Superfund program

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
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some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund

Syn: ↑Superfund
Hypernyms: ↑program, ↑programme

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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