superfund : Idioms & Phrases


superfund program

  • noun the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency
    Superfund.
    • some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund
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superfund site

  • noun a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up
    toxic site; toxic waste area.
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