New Congress May Scrutinize Superfund More Scrutiny
Acritical look at the Superfund program may be coming as Democrats take control of Congress. New leaders of key committees contend the program’s cleanup pace has slowed and funding is inadequate. The construction industry hopes the scrutiny will lead to more federal aid, but that may have to wait at least until the fiscal 2008 appropriations.
As the Environmental Protection Agency released Superfund’s fiscal 2006 results last month, Assistant Administrator Susan Bodine said, “EPA continues to make progress in protecting human health and the environment by cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated sites.”