Abstract
Many Superfund site responses excavate wastes and ship them off-site for landfilling. In such cases, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) rules apply, and the wastes must be rendered nonhazardous prior to landfilling. As long as RCRA rules apply for those off-site landfills, and as long as the nonhazardous rendering remains effective, there will be no problem with Superfund’s off-site shipments. Otherwise, we will face Superduperfund sites in the future.
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Shifrin, N. (2014). Superduperfund. In: Environmental Perspectives. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06278-5_13
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