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The goal of EPA’s Superfund program is deceptively straightforward--find the nation’s worst abandoned hazardous wastes sites and clean them up. Achieving this goal in a logical and defensible manner has proven to be a much more difficult task. The initial strategy of the program has emphasized monitoring and testing the toxicity of individual chemicals. However, there has been renewed interest in testing site-specific complex mixtures and organisms. Biological assessment techniques are particularly useful for these purposes and hence have great potential for supporting decisions made at Superfund and other hazardous waste sites.
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Norton, S.B., Benforado, J., Zamuda, C., Mittleman, A., Diwan, I., Fulton, R. (1990). Biological Assessment and Ecological Risk Assessment New Tools for Clean-Up Decisions at Hazardous Waste Sites. In: Sandhu, S.S., Lower, W.R., de Serres, F.J., Suk, W.A., Tice, R.R. (eds) In Situ Evaluation of Biological Hazards of Environmental Pollutants. Environmental Science Research, vol 38. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5808-4_3
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