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2. List of Superfund sites in New York - Wikipedia

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   Superfund sites in New York are designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA, a federal law passed in 1980, authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

3. List of Superfund sites - Wikipedia

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   Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills, mines, manufacturing facilities, processing plants where toxic waste has either been improperly managed or dumped.

4. National Priorities List - Wikipedia

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   The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), also known as "Superfund", requires that the criteria provided by the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) be used to make a list of national priorities of the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants in the United States. [2]

5. West Valley Demonstration Project - Wikipedia

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   The State of New York acquired 3,345 acres (13.54 km 2) of land in the Town of Ashford, near West Valley, in 1961 with the intention of developing an atomic industrial area. The property was named the Western New York Nuclear Service Center and would eventually host a commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant and low-level radioactive ...

6. Clean Harbors - Wikipedia

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   The company had one truck and four employees who transported and disposed of hazardous wastes for local businesses, and over time expanded to offer emergency hazardous waste cleaning services and industrial waste disposal, as well as ongoing management of hazardous material sites. Revenues continued to climb approaching $50 million in 1986.

7. Superfund - Wikipedia

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   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. Acronyms (colloquial) CERCLA: Nicknames: Superfund: Enacted by: the 96th United States Congress: Citations; Public law: P.L. 96-510: Statutes at Large ...