A shortfall at Superfund.After five years, all thaths left in Superfund, the $1.6-billion fund established for cleaning up hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. sites and for handling emergenices like chemical spills chemical spill Public health An inadvertent release of a liquid chemical regarded as hazardous to human health which in a workplace is identified with hazardous materials labels. See Material Safety Data Sheets. , is $125 million. One day after the current Superfund law expired ex·pire v. ex·pired, ex·pir·ing, ex·pires v.intr. 1. To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired. 2. at the end of September, the House approved an emergency 45-day extension of the program to make sure that cleanups donht halt while Congess completes work on new legislation. This could take at least a month. So far, the Senate has approved a $7.5-billion, five-year extension of the program. But various versions of Superfund legislation are bogged down in a maze maze, detail of landscape gardening based on the Greek labyrinth, consisting of intricate paths or alleys lined with high hedges and having a center and exit difficult to find. It was a prominent feature in the formal English gardens of the 17th and 18th cent. of House committees, which can't decide how much money is needed, who to tax, how quickly cleanups should be done and whether victims deserve compensation (SN: 3/2/85, p. 133). |
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