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True or False. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is responsible for providing immediate response to emergency situations that pose imminent hazards, and to clean up or remediate abandoned or inactive sites.

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The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is responsible for cleaning up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. Through CERCLA, EPA was given power to seek out those parties responsible for any release and assure their cooperation in the cleanup.

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