ENVS 2256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Triage, National Priorities List, Superfund
23 Mar 2018
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Cercla creates a way for cleanup to happen rst then allocates liability of the cleanup. Prps, ow of how cercla actions might unfold. National contingency plan -> how you clean up and how you are supposed to proceed. Di erent types of actions you can take under actions a rmative defenses -> provided for by statute, speci c reason congress has that is a determined way you can get out of liability. Ncp is a massive series of regulations sometime cercla comes in before or afterwards and sometimes they do audits to do audits of the national contingency plan. Epa has incentive to maximize the number of privately funded cleanups wants to clean up the environment they want to rst go after the private company if they can"t fund it, they go to the superfund. Epa is tracking all these di erent sites in the information system. National priorities list -> actual list epa monitors, they manage resources and inspect.
