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Jan 1, 2000
Estimates the number of PRPs that would be released and the cleanup costs that would be transferred to the Fund by recent proposals.
Research Summary
Provides information about proposals to exempt small firms and small-volume contributors, including the number and proportion of business firms that would be released, the proposals' dollar costs, and their effect on firms that would remain liable.
Jan 1, 1999
Superfund liability may impose financial risk on investors and thereby increase firms' costs of capital.
Jan 1, 1998
Expert Insights
Jan 1, 1995
This publication contains the written statement of Lloyd S. Dixon submitted on March 10, 1995, to the Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control and Risk Assessment of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Jan 1, 1994
This research brief describes the contentious interactions among firms that generated or transported hazardous wastes and are thus liable for cleanup.
This report focuses on the possible effect of the proposed Superfund Reform Act of 1994 on transaction costs -- costs resulting not from cleanup but from assigning liability for cleanup among the various parties.
Jan 1, 1993
This report will be of interest to those evaluating Superfund's liability-based approach to cleaning up the thousands of abandoned or inactive sites across the United States that are contaminated with hazardous substances.
This publication contains the written statement of Lloyd S. Dixon submitted on November 4, 1993 to the Subcommittee on Superfund, Recycling, and Solid Waste of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Jan 1, 1992
This research brief examines the extent of the involvement of private parties with Superfund site cleanup.
Congress enacted the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation's worst inactive hazardous-waste sites. Superfund uses a liability-based approach intended to help government tap private-sector resources to finance and conduct cleanups.
Jan 1, 1989
This research brief describes a study that sought to determine the effects of Superfund’s liability-based system and its administrative procedures on the program’s pace and cost and on the nature of the remedies selected.
