SUPER FUND

• It is nothing but a program which provide

funding for the treatment of hazardous waste
sites.
• RCRA established an extensive regulatory
program for newly generated hazardous but did
nothing to correct the results of poor disposal
practices.
• In some locations owners and operators
abandoned there plants and lefts drums and
tanks of hazardous waste for others to deal with
it.
• This led Congress to pass the Comprehensive
Environmental Response ,Compensation and
Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980
• CERCLA was amended in 1986 by the
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization
Act
 CERCLA
• It established a $1.6 billion fund,derived
primarily from feedstock taxes on industry,to
impliment a masssive environmental cleanup
program over a period of 5 years.
• Generators were required to report to the EPA
any facility at which hazardous wastes are or
have been treated ,stored or disposed of.
• The intent was to identify and clean up
hazardous waste sites first.
 SARA
• It was passed in the final days of the 99th
Congress in 1986.
• It has created an $8.5 billion fund for cleaning up
abandoned waste dispoal sites.
• An additional $500 million for cleaning up leaking
underground petroleum tanks.
• It established a preference for permanent
remedies that reduce the volume,toxicity or
mobility of hazardous substances .
 Site Discovery

Site not eligible for super

Is this a fund. Clean up if any will
priority NO be done by stae or
site privatesector
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Site placed on national priority list

Remedial Investigation

Feasibility Study

Recors of decision

Design of remedy produces plans and

specifications

Construction of Remedy

Long term moniteribg of site

 Cleanup Standars
• The 1986 amendments require remedial actions to meet
Applicable or Relevent and Appropriate Requirements
(ARARs)
• ARARs are Environmental regulations from programs
other than Superfund that may be desirable to apply to
activities at Superfund sites.
• There are three types of ARARs:
1.Chemical-Specific
2. Action Specific
3.Location specific
 National Contingency PLan
• It is the EPA’s blueprint for implementing
Superfund.
• It provides the framework for RI/FS process.
• It can modifies the FS process to provide a
preference in the site selection of permenent
remedies involving treatment to reduce the
volume , toxicity, or mobility of hazardous
waste
 Liability
• The superfund process includes the liabity
provisions that are intended to reolenish the
fund and place the burden of cleaning up sites
onto those entities responsible for the
contamination.
• Congress mandated that the EPA should
recover costs for site cleanup from potentially
responsible parties (PRP’s).