Who Is Responsible For Cleanup Under CERCLA?

Title	Who Is Responsible For Cleanup Under CERCLA?
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Who Is Responsible For Cleanup Under CERCLA?

Who Is Responsible For Cleanup Under CERCLA?

What is CERCLA? The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act ( CERCLA )

1)  The purpose of CERCLA is to make owners and operators of hazardous waste
dump sites and contaminated areas, as well as their customers, responsible for
cleanup costs and property damage. 2)  CERCLA is also referred to as THE
SUPERFUND.  It is authorized to a level of 8.5 billion dollars. The funding for
CERCLA comes 87% from taxes on the chemical industry and 13% from general
revenues of the federal government.

Who is responsible?
     After a hazardous waste site is identified, CERCLA places ultimate cleanup
responsibility on those who used the site.  Parties responsible for a waste dump
are liable for the cost of waste removal and other remedial action.
     If potentially responsible parties can be identified, then they can be
held liable for either cleanup costs incurred, or for replenishment of the
Superfund.

Who is a Potentially Responsible Party?

1.)  Owners and operators of waste sites.

i)  CERCLA actions against dissolved corporations are permissible

ii)  If one is the owner or operator, liability may attach even if some other
party in the past placed hazardous wastes there. ( The seller of a foundry was
found liable under CERCLA when it was sold for $25,000, but was appraised at
$200,000, suggesting the decision to sell was for disposal of hazardous
materials.)  A vendor is not an owner if it did not own the property...This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!

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