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Superfund: Information on the Program's Funding and Status

RCED-00-25 Published: Oct 29, 1999. Publicly Released: Nov 29, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Superfund program, focusing on the: (1) status of the program's funding and expenditures, including information on the Superfund trust fund to date and the moneys appropriated from it to federal agencies other than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Superfund activities; (2) costs to responsible parties for all site cleanups and these parties' related transaction costs from 1980 through 1998, categorized before and after December 1995, when the authority for Superfund taxes expired; and (3) cleanup status of the 640 nonfederal sites, as of April 1999, and the estimated total and annual costs to complete cleanups of these sites.

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Environmental monitoringEnvironmental policiesFunds managementHazardous substancesLiability (legal)Pollution controlTrust fundsWaste disposalHazardous waste sitesSuperfund