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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
1980

Bill NumberHR-7020
Public Law Number96-519

Enacted - Signed by the President

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James Florio



Other names for this bill...

This bill is referred to as CERCLA (acronym for Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act).

It also often is referred to as Superfund, for the cleanup fund it created.

This bill pays for the cleanup of polluted sites

This bill created the Superfund - a federal program to pay for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

It also created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

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