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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act: : Commonly known knows as the Superfund Act, established a program to clean up abandoned and illegal hazardous waste sites across the United States. At many of these waste sites hazardous chemicals have soaked deep into the soil and have cause pollution in the groundwater. The greatest threat from hazardous waste sites is when people near these sites drink the water laced with the contaminates.
CERCLA
RCRA
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act An act passed in 1976 and amended in 1984, this act instructs the EPA to identify which waste is hazardous and to provide guidelines and standards to states for hazardous management programs. In 1992 the EPA initiated a major reform of RCRA to expedite cleanups and stremline the permit system to encourage hazardous hazardous waste recycling.
