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Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. See the current codification for Title 42, Chapter 103 in the Cornell Law School U.S. Code Collection. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Compensation, and Liabilitythe United States Government

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 103 — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability

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SUBCHAPTER I—HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES RELEASES, LIABILITY, COMPENSATION
§ 9601	Definitions
§ 9602	Designation of additional hazardous substances and establishment of reportable released quantities; regulations
§ 9603	Notification requirements respecting released substances
§ 9604	Response authorities
§ 9605	National contingency plan
§ 9606	Abatement actions
§ 9607	Liability
§ 9608	Financial responsibility
§ 9609	Civil penalties and awards
§ 9610	Employee protection
§ 9611	Uses of Fund
§ 9612	Claims procedure
§ 9613	Civil proceedings
§ 9614	Relationship to other law
§ 9615	Presidential delegation and assignment of duties or powers and promulgation of regulations
§ 9616	Schedules
§ 9617	Public participation
§ 9618	High priority for drinking water supplies
§ 9619	Response action contractors
§ 9620	Federal facilities
§ 9621	Cleanup standards
§ 9622	Settlements
§ 9623	Reimbursement to local governments
§ 9624	Methane recovery
§ 9625	Section 6921(b)(3)(A)(i) waste
§ 9626	Indian tribes
§ 9627	Recycling transactions
§ 9628	State response programs

SUBCHAPTER II—HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RESPONSE REVENUE

Part A—Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund
§ 9631	Repealed.
§ 9632	Repealed.
§ 9633	Repealed.

Part B—Post-closure Liability Trust Fund
§ 9641	Repealed.

SUBCHAPTER III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
§ 9651	Reports and studies
§ 9652	Effective dates; savings provisions
§ 9653	Repealed.
§ 9654	Applicability of Federal water pollution control funding, etc., provisions
§ 9655	Legislative veto of rule or regulation
§ 9656	Transportation of hazardous substances; listing as hazardous material; liability for release
§ 9657	Separability; contribution
§ 9658	Actions under State law for damages from exposure to hazardous substances
§ 9659	Citizens suits
§ 9660	Research, development, and demonstration
§ 9660a	Grant program
§ 9661	Love Canal property acquisition
§ 9662	Limitation on contract and borrowing authority

SUBCHAPTER IV—POLLUTION INSURANCE
§ 9671	Definitions
§ 9672	State laws; scope of subchapter
§ 9673	Risk retention groups
§ 9674	Purchasing groups
§ 9675	Applicability of securities laws

Notes

Short Title

Section 1 of Pub. L. 96–510 provided:

“That this Act ^[1] may be cited as the ``Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980´´.”

↑ The Act enacting this chapter, section 6911a of this title, and sections 4611, 4612, 4661, 4662, 4681, and 4682 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, amending section 6911 of this title, section 1364 of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, and section 11901 of Title 49, Transportation, and enacting provisions set out as notes under section 6911 of this title and sections 1 and 4611 of Title 26

[1] The Act enacting this chapter, section 6911a of this title, and sections 4611, 4612, 4661, 4662, 4681, and 4682 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, amending section 6911 of this title, section 1364 of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, and section 11901 of Title 49, Transportation, and enacting provisions set out as notes under section 6911 of this title and sections 1 and 4611 of Title 26

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