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responsibility, and insure a more equitable PRIP allocation which makes <br />provision for local government entities engaging in activities for the public <br />health and safety. <br />WHEREAS, it is LGSR's purpose to advocate a reform of CERCLA that <br />reduces transaction costs, directs a higher percentage of the Fund's <br />expenses to more timely and effective cleanups and is equitable to all <br />parties. <br />WHEREAS, local units of government have an important role in <br />environmental protection and remediation which they cannot adequately <br />perform when overburdened with a slow, costly cleanup process and legal <br />battles over the allocation of liability. <br />THEREFORE, be it resolved that the Governing Body of <br />CITY OF LAKE EU10 adapts LGSR's belief that: <br />Congress, in reauthorizing CERCLA, should amend the ACT as <br />follows: <br />1. Eliminate "strict" and retroactive liability. The costs of <br />investigation and cleanup of public waste disposal facilities <br />which accepted waste prior to December 11, 1980, and which <br />operated in compliance with all applicable state and federal <br />laws, should be paid out of the Superfund. <br />2. Recognize that the ownership and operation of landfills, <br />transportation facilities and other infrastructure by local <br />governments have always been essential public functions. <br />When the federal government makes these functions more <br />costly by imposing after the fact cleanup up requirements it <br />should also provide a funding source. <br />3. Modify the concept of "joint and several" liability to insure that <br />PRP shares are proportional to responsibility. Superfund <br />should pay for all unallocated (orphan) or unfunded shares. <br />