Superfund delays.Superfund delays By the end of last year, both the House and Senate had passed legislation authorizing a new, tougher Superfund program Noun 1. Superfund program - the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency; "some have intimated that the Superfund's money for cleaning up abandoned toxic-waste dumps DUMPS a lethal inherited disorder of Holstein cattle that causes infertility. The name is an acronym of Deficiency of Uridine MonoPhosphate S (SN: 12/21&28/85, p. 390). But the bills were different enough to require lengthy negotiations between the two boides before a compromise version could be presented to President Reagan for signing into law. Those discussions are still going on. The biggest problem is deciding whether most Superfund money should come from a tax on petrochemical feed stocks or from a broader tax on manufactured goods manufactured goods npl → manufacturas fpl; bienes mpl manufacturados manufactured goods npl → produits manufacturés . Meanwhile, with no new funds coming in, the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and has threatened to stop all current work at toxic-waste sites and to lay off staff beginning April 1. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion