Administration Position
Superfund Legislative Reform Principles
Legislative reform must build on the administrative improvements to the program and must be narrowly targeted to address critical issues in need of a legislative solution. The Administration’s goals for Superfund reauthorization continue to be to: protect human health, welfare, and the environment; maximize participation by responsible parties in the performance of cleanups; ensure effective State, Tribal, and community involvement in decisionmaking; and promote economic redevelopment or other beneficial reuse of sites, all in a manner that increases the pace of cleanups, improves program efficiency, and decreases litigation and transaction costs, and which does not disrupt or delay ongoing progress….
