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The budgetary concerns of the Superfund are the most pressing at this point. The 2003 Superfund allocations of $1.27 billion is around $355 million less than the projected needs to complete the projects scheduled (Schmidt, 2003). Additionally, the number of projects have declined sharply - by around 50% - under the Bush Administration. They contend that while the number of projects has fallen, the magnitude of those projects has increased greatly. Essentially, all the easy projects were completed first and the more difficult ones, which require more time and money, are being addressed only now (Schmidt, 2006).
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The Superfund was $3.8 billion at its high, and cleaned up 87 sites each year. Only 42 sites were cleaned up in 2002. The Bush Administration plans to clean up only 40 sites each year in 2003 and 2004.
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In addition to new life insurance trends, the February issue investigates who will pay when the Superfund runs dry. It ... evaluates the competition between formerly merged Pennsylvania health insurers Highmark Inc. and Capital BlueCross. Best's Review is published by A.M. Best Co. for insurance professionals, including home office executives, agents, brokers and others who are affiliated with the industry, including bankers, lawyers and educators.
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Montana has 14 sites on the Superfund list. Four have been cleaned up. Of the ten remaining, two won’t be fully funded this year. Those two are Libby and the Upper Ten Mile Creek drainage near Helena.
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Several Superfund sites in the New Orleans area were inundated by hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed. The most worrisome is the Agriculture Street Landfill, located about halfway between the French Quarter and Lake Pontchartrain. For nearly a century, municipal garbage and industrial wastes accumulated there. It was loaded with lead, arsenic, dioxin and carcinogenic hydrocarbons and later sprayed with the now-banned pesticide DDT. Underground fires gave it the nickname "Dante's Inferno."
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The major stakeholder in the Superfund process has been denied meaningful participation and input in the decision making process of Superfund. This stakeholder is the resident who lives or works near the Superfund site, is impacted by it, and must live with the results of the process. Human life and dignity have been devalued. This problem of the lack of participation by the affected community must be corrected. Public participation needs to come earlier, resources need to be provided to the community to effectively participate and communities need to be given access to
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