Similar words: perfunctory, perfunctorily, for fun, perfuse, perfume, perfumed, perfumery, overfull. Meaning: n. the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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1 The exam-ple that first comes to mind is Superfund, the response to toxic dumps.
2 Your body doesn't have to be a Superfund site.
3 EPA 2004 Year End Shows 40 Superfund Sites Cleaned.
4 And Superfund liability is " joint and several. "
5 About 2, 400 Superfund site workers were furloughed during the 1995-96 shutdown, leaving more than 600 toxic waste dumps unattended.
6 Superfund tried to clean it up, but eventually declared the town uninhabitable.
7 Do these statistics about Superfund make a clear case for the Program's success?
8 Most of the debate about cleaning contaminated sites has concentrated on the Superfund programme.
9 The Environmental Protection Agency could not collect an average of $ 8 million a day in fines and Superfund settlements against polluters.
10 And word got out that a paper shredder was busily eating superfund documents.
11 The Agency has also pledged to triple the number of cleanups of contaminated sites conducted under the Superfund programme by 1993.
12 The authors explore these issues through a case study of administrative reform in the Superfund program.
13 And this spring Congress has been conducting hearings on Superfund.
14 What additional information would help you better evaluate the progress of the Superfund program?
15 Bills have been introduced to limit the liability of municipalities and banks for Superfund cleanups.
16 EPA's approach to settlement changed radically during the early implementation of Superfund.
17 Yet despite the election in 1994 of a Republican Congress committed to fundamental changes in environmental regulation,[www.Sentencedict.com] the Superfund program weathered the storm and remains intact today.
18 Still US treasury secretary Henry Paulson is reportedly in favor of creating the superfund.
19 The EPA, meanwhile, is overseeing the containment and cleanup of the Superfund sites.
20 A litigator responsible for a class action faces a spending profile vastly different from an environmental lawyer who's overseeing two Superfund cleanups and a dispute regarding a site.
21 See generally Anderson, Negotiation and Informal Agency Action: The Case of Superfund, 1985 Duke LJ . 261.
22 It takes almost eight years of study and planning before actual cleanup work begins at a typical Superfund site.
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