Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act of 2001: Report
Author:
Mr. Smith, of New Hampshire from the Committee on Environmental and Public Works
Date Published:
03/2001
Description:
The nation’s laws governing abandoned hazardous waste sites date back to the late 1970’s and the discovery of thousands of barrels of toxic waste buried illegally outside of Buffalo, New York. The U.S. Congress responded to Love Canal and other sites by enacting the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, commonly referred to as Superfund. CERCLA was intended to clean up the nation’s worst sites and identify responsible parties to bear the cost of cleanups. Litigation over CERCLA’s strict, joint and several liability ensued. The fear of prolonged entanglements in Superfund’s liability
scheme has been reported by some to be an impediment to the cleanup of even lightly contaminated sites, today known as brownfields.
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