Superfund program
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- noun
- /ˈsuːpərfʌnd ˈprɒɡræm/
- Formal
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programa Superfund
- Problem recognition is often marked by a catalyzing event such as Love Canal in the United States (which spurred the creation of the Superfund program) or the publication of the white paper Pollution in Hong Kong: A Time to Act in 1989 (which focused that country's attention on the problem of hazardous waste and led to its development of comprehensive hazardous waste regulations).
Examples
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The new law extended the life of the Superfund program for an additional five years and increased its funding more than fivefold.
Academic text (1991) -
Although complete cleanup has thus far been achieved at only a few NPL sites, the Superfund program has nevertheless accomplished a great deal.
Academic text (1993) -
Since that time, while not without its problems, the Superfund program has been remarkably successful.
Academic text (1993) -
The results of the first effort were published in 1988 under the title Right Train, Wrong Track: Failed Leadership in the Superfund Program.
Academic text (1992) -
The Superfund program has not been a model for effective government policymaking.
Academic text (1996) -
Following its enactment in December 1980, the Superfund program got off to a slow start.
Academic text (1993) -
In recent months, the Superfund program for cleaning up hazardous waste sites has come under a heavy barrage of criticism.
Academic text (1993) -
A second common criticism of the Superfund program is that it is wasteful, that more money is spent on transaction costs, primarily legal fees, than on cleanup.
Academic text (1993) -
The government's response: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched its Superfund program, which was established by Congress in 1980 and reformed in 1986.
Academic text (1996) -
The Superfund program aims to clean up the nation's most hazardous waste sites to protect public health.
Synonyms
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A United States government program that finds and cleans places with dangerous waste
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositional: 'Superfund' names a specific initiative and 'program' indicates an organized set of actions, so 'Superfund program' straightforwardly means the program run under the Superfund to clean hazardous waste sites. While 'Superfund' is a culture-specific proper name that may be unfamiliar to some learners, if a learner knows both constituents they can derive the phrase meaning.
Etymology
Superfund program comes from a special government fund, a large pool of money set up after big local pollution disasters to pay for cleanups. That's why the name now means the program that finds, manages, and pays to clean the nation's most dangerous hazardous waste sites.