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The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act is also commonly referred to as Superfund. In 1986, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act reauthorized this act, Superfund, to continue cleaning up the environment across the country. Superfund provides money in order to help clean up uncontrolled waste sites along with accidents, spills, and other releases of pollutants and contaminates into the environment. Through this act, the U.S. Environemental Protection Agency (EPA) has the power to seek out the responisible parties and include them in the cleanup process. It also cleans up abandoned sites in which the responsible parties are neither known, able to be located, or don't act ("Summary of the Comprehensive" 2008).

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