Oversight of the Superfund Program in New Jersey: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Recycling, and Soid Waste Management of the Committee ... Third Congress, First Session, April 1 - Softcover

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Excerpt from Oversight of the Superfund Program in New Jersey: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Recycling, and Soid Waste Management of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, April 12, 1993 Trenton, New Jersey

U.S Senate,

Committee on Environment and Public Works,

Subcommittee on Superfund, Recycling,

and Solid Waste Management

Trenton, NJ.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:15 a.m. in the Legislative Office Building, Room 9, Trenton, New Jersey, Hon. Frank R.Lautenberg chairman of the subcommittee presiding. Present: Senator Lautenberg.

Opening Statement Of Hon. Frank R.Lautenberg, U.S. Senator From The State Of New Jersey

Senator Lautenberg. I will call the subcommittee on Superfund to order. I apologize for our tardy start. Today we begin the first in a series of intensive hearings reviewing the operation of the Federal Superfund law for cleaning up toxic waste sites. We will be looking back on 12 years of mismanagement by previous Administrations. We re going to review a record of sidetracks and delayed cleanups in the face of significant threats to health and environment, but we will also be looking forward to working with our new President, a President who wants to enforce the law and clean up the program.

As one of the harshest critics of the management of Superfund, I want to work with President Clinton to turn this program around and ensure the prompt, efficient, and complete cleanup of high-priority waste sites. As we move into the reauthorization of Superfund, I am going to be guided by four core principles: that we need to speed cleanups; we need to spend less money on lawyers and more money on actual cleanup; we need to ensure fairness, particularly for small businesses and municipalities, while insisting that polluters stay liable for cleaning up their mess; and we need to eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse that has detracted from the merits of the program and stained such progress as has been made.

If we take these steps, we can turn the program around and move more quickly and more efficiently to comprehensive of the toxic waste sites that our State has. The health and environmental threats posed by Superfund sites make it a question of how, not whether, we clean them up.

The Superfund law is one of the most significant Federal environmental programs for the citizens of New Jersey.

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