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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | The hazardous substance cleanup program created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA, P.L. 99-499, December 11, 1980), as amended. The normal application of fertilizer is explicitly excluded from the definition of "release" under CERCLA. (references) |
Environment | The program operated under the legislative authority of CERCLA and SARA that funds and carries out EPA solid waste emergency and long-term removal and remedial activities. These activities include establishing the National Priorities List, investigating sites for inclusion on the list, determining their priority, and conducting and/or supervising cleanup and other remedial actions. (references) |
Health | [see Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Toxic waste dump, superfund site. Credit: CDC. |  | A slide describing the restoration goals at the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Preferred restoration alternatives for the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Upper Buzzards Bay just south of the Atlas and Tack Superfund site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Soil and Ground Water Act is in many ways modeled after U.S. superfund, the Taiwan authorities and industries are looking to the U.S. for technological guidance. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We will seek reauthorization and expanded funding for the Superfund program to continue cleaning up hazardous waste sites which threaten human health and the environment. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | This year we will fight for a revitalized Clean Water Act and a Safe Drinking Water Act and a reformed Superfund program. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SUPERFUND" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "SUPERFUND" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 60% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SUPERFUND": Superfund Cleanup Program. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "SUPERFUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Superfund-program (Superfund Cleanup Program). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | superfund saneringsprogramma (Superfund Cleanup Program). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Superfundin kunnostusohjelma (Superfund Cleanup Program). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Superfund-Sanierungsprogramm (Superfund Cleanup Program), Superfundprogramm (Superfund Cleanup Program). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόγραμμα εξυγίανσης Superfund (Superfund Cleanup Program). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uperfundsay Programa de Tratamento Superfund (Superfund Cleanup Program). (various references) Superfund Cleanup Program (Superfund Cleanup Program). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SUPERFUND": superfunds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SUPERFUND" (pronounced suw'perfu"nd) |
| 4 | -f u" n d | defund, fund, refund. |
| 3 | -u" n d | bund, dunned, gunned, rotund, shunned, stunned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-n-p-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: pursued, refunds, spurned, unfused, usurped. | |
-3 letters: drupes, dupers, fundus, nursed, perdus, prudes, pruned, prunes, prunus, pursed, pursue, refund, sendup, sunder, surfed, unpure, unsure, unused, upends, upsend. | |
-4 letters: drupe, druse, dunes, duper, dupes, dures, durns, fends, ferns, feuds, funds, fused, nerds, nuder, nudes, nurds, nurse, pends, perdu, prude, prune, pseud, purse, rends, runes, spend. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-n-p-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: superfunds. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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