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Paul Tonko: “The lack of financial assurance requirements has exposed the Superfund Program and the United States taxpayers to…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2016
The lack of financial assurance requirements has exposed the Superfund Program and the United States taxpayers to potentially enormous cleanup costs.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko argues that financial assurance requirements are necessary to protect taxpayers from cleanup costs.

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