New York Times Article 6

Without Superfund Tax, Stimulus Aids Cleanup April 25

Environmental Protection Agency officials and environmentalists say the Superfund program has been chronically underfinanced since a tax that supported it expired in 1995.

The government is spending $600 million in stimulus money to work on sites like the defunct arsenic-fouled Vineland Chemical Company
Ronald Naman, the E.P.A. manager for the Vineland site, said the new money would create or save about 20 jobs and allow the current phase of the cleanup to be completed in as little as two years rather than four.

President Obama wants to restore the tax and assumes it will provide $1 billion in revenues for his 2011 budget.