Bill Nelson: “The estimate of the number of alligators in Lake Apopka today is not 4,000, but 400. Some of those alligators they have…”

“The estimate of the number of alligators in Lake Apopka today is not 4,000, but 400. Some of those alligators they have captured they find are mutated. Now did that come from this witches brew? I am not sure scientifically we can actually say that, but it is potentially a cause of environmental damage. For the people who live around that toxic waste dump site, there have been health problems cited for years. We cannot clean it up because we do not have any money. That is what we get back to: the money. When I was in the House of Representatives, in 1980, we enacted the Superfund law and we said: We are going to provide a fund for these hundreds of toxic waste dumps all over the country that cannot be cleaned up because the owner of the dump has now gone bankrupt or has left town and there is no one financially responsible to clean up the dump. The trust fund would be there so when we did not have a financially responsible party that could pay for cleaning up the toxic waste site, we would have a fund to which we could go. The fund has dwindled and the taxpayer has to pay more and more of the costs of cleaning up orphan Superfund sites.”