Other Names

Bill summary

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

HR-7020 (1980)

Public Law Number: 96-519

Disposition:
Enacted - Signed by the President

Once the president signs a bill, it becomes a law.

Full title...
An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites.

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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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