Missouri Registry Annual Report: Registry of Confirmed Abandoned or Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in Missouri and Hazardous Waste Remedial Fund Statement. Fiscal Year 2004 Rept. for 1 Jul 03-30 Jun 04

摘要

In 1980, the United States Congress established the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, better known as CERCLA or Superfund. This law was passed to respond to the indiscriminate disposal of the byproducts of industrial life, which contaminated soil and water and resulted in threats to public health and the environment. The federal statute provided both response and funding mechanisms for the remediation of hazardous substance disposal sites. In June 1983, the Missouri legislature passed a state law to address these issues. The law directed the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to prepare a Registry of Confirmed Abandoned or Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in Missouri (Registry). The law also authorized the establishment of emergency response activities to respond to hazardous substance releases; created a Hazardous Waste Remedial Fund for the implementation of these programs and other expenditures, such as financing the non-federal share of cleanups and the investigation and assessment of potential hazardous waste sites; and required that, each January, a full account of the Hazardous Waste Remedial Fund be reported. This annual report is published to comply with statutory obligations (Section 260.445 RSMo 1986, Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Law, see Appendix C). Missouri law requires the department to transmit a report each January 1 to the General Assembly and Governor regarding sites listed on the Registry. The statute also requires the report be provided to the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Commission and the governing body of each county containing a Registry site.