Superfund

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Definition

Noun: 1. A U.S. federal government program: A program established by U.S. law to identify, investigate, and clean up the nation's most hazardous uncontrolled or abandoned toxic waste sites. The program is managed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is funded through taxes on the chemical and petroleum industries, as well as cost-recovery from responsible parties. * The Environmental Protection Agency used Superfund money to begin the cleanup of the old factory site.

Usage Examples
  • Noun:
    • The contaminated river was designated a Superfund site, requiring a long-term cleanup plan.
    • Congress debated the reauthorization of the Superfund program.
    • Cleaning up a Superfund site can take many years and millions of dollars.
Advanced Usage
  • "Superfund site": The specific term for a location listed on the EPA's National Priorities List (NPL) due to severe contamination, making it eligible for long-term cleanup under the Superfund program.
    • The old mining town became a Superfund site after tests revealed high levels of lead in the soil.
Variants and Related Words
  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA): The official name of the 1980 law that created the Superfund program. "Superfund" is the common name for the program established by CERCLA.
  • Superfund legislation: Laws and amendments related to the Superfund program.
Synonyms
  • Hazardous waste cleanup program: A descriptive synonym emphasizing the program's primary function.
  • CERCLA program: A formal, legal synonym using the acronym for the establishing law.
Related Phrases
  • To be listed on the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL): The formal process for a site to become eligible for Superfund cleanup.
    • The landfill was proposed to be listed on the Superfund National Priorities List.
  • Superfund cleanup: The specific process of remediation at a designated site.
    • The Superfund cleanup is expected to restore the wetland ecosystem.
Noun
  1. 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
    • some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund

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