Superfund

__**Superfund**__

Also known as the **Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 1980**. The united States made this a federal law to help clean up the sites contaminated with hazardous substances. This event was enacted in 1980 by congress because of the tragic events that occurred in Love Canal in New York, The Valley of Drums in Kentucky, and Times Beach. The Love Canal was about a buried hazardous waste site that a town was later built on. It caused many tragedies within the town. Times beach sprayed waste oil on the dirt roads and in their stables to control the dust. Unaware, there was high levels of dioxin in the waste. When Times Beach flooded the dioxin spread and created many illnesses throughout the town including the animals. Because of these events, Superfund, came up with the **Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry**. ATSDR enforces authority to clean up hazardous sites that could hurt the environment and health of citizens. The Environmental Protection Agency identifies the companies who are responsible for the hazardous waste sites. They also, make the companies pay for how much the clean up costs. The clean up process of Superfund isn't easy. There's a long and careful process that takes place. The agency has the power to conduct removal of waste sites, fight against the companies who put the waste there, to ensure community involvement, and to guarantee long-term protectiveness. For the past twenty years the Superfund has successfully located and analyzed tens of thousands of hazardous waste sites, in which they protected the people and the environment from contamination at the worst possible times.



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