Word: superfunded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesser extent, water pollution have been addressed in the last decade, and great progress has been made. But Congress realized three years ago that contamination of our world by deadly chemicals could dwarf all previous environmental problems combined. To battle this growing disaster, they created the so-called "Superfund," a $1.6 billion appropriation to the EPA for locating toxic waste, prosecuting law-breakers, and enforcing clean-up and prevention. Mrs. Burford's mismanagement of this fund--including an unaccounted loss of $53.6 million of it--prompted her investigation by Congress and eventual resignation. Mr. Ruckelshaus should concentrate his efforts...
...grand jury investigation into allegations that Lavelle and former EPA General Counsel Robert Perry committed perjury in their testimony before Congress. Former Administrator Anne Burford, who was forced to resign in March, has been cited for contempt in connection with congressional investigations of the $1.6 billion hazardous-waste Superfund. She resisted compliance with Congress's request for EPA documents at the request of the President...
However, new allegations continued to surface about EPA's management of the toxic-waste Superfund. In a press conference on Thursday, Representative John Dingell of Michigan charged that his committee's investigation into the agency had uncovered new evidence of wrongdoing by EPA officials. Dingell referred to a memorandum that Lavelle sent on Sept. 13, 1982, to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. In it she proposed that the announcement of some Superfund grants in New Jersey be timed to benefit the election campaigns of two Republicans and that the President make an appearance...
While Dingell failed to offer conclusive evidence-indeed Reagan did not even travel to New Jersey-the Congressman nonetheless maintained that the document "makes clear that Miss Lavelle and Mr. Deaver had been discussing the use of the Superfund for the intended benefit of certain congressional candidates, a Governor and the President of the United States." In reply, Deaver denied having had political discussions with Lavelle. "I've never talked to Lavelle the whole time she was in Washington," he said, and added jokingly, "I thought the Superfund was the United...
...addition, the study argued that a more realistic cost effectiveness would be achieved by using the Superfund as it was intended-for rapid cleanup of conditions threatening lives and health. Declared the report: "In sum, with control, not action, the watchword for Superfund, the regions and the program have suffered...