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2. List of Superfund sites in Texas - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Superfund sites in Texas designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

3. Hazardous waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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   "In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...

4. List of Superfund sites - Wikipedia

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   Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills, mines, manufacturing facilities, processing plants where toxic waste has either been improperly managed or dumped.

5. Texas proposes first new rules for oilfield waste in 40 years

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   In Texas, waste pits have been linked to at least six cases of groundwater contamination and hundreds of violations of state rules. While the need to modernize the Railroad Commission’s rules is ...

6. National Priorities List - Wikipedia

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   The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), also known as "Superfund", requires that the criteria provided by the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) be used to make a list of national priorities of the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants in the United States. [2]

7. Superfund - Wikipedia

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   An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites. Acronyms (colloquial) CERCLA: Nicknames: Superfund: Enacted by: the 96th United States Congress: Citations; Public law: P.L. 96-510: Statutes at Large ...