Superfund Program: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, on Oversight of the Implementation of the Superfund Program, Volume 4

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Page 647 - Public participation is that part of the decision-making process through which responsible officials become aware of public attitudes by providing ample opportunity for interested and affected parties to communicate their views. Public participation includes providing access to the decision-making process, seeking input from and conducting dialogue with the public, assimilating public viewpoints and preferences, and demonstrating that those viewpoints and preferences have been considered by the decisionmaking...
Page 631 - Under the standard we adopt today, a secured creditor may incur section 9607(a)(2) liability, without being an operator, by participating in the financial management of a facility to a degree indicating a capacity to influence the corporation's treatment of hazardous wastes.
Page 635 - The exclusion provided under this paragraph shall not apply to any State or local government which has caused or contributed to the release or threatened release of a hazardous substance...
Page 486 - State laws concerning removal and remedial action, including State laws regarding enforcement, shall apply to removal and remedial action at facilities owned or operated by a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States when such facilities are not included on the National Priorities List.
Page 504 - ... the relationship of the purchase price to the value of the property y uncontaminated, commonly known or reasonably ascertainable information about the property, the obviousness of the presence or likely presence of contamination at the property, and the ability to detect such contamination by appropriate inspection.
Page 504 - ... was caused solely by an act of God, an act of war, or an act or omission of a third party...
Page 699 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:34 am, in room 2123, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 394 - The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a non-partisan, non-profit organization formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in the provision of legal services to victims of racial discrimination. Through legal representation, public policy advocacy and public education on civil rights matters, we implement our mission. As Program Director of the Lawyers...
Page 504 - At the time the defendant acquired the facility the defendant did not know and had no reason to know that any hazardous substance which is the subject of the release or threatened release was disposed of on, in, or at the facility...