Federal agency liability under the superfund act: It goes beyond federal facilities

Abstract While many readers of the Federal Facilities Environmental Journal are involved with the performance of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) cleanup on Department of Defense and Department of Energy facilities, many may be unfamiliar with the much broader CERCLA liability of federal agencies under other circumstances. This article places the various kinds of federal agency CERCLA liability into that wider context and serves as a “lessons learned” for environmental managers who want to avoid creating new CERCLA liability for their agencies. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.