SARA) amended it. This book includes data and other pertinent information about CERCLA and the Superfund program, followed by a glossary. EPA defines brownfields as abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. FY1997 was the first year brownfields became a separate budgetary line item, at USD37.7 million. For FY2000 the appropriation was USD91.7 million. In the FY2001 budget, the Administration requested and was appropriated USD91.6 million. The 106th Congress extended the brownfields cleanup tax incentive to December 31, 2003, and expanded it to make all brownfields certified by a state environmental agency eligible for tax break. Other brownfields bills introduced in the Congress appeared to confirm the genera

Download or read book Brownfield Liability and Resource Issues written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Superfund and the Brownfields Issue written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress has before it numerous bills to expand the Environmental Protection Agencyâ€TMs (EPA) brownfields program to help communities restore less seriously contaminated sites that have the potential for economic development. EPA defines brownfields as abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. A combination of potential environmental, economic and social benefits gives this program broad support among governments, environmentalists, developers, and communities. The brownfields program was established administratively by EPA under the aegis of the Superfund program; without explicit authority for it in the law, it has been financed by the Superfund appropriation. The program has expanded to include 363 brownfields assessment grants (most for $200,000 over 2 years); 106 $350,000 revolving loan fund grants to help finance the actual cleanups; 47 job training grants; and 28 Brownfields Showcase Communities where technical and financial assistance from 20 participating federal agencies is being coordinated with state, local and nongovernmental efforts. FY1997 was the first year brownfields became a separate budgetary line item, at $37.7 million. For FY2000 the appropriation was $91.7 million. In the FY2001 budget, the Administration requested and was appropriated $91.6 million. The 106th Congress extended the brownfields cleanup tax incentive to December 31, 2003, and expanded it to make all brownfields certified by a state environmental agency eligible for the tax break. Other brownfield bills introduced in the 106th Congress appeared to confirm the general direction EPA has taken. Two Superfund reauthorization bills were reported in the House, each of which contained a title on brownfields. The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee reported H.R. 1300 on September 30, 1999 (H.Rept. 106-353, Part I), and the Commerce Committee ordered H.R. 2580 reported on October 13, 1999 (H.Rept. 106-775, part I). Negotiations on S. 1090 in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee did not produce an acceptable bipartisan compromise and the committee agreed to end their deliberations on August 4, 1999. This report provides the history, background, and operations of the brownfields program and briefly reviews its current status. For regularly updated information on legislative activity, see CRS Issue Brief IB10011, Superfund Reauthorization Issues in the 106th Congress.

Download or read book Superfund Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brownfield sic Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act of 2001 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Superfund Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Superfund Cleanup Acceleration Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Superfund Reassessment and Reauthorization written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Superfund and Brownfields Cleanup written by James T. O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Reclaiming the Land written by Gregg Macey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, this book provides a much-needed lens through which the Superfund program should be assessed and reshaped. Focusing on the lessons of adaptive management, it explores new concepts and tools for the cleanup and reuse of contaminated sites, and for dealing with the uncertainty inherent in long-term site stewardship.

Download or read book Superfund written by John A. Hird and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough, extensively documented, and well-written description of . . . the Superfund program and an astute appraisal of its many flaws . . . The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on Superfund policy and politics."--Policy Currents."Hir

Download or read book Superfund and Brownfields in the 107th Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 11, 2002, the President signed H.R. 2869 (P.L. 107-118), which formally established EPAâ€TMs brownfields program, and provided relief from Superfund liability for small businesses. The Act creates a $200 million per year brownfield cleanup program (including $50 million for cleanup of petroleum-contaminated sites); provides $50 million for state programs; and relieves liability for contiguous property owners, prospective purchasers, and innocent landowners. It also provides liability relief for small businesses and others who disposed of small amounts of hazardous waste, and allows businesses to make a financial settlement for a lesser amount in cases of financial hardship. The Senate passed S. 606 on November 20, 2002 to establish an Ombudsman. The House passed H.R. 2941 under suspension on June 4, 2002, a bill to make HUD brownfield grants more accessible, especially to smaller communities. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reported S. 1079 on April 25, providing funds for the Economic Development Administrationâ€TMs brownfield program. The Superfund Actâ€TMs formal name is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or CERCLA (P.L. 96-510, as amended). It is the principal federal program for cleaning up hazardous waste sites. As of December 2002, 809 nonfederal sites (61%) placed on the Superfundâ€TMs National Priorities List (NPL) had been removed to the Construction Completed List. Program critics say it is slow, ineffective, and expensive. Program supporters acknowledge that the statute needs to be updated, but argue that Superfund cleanups have prevented widespread health and environmental exposures and have created strong incentives for more careful hazardous waste management. Future funding of the program is a basic issue, as the taxing authority that supported the Superfund trust fund ended in 1995. Congress has appropriated larger amounts from the Treasury since FY1999 as the trust fund balance has declined. The FY2002 appropriation for the Superfund program is $1.27 billion, (P.L. 106-377). CERCLAâ€TMs broad liability scheme has been one of the most difficult issues. The average cost of cleaning up a site is about $20 million, a large enough amount to often make it worthwhile for parties to pursue legal means to spread the costs rather than to settle. So at large sites, where it is not unusual for there to be over a hundred potentially responsible parties, there can be a commensurate amount of expensive negotiation and litigation. Such situations can be especially burdensome for small businesses and other minor parties. The lawâ€TMs cleanup standards and remedy selection procedures are also controversial. Requirements for treatment, permanence, and the application of both federal and state regulations have led to what some critics characterize as overly strict risk assessment, and increased costs and delay at many sites. Environmental groups, on the other hand, strongly support cleanup remedies that minimize remaining on-site pollution rather than remedies that, while designed to limit human and environmental exposure, leave wastes on site. Business interests also want to cap the amount of natural resource damages that can be assessed against them. A number of states are seeking a full delegation to them of the authorities in CERCLA, including remedy selection, control over CERCLAâ€TMs monies, and the determination of what sites go on and off the NPL.

Download or read book Superfund written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund Program. GAO noted that: (1) the cost and scope of Superfund have greatly exceeded initial projections of $1.6 billion for the cleanup of 406 hazardous waste sites in 1980 to $40 billion for 1,275 sites, with a projected increase of 700 sites needing attention by 2000; (2) the program has taken more than 2,800 emergency actions, sometimes at non-Superfund sites, to address immediate, serious site threats; (3) EPA has improved its enforcement of laws to make responsible parties clean up contaminated sites or pay for government-funded cleanups; (4) administrative and support costs account for 41 percent of Superfund appropriations; (5) Superfund contract management controls and oversight do not adequately provide for cost control, contractor review, or protection against program abuses and waste; (6) the pace of Superfund cleanups is sluggish due to the lengthy site study and remedy evaluation process; (7) with increased emphasis on faster and more cost-efficient cleanups, EPA will need to ensure the effectiveness and integrity of site cleanups; and (8) the lack of solid information on the health and environmental dangers posed by Superfund sites makes it difficult to assess the risks and determine the most effective use of the scarce resources available for environmental protection.

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