The Superfund Reform Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3000, March 5, 1998 and March 26, 1998, Volume 4 |
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Page 197 - pollutant or contaminant" shall include, but not be limited to, any element, substance, compound, or mixture, including disease-causing agents, which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutation, physiological malfunctions (including malfunctions...
Page 190 - ... that the President's decision in selecting the response action ordered was arbitrary and capricious or was otherwise not in accordance with law. Reimbursement awarded under this subparagraph shall include all reasonable response costs incurred by the petitioner pursuant to the portions of the order found to be arbitrary and capricious or otherwise not in accordance with law.
Page 120 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, for inviting me to testify on the future of the Department of Energy weapons laboratories.
Page 166 - LIABILITY As State Waste Managers, our principal concern is ensuring the timely and effective cleanup of contaminated sites. The current liability scheme may not be entirely equitable to some responsible parties, but in the past it. has provided a stable source of funding. Equity must also be extended to protect those Americans living near, and suffering the effects of, contaminated waste sites. Reforms are needed and we...
Page 200 - Act, (C) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to section 3001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (but not including any waste the regulation of which under the Solid Waste Disposal Act has been suspended by Act of Congress), (D) any toxic pollutant listed under section...
Page 200 - hazardous substance" means (A) any substance designated pursuant to section 1321(b)(2)(A) of Title 33, (B) any element, compound, mixture, solution, or substance designated pursuant to section 9602 of this title, (C) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to section 3001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (but not including any waste the regulation of which under the Solid Waste Disposal Act has been suspended by Act of Congress...
Page 200 - Act. and (F) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture with respect to which the Administrator has taken action pursuant to section 7 of the-Toxic Substances Control Act. The term does not include petroleum, including crude oil or any fraction thereof which is not otherwise specifically listed or designated...
Page 259 - The Honorable MICHAEL G. OXLEY Chairman Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials Committee on Commerce...
Page 200 - ... and the term does not include natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or mixtures or natural gas and such synthetic gas).
Page 239 - Redlich is Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, and is editor in chief of the Tax Law Review, New York University.