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Superfund: Number of Potentially Responsible Parties at Superfund Sites Is Difficult to Determine

RCED-96-75 Published: Mar 27, 1996. Publicly Released: Apr 09, 1996.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the parties responsible for contaminating sites on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL), focusing on the number of: (1) de minimis parties that may have contributed only a relatively small amount of contamination at nonfederal NPL sites; and (2) potentially responsible parties at nonfederal municipal co-disposal landfill sites.

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