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TABLE 1

Brownfields time line

Brownfields Timeline

1976

77

78

79

80

81

82

83

84

85

86

87

88

89

90

91

92

93

94

95

96

97

98

99

2000

01

02

03

Resources Conservation & Recovery Act

(RCRA)—1976, 1984

Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)—

1976

Waste-treatment facility fire, Bridgeport,

New Jersey—1977

Children hurt at waste dump, Love Canal,

New York—1978

Discovery of Valley of the Drums site,

Kentucky—1979

Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, & Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund)—1980

$1.6 billion tax-funded trust fund

authorized—1980

Environmental Justice Movement, Warren

County, North Carolina—1982

Superfund Amendments & Reauthorization

Act (SARA)—1986

Superfund trust fund increased to $8.5

billion—1986

Brownfields Initiatives announced—1993Small Business Liability Relief and

Brownfields Revitalization Act—1993

EPA Brownfield Action Agenda—1995CERCLA/SARA tax on chemical &

petroleum industry sunsetted—1995

Brownfield National Partnership—1997Superfund Redevelopment Initiative—1999Brownfield Initiative/Harvard’s Innovation

in Government Award—2000

Expanded Brownfield Cleanup Revolving

Loan Fund—2000

Relaim Pennysylvannia—cleanup of

mining grayfields—2002

Nationwide movement to clean up

abandoned grayfields—2003

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