Question

What does the comprehensive environmental response compensation and liability act (superfund) do ?

a. It encourages businesses to keep hazardous waste sites open.
b. It mandates the clean-up of abandoned hazardous waste sites open.
c. It requires local governments to keep hazardous waste sites open.
d. It allows local government s to close hazardous waste sites and leave them as they are.

Answer 1

The answer is B. "The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act -- otherwise known as CERCLA or Superfund -- provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment"

Answer 2

The comprehensive environmental response compensation and liability act or popularly known as CERCLA or Superfund authorizes the President to respond to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances into the environment. It was designed to fund the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants.

Hence, the correct answer is option B.