• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
• Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
• Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)

Press Releases and Articles

• Administration Proposes Hazardous Waste Cleanup Fund
  [EPA press release - June 13, 1979]

• Costle Presses for Immediate Passage of Superfund
  [EPA press release - September 11, 1980]

• Why Superfund Was Needed
  by Robert T. Stafford [EPA Journal - June 1981]

• EPA Announces First 114 Top-Priority Superfund Sites
  [EPA press release - October 23, 1981]

• National Contingency Plan for Superfund Announced
  [EPA press release - March 12, 1982]

• EPA Issues Final National Contingency Plan for Superfund
  [EPA press release - July 12, 1982]

• Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
  [EPA statement - October 17, 1986]

• Final EPCRA rule for Hazardous Chemical Reporting Requirements
  [EPA press release - October 9, 1987]

• EPA and States to Accelerate Cleanups at more than 1,700 Hazardous Waste Management Sites
  [EPA press release - July 8, 1999]

Other Resources

• EPA overview of CERCLA

• Summary of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)

• Summary of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)

• Superfund Accomplishments and Performance Measures